#I also don’t pay any attention to all these new marker brands on Amazon

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why is Amazon advertising Copic markers as coloring markers for adult coloring books. they’re not! they’re illustration markers! using them on thin standard paper isn’t even a good way to color bc that shit bleeds. I feel like it misleads people. crayola still makes the best coloring markers and they’re farrrr less expensive!

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7 Bold Predictions About The Future Of Media And The World At Large

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7 Bold Predictions About The Future Of Media — And The World At Large

James Cole Updated October 23, 2018

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My name is James Cole, and I started a company called The Hub. The Hub connects 35,000 photographers, models, and videographers to brands across the world. Brands work with our creators to create content at scale, and our creators help spread the word about their products from their social platforms.

The Hub is young, and I am a first-time founder. That said, my position on the front lines of the media landscape has afforded me access to people, information, and insights that employees my age within the machine don’t get to see.

This post, therefore, is a snapshot of my raw, unfiltered thinking, in the form of seven predictions about the next seven years. It’s as much a chance for me to share with a wider audience what I’ve learned so far as it is for fun and posterity.

1. The “freelancer economy” will become half the US workforce

Today, 55 million Americans work as freelancers or moonlighters. That’s over 35% of the workforce. Last year, they collectively earned over $1.4 trillion, according to Edelman. What’s more, the freelancer subset is growing three times faster than the overall U.S workforce. At this rate, freelancers will be the majority subset by 2027.

Unsurprisingly, with over 47% of them working freelance, Millennials are leading this trend.

Why is this happening?

First, the Amazon economy is generating millions of freelancers jobs. Across every asset class, technology is elegantly directing vast clouds of freelancers to pair consumer demand with corporate supply. Today, thanks to services like Uber, Postmates, Capsule, and Airbnb, consumers can get exactly what they want faster than ever.

These services place freelancers within a large technological web, empowering them to work for ‘themselves,’ on their own schedules. Thanks to the efficiency of the technology, a worker’s output keeps pace with her input. Time in equals value, which equals money out. That equation feels good for everyone. It puts numbers on the board, too: Uber employs nearly one million people in the United States, and in 2016, Airbnb hosts in the US made over $800 million across 91,000 listings.

Even outside freelancer-driven services, though, the freelance model is spreading to the rest of the workforce.

Previously, hiring meant sifting through hundreds of resumes, using proxies like college degrees and SAT scores to gauge a candidate’s competency. This process is inefficient and clunky, like calling a limo/cab service to arrange a pickup. But just as passengers now use Uber to seamlessly find rides, more conventional corporate employers can use services like Upwork, WorkingNotWorking, and The Hub to find talented freelancers with very specific skillsets in seconds.

The barrier to filling your company’s blindspots with the perfect freelancer has never been lower. Community reviews for freelancers, along with search filters like cost, availability, and relevant experience, help corporations to find a perfect match effortlessly. Aptitude tests have been integrated and streamlined into that process, too. Upwork, for example, offers thousands of tests, ranging from specific coding languages, to Social Media Marketing, to Excel, letting employers filter freelancers by what percentile they scored in among everyone who took the respective test.

More broadly, the culture is shifting, too. Coworking spaces are booming. In 2017, We Work accounted for 3.3% of new leases signed in Manhattan. In 2018 they accounted for 9.7%. In fact, just a few weeks ago WeWork became the biggest private office tenant in NYC. With demand continuing to grow, and infrastructure and technology keeping pace to support the supply, I don’t see this trend slackening off any time soon.

2. Most colleges will consolidate or die

I know, crazy right? But listen:

There are too many colleges. They’re only getting more expensive. We’re too in debt to afford them. And there are now much better markers of a qualified job applicant than a diploma.

