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The Reckoning | Paul Stephenson | Offprint
The final episode of Season Five is here

Paper's back | Paul Stephenson | Offprint
Get all episodes of the Sunset Chronicles in print now

Clip the Apex | Paul Stephenson | Offprint
Grab the complete second season of The Sunset Chronicles, out now

Time for the sun to rise | Paul Stephenson | Offprint
Get Season 1 of the Sunset Chronicles - Omnibus Edition.

Sunset meets its Equinox | Paul Stephenson | Offprint
Get the complete Season 4 in ebook or paperback now

Monumental | Paul Stephenson | Offprint
Sunset 5.3 is here! Plus, why this newsletter has a new home.

Sunset meets Equinox | Paul Stephenson | Offprint
Hollow Stone Press has a new home, plus get the complete third season of Sunset

Publishing is fucked. The ATmosphere could save it. | Paul Stephenson | Offprint
Building a future for publishing that keeps authors and readers at its heart.

NOVA | The Wisdom of the Crowds | Season 45 | Episode 6
Crowds hold a predictive power that can have startling accuracy.

The Garden, pt 2: Spoiled Soil | Paul Stephenson | Offprint
On platforms, community, and wankers down the pub.

Special episode: Apps vs Files with Gordon Brander, Peter van Hardenberg & Jess Martin.
The Hollow Stone | Paul Stephenson | Offprint
Thoughts on creativity, publishing, and the mess in which we're in. From the author of Blood on the Motorway, Sunset Chronicles, Bleakwood, and Darkness Come Alive.

The Hollow Stone | Paul Stephenson | Offprint
Thoughts on creativity, publishing, and the mess in which we're in. From the author of Blood on the Motorway, Sunset Chronicles, Bleakwood, and Darkness Come Alive.

This Is How the AI Bubble Could Burst
Podcast Episode · Plain English with Derek Thompson · 09/23/2025 · 59m
Episode 5: Metaphors for AI, with Shannon Vallor
This week, Adam talks with Shannon Vallor, a philosopher of AI, about the metaphors we use to talk about AI and ourselves. They also dunk on libertarians and San Francisco billboards, and consider what kind of hope we can have for the future of technology.Messages: • Support the show at patreon.com/DreamingAgainstTheMachine • Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram • Subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts! • Check out other great podcasts from Multitude like Wow if TrueAbout the show:Dreaming Against the Machine is a podcast about envisioning a realistic and hopeful future. Each week, the show’s host, journalist and astrophysicist Dr. Adam Becker, will have an earnest (and entertaining!) conversation with a guest about possible futures, seen through the lenses of history, science, and culture. In a world where tech oligarchs and their power fantasies are driving visions of the future, Dreaming Against the Machine aims to take back the terms of the public conversation about what our world can and should be.

Episode 31: Science Is a Human Endeavor (feat. Molly Crockett and Lisa Messeri), April 15 2024 - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000
Will AI someday do all our scientific research for us? Not likely. Drs. Molly Crockett and Lisa Messeri join for a takedown of the hype of
