Victor Fernando R. Ocampo

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Dad. Husband. Author. Technology Consultant. Writes about W3.0 and emerging technologies, as well as about Speculative and Experimental Fiction. https://beacons.ai/vrocampo

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The amazing Tade Thompson is the featured writer on the New Scientist Book Club! His award-winning Wormwood trilogy is smart, gripping, and endlessly surprising. Watch out for my small cameo in this series :) www.newscientist.com/article/2438...

Imagining Nigeria as ground zero in an alien invasionwww.newscientist.com Tade Thompson, author of sci-fi novel Rosewater, the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club, on subverting the expectations of invasion narratives and writing about people not tech

If you love the work of @aliettedb.bsky.social, please consider signing up to her Patreon. - bsky.app/profile/alie...

Patreon posts are sporadically going up, here's the general update one: www.patreon.com/posts/update... (next one should be the snippet from the Asmo & Thuan teahouse story) Please consider joining my patreon as the various health things going on in this household are decidedly costly.

[updates]Oh dear where is June | Aliette de Bodardwww.patreon.com Get more from Aliette de Bodard on Patreon

Remember.

I am seriously jealous of those discovering the work of French-Vietnamese speculative fiction writer Aliette de Bodard for the first time. "Whether you’re new to her work or have been following her for years, there’s always something new to try." reactormag.com/the-wonderfu...

The Wonderful Worlds of Aliette de Bodard - Reactorreactormag.com Whether you’re new to her work or have been following her for years, there’s always something new to try

Quo vadis USA?

I cut her fringe a little bit, and this happened. Help! I may have broken our dog.

I have started tossing my bills under my bed.

It does. Sigh.

Oops. Wasn't CAPTCHA the best way to tell if we're human?

The only flying prototype of the Kyūshū J7W was tested for only 45 minutes in reality, but you can see a fictional recreation of the Shinden prototype fly in the excellent movie Godzilla minus One.

Finally had a chance to see Godzilla Minus One. Magnificent.

Trump, and MAGA America, need to see that their actions have global consequences. Another Trump presidency will bring the whole world closer to Armageddon.

Now, LOCK HIM UP. The world does not need another Trump presidency.

This is simply unconsciable. End the genocide. Free Palestine.

With Joel Donato Ching Jacob and Claire Betita de Guzman at the 15th Asian Festival of Children's Content. So chuffed to have a science fiction story in this senies: Filipino Fiction for Young Adults.

In the US the people most complaining about their lack of “freedom” are the ones pushing for the restriction of freedom of others

Truth.

Cross-posting from LinkedIn: Japan is developing a new system for digital governance known as the 'Trusted Web' to combat fake information. Join our DIF APAC/ToIP session to learn more. Thursday, 23 May 2024, at 3pm GMT+8 (SG). Free and Open to the public. Call details here - shorturl.at/qNlQ9

Victor R. Ocampo on LinkedIn: #dnp #verifiablecredentials #decentralization #trustedweb…shorturl.at With the rise of generative AI, fake information has risen exponentially, eroding the credibility of information and digital trust. To mitigate this, the…

Happy Wednesday

Happy Mother's Day to all you moms out there!

Damn brilliant ad by World Wildlife Fund. It's just the perfect mix of context and humour.

Why does this Filipino farm require you to solve a math problem before you can buy their mangoes?

Let's save Star Trek Lower Decks! chng.it/7b6cKpxGVh

Sign the Petitionchng.it As many fans of the sci fi franchise that is the Star Trek universe may have come to learn as of April 13, 2024, it was announced our beloved Star Trek satirical animated series "Lower Decks" will be ...

I relate to this so much. Art by the wonderful Tom Gauld.

Tonight's nocturnal visitor, Aulacogenia patalungae Miller, 1940, is a member of the Assasin Bug family that's native to Singapore.

Goals. Art by Tom Gauld. Happy Saturday!

Paramount's stewardship of Star Trek has been terrible lately. Luckily for them, Klingon bat'leths are illegal in Singapore. Otherwise, I would stick one up their rear ends. I really hope that Lower Decks finds a new home. www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/star-tre...

Star Trek: Lower Decks Canceled For A Ridiculous Reason?www.giantfreakinrobot.com Is it possible Star Trek: Lower Decks was canceled for an absolutely ridiculous reason? We think there's a good chance.

Happy Friday!

As a writer and someone who works in the technology space, I am deeply concerned about the IMDA's plans to build a Southeast Asia-focused large language model (LLM). Singapore Unbound does a great job of explaining why in their position paper here - singaporeunbound.org/oped/imda-in...

Genocide via mass starvation is definitely a war crime. Free Palestine now. www.bbc.com/news/world-m...

Gaza starvation could amount to war crime, UN human rights chief tells BBCwww.bbc.com Volker Türk tells Jeremy Bowen there is a