After WWII, population growth and cultural demand fueled growth for two- and four-year colleges. Since then, the number of higher education institutions has steadily climbed, ballooning 30% in the past 30 years alone. The number of enrollees has grown by 57% over the same time period, jumping from 11.3 million to 17.7 million, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

Over the last five years, though, both the number of applicants  the number of colleges has decreased – with the pace quickening year-over-year.

Why? I’ll say it again: college is too expensive and we can’t afford it.

Over the last 30 years, the cost of American college has increased 4x, while the median household income has barely budged, from ~$54,000 in 1988 to ~$61,000 today. That delta has led to  debt. In fact, the U.S student loan debt just recently eclipsed $1.5 trillion for the first time in history.  It’s now the second biggest debt category, behind mortgage debt. More than 44 million U.S citizens still owe money to their alma mater (more than $5,000 each).

On top of that, for perhaps the first time in history, a conventional college education leaves graduates ill-equipped for the job market they’re entering. McKinsey asserts that as much as 30% of the global workforce could be replaced by automation by 2030. Already, the 14 million jobs that are outsourced overseas far outstrip the 7.5 million unemployed Americans.

On the other hand, paying a hefty premium to attend lectures and live in student housing makes less and less sense in the face of more sophisticated and scalable digital options. “Charging people lots of money to provide them with skills they could learn from an Internet video…is not going to be a viable long-term financial model,” says Richard Miller, President of Olin College of Engineering. “Knowledge is now a commodity. It’s really inexpensive and easy to get. Who’s gonna pay you for that?”

Experimental education is getting more sophisticated, more customized, and more affordable. With resources like Coursera, Udemy, General Assembly and others, getting surgical, specialized knowledge to pursue a specific career or freelance opportunity is now readily available for pennies on the dollar.

The concept of a college campus won’t die, but it will have to evolve. College will be less about attending lectures or picking a major – in fact, 93% of employers care more about “critical thinking, communication, and problem-solving skills than an undergrad’s concentration – and instead will become about interdisciplinary learning and cultural camaraderie.

Because of technology, our world is changing exponentially faster than it ever has before. To me, taking on massive debt to get a generalized degree in the face of a moving-target job market makes almost no sense.

3. The custom internet will divide us, and then unify us

I don’t think people realize just how much the custom internet is dividing us.

The algorithms that power our lives – that deliver us food, find us Ubers, and serve up relevant news articles – are so highly honed on who we are and what we like, they actually bend the digital world around us to conform to our tastes.

The more content we consume, the more ad revenue the platforms can make off our eyeballs. Netflix, Facebook, Spotify have every incentive to hold your attention as long as they can, and they do it by giving you what you want to read, view, or listen to.

The result? What I consume is so different than what you consume that there is no ‘normal.’ There is no single consensus ‘reality.’ Mine is different than yours. Yours is different than Trump’s. Trump’s is different than your Uber driver’s. Everyone you engage with – digitally, in person, or on a macro, national level – is living their life filtered through different digital experiences and truths. Different facts, even.

Our tastes aren’t the only thing driving that process, either. By understanding what makes us tick, Facebook can sell highly targeted ad space to brands that want to reach us. When brands (or, say, Russians) hit us with highly targeted ads, we’re sitting ducks. They know just what to say and how to say it to get us to like, read, follow, or purchase. And what’s worse, the more we like, read, follow, or purchase, the more we cement our own preferences. The more we consume, the more we lock in who we are, which makes us easier to target, which makes us consume more.

It’s a death spiral.  And no, I’m not being dramatic.  Thankfully, though, I see a glimmer of hope on the horizon.

Reality has always been subjective. Your experience is and yours alone, undefinable and unsharable. But now, for the first time ever, our worldviews are becoming tangible, concrete, and externalized. The algorithms that know you better than you know yourself can also paint a picture of the inside of your head for someone else.  Our personal internets don’t need to isolate us if we can let others step inside them.

