stop trying to give people what they want, you’re an artist not an algorithm
— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) October 26, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/timmaughan/status/1320521257947963392)
my usual cut and paste response to being asked to write for free. still have to wheel this one out at least twice a month sigh pic.twitter.com/KhRArI2n6F
— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) August 5, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/timmaughan/status/1291072562940780546)
the darkest part of my “job” is finding yourself thinking about how America would turn ‘the grandparents dying for capitalism’ into a tv show
— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) March 24, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/timmaughan/status/1242310653546766341)
being a fan of any of the big entertainment franchises looks like living on a diet of constantly re-microwaved leftovers to me
— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) March 15, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/timmaughan/status/1239284139276328961)
it’s happening https://t.co/XwZbqOtlsp
— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) March 12, 2020
(via http://twitter.com/timmaughan/status/1237915935031394304)
“My pick for the book of the year Infinite Detail, is a before-and-after tale of near-future social collapse..It’s hard to believe it is a debut, so assured and evocative is Maughan’s writing” hot damn @arrroberts in the @guardian https://t.co/5PJlF4jwp8
— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) November 30, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/timmaughan/status/1200806084581167105)
“global computing infrastructure has become so concentrated around just 10 or 15 major hubs ..that the internet itself has become brittle and bottlenecked…This fragility has made it vulnerable to sabotage and natural disasters” #infinitedetail https://t.co/UniEmwnYfr
— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) November 2, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/timmaughan/status/1190694872409411584)
thanks I hate it. and literally everything else
— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) October 21, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/timmaughan/status/1186405522905423873)
the collapse is here, it’s just not evenly distributed
— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) September 1, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/timmaughan/status/1167995337295814658)
if you want an image of the future it’s this: police in Paris pepper spraying climate protestors on the hottest day in French recorded history - 45.9°C https://t.co/jv550CX54n
— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) June 28, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/timmaughan/status/1144741106128687104)
sometimes it’s important to take a moment for yourself, for self care, to look back on the years and to remember the good things you have accomplished and be proud pic.twitter.com/SPPtCfUzxl
— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) June 28, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/timmaughan/status/1144606668111720449)
“Sadly enough, it’s an economically impossibility. The combined world economy is £59.9 trillion – so injecting several quintillion (a one with 18 zeroes behind it) into it would cause the whole thing to come crashing down” https://t.co/falHqGtnhX
— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) June 27, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/timmaughan/status/1144222281494867968)
bought a Chinese SIM card from some guys who snuck onto the containership when we were in port in Ningbo (after convincing them I wasn’t the captain), used it to upload this video of mobile cranes that I’d dubbed techno over using my iPad https://t.co/K7RHJpaJwi https://t.co/9tG46KQbjy
— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) June 12, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/timmaughan/status/1138935908655403011)
The fact that Amazon had to make a separate version of Alexa that secures your personal data for healthcare use should be all you need to know about not letting one in your damn home in the first place https://t.co/Lr9j5JrJZR
— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) April 4, 2019
(via http://twitter.com/timmaughan/status/1113802712385228801)
2018: consumer reviews for the environmental collapse https://t.co/CUr0cbENwM
— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) November 17, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/timmaughan/status/1063586071890616320)
It Takes A Nation Of Temporarily Inconvenienced Millionaires To Hold Us Back
— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) July 13, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/timmaughan/status/1017914375192096768)
Apparently my punishment for writing mundane dystopias is to live in them. https://t.co/gfQR8pRlaM
— Tim Maughan (@timmaughan) July 10, 2018
(via http://twitter.com/timmaughan/status/1016808186756714496)