Ah fuck. I forgot to rapture.

This is why Orin is my favorite

Wrote a good chapter today. Saturday chapters are the best.

Buffy, Star Trek and World War 3.2. How I came to Zettelkasten: "That kind of chaos is part of the fun of writing a novel, but it doesn’t scale to a nine-book arc w/ dozens of narrators spread across multiple continents & decades. And keeping a single note on my phone wasn’t working anymore."

I'M COMIN' FOR YOU MATT HAIG AND HELL'S COMIN' WITH ME

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When books are thoughtfully arranged, they help us arrange our thoughts... When not hidden behind barricades of other books, when not stacked into precarious towers, each title becomes a kind of waypoint, a visible record of a mind genuinely searching for particular ideas.

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And Trump’s handler was Canadian, which is why you’ve never seen her

Emergent American Fascism?

Been editing the manuscript for WW3.2 with manflu and maybe it’s the Lemsip talking, but I wonder if I should leave in some typos to show that it was written by a human

I have manflu.

There’s just something about the cat’s bed…

If an old man sitting next to me, was making love to his tonic and gin, I’d call the police.

Took a few hours but I gave my office a post-WW3.2-deadline clean and tidy

Your periodic reminder that these blokes knew how to deal with Nazis.

Lots of racists in town today.

I love JVL with an unnatural physical love because he manifests all of my darkest thoughts at least 24hrs before I have them.

Just imagine the parties when this fucking guy dies.

When I was a psych student I’d travel across town to the med school to copy articles from obscure South American journals cos I could write them out word for word without much chance of being caught & that’s what kids these days are missing out on getting ChatGPT to write their papers for them

If we can't trust the trampoline bunnies... open.substack.com/pub/aliensid...

Sooooooon. Okay. Next week. My Patreon peeps are currently reading the pre-release to let me know all about all the mistakes I made.

I honestly don’t know how this happened but I seem to have been manoeuvered into a position where I have to carry my cat from the heated blanket to the food bowl and back or I get in a lot of trouble

FAAARK. Just when I thought was finished this book I found a COMPLETELY UNEDITED BARELY FUCKING COHERENT CHAPTER RIGHT AT THE ARSE END OF THE BOKK FARRRRK

Look, this is fun, but I have to go shopping for chairs. Or, as I call them, "Non-standing rest units"

Wut?

Just dictated a whole chapter of my next book while walking down to catch the ferry into the city. It was a great chapter - maybe 3000 words of high-octane action and satisfying character arc payoff. But you can’t read it because I forgot to turn on my recorder

Lulz. I have made this mistake so often...

Here’s the class action against Anthropic for copyright theft. If you’ve had as many books stolen as I have by the AI companies, you’ll be a while entering your details. But you could pour a glass of wine and maybe have a nice piece of cheese or something. www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

I love this because it reminds me of the philosophy lecturer (sideburns & leather elbow patches) who assured us in 1986 that the Dominant Paradigm would fall because “My God! Our kids are listening to Supertramp!”

Why would this person follow me? I don’t speak French.

Got a migraine at lunch. Scrambled my brains. Decided to fritter away the afternoon making Australia’s national dish. Took four and a half hours.

Someone has chewed my copy of Marcus Aurelius and I’m trying to remember that suffering arises not from circumstance but from our response to circumstance, but Marcus, mate, it’s tough.

Just watched the first episode of Alien Earth. It’s great but jeez Timothy Olyphant is creepy as fuck.

Been doing my final, final, final check of Sleeper Agent 3, but man, you really have to watch Grammarly. What I wanted to say, vs what the stupid corrections bot thought I should say.

Honestly, this guy’s press office is doing some of the best online comedy in the world at the moment

Bookish is the best bookstore in Bendigo, and you should 100% order a book in support!

Inviting myself to the Bendigo Writers Festival so I can quit in protest.

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details: LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au... (This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

I think this trilogy might need seven more books

When our civilisation falls, this is what I will miss.

I have thoughts about words.

I'm sitting in my office, sipping tea, and languidly dictating the first draft of this week's column's opening. And my dictation software keeps transcribing: [sips tea]. How does it know???

New York Times, Jan. 10, 1939: "BERLIN, Jan. 9.-In his first public appearance since New Year, Chancellor Adolf Hitler today dedicated the monumental extension of the Reich Chancellery, which now becomes the political center of the Third Reich." {gift link} www.nytimes.com/1939/01/10/a...

Not long now before the quantum bubbles pop and this bad boy slides into our reality via a rupture in the fabric of spacetime. To prepare you for the trauma of having your temporal reality completely borked, I’m going to expose you to this alternative history gradually. Prologue follows:

“Drag me down to Hell or just a bit deeper into this heated blanket.”

Just putting down this marker. At some point in the near future, some right wing edgelord will bring back the Hitler moustache

This looks great

This, by @birmo.bsky.social, is the most hopeful thing I've ever read about LLMs. open.substack.com/pub/aliensid...