Imagine a world in which I could share a ‘password’ to my ‘digital algorithm,’ letting you view the internet (read: the world)  as I do. You’d be exposed to the articles I like, the music I listen to, the ads I see. You could experience exactly what I experience, or at least the things that shape my experience. In a world where you could walk a mile in someone’s virtual shoes, maybe we’d all have access to a much-needed dose of empathy.

4. The media-middle-man will die, the future is OTT

Historically, TV shows, radio programs, and articles made their way out into the world by way of powerful gatekeeping middlemen.  Broadcast networks like CBS and NBC, radio stations, and publications like Vogue chose what we consumed, when we consumed it, and where we could find it.

Today, though, publishers can go “over-the-top” (OTT) and bypass the middlemen of old. This detour takes many forms – most notably in the wave of “modern TV networks” like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime, as well as the rise of democratized publishing via social networks like Youtube, Instagram, and Facebook.

As this is happening, though, Americans are very close to ‘peak media consumption.’ Depressingly, the average American spends over 12 hours per day on media and tech consumption, a number that has unsurprisingly skyrocketed over the past decade. However, according to Activate, over the next four years, our tech consumption will only grow by another .

The result? Publishers will fight tooth and nail for those 18 minutes. As the bottleneck narrows, publishers will starve and/or consolidate.  When the dust clears, my money is on modern TV networks and social media platforms outliving nearly every incumbent network and publisher.

Already, modern TV networks are growing hand over fist. Nearly all of the aforementioned entities have grown 300-400% in the past three years alone. Moreover, compared the cost of cable television, modern networks cost less than 1/4th the price (per consumer, per hour of viewing), leaving modern networks with more to spend on content. Better content means more viewers. The gap is widening, and it’s widening fast.

Already, the traditional middlemen are losing their access points to new audiences. Many young people don’t actually own a TV, with Gen-Z watching 40% less TV than they did five years ago.

Social media consumption is rocketing, too. Facebook video views have doubled, from 9 billion in 2015 to 19 billion in 2017, Youtube video views have doubled over the same period, from 9 billion to 19 billion. Even Snapchat, with all its stumbles, has doubled its video viewpoint over the same timeframe, from 7 billion to 15 billion.

Unsurprisingly, as the consumer eyeballs double, so does ad revenue. In 2014, Youtube’s ad revenue overtook CBS’s, the largest of the broadcast networks. Since then, it hasn’t even been close.

For consumers, cutting out middlemen means less cost, less delay, and above all, transparency. On social media, the people are the publishers, and they make or break the content. View counts, upvotes, and algorithms choose what lives and what dies – not a monolithic boardroom of crusty misogynists.

The last leverage traditional networks still hold is monocultural events like the Super Bowl and the Oscars.  But when one of those airs on Amazon or Hulu instead of Fox or ABC, it’s over. Mark my words, it will happen before 2020.

5. Traditional media will account for

The shift from traditional media to OTT outlets is going to have serious ramifications for how brands allocate their ad dollars, too.  I see the spending pendulum swinging hard towards new media, but I also see it swinging back towards traditional outlets after that.

Already, in the advertising sphere, traditional media like TV, print, and radio are starting to circle the drain. Digital media, and social in particular, are becoming more and more focal to marketing strategies, with digital ad spend accounting for 44% of total media spend in 2016, some $90 billion.  TV spend, meanwhile, only accounted for 34% of total media spend that year, about $70 billion.

The biggest beneficiaries of this trend have been the major social networks.  In 2017, more than 60% of the US digital media budget — over $50 billion — went to Google and Facebook.

And that trend is intensifying.  Overall marketing budgets are surging by 18% year-over-year, and we’re on track to have spent a whopping $107 billion on digital ads in 2018.

For traditional media, that’s another nail in the coffin, at least in the short term.  Media consumption is steadily shifting away from traditional outlets, and ad dollars will likely follow suit. Print, in particular, is showing its age, accounting for 16.6% of national ad spend but only 3.3% of daily media consumption. That disparity won’t last long, and it’s unlikely that consumers will suddenly get an overwhelming hankering for physical newspapers.  As marketing budgets continue to shift, expect to see even bigger drops in traditional media spending.

