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By  Paul Ponce Every revolution needs someone on the street. In the second edition of  A.I. Capone: The Digital Don , that someone is  Cami Quinteros . Cami isn’t a hacker in a secret bunker. She isn’t a general in a war room. She’s a communications major from Buenos Aires, stuck in a dead-end call center job while watching her country spin through another cycle of corruption, crisis, and political theater — all while the world’s puppet masters prepare to play their final card. But Cami is...

By  Paul Ponce This week,  A.I. Capone: The Digital Don  was named  Best Science Fiction 2026 by Indies Today . When I read the announcement, my mind didn’t go to rankings or badges. It went back to the early days. To writing scenes long after the world had gone quiet. To second-guessing chapters. To wondering whether the mix of cyberpunk grit, mafia swagger, satire, and tech anxiety would resonate beyond my own desk. There was no marketing machine behind it. No institutional push. Just pages...

By  Paul Ponce A few weeks ago, I learned that a friend I admired deeply had passed away. His name was  Neil Wilkinson . To his shipmates in the British Royal Navy he was simply  Wilky . He famously served as an A-B gunner aboard  HMS Intrepid  during the 1982 war in the South Atlantic between the UK and Argentina — a 74-day conflict with intense fighting on air, land, and sea. On May 27, 1982, Neil fired on an Argentine A-4 Skyhawk flown by  1st Lt. Mariano Velasco , widely regarded as...