THE NEGOTIATION (2 mins) Death & the Empress negotiate a price. Look at those costumes! 😳 The characters & their drobe were rendered w AI from my own hand-drawn illustrations. I hope this inspires for Halloween. www.youtube.com/shorts/25v_5...

Theo wants to lead a seminar: HOW TO GET BY ON YOUR GOOD LOOKS FOR LIFE. He's not much of a lecturer, tho. It would be more of a silent, learn by example thing. Very pro-luddite. Very anti-AI. Super grassroots.

10 Rules You Need Now for Stability in the Risky Age of AI 1-Know yourself 2-Take care of yourself, then others 3-Live & work w purpose & meaning 4-Think well 5-Communicate well 6-Solve problems 7-Connect w people 8-Adapt & learn 9-Master basic tech 10-Know data/digital literacy

If you have a problem you can't get rid of: 1. Face it. 2. Understand it. 3. Solve it. AI in the arts, humanities, publishing, tv & film is a problem. It's not going away. I'm working on solutions. What are YOU doing? How am I facing AI? Visit me👇 www.youtube.com/@TheSpindleM...

What's with the hard, corporate push to use AI—even when it threatens the need, purpose & meaning of our work? Are we paying too much attention to the excuse of beating China to AI dominance? Or not enough? The answer affects us all. ⬇️ youtu.be/d7Rr4q5PKWs

Preorder AIN’T NOBODY’S FOOL (hardcover or ebook) @bn.com from 9/3 - 9/5 and get 25% off with code PREORDERS25. Note, this discount is available only to B&N members but free memberships are available - learn more @barnesandnoble.com/membership/

I have a new book coming out at the end of the year. AIN’T NOBODY’S FOOL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DOLLY PARTON is a deep dive into an American Original.

Woot! 🙌 Congratulations, @robinmbernstein.bsky.social 🏆

Welcome to the future! 🤖 Datasets from the US🇺🇸 & China🇨🇳 are on track to develop distinctive AI entities reflecting national character. Read my latest to learn what that'll look like. ➡️ rozfoster.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

AI isn’t coming for your job. It’s already taking it. CEOs are telling you how. AI isn’t going away, folks. Here’s what Cisco’s CEO Chuck Robbins said a few days back & why it should scare you a bit. I’ll say more in the thread below about why it might also inspire you. 🧵

On Cleo Abram's HUGE, Sam Altman describes a "proactive" GPT-5 AI companion. The plan: With access to your private email, calendar, photos, files, mic, camera, AI will make suggestions & take autonomous action. *Think* about this.🤔... 😳 Learn more:➡️ shorturl.at/BdGLZ

Google & OpenAI are trying to persuade you to grant them full access to your private files. Your emails, your photos, your files. They're aggressively targeting young people. If you're a student, parent or teacher & want to know how and why, read this: ➡️ substacktools.com/sharex/v98ZV...

Google & OpenAI are fighting to sell you or your kids on waiving your rights to privacy while damaging your ability to think. DEAL! 😂 Read my latest to learn why aggressive AI marketing is targeting kids & putting all of our minds & data at risk. open.substack.com/pub/rozfoste...

Why is Big Tech racing to lead the market for a universal AI assistant? 🍭Targeting Teens, Google is the closest to being able to ship. Join me as I explain how Google has all the pieces and is selling full data transparency to young generations. Watch now! ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TkE...

Awesome to see @wweek.com, hailing from my old stomping ground of Portland, Oregon, featuring Scott Alexander Howard's literary spec-fic THE OTHER VALLEY amongst its staff's top reads for the month! 🙏 @loanloan.bsky.social @atriabooks.bsky.social www.wweek.com/arts/books/2...

What are your favorite bookshops in upstate New York? I’ll go first! Diamond Hollow in Andes ➡️ diamondhollowbooks.com & The Lost Bookshop in Delhi ➡️ thelostbookshop.com ✨📚✨

The cure for everything is a walk in the woods. 🧵⬇️

Want to know what women want today? They want to be small, hypermasculine weaponized competitors in life and on the market here in late-stage capitalism. 🧵⬇️

Stunning view! 🌞 #horselove #country #officelife #summer #nature #upstateny

“Happy, happy, happy, happy, dead.” ~Joseph Heller, Catch 22

Is Romantasy Ruining Us or Making Cultural History? Dragon smut is dominating sales, but spicy romance novels have been huge bestsellers since the 18th century. In fact, Rebecca Yarros and Sarah J. Maas may just be making literary history! ⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/rozfoste...

The wise @rainalips.bsky.social on #Mamdani's win: “You don’t get anywhere responding to the racist, fascist, aggression of ppl like Donald Trump w a defensive crouch. You can only win by standing up for yourself, by being brave & uniting w other ppl.” ⬇️ @versobooks.bsky.social

When you see a fascinating, disturbing, illuminating pattern emerge across a large swath of experiences, reading & research & then have to articulate it simply & succinctly in a digestible format that others can grok.

Office life here in summer, 😂 the Disney movie version. #literarylife #officelife #country #UpstateNY #NewYork #horselove #cabinlife #amreading #books #ai #veo3 #disney #writing

Is The Velvet Sundown an AI band posing as human & making bank on Spotify? Rick Beato says, Yup. ⬇️ O brave new world that has such creatures in it. youtu.be/3Nlb-m_vKYM?... @lizpelly.bsky.social

The driveby.

