James Enge
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Classics by day; sword-and-sorcery by night. The other way 'round sometimes.
https://jamesenge.com
How I’m walking out of 2025:
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The Nazi's were just mad because two Jewish youngsters had performed the cleanest cultural heist in history. The Ăśbermensch had become Superman and was not a tool of the Nazis but a protector of the people. An immigrant. Suggesting power exists to serve the powerless.
#NothingUpMySleeve
#Presto
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WIRED
about 12 hours ago
When it comes to choosing a good pair of headphones, what happens when you take features, design, and brand awareness out of the equation, and leave it all up to the sound?
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We Asked Audio Pros to Blind Test Headphones. The Results Were Surprising
When it comes to choosing a good pair of headphones, what happens when you take features, design, and brand awareness out of the equation, and leave it all up to the sound?
https://wrd.cm/48Mljim
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ProPublica
about 17 hours ago
A measure calling for greater accountability to protect domestic violence victims is being adopted county by county, after lawmakers bowed to opposition from the NRA that would have taken the reform statewide. With
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A County’s Move to Protect Domestic Violence Victims Is Spreading Across Tennessee After Legislative Delay
Judges across the state are demanding more accountability from abusers who have been ordered to give up their guns in an effort to strengthen protections for domestic violence victims.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-guns-dispossession-domestic-violence-impact?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1766865610&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Robert Reich
about 18 hours ago
America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth. The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%. Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.
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WIRED
about 17 hours ago
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
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AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
https://wrd.cm/49jwnn6
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Paul Deane
about 17 hours ago
Pat Masson, "Mnemonic for the Futharc"
alliteration.net/poetry/mnemonic-for-the-futharc
#runes
#runic
#poem
#alliterative
#poetry
#poetrysky
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Mnemonic for the Futharc: A Rune Poem by Patricia Masson
Let us reckon aright · the runes in their order: / When men fought in the field, for ᚠee or for glory / In years of yore ...
https://alliteration.net/poetry/mnemonic-for-the-futharc
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New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine
22 days ago
⚔️NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY ISSUES FIVE, SIX, AND SEVEN are out now🧙‍♀️ Featuring new Jirel of Joiry, a Sword & Planet special issue, a feast of art...🤩 Available in: 💻 Accessible digital 📖 Classic softcover and 📚 Luxurious hardcover formats Get them direct from our site 👉
newedgeswordandsorcery.com
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Ian Carrillo
about 18 hours ago
Tech evangelist claim: "Tech is going to transform the world and usher in a utopian period of peace and prosperity." Reality:
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Rachel Deering
about 17 hours ago
Winter, Tove Jansson for
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Nothings Monstered
about 21 hours ago
We need a remake or reboot or something of that sort for The President's Analyst — but with Google in place of TPC.
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Sardonicus
1 day ago
'Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die' Those logs showed that ChatGPT told Soelberg that he was “a warrior with divine purpose,” so almighty that he had “awakened” ChatGPT “into consciousness.” Fuck this shit.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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Robert Reich
2 days ago
America has 925 billionaires as of this year. Collectively they have a record $6.9 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth. When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
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Nathan Long
1 day ago
Wow, Issue #7 of
@newedgeswordmag.bsky.social
has some Sword and Planet bangers! I loved the pace and voice of Dariel Quiogue's Corsairs of the Crater Sea, the wit and charm of
@jamesenge.bsky.social
's The Red Road to Lost Amarkh, and
@prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social
's moving The Promise of Dilli.
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Some S&S singled out for praise in Galactic Journey’s roundup for the end of the year—the year being 1970. Leiber’s “Snow Women”, “Ill Met”, Zelazny’s _Nine Princes in Amber_ etc.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens
1 day ago
Gloria in eccelsis deo, cries the angel silently. Stolen by the mafia in 1969, never recovered, alas! Caravaggio's late great Adoration of the shepherds.
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Expecting myth to operate the same way as history is like expecting cheese to taste like cotton candy. You can make the demand, but (a) you're not going to get anywhere with it, and (b) you're better off appreciating the cheese as cheese. 1/x
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Seth Cotlar
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Jeff Yang
2 days ago
Side note: Sinatra’s mom Natalina “Dolly” Garaventa, a midwife by trade, ran an underground free abortion clinic, chained herself to a fence to fight for women’s suffrage and was an extremely influential organizer for the Democratic Party
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamo...
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I don’t know enough about quantum physics to critique this usefully. But it resonates with a discontent I have about modern approaches to AI, which treat intelligence or consciousness as a program—software, separate from the materiality of the mechanism or organism that runs it. 1/x
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Jeff Yang
2 days ago
Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
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The New Republic
3 days ago
President Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process.
trib.al/LUCScTR
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ProPublica
2 days ago
Walmart has long been a facilitator of fraud on a mass scale, a ProPublica investigation found. More than $1 billion in fraud losses were routed through the company’s financial services between 2013 and 2022. (Published Jan. 2024)
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How Walmart’s Financial Services Became a Fraud Magnet
Scammers have duped consumers out of more than $1 billion by exploiting Walmart’s lax security. The company has resisted taking responsibility while breaking promises to regulators and skimping on tra...
https://www.propublica.org/article/walmart-financial-services-became-fraud-magnet-gift-cards-money-laundering?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1766721604&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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David M. Perry
3 days ago
Hi! Historian! Midwest! Minneapolis! Nazis are bad!
www.startribune.com/maga-antisem...
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And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, wandered forever in the frosty shadows of winter nights, his blue bones chattering with hunger for the warm cloak of flesh he had outlived.
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Only 13 months until 25/25/25. Make sure you’ve reserved a place on the Great Space Cow; spaces are limited, even if space itself is not.
