This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history
When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines
You mean รpal the candy, the joy of children, the ancestral bridge? As liquid, the mirth-maker, hangover-harbinger, poetry-mead descendant? I will tolerate no slander.
Honestly, I don't want to hear about how near-future novels are too pessimistic or without hope. Look at the goddamn world around you. This is peak dystopia.
Tonight we stay in Borรฐeyri right next to the shoreline. The waves probably crash into the window during storms.
Iceland is a volcano
Iceland is an earthquake
Iceland is an avalanche
Iceland is a shipwreck
Iceland is a snowstorm
Cattle-killer, harvest-failure, hunger-maker
Experience it.
Icecon this year was so great, thank you to everyone who came!
Not all books are meant to survive their generation. Times change, social attitudes change; aesthetics change. Editing and re-editing a book to keep it palatable for modern readers is like trying to keep a person alive long after their body has given up. Let books die when their time is over.
Alexander Dan
Midnight yesterday
Schera Wyss ๐ SLUG WORLD 2026
Thank you to all who attended IceCon 2026. Hopefully you had a great weekend with us.
Special thanks to our guests of honor
Gunnar Birgisson
@fannargg.bsky.social
@alexanderdan.bsky.social
@edashtonwriting.bsky.social
I hope to see many more of you in 2028.
Ella