This brief op-ed gives a terrific snapshot of the rising threat of young people who aren't able to think critically or creatively. @wsj.com 🙏 #AllysiaFinley www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

Immortality in Peace. rozfoster.substack.com ADVISORY: May induce critical thought in minors.

From @quillandquire.bsky.social : ✨"Scott Alexander Howard was named the winner of the [Rakuten Kobo] literary fiction prize for The Other Valley (Scribner/ @simonschusterca.bsky.social).... Judge and award-winning novelist Suzette Mayr called the book 'a clear standout.'"✨

Yes, I sing showtunes to Hazel. This one seems particularly appropriate. 😂 #horselove #hair

LLMs are messing w the minds of adults. This piece shows us why we need to be wary of AI companies targeting not just adults but kids-whose brains haven't yet fully formed. Read this & then read more at my newsletter (link in bio) about the AI integration Google has in store.

🎉Congratulations to Scott Alexander Howard & his debut novel THE OTHER VALLEY for winning the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for literary fiction! 🏆@simonschusterca.bsky.social @atriabooks.bsky.social @loanloan.bsky.social 👏 www.cbc.ca/books/anh-du...

‼️ Big Tech wants to replace your prefrontal cortex with a consumer product. ‼️ If you use MS Windows, Office, Apple OS, Google Workspace, or a smartphone with Android or iOS, Big Tech is working hard and fast to replace it all… with One Product to Rule Them All. Read more ⬇️

Who was the most famous haughty hipster of Regency England? In Part I of the Dressed pod, the fascinating fashion historian, Dr. Chloe Chapin @sexandstatus.bsky.social, will regale you with anecdotes about the sartorial snobbery of Beau Brummell. ⬇️ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

In the @latimes.com, @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social, author of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, writes incisively on MONSTRIFYING undocumented migrants, an age-old strategy used through history to dehumanize & normalize campaigns to strip individuals of human rights. @ucpress.bsky.social

If you're an angry, young person living in an apocalyptic world without meaning, ask AI to solve the problem. 🎈 @nxthompson.bsky.social @kevinmkruse.bsky.social

✨People, get ready for the always-on, universal AI Assistant that's poised to dominate the market AND your prefrontal cortex!✨ Here Comes Big Tech's One Product to Rule Them All. Oh, and they're targeting your kids using simulated candy rain, balloons and a cowgirl! 🍭🎈🤠 ➡️ rozfoster.substack.com 🧠

Office mate 🤎 #literary #intern #officelife #horselove

People, just to be clear, this is not AI. This is Theo, an actual, real, live white horse who’s in a part of the field he shouldn’t be in because he’s a rebellious scamp.

Apart from the subtitles, Veo 3 renders my reaction to it pretty realistically.

Happy #PubDay for the @tantoraudio.bsky.social audiobook of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, read by @christinadelaine.bsky.social, also a @ucpress.bsky.social hardback and ebook! 1/🧵 💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH amzn.to/437Q1yg

✨"A striking suspense novel in the vein of S. A. Cosby and C. J. Box....If you like your thrillers with a heap of humanity, this is one you won’t want to miss."✨ — @bookstr.bsky.social 🙏🙌 @jdbaker11058.bsky.social @diversionbooks.bsky.social @tonimargarita.bsky.social bookstr.com/article/jere...

Scott Alexander Howard's THE OTHER VALLEY is a finalist for the 2025 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction! 👏 @SimonSchusterCA @simonschusterca.bsky.social @loanloan.bsky.social quillandquire.com/omni/2025-ra...

What books to read if you ❤️ Kazuo Ishiguro's NEVER LET ME GO? ... Well ➡️ THE OTHER VALLEY by Scott Alexander Howard for one, says @bookriot.bsky.social 👏 bookriot.com/never-let-me...

I’ve been drawing on my tablet at night here and there. I like to keep blue light exposure to a minimum after the sun goes down, so I’ve been setting a black background and using light colored lines. Reminds me of etching. Without intending it, this one ended up looking a bit like Elon. 🤔

Entanglement ✨⚛️✨

Such a FANTASTIC trailer for this FANTASTIC book & podcast! Have a look! 👹

This box of pre-pub loot from Jeremy D. Baker — @jdbaker11058.bsky.social — made my week! 🙏 My favorite *thingy*things are a journal, a pen & a mug of coffee. What's better? THE GUILTY SLEEP is! Pre-order now! ➡️ shorturl.at/MhJIR @diversionbooks.bsky.social @tonimargarita.bsky.social

OpenAI wants access to all the IP they can get w/o paying, saying democracy & free markets are at stake. They're also fighting Chinese authoritarianism for us.🤔 In a free market, you PAY for valuable, high-quality products. OpenAI is the threat w/ this line of thought.🙏 @producerpatrick.bsky.social

Is *your* work in the LibGen database? We need more clear, loud, big press clarifying books are of *high value* to AI for training & development. In a democracy w/ a free market, high value products are *sold* at high value, not free. Read ⬇️ 🙏 Alex Reisner @theatlantic.com @nxthompson.bsky.social