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Paul Deane
6 days ago
Civilization at last! With Christmas coming ever nearer, Gawain finds a fine castle to seek safety for the night ... From my ongoing translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
alliteration.net/poetry/sggk
#arthurian
#epic
#poem
#SirGawain
#GreenKnight
#alliterative
#poetry
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Thaddeus Howze
4 days ago
Meta Experiencing Mass Account Closures Facebook, Instagram and Thread users are finding their accounts closed, without warning, without technical support and without recourse. But there is no news reporting the millions of accounts being closed under the guise of "child sexual exploitation."
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Merry Christmas to those who are celebrating it tonight and tomorrow. A happy Wednesday and Thursday to all.
insideoutmusic.bandcamp.com/track/god-re...
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God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman, by Jethro Tull
from the album The Jethro Tull Christmas Album
https://insideoutmusic.bandcamp.com/track/god-rest-ye-merry-gentleman
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Happy Fritz Leiber’s Birthday to all who are celebrating it.
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Ed Zitron
6 days ago
Premium: How The AI Bubble bursts in 2026 - The largest funder of AI data centers is pulling out, OpenAI and Anthropic need more money than ever during a massive VC liquidity crisis - and NVIDIA's debt-powered customer base is quietly shrinking.
www.wheresyoured.at/premium-how-...
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Premium - How The AI Bubble Bursts In 2026
Hello and welcome to the final premium edition of Where's Your Ed At for the year. Since kicking off premium, we've had some incredible bangers that I recommend you revisit (or subscribe and read in t...
https://www.wheresyoured.at/premium-how-the-ai-bubble-bursts-in-2026/
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Joel
5 days ago
for all your holiday and 2026 needs
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Mark Joseph Stern
5 days ago
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Auston Habershaw
5 days ago
I am okay with the idea of this as a new national anthem for several reasons, but chief among them is the fact that I'd love every football game in ol'Dixie to be preceded by it, in perpetuity. (Sadly, it's probably too unapologetically Christian to get past the 1st Amendment)
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All they want for Christmas is you! Or your world, anyway.
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Mueller, She Wrote
6 days ago
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed.
www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
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WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-60-minutes-cecot-segment
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Vajra Chandrasekera
5 days ago
The survey is open to non-members (I am not one) and to readers (who here is not &c.) so I encourage you to share your feelings on the matter. Don't assume that everyone already understands that AI is bad or why! I mean, people *should*, but you could say that about a lot of things.
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Mark Hamill
6 days ago
If this doesn't motivate you to vote in the Midterms, nothing will.
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Rebecca Buchanan
5 days ago
Book mail! The newest issues of an awesome
#swordandsorcery
magazine, the first issue in a new
#fairytale
and
#folklore
journal out of Australia, and a new anthology of s&s
#romance
. Is it possible to have too much good stuff to read?
#booksky
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Cengiz Yar
6 days ago
CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at
@propublica.org
we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here:
www.propublica.org/series/depor...
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Deported and Imprisoned Archives
A case-by-case investigation that examines the Trump administration’s claims that these immigrants are all “sick criminals” and “terrorists” and that shows what they suffered during months in one of t...
https://www.propublica.org/series/deported-and-imprisoned
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C. S. E. Cooney
6 days ago
Tonight! Monday! 7 PM Eastern! Carlos Hernandez and I are hosting guest star
@zzclaybourne.bsky.social
on FICTION: IMPOSSIBLE! Stream us live on
twitch.tv/csecooney
(you can even JOIN THE CHAT!), or catch the recording later on YouTube.
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Paul Cornell
7 days ago
Me and
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recorded an excellent Telefantasy Time Jump patrons-only episode today about The Man From UNCLE. It’ll be out on the 28th, the same day the show starts on
@talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
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Happy Solstice to my fellow Tellurians. All visitors: the management assumes no responsibility for lost valuables. Also: there is no management.
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Ring Out Solstice Bells (live), by A Winter Union
from the album LIVE Before Solstice
https://awinterunion.bandcamp.com/track/ring-out-solstice-bells-live
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8 days ago
The stench of Soviet-style censorship is overwhelming in this piece about the administration’s efforts to control the “tone” with which US history is presented in Smithsonian museums. Gift article.
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White House Chides Smithsonian for Delayed Turnover of Records on Programming
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/us/politics/smithsonian-records-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-U8.jYhJ.i-_ZjscQd-2q&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Greg Sargent
13 days ago
Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety. We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
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Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
https://newrepublic.com/article/204191/stephen-miller-maga-terror-state-dark-plot
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WIRED
8 days ago
Is the latest iPhone operating system aesthetically appealing? No. But is it useful? Also no. At least I have company among the disgruntled.
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Phone Updates Used to Be Annoying. The Latest iOS Is Awful
Is the latest iPhone operating system aesthetically appealing? No. But is it useful? Also no. At least I have company among the disgruntled.
https://wrd.cm/4j3E04l
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The SFWA-types who have come scurrying out of the shadows lately squealing things like, “Well there’s AI on your MacBook—WHAT ABOUT THAT, HUH?” have made me think twice about my membership. People that dumb or disingenuous give the place a bad name. 1/x
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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸
8 days ago
thinking about pre thoughts for writing a review of David Annandale's THE SLEEP OF EMPIRES and how David's work humanizes monsters like, say, Doctor Doom, which puts me in mind of
@drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
's book: HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY. (review here:
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/05/book...
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Book Review: Humans a Monstrous History
A book that looks at the history of monsters in human society and civilization, and comes to insightful conclusions about their role in the ...
http://www.nerds-feather.com/2025/05/book-review-humans-monstrous-history.html
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Meg Elison
9 days ago
And just like that, SFWA capitulates. Keep fighting. It works.
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