Unsurprisingly - people aren't screaming to live next to a a screaming data center www.yahoo.com/news/u... #ai #infrastructure #tech

21st Century Folk Hero or Cyberterrorist? You make the call - our phone lines our open. www.yahoo.com/news/u... #privacy #scifi #surveillance

All-time Champion has a permanent answer to the question: "Tell me about a time when something unexpected happened to you - how did you handle it and what did you learn?" www.dexerto.com/ente... #weird #news

Question for all my followers - if I jumped off a bridge, would you still follow me? WOULD YOU, HUH?

We're getting close to building life from scratch? *scoff* - I've been doing this for years with all the mold that grows on my bread. twin-cities.umn.edu/... #biotech #scifi #ethics

With summer here and the Nolan Xavier Wells tragedy fresh - make sure your friends get home safe. Never assume they are 'good.' Wells' story is bringing up a lot of shared pain for BiPOC friends who know other similar stories. Don't forget to be kind today. #summer #NolanXavierWells #gethomesafe

Squee! #Dune #Dunetrailer #scifi

If a book is free; it has seconds to prove it matters. No safety net - no cushion. My stories fight to stay in your head. inkican.com/smashwor... #scifi #summerbooks #bookreview #library

I felt this in my nerd-rage-y soul.

What if stories worked like open source code? Release early; let readers decide what survives. My short stories are inkican.com/smashwor... #scifi #bibliophile #book #readingtime

Did jet fuel melt the steel beams?? www.nbcnewyork.com/m... #currentevents #NYC #technology

Authors are One-Person Startups - Part II

Humans just moved into the ocean again. Might be good for all that rising ocean real estate we're about to get. www.yahoo.com/news/v... #ocean #scifi #science

Drowning in limes. Send help. Next week: I haven't seen the fabled lime in many moons. Send help.

NYC peeps - tell me about your favorite bodega. Bonus: Your favorite bodega cat. #NYC #bodegas #life

$8K dollar home robot to folds laundry sounds cool until you find out it can't do fitted sheets. www.businessinsider.... #robotics #ai #scifi

MFW rando 'soccer experts' emerge on social media to complain about the World Cup, despite never watching soccer the other 47 months of the four years: #worldcup #Soccer #FIFA

My stories are anti-click bait; Universes where the answers aren't easy and the hard questions uncover soft arguments. inkican.com/smashwor... #scifi #bookworm #bookstagrammer #read

Banks / Companies / Other Bill Collectors - sending me bills based on fake info means you agree to buy tokens on the JacksonLLM so that when I have to figure out why I don't owe you money and explain it in a way you understand, I can debit your account. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

My short stories are prototypes - proofs of concept for insane ideas and compelling challenges. If my stories were steak ... they would be well-done - rare in a medium like scifi. inkican.com/smashwor... #scifi #summerreadinglist #readersofinstagram #booksbooksbooks

'NASA wants you alone for a year' sounds like the beginning of a horror movie - not a psychology test for leaving Earth. www.theregister.com/... #scifi #space #psychology

Six Reasons Life on Mars Will Suck – Part III

Not content with ruining civilization - now Mark Zuckerberg wants to ruin gambling. www.motherjones.com/... #socialmedia #AI #culture

A free story sounds cheap; so why does it cost more to write. Because attention is the real currency. These pieces are built to earn it fast. You can feel that pressure on every page inkican.com/smashwor... #indieauthor #reading #books #bookblogger

Everyone says AI will change us - my stories are about who pays for that change. Less shiny tech; more human fallout. If you need a story to bend your head - this is your jam. inkican.com/smashwor... #scifi #booknerd #booksofinstagram #summerreads

AI billionaires: 'gee what are all those torches and pitchforks about?' www.yahoo.com/news/p... #AI #society #future

Can't stop laughing at this

Question for the Pioneer Park crowd - Debbie Deb is an iconic pioneer of freestyle music. So why is it that I only hear her coming from the boomboxes and Bluetooth speakