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AI: Would That Be a Good Thing or a Bad Thing?
One of Hank Raglan’s favorite expressions in The Midas Protocol is, “Would that be a good thing or a bad thing?” Lately, I have found myself asking essentially the same question about artificial intelligence, particularly as I experiment with using it to expand the world of the Midas Files. My answer is increasingly that AI is neither inherently a good thing nor a bad thing. It is a tool, and like most tools, what comes out of it depends heavily upon the intent and skill of the person using it.
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The Midas Protocol — Chapter 5: Book Lovers | Live Reading
Join me for this week’s live reading of Chapter 5 of The Midas Protocol, titled “Book Lovers.”
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The Midas Protocol — Chapter 6: Rosebud | Live Reading
Join me for this week’s live reading of Chapter 6 of The Midas Protocol, titled “Rosebud”. Jack and Hank mixed throw down and Addison is along for th wild ride. Plus, watch me laugh at some of the stuff I wrote.
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The Midas Protocol — Chapter 7: Hank's Apartment | Live Reading
Join me for this week’s live reading of Chapter 7 of The Midas Protocol, titled “Hank's Apartment”. Will Addison and Hank hook up? Will Jack get some satisfaction after getting his clean clocked by Hank at the Rosebud Party earlier? This, and more, in the Midas Files Live Readings.
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The Midas Protocol — Chapter 2: Misbegotten Fortune | Live Reading
The Midas Files: Live Readings continues with “Misbegotten Fortune,” Chapter 2 of The Midas Protocol. Watch the complete chapter, read by author Matt De Reno from Midas Files Mission Control.
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The Midas Protocol — Chapter 4: Auspicious Occasions | Live Reading
Join me for this week’s live reading of Chapter 4 of The Midas Protocol, titled “Auspicious Occasions.”
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The Midas Protocol — Chapter 3: Burger Empire | Live Reading
TCaroline Friday enters The Midas Protocol in Chapter Three with purple-streaked hair, a bad attitude and a desperate need for a job that will carry her through Christmas. Unfortunately, that job is cooking burgers inside the greasy kitchen of Burger Empire for an overbearing creep named Pete.
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The Midas Protocol — Chapter 1: The Gold Box | Live Reading
Welcome to the inaugural episode of The Midas Files: Live Readings, recorded live from Midas Files Mission Control. In this episode, author Matt De Reno reads “The Gold Box,” the complete opening chapter of his science-fiction thriller, The Midas Protocol.
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The Scratching Post: I Survived My First Ever Live Stream – But Just Barely!
Last Sunday night, I finally did my first live reading of The Midas Protocol on YouTube, and the biggest success was simply that I did it. I staged the office, put the Midas Files poster in place, set the tesseract on the table, got the Yeti Nano working through OBS, mounted the phone on its tripod, and then sat down and read an entire chapter for better or worse.
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Man Arrives in Heaven, Discovers Eternal Life Now Requires Monthly Subscription
THE PEARLY GATES — In what theologians are calling the most significant change to the afterlife since somebody decided clouds needed harps, a recently deceased Ohio man was shocked to discover that eternal salvation apparently now operates on a subscription model.
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- TechGnosis: Roman Aqueducts - Watering An Empire on Gravity
- Across The Lighter Side: Gentrifried Chicken To Open In Lawrenceville
- Sites: Building Places for Ideas to Live
- Cool Filmz: I am watching Star Wars in Machete Order and It Changes Everything
- The Funny Newz: New Tennis Ball Diet Sweeping Nation
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