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Digital Executive Interview with Gini Graham Scott
Digital Executive Interview with Gini Graham Scott features a 15-minute interview with Brian E. Thomas about my work in creating books, games, and films, and working with AI. It also discusses the techniques I have used to be creative and how others can learn these methods. The Digital Executive interviews feature technology leaders providing actionable insights on AI transformation and digital strategy to reveal what works at the intersection of technology and leadership. Brian E. Thomas is the Chief Information Officer and Chief AI Officer who has built the Digital Executive into one of the fastest-growing technology leadership podcasts, so it was an honor to be one of the guests on this program.
ARTICLE IN SCOPE WEEKLY: Recent Jury Verdicts and the Need to Regulate Facebook
The Original article appears at https://www.scopeweekly.com/2026/04/recent-jury-verdicts-and-the-need-to-regulate-facebook-says-author-gini-graham-scott Here’s an article I wrote that was featured in Scope Weekly News Magazine Apr 28, 2026 Recent jury...
Sending a Letter to Senators and Representatives to Regulate Facebook & Meta
Their stories, combined with these landmark jury decisions, show clearly that voluntary self‑regulation by Big Tech has failed.
BOOKS ON THE U.S. CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
THE COSTLY U.S. PRISON SYSTEM: TOO COSTLY IN TERMS OF DOLLARS, NATIONAL PRESTIGE AND LIVES provides a careful, close-up look from a conservative perspective of what’s wrong with the prison system and how to fix it. The key topics covered include these:
- a recent history of incarceration in the U.S.
- facts about our prisons and correctional system
- the high rate of recidivism after prisoners are released
- how other countries deal with prisons and recidivism
- how one U.S. state and one U.S. city have dealt with prisons and recidivism
- ways to reduce recidivism and incarceration and cut costs
The book is available in two versions:
- with full color photos and graphs
- with black and white photos and graphs
COPS AREN’T SUCH BAD GUYS features a series of chapters about cops and fatal shootings. As discussed, most of these killings are justified, due to the use of force guidelines which cops follow in the face of a deadly threat, despite the widespread anger and protests against the cops.
But this reaction is fueled by misinformation and sensational media coverage, while the cops involved in these shootings have their lives upended by extensive hearings and huge financial expenses.
This book describes the truth behind the headline stories that demonize cops.
THE PRICE OF JUSTICE IN AMERICA looks at a series of problems in the criminal justice system and how they might be fixed.
The topics discussed include rising racial tensions, especially between the police and black community, problems in the prison and correctional system, differences in the homicide rate in different groups, the relationship between homicide rate and drugs, and the media’s role in sensationalizing crime and contributing to problems in the criminal justice system.
BOOKS ON FIXING AMERICAN SOCIETY
CRIME IN AMERICA features selections from a series of six books by Paul Brakke, who writes on what’s wrong with the criminal justice system and how to fix it.
These books deal with the police, courts, and prisons, and consider of some of the crises now facing American society due to illegal immigration, the opioid crisis, and the growing divide between racial, ethnic, rural-urban, and income groups. This book summarizes the critical insights of these other books in order to reach the widest possible audience, because one of Brakke’s reasons for writing this book is to inspire real change.
The book is organized into five sections. Part I deals with crime, who commits it, and the police as our first line of defense. Part II deals with punishment and its consequences, including the swamped criminal justice system, the positive and negative results of incarceration, and the collateral damage to the families of those incarcerated.
Suggested remedies are scattered throughout these first two sections. Then, Part III concentrates on specific solutions, emphasizing reducing the return of ex-cons to prison and the length of prison sentences. Part IV concentrates on our drug plague, and Part V deals with divisions in the nation, some raised in previous sections, that must be healed to make America great again.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
THE GREAT NATIONAL DIVIDES discusses the many divisions in the United States and how to fix them to reunite this great country.
These divisions include divides based on race, ethnicity, politics, geography, and the great schisms between North and South, rural and urban American, and income inequality between the rich and poor which is getting wider.
The book concludes with some ways to reform the system, a fix that is especially critical today.
BOOKS ON SOCIAL ISSUES & GENERAL INTEREST
This book combines two books: Jury Verdicts and The Fight to Regulate Facebook and The Latest in the Campaign Against Facebook: What’s Wrong with Facebook and What We Can Do to Fix It.
It begins with two columns written about the latest jury verdicts against Facebook and Meta in New Mexico and California, which found Meta’s platforms liable for teen addiction and mental health problems. Plus there are over a thousand more cases filed against the company.
Then, the book features two columns that describe the need for a letter-writing campaign to Senators and Representatives on key government committees, along with a list of committee members to contact. These are the committees that deal with commerce, consumer protection, technology, data privacy, communications, small business, trade, and justice.
After that, it describes in more detail the many problems that Facebook faces and what the federal and state governments can do to require Facebook to make changes.
It features a series of articles and press releases describing Facebook’s problems, which include an inability to create a selfie resulting in the loss of an account, advertising charges due to bots and scammers, advertisers having ads cancelled and losing the money they paid, and people losing an account due to an algorithm terminating it for no good reason.
When Ukraine Was at Peace is about a time about 40 years ago during the Glasnost years under Mikhail Gorbachev when Ukraine was still part of the Soviet Union.
I went there on three trips, including citizen diplomacy trips in 1989 and 1991, and I took several hundred photos in Kyiv, then called Kiev. The book features a portfolio of over 200 photos, a chapter I wrote about visiting Ukraine from Before the Russian Revolution, and a traditional folktale, The Lord of the Crows.
I was especially drawn to Ukraine since my paternal grandparents emigrated from this area and the neighboring countries in the early 20th century. The photos feature visits to parks, beaches, museums of art and industry, markets, city streets, and more.
The photos are also available for individual purchases for editorial use, posters, videos, and other formats, to show what life was like in Ukraine during a happier and more peaceful time.
IN PLAY LIFE AS AGAME, writer and game designer Gini Graham Scott, PhD invites you to see your choices, challenges, and daily ups and downs as a game you might design, play, and win.
Combining insights from psychology, creativity research, and real-world game design, this book reveals how imagination and role-play can help you live the life you want, where you create the goals, objectives, rules to play, and gain the knowledge, tools, and motivation to win. It is a way to have more purpose and confidence, overcome fears and difficulties, and achieve more success in whatever you do.
Through stories of others and practical exercises, you’ll learn how to:
Design your own rules for success and meaning.
Play with identity and imagination to level up your skills.
Overcome fears and turn setbacks into strategy.
Win by achieving your goals
Whether you’re navigating a major life change, chasing a creative dream, or tired of feeling stuck, this book reframes growth as a game you’re meant to master.
You’re already in a game. This book helps you decide the best way to play!
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Author Paul Brakke is a scientist based in Central Arkansas. He became interested in studying the criminal justice system when his life was turned upside down after his wife was falsely accused of aggravated assault