If anyone can assuage my animosity and anxiety towards this techno era of ours, it's Ken Liu.

Just doing my part in echoing this anti AI-slop sentiment into the zeitgeist. Zelda Williams put it most eloquently: "You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings . . ."

Jane Goodall's parting message. Don't lose hope, don't be apathetic, keep being the change. "Because, multiplied a million, a billion times, even small actions will make for great change." janegoodall.ca/our-stories/...

Here’s my take on why beef matters for climate change: “Nothing else on a pound for pound basis, except maybe refrigerants, comes close to the polluting power of beef.” That “doesn’t mean everyone has to be vegan tomorrow,” but the goal should be to trim back… apnews.com/article/plan...

Let's make her proud.

2025: Hoorah, this *looks* perfect! The chatbots will do all the calculus for us! 2030: Wait ... why did that bridge fall down?

Just learned of this amazing poem by Rudy Francisco. Art that makes us more empathetic people.

Keep this link close on hand for when the world is looking grim. It shows the many ways that humanity, and even certain environmental areas, are improving despite what these supercomputers in our pockets tell us. Don't let our proclivity for negative news shadow the good. humanprogress.org/datasets/

"...no machine, no matter how powerful, could achieve genuine insight or expertise like a human so long as it remained disembodied, disembedded, and blind to the meaningful whole within which human cognition always operates." In other words, LLMs ain't it. quillette.com/2025/09/07/c...

I'm honored to have my nihilistic, eco-anxious diatribe published at Pseudopod.

Sometimes I put my head down and pretend suffering isn't happening. That there's nothing we do. That this is just another of humanity's countless conflicts. Truth is, we CAN relieve suffering by donating. @mommunism.bsky.social verifies the people who truly need help from the scammers. Follow her.

I don’t eat meat from animals, but I recognise the ethical question of whether it is wrong in all circumstances is more balanced than I once thought. One thing I’m clear about: anyone who refuses to buy products from factory-farmed animals is on the right side. (1/2)

We’re deeply disappointed negotiations for a global plastics treaty have ended without a final agreement. Over the past 3 years, the momentum has been undeniable. The world now understands, plastic is a full lifecycle problem that demands systemic solutions, & that its health impacts are profound.

Talks broke down, but there is hope yet to curb our civilization's single-use plastic consumption. "Campaigners also note that it took eight years of talks to agree an amendment on hydrofluorocarbons to the Montreal protocol on ozone-depleting substances." share.google/8RGPbmhdOPmW...

Sigh. #writing #writers #shortstories

Some people have asked me why I bother fighting for a future I'm never going to see. I could say "It's not for me, it's for future generations" (which is true of course). But I also feel this question is flawed because the future I am trying to build is already happening right now. 🧵 #Solarpunk

Check out the latest episode of DataFramed, where we talk about scifi, AI, and why stories matter. www.datacamp.com/podcast/what...

Why don’t more people stop eating animals, even when they know the reality of factory farming? In our latest “Lives Well Lived” episode, neuroscientist Tali Sharot explains how we train ourselves not to think about things that make us uncomfortable, like the suffering behind a burger.

Finally cracked open KSR's "The Ministry for the Future." That was the most effective and unequivocally horrific opening chapter I've ever read. Simply wow. #books #booksky #climatechange

I appreciate how Solarpunk and Cyberpunk are fighting for the same futures and values, they just have completely opposite approaches. #cyberpunk #solarpunk

@jackmcgovan.bsky.social eloquently sums up my own anxieties involving my mortality, and why when I die I hope the roots and bugs can take me.

"When he isn't preaching the word of God, Reverend Joo Yeong-bong is raising dogs for slaughter." Quite the opening line. share.google/3mK5bg1HGjie...

"Accelerando"proved a difficult read in 2025: Forced to face my existential anxieties about a technological singularity, reading about attention-rattled techies torn between silicon and carbon while I keep reaching for my smartphone...

