Charles Yu and Chloe Zhao are bringing Iain M. Banks' Consider Phlebas to TV!! 🌌 reactormag.com/charles-yu-i...

Went to my first school board meeting this evening for a district my family loves, and it was actually lovely and community driven. Kids presented projects, the business of running the district was presented and public commentaries were sane and caring. In such tumult, it was actually hopeful.

Listen to Aggressive Steven by Aesop Rock, reread Notes From Underground by Dostoevsky. Voila, my brain makes up a little allegory about how the current world works. #writing #writingcommunity #fiction robotissmiling.com/2025/02/19/o...

One a Day This is what you get when you are rereading Notes from Underground and listening to Aesop Rock's Aggressive Steven. A short tale about someone named Steven who is taking...something...and how he descends.

these guys spent 60 kajillion dollars to make a computer forget how to do math

AFTERWORD x ALTERED CARBON Adoniram’s wife, Eve, is dying. His father hopes his mind-copying AI can save her but the connection grants the AI sapience and makes Adoniram the key to its control. He must choose between competing alliances, faith, and his love for Eve #2025Pit #A #SF

#MiseryPit #Q #A #HM I, SAID THE SPARROW ♦️Peaky Blinders vibe ♦️1920s ♦️Slow burn romance ♦️Dysfunctional family ♦️LGBTQ+ FMC ♦️Seaside setting ♦️Secrets & lies ♦️Dual timeline & PoV

The Ipcress File x Life on Mars 🔫 High-stakes thriller 🔫 Time travel twist 🔫 Stale beer espionage 🔫 Weird science 🔫 Cold War subterfuge 🔫 Working class hero 🔫 Hunter to hunted 🔫 Antagonist from the future 🔫 Enemy turned ally 🔫 Proles vs privilege #Q #A #SFFT #MiseryPit #editors #litagents 🦋

JOHNNY MNEMONIC + BOURNE IDENTITY Corporate espionage is a dangerous business and Evelyn just gave Francis the power to steal secrets from a target’s mind. Little did they know it would start the first Corporation Wars. Prequel to this novelette: a.co/d/eGrsL2h #SFFT #A #MiseryPit #WIP

JOHNNY MNEMONIC + BOURNE IDENTITY Francis will do anything for Evelyn. Evelyn will do anything to survive, so when she is pushed, Francis agrees to become the first acquisition specialist and acquire secrets from the last unprotected place his targets have, their minds. #SFFT #A #MiseryPit #WIP

I've been working on a prequel novel to this story I wrote years ago for the last couple of months. It's nice to sink back into a few of my favorite characters: robotissmiling.com/2016/04/29/t...

Wrote about the gig economy ride-hail model, its metastasis across the economy, and a brilliant Roosevelt Institute report on gig nursing that came out last month. thetechbubble.substack.com/p/ubers-bast...

Investors worldwide stand to lose more than $1 trillion today because of the sudden fear that the market-sustaining AI spending boom might have been for nothing.

Sometimes, the first item to travel through a wormhole is a condiment.

@iandunt.bsky.social Really nice article (iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-res...). This hit me "Instagram had started to make me feel empty. Each time I put it down I felt a little more hollowed out." A year or so ago, I signed up for Instagram for business advertising reasons. 1/2

Doing background research for an in progress novel about corporate sovereignty. Interesting anthropological review: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1... A corporation's sphere of influence is sometimes softly negotiated or implicit, what would it mean for total legal control to be explicitly given?

Hucksters gonna Huck. AI founders are now using the line: For the sake of the country, please let us steal things to generate a whole bunch of fake stuff that looks passably like real stuff. 80.lv/articles/ope...

This article by @jessdkant.bsky.social is such a good (and very disturbing) read. Our society is gleefully racing back towards the dark ages. It's a race to the bottom, and the finish line is when we all stop thinking

Literally every company now youtube.com/shorts/hL9pl...

Ten years ago, I sketched out a few characters belonging to one common universe in a series of short stories. Finally back to writing a couple of novels that have been on the back burner for a decade. Thought I'd share the old stuff: robotissmiling.com/2015/10/13/t... #scifi #writingcommunity

Here is the speech I gave at Seton Hill University about my writing and path to publishing for the keynote which was followed by a reading of a sampling of my work.