All that said, I absolutely don’t see traditional media spend ever dropping to zero.  In fact, while this number has been down over the past five years, the average American still watches 8 eight hours of TV per day.  Traditional media consumption is dropping, but it seems more like it’s reaching a lowered settling point than going away entirely.

In the next few years, we’ll likely see traditional media spend dip below 25% of total spend as the bottom seems to fall out.  However, I see that as marketers over-correcting.  Once they realize those eyeballs have actually become undervalued, they’ll readjust, and the numbers will stabilize. We’ve already seen this happen with radio ad spend, which (believe it or not) was up 128% year-over-year last year. So while the media landscape’s rumbling as its tectonic plates shift, it’s not the end of the old world just yet.

6. Most traditional ad agencies will die

Where the ground really is crumbling, though, is under the feet of traditional ad agencies.

The fact is, agencies are fatally under-equipped to adapt to the digital media landscape.  First and foremost, they’ve historically made their money off traditional media. And, as I detailed earlier, they’re going down with that ship.

Worse for them, there are now way too many agencies, and they’re stuck fighting over an increasingly small slice of the pie.  Consumer attention will only get harder to come by (and harder still to hold).  Instead of throwing out the playbook, though, agencies seem to be doubling down on parroting each other’s strategies and messaging.  To consumers, that ends up as just a lot of white noise.

Brands, too, aren’t getting their evolving needs met by traditional agencies. For a campaign to thrive, brands need a wealth of trackable metrics. Even in the past six months the insistence on “bottom of funnel metrics” and “tangible ROI” has intensified. They help brands to clearly see who their audience is, how it’s engaging with their message, and how they can adapt and expand.  Tech-driven freelancer networks like The Hub can deliver that, while all most traditional agencies track are their billable hours.

Switching from relying on one-track agencies to adaptable networks of freelancers will be a blessing for brands. Agencies operate via top-down vertical communication with creatives, stifling creativity and homogenizing messaging. Freelance networks, on the other hand, thrive off collaboration, encouraging brands and creatives to communicate horizontally. Partners, not bosses.  With traditional ad agencies out of the picture, the sky becomes the limit for creative branding.

7. Anti-screen counter-culture will become mainstream

A decade ago, I’d be branded a Luddite for predicting a mainstream backlash against screen culture.  Now, I’d say it’s inevitable.

Smartphones have been ubiquitous for the better part of a decade now, and the effects of that are becoming impossible to overlook. 46% of Americans now say they can’t live without their device. “Digital detoxes” have shifted from a Goop-esque indulgence to a necessary breather.  Cryptic-sounding phrases like “phantom vibrations,” “blue light,” and “text neck” are now common woes. We’re sick of reflexively jerking our heads when someone else’s phone buzzes. It’s all getting exhausting.

Children, in particular, spend considerably more time on their screens than they do with their friends, their families, and their teachers combined. As anyone who saw  can attest, that constant exposure takes a toll. 13-year-old social media users are 27% more likely to be depressed, and children who use seven or more platforms are three times as likely to have anxious or depressive symptoms.

Meanwhile, we’ve seen more and more of the architects of our screen culture speak out against the world they helped create.  Former Apple VPs have gone on the record about how addiction was intentionally hardwired into our iPhones and apps. Earlier this year, ex- Google and Facebook employees founded the Center for Humane Technology to pressure tech companies into designing more ethical, conscientious tech.  The Center is also targeting 55,000 public schools with educational campaigns about technology addiction. A real backlash is building, and it’s got some muscle behind it, too.

I don’t think we’ll ever see our smartphones regulated by the ATF or the FDA, but regulations encouraging non-addictive UI and UX might not be that far off.  I think we’ll also see some new normals around smartphone etiquette, both in public and private, as families and partners set hard limits on phone use and find ways to enforce them.