I don't know what's stranger - the fact that this Kickstarter for an AI anime companion hub has over $1,400,000 pledged, or that it has an average backing of $530 per person. GenAI "waifu" companions will be a thing this decade... but I can only feel pity for the victims of the loneliness epidemic.

Some good data here to back up the case of the four-day work week. Here's hoping it is an inevitability - more time for friends, family, and writing.

🛑 I'm doing something no writer has ever done before, and I'm launching a newsletter tomorrow. 🛑 Sower will picture a progressive alternative to the status quo through monthly features, complete with original illustrations and actionable advice on how to make a better world a reality.

I don't know where AI is going. It seems like it could just obliterate education

Writing science fiction set in the foreseeable future is difficult because about the furthest I can foresee right now is less than a week

I'm smitten by the description of the technological singularity being the "rapture of the nerds." I don't think the singularity will happen in any of our lifetimes, if at all. Ray Kurzweil is going to die, and so am I, and this is a beautiful mercy. #singularity

It's so beautiful. I'm so indescribably thankful to experience life on Earth. Photo by NASA EPIC, 2025.

I have a new favorite sci-fi quote. And boy, did it end up being true. From @cstross.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy 's Accelerando.

Saw a flying fox last night. It looked down at me from its tree, and I could see emotion and intelligence in its eyes (kind of like how we can see it in dogs). My heart melts with fascination for these cute creatures. Happy International Bat Appreciation Day. #animals Photo credit: Shawn Miller

Art may be interpreted however the beholder wishes. But I disagree with many tech lords' invocation of the work of Stephenson, Banks, the Wachowskis... as if they wish to weaponize speculative fiction rather than learn from it. Thank you @samfr.bsky.social for putting that into words.

If HAL 9000 was an LLM.

"In the same way cinema has changed the way we imagine the world (for example, novelists now write “cinematically”), AI will change the way we understand our subjectivity."

Cyberpunk monstrosity of the day: Reddit serving me up ads about AI girlfriends. I wish upon this company and those like it all the failures in the world.

Everyone read this thread. The whole point of science is to move our knowledge as a species forward because nothing else cares about figuring out how the universe works. You need integrity because the goal is larger than your 80yrs on Earth. Misleading people into giving you power isn't science.

Sixteen days have passed and despite filing complaints, Google continues to serve up this slop description that claims we've published "AI-generated stories." We've done nothing of the sort. In fact, we've been extremely vocal about our stance on "AI." NEVER IN OUR PAGES.

Informative and uplifting article about how (despite political setbacks in the US) the global rise towards clean renewables powers on. Progress is one step backwards, three steps forwards. #windsky #solarenergy www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

J1407b is a Super-Saturn: a brown dwarf with a massive ring system, big enough for whole planets to accrete inside it. Imagine the titanic dust waves following their orbit! Extraordinary scene by VitkusJustinas. www.deviantart.com/justv23/art/...

This is horror

The opening quote in Accelerando by Charles Stross. #booksky

Don't forget to vote for the mollusk of the year. Blue Dragon looks like the one to beat. This sea slug is beautiful beyond words. moty.senckenberg.science/en/?token=CP... #mollusks #marinebiology

The Avatar season after Korra is looking like it's taking some admirable risks.

Best way I can describe Elon Musk is that he could have been Tony Stark, but ended up being Lex Luthor.

Soup for My Soul…

I look at past stories I've written and find them amateurish. Too bloated. Excessive exposition. Even some missing words. It haunts me a little. But if a writer looks on work they've done in the past and thinks it's perfect, then they're not growing, right? #writingcommunity

There is not a single sci-fi writer who understood people and society better than Octavia Butler. Sociology was a second language to her. www.axios.com/2025/02/01/o...

"...there is no stopping this train. More than that, this is exactly why openness is so important: we need more AIs in the world, not an unaccountable board ruling all of us." Bitter pill to swallow. If AI is truly is inevitable, then openness and friendly competition is the safest path forward.