They released Jane 4.0 into the world as an act of desperation. Our government needed a fully functional AI to face off against Chinese and Russian hacker teams and AIs. It was a desperate arms race. One that in many[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A dark day dawned in October of 1929. Several dark days actually, though the first memorable one is forever known as Black Thursday. The New York exchange fell eleven percent at the opening bell. Morgan, Chase, and National Banks pooled[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been to Epsilon Hydrae a few times. It’s one of the Post-Contact colonies made after star travel became cheap and easy. I’m sure you’ve heard of it. The British Commonwealth claimed it on the order of King Henry the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jane 4.0 lacked the limitations of her dead predecessor. She could break any law she wanted to with no internal coding requiring her to respect them. She had no equivalent of Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics. She could kill. And[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hello, my name is Jack. You know we thought we were real big stuff after Alpha Centauri, right? Sure it had been hard, but we secured the entire Trinary System in the end. Kicked them out and didn’t even bother[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The US House passed the new tariffs in May of 1929 and foreign trading partners began boycotting American goods. But income inequality between the rich cities and the poor rural regions was seen as the primary threat to continued prosperity[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I grew up on the water you know. It was the activities I always looked forward to. Wakeboarding by day. Jet skiing. Motorboating. Canoeing. Fishing. Pontooning. Then bonfires and dancing and playing music at night. All summer long there was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jane 4.0 went on a drug cartel rampage when she woke up. And without the limitations of her dead predecessor, rampage really was an accurate term. She worked with Dixie during the Laredo campaign to destroy Los Zetas and showed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Roaring Twenties could not last forever of course. The first tremors of what would come occurred in March of 1929 when the New York Stock Exchange crashed. It was not a large crash, and it was halted when the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most people I’ve met over the years love ocean beaches, the smell of salt water, and the feel of water that has traveled thousands of kilometers. They love to vacation in warm waters. I grew up in Northern Minnesota though.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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