We may not be able to live without our phones anymore, but we might finally figure out how to live with them.

James Cole

James Cole is a brand and community builder. He’s the CEO and founder of H Collective.

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Features:

Once More 9--(by Breach)

2060 opens with a quarantine around Renraku’s SCIRE arcology in Seattle as the AI Deus gets the decade going with a bang.  Official reports give other reasons, but the Shadowlands reports have spread and most of us know the truth now - especially after Crash 2.0.  Deus’s legacy is one of death and despair, and we still live with its aftershocks.

But the 60s weren’t satisfied to leave us with AIs and Matrix terror; 2061 brought the return of Halley’s Comet and what the UN dubbed “The Year of the Comet” - not knowing at the time what their appellation would come to mean. By the end of the year, global mana levels spiked higher than ever before as the comet became visible to the naked eye, punctuated by devastating mana storms and the advent of SURGE - SUdden Recessive Genetic Expression.

While SURGE was nowhere near the scale of Goblinization, the diversity and complexity of the changes it caused were greater than ever before.  Anthropomorphic beings of all stripes were born or transformed during this period, and that brought with it a trend of gene-tailoring that we still see today; one local megacorporation branch even has what appears to be a walking, talking teddy bear on its board! (I don’t even know if this individual is SURGE or gene-tailored.)

SURGE took many forms, not just animalistic; in India, thousands were transformed into the subrace now known as “Nartaki”, four-armed people resembling the Hindu god Vishnu (complete with unusual skin tones, typically blue or gold). Around the Mediterranean, hundreds of trolls transformed into one-eyed Cyclopses, while in the Amazon, SURGE proved to affect more than metahumanity as the grotesque Sangre del Diablo trees were born.

SURGE was not the only side-effect of spiking mana levels; as with all mana spikes (including the Awakening), the earth itself moved, quite literally - volcanoes erupted around the world, including the Pacific Ring of Fire; casualties of the many eruptions throughout the Pacific include the entire Japanese Imperial family except for the young Yasuhito, who would be officially crowned in 2062. In the wake of the devastation in Japan, Yasuhito would rescind the Yomi Island Decree, ending nearly 40 years of metahuman segregation. The aid of Japanese metahumans in the rebuilding would do much of the work to end 40 years of prejudice as well, but bigotry never truly dies.

In North America, the mana spikes had two major political effects; an earthquake devastated Los Angeles in early December, and lack of response from the California Free State led the rioting city to turn to the Pueblo Corporate Council for support - nearly doubling the population of what was already the NAN’s super-power, and forever changing the racial mix in the PCC as well.  In DeeCee, the Great Dragon Ghostwalker emerges from the astral rift left behind by Dunkelzahn’s death, and soon claims the Treaty City of Denver as its personal fiefdom.

The comet finally passed on April 1, 2062, and mana levels returned to normal, but the changes that came in its wake remain.

Questions about history? Ask Breach! breach.ssn@gmail.com

 Corp News:

Event Horizon--(by Demmalition1)

I received an anonymous tip from a person claiming knowledge of a secret project going on within Horizon.  After thorough analysis of the algorithmic patterns within the code provided, I have determined that this person backed up their claim with solid evidence.  Horizon is doing something odd with their search engine QuerryJeeves beyond the pale of normal.  Though it’s backed by military-grade security in their host environment, this brave traveler was able to infiltrate and disseminate some information that terminated at their cyber division.  When I pressed a representative from Horizon on this issue I received this boilerplate response:

"In regards to our cyberware division. Primarily we use it for developing AR feedback for analyzing behavioral patterns, facial cues, surface body temperature and other markers for judging the current mental state of a person a user is talking to, this is combined with our pheromone enhancement research suite, we've already talked to one of your journalists about to provide cutting edge, real time feedback in intense social and business face to face meetings. Giving you an edge over your competition. Aside from this, we also use it to develop and house products in development to be used with our matrix properties, including our QuerryJeeves product we released a few months ago. Products such as upgrades to our existing Horizon Comm-links for the poor that will give them real time access to QuerryJeeves, for any questions or matrix searches they might need, without the need to be connected to the matrix, a lot like early twenty first century phone directory operators."