So now the refs just stand in the way. The mysterious 6th player for the opposition. #njdevils

Just picked up tickets to the second leg of @soulcoughing.bsky.social plays the songs of Soul Coughing tour. I missed the first leg and was sad, despondent even. But now...only true dreams of happiness and rainbows. My kids will be jealous.

I've added more authors to my SciFi Authors starter pack. If you're into writing, space ships, lasers, robots and other nerdy and cool things that people who trade in such tall tales discuss, this will get you started. P.S. They talk about other things too. go.bsky.app/JLUXRbc

I want to be excited for the future, but every OpenAI release makes me sad. Instead of a bright future, we get knock offs in 20s increments suitable for advertising. Creating something great should be hard. Can't make a video. As my kids say, get good. No shortcuts. techcrunch.com/2024/12/11/i...

Why do we keep getting goalied? #njdevils

Made a collection of the SciFi authors on BlueSky in my read and to be read list. Truth be told, once I find an author I like, I will pretty much get a copy of everything they write. go.bsky.app/JLUXRbc

#njdevils TUNA...noooooooo!

Writing about AUTHORITARIANISM & TOTALITARIANISM ✊ In Ep. 133, @aptshadow.bsky.social and co-hosts @adrianmgibson.bsky.social @mjkuhnbooks.bsky.social discuss how fiction can reveal the failings of oppressive systems. Stream/download/watch Ep. 133: linktr.ee/SFFAddicts youtu.be/uivznXQr9zM?...

Doing tons of reading/research on super structures and voids for a story and then I find this amazing feed: bsky.app/profile/did:... And I am now happily going further down the rabbit hole. Word count goals be damned. #wip #writing

Talk about a fascinating role: Astronomer Chris Impey is part of an international advisory council designing messages for advanced alien civilizations—just in case they’re out there. https://buff.ly/4f07dtq (Chris Impey, @uarizona.bsky.social) 🛰️ #astronomy #life #ETPhoneHome

#43 has it on lock tonight. That puck protection was beautiful. #njdevils

Elon Musk’s comment that Matt Gaetz was the “Judge Dredd America needs” is part of an alarming pattern, writes Adam Serwer:

So I guess surgery time limits were never the intent after all, so says Anthem. Did the internet win? www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/h...

NHL points forecasts over the last couple of weeks. the once high-flying Jets continue to lose altitude.

"Generate a playable world on a spaceship". While the technology is fascinating on paper, it's a little sad to read this when you're running an account that's dedicated to showing the impact of human creation on fiction (and therefore on our lives).

I feel seen, mostly because I am a Dad and I strive to be encouraging. Thanks Bluesky Roast.

It's been quite some time since I've had the ability to really write. I got back to it with reckless abandon over the last month because some stories need telling. This prompted me to dig into some old works. Thought I'd share an old shorty here: robotissmiling.com/2018/07/05/p... #writingcommunity

Recently started using Scrivener, and so far I like the experience. A bit more unfettered than other tools I've tried. Any tips from long time users? #writingcommunity #scrivener P.S. As a vetern coder, I would never ask about editors because it starts a flame war. Hope that doesn't apply here.

@billspaulding.bsky.social "Hughes owns New York!" The whole family cheered. The goal was nice, but the call made it better. #njdevils

Well, at least Luke got an assist. #njdevils

That's just lovely timing. #njdevils

#njdevils You like to see it. So sayeth the Daneyko, so sayeth we all. Excellent 1st period. At some point, the refs will get a call from Toronto to remind them that it's the Devils and they must be penalized.

LLM powered UI generation tools are amazing for people creating demos of LLM powered UI generation tools

Still think AI is beniegn? “… data labellers and AI workers from Kenya who do work for companies like Facebook, Scale AI and OpenAI published an open letter to U.S. in which they said: Our working conditions amount to modern day slavery.” theconversation.com/ai-is-a-mult...

It's the annual look at the standings at US Thanksgiving. youtu.be/joZI_4LMbFg

Does the stash protect the captain or does the captain protect the stash? #njdevils

Luke is hungry. Love to see him pushing the play. #njdevils