It’s the fifth Monday of the month: time for the newsletter and a dollop of cyberflanerie.
POSTS AT MADAM MAYO BLOG
SINCE THE LAST NEWSLETTER
TEXAS BOOKS
= First Monday of the Month=
“What Is a Film Outside the Audience’s Mind?”
Notes on George Stevens: Interviews
January 3, 2022
Edna Ferber’s Giant & A Selection of Related Books,
Plus Two Related Videos On (Yes) the Nuremberg Trials
December 6, 2021
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WRITING WORKSHOP POSTS
= Second Monday of the Month =
More on Seeing as an Artist or,
The Rich Mine of Stories About
Those Who “See” the Emperor’s Clothes
January 11, 2022
Bringing in the Body
December 13, 2021
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MISC & C.M. MAYO NEWS
= Third Monday of the Month =
From the Archives:
“Tulpa Max or, Notes on the Afterlife of a Resurrection”
January 17, 2022
Top Books Read 2021
December 20, 2021
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Q & A WITH OTHER WRITERS
= Fourth Monday of the month =
Q & A with Thaddeus Rutkowski on Tricks of Light
January 24, 2022
Q & A: Some Hard-Earned Advice on Publishing
from Poets, Novelists and Historians
December 27, 2021
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OTHER NEWS
Look for the Marfa Mondays podcasts to resume in early 2022.
By Jove & by Jimmy Dean, this will happen.
WORKSHOP NEWS
In 2022 look for my monthly workshop post on
the second Monday of every month.
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CYBERFLANERIE:
ROB BRAXMAN ON THE NEURAL HASH NEW WORLD EDITION
Big Tech companies have their own political agenda, and if you don’t happen to be on board with that— whether now or, perhaps at some point in the future— they have some other ideas about what information is good for you, dear writerly reader, to be able to access and to communicate. Are you on FaceBook or Whatsapp? Do you use gmail and/or Google search? Do you have an iPhone? If you can answer yes to any of these—and many more such questions— you might appreciate learning about the astonishing new ways that Big Tech companies have to identify you, your relationships, your locations, and much more about what’s in your mind than you might imagine, and thereby, to their advantage, game the information that you see and don’t see. Cookies and trackers are “old school” now. Herewith, a selection from Rob Braxman’s tech savvy advice on how to handle Big Tech’s Neural Hash New World.
Apple Client-Side Scanning Ruins Phone Security for Everyone
How Big Tech Finds Your Exact Location—
Even When You’re Hiding It
We Have Been Chipped— And Nobody Cares
iPhone Neural Hash — SHOCKING AI Tech
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Newsletter & Cyberflanerie: Mexico Edition
Duende and the Importance of Questioning ELB
Q & A: Ellen Cassedy, Translator of On the Landing by Yenta Mash
