Grim's Tales James 'Grim' Desborough

We learned to code, and then the machines took that too. Machines were never supposed to come for art and writing, but here we are, nonetheless.

When art and technology come together, the one changes the other. This can be for better or for worse, but the speed of change and innovation is ever accelerating and the effects can be unpredictable.

Telling people to meditate, lift, use essential oils or do yoga doesn't address the underlying problem. It's spiritual complacency that ignores the root causes of what's causing the problems in the first place. Game designer and author James 'Grim' Desborough and professional nonconformist Rachel Haywire discuss the phenomenon of 'McMindfulness'.

In which myself and the inestimable Rachel Haywire discuss 'Dead Internet Theory' and wander off into talking about bots, authenticity, algorithms, the 'infranet' and a whole bunch of other related topics.

A conversation between game designer and writer, James 'Grim' Desborough, and nonconformist futurist Rachel Haywire about NFTs, Bitcoin, Grimes, Elon Musk and the fragmentation and strange death of the old Internet.

In which we start off talking about the Tesla Semi and international shipping problems, and meander into conversations about pod living, Amazon company towns, communes and Anarcho-Technocracy.