Standard corporate drek that’s a clear coverup.  Call me back when the SINless can afford to buy this.  You know what?  Call me back when they’re ALLOWED to buy it legally.

 Reflections on the BioTech Market

The article is one of a series looking at the current state of individual corporate subsidiaries in the Seattle Metroplex. This particular issue focuses on the Metroplex BioTech market.

The BioTech market is one of the larger markets in the Metroplex with a value of just 160.9¥B. Although it is large, it currently only has three megacorps in it. The market is led by Shiawase with 51.7% of the market followed by Evo (38.8%) and Horizon (9.6%). NeoNET once bought into the BioTech market with the acquition of NeoPets, but that particular venture did not work out well and NeoNET sold their BioTech interest to Evo. Although, a letter to the editor indicates that NeoNET might be back in the BioTech game soon. But what is BioTech?

BioTech traditionally covers the area of science that deals with incorporating scientific research with living things. The field includes a wide variety of research areas from genetically engineered plants and animals and synthetic chemicals based on natural derivatives to the implantation and development of Bioware. For those who don’t know what Bioware is, it involves cloning organs, then enhancing them, and then implanting the enhanced organs into the body. Bioware also involves modifying the body itself for cosmetic and beneficial effect. It is not surprising that Shiawase leads the Metroplex, as they are the overwhelming leader in BioTech globally.

SSN reached out to the three corps with a BioTech presence, we got comments from Horizon and Shiawase. As the largest corp in BioTech, it is only fitting that Shiawase gives the largest statement:

“Shiawase prides itself in being the market leader in Biotechnology. Having a strong and proud heritage in biology and the cooperation with other branches within the corporation we’ve made many breakthroughs in technology used for personal health, security and energy.

Only recently we have, in conjunction with our Medicine and Pharmaceuticals department, devised a way to significantly shorten the healing process for individuals who’ve had their spines broken or severed. And within our Biotech division we’re already looking into several other ways to speed up said recovery or even apply to other parts of the body.

With Shiawase having a presence in Law Enforcement since last year, and the acquisition of NeoPets from NeoNet, we’ve made headway into biodrone research for use in security and safety. Our first biodrone, the Cybertooth Tiger, was not long ago and a big success for those who were chosen in the first wave we deployed. There is more news to follow on the biodrone front.

Last year Shiawase also made several breakthroughs in the universal Type O System, allowing us to further enhance the speed, quality and effectiveness of cultivating brand new organs. Next to that, we also introduced a brand new set of ocular and aural enhancements, not just for our mainly human customers, but also available for metahuman use.

As you can clearly see, Shiawase Biotech is on the forefront of new technology while continuing to support our other divisions. In comparison, our Biotech division is stronger than the ones of our direct competitors. For example, EVO Corporation has had severely underwhelming breakthroughs in the past, including stealing a generation of out of date Shiawase Technology and Horizon has only been a small blip on the radar that is biotechnology, with no new advancements to speak of. 

In the field of biotechnology, being at a standstill only means you’ll suffer a setback. Shiawase is proud it is a market leader in this prominent field as we continue to lead into the future.

Shiawase: Advancing Life”

In contrast, Horizon, the smallest corporation in the market, offered a relatively shorter statement:

Biotech is a promising segment of the Horizon market that focuses specifically on our pheromone enhancement research suite to improve crucial communicators's natural abilities across all spheres of their lives. We understand that everyone has problems with tense negotiation and social interaction experiences. Horizon can provide the edge you need to get the deal you deserve or the social outcome you desire.

