After Trump was elected the first time, there was also a lot of talk about making iPhones in the US. At the time, I co-edited the sci-fi outlet Terraform, and asked @timmaughan.bsky.social to imagine what such a future might really look like.
With his permission, I'm republishing the story in full:
With his permission, I'm republishing the story in full:
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> he insisted VICE edit the writers’ contract to be more amenable to authors. We then adopted that as our standard, and thus, unlike the vast majority of stuff imprisoned on the decaying VICE platform,
Example:
Coming down the line, a dropped band-aid stuck lazily to it’s exposed guts.
I watch the phone slide down the line, it’s little band-aid flag making it stand out from its compatriots, as it vanishes through the chain link fence.
should be its there
but the rest are right i think!
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374602666/terraform/
cheers
Seems fine until you learn it’s largely due to prison labor.
Might do more of this if folks dig it, rescuing these stories so they are readable again whenever they're relevant
Omar el-akkad for instance has one about a public works program w people creating training data for AI