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Scott Rosenberg

@wordyard.com

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Webbin' so long. Past: Axios editor, Wired/Backchannel contributor, Grist editor, Salon co-founder. Author of some tech books. Up next: Our Web (ourweb.is).

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Scott Rosenberg @wordyard.com · 27/05/2026

Getting serious Saul Goodman vibes from Paxton in this pic

screenshot of NY Times photo showing Ken Paxton in a loud blue sport jacket with a downturned smile greeting a supporter

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Scott Rosenberg @wordyard.com · 29/03/2026

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Scott Rosenberg @wordyard.com · 20/03/2026

Exactly right from @slhamlet.bsky.social: This is so much the heart of it -- willful ignorance about history, previous experience, prior art. It's always year zero in the Valley. Too often, a giant cycle of ignorance. From www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/t...

“They glommed onto the term ‘metaverse’ without really understanding the concept,” Wagner James Au, author of “Making a Metaverse That Matters,” said in an interview. “Their efforts on their metaverse strategy seemed completely indifferent to what previous platforms had learned.”

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Scott Rosenberg @wordyard.com · 29/01/2025

Roger Zelazny's "Lord of Light." Among other things, introduced the term "accelerationism." Still holds up beautifully but no one's heard of it any more (even after its weird real-world cameo in the story that became "Argo").

Avon paperback cover, white text on black background, for Roger Zelazny's "Lord of Light."

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Scott Rosenberg @wordyard.com · 26/11/2024

This holiday weekend you can do no better than put some quiet time aside to read this explanation by @kissane.bsky.social of what's wrong with the "Dark Forest" theory of the web, and where we go from here. www.wrecka.ge/against-the-...

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