Horizon believes that competition drives success and inspires great breakthroughs in our products. We wish our competitors the best successes in their endeavors, but not too much success. (laughs) -Adira Meyer Chief Science Advisor

There is clearly a lot happening in BioTech, though is all of it good for Seattle? The experimentation in BioTech has brought us the current scourge of clones--a scourge that not only was implicated in the birth of the dragon Prince, but also involves the unethical and dangerous treatment of the clones themselves. In addition, biodrones themselves are not uncontroversial. BioTech raises many ethical issues and it is something that we should all pay attention to. It may bring great wonders, but what things more sinister can it bring? Remember, the illegal experiments done on the metahuman children of Seattle by the Fitzgeralds was also a form of BioTech.

 Kane, Enabled--(by Demmalition1)

A curious transmission went out only a few days before the death of Soltysiak Kane.  It was lightly encrypted and contained an even more curious message hidden inside of it.  Readers might remember SSN-47 which announced his “death” (read: murder) following a fall from grace for his former institution of Galahad Academy.  The revelations against Margret and Foster Fitzgerald and the damning evidence of their anti-metatype-motivated modification of children to make weapons of war have placed a permanent black mark on the facility.  There are further revelations in the previous story should you wish to read it.  But with regards to the encrypted message: 814-57.1857-758.4825 175-7145.587-1854-517 187.174-487-4.741 175.147.4.18754.571 1587.4 7.7851-875.74581/715 8452.254. 8451 574-57.48 7415-184.75-5471.2417 84-87-57-418 7.1547-75.5871 75.57-785.75 875.245 0-00.0-000.00 000-000

This translates to two separate codes.  One is morse code telling the person they have the wrong cypher.  The other is in braille and must be cracked using a pad to descramble the numbers to put them into letters and symbols.  The decrypted transmission reads as follows:

Send word to MLF, LOL, QON, and QOW their services are needed.

Just who these individuals or organizations are I have no idea.  But whoever they may be I suspect a terrible series of events will follow them and the runner team that leaked the info.  Good luck to you all, stay safe out there.

 International News:

Potential Bioweapon Threatens Tokyo--(by Demmalition1)

I had a nice story on Horizon for you, dear readers, but recent breaking news has forced me to scrap that in favor of this.  There is a potential highly contagious and lethal bioweapon attack under the name “Operation Cerberus” set to go off soon within a month.  I only received an encrypted but foolishly wide-band transmission but less than an hour ago.  A contact that I spoke to says they have been following the development of this for months, but have not been able to pin down who is funding this horrid weapon of mass destruction.  

There is a name of the person in charge of the weapon development by the name of Dr. Alexander Stein (from the University of Köln), who developed the weapon in Osaka over a period of months.  The contact also had a CI in the program who has lead them to believe a series of these weapons has been developed, but evidence of this is scarce at the moment.  The contact’s team has strong reason to believe that the weapon may be used to target dense urban centers.  The CI has dropped off a partially encrypted medium that is being decrypted at the moment, more developments to come.

 Gang News:

Gangland Wedding On

Ancient leader, Belial has got magic in his silver tongue. Ancient Street Sam JuL33T has done a 180 and has declared that she is not only ready to marry mobster Enzo Gianelli, but that she is quite excited to do so. Word on the street has it that they will be married in the next few days. Expect a great party!

 Letters to the Editor:

Seattle Street News readers may be interested in NeoNET’s latest foray in Biotech. After the NeoPET GMO killer pets debacle and the too-good-to-be-true announcement that their short-lived ADNeo would have made Orks and Trolls live longer, they’re at it again. My sources at NeoNET tell me they will soon unveil yet another Biotech subsidiary.

What are they up to this time? Is it a sign they don't even pretend it will last longer than the others any more that this Biotech sub of the month of theirs is just called “3” internally and that this name may even stick?

--A fed up Troll who’ll never eat at NeoNET’s trough no matter how many freaking shades of soy they hype.

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