Farmpunk isn't a genre you find in bookstores. That's probably why it still has room in it.

It's fiction lol

Back at Kroger in Forney again. First sale today: water rats and aliens oberving new life forms.

One bright young man just had to see what the gnomes had to say.

I wasn't even set up properly before attracting my first reader. Apocalyptic lierature shines in moments like these. Sold and signed!

Back at Kroger in Forney, Texas. Signing books until 6 p.m.

Just a few minutes in and I've signed my first book.

At Kroger in Forney, Texas. Signig books until 6 p.m.

A woman walks by my book table. I ask her, "Do you like to read?" She giggles and says, "No,” head hanging. Then she adds, "I am an author, though." Chin drip.

At Kroger in Forney, Texas today. First sale ... the gnomes win.

Facebook took over where MySpace left off. MySpace and Friendster replaced Six Degrees. Before that, forums replaced BBS boards. Web2 is essentially one long timeline of platforms launching and dying,

I may be the outlier, but I don't sit in front of my socials all day and wait for comments. I like to post and get on with things. I check in two or three times a day and respond to comments then. Otherwise,

That's right. Decentralization is a long-term investment, by default. Once the average Internet user finds out they can own their content and their data, they won't need Facebook and Twitter/X anymore.

What #Hive needs is a short-form scheduler, allowing users to schedule short-form posts the same way we can schedule regular blog posts. This should be a standard feature in InLeo Threads, Ecency Waves,

Every Web2 platform eventually becomes the thing it replaces. The question is how long it takes and whether users notice in time. #Web3 must be diligent to fight this natural tendency. If properly

I CAN imagine it. AI can empower a lot of things. And when you add the off-grid element, someone with a DIY mentality and the will to deploy can create Paradise Island in their backyard. :-)

Absolutely. The future is decentralized. Crypto + AI is a huge game changer.

The genre that best predicted where we'd end up wasn't science fiction. It was dystopian literary fiction: Kafka, Orwell, and Huxley. Not Asimov, Clarke, and Niven.

This is a great conversation. I'm glad I spent this hour listening to it. And I'm looking forward to living through the next two years.

But things weren't necessarily cheaper. They cost less in relative real dollars. Inflation eats away at value because it devalues the currency. It's possible that things that were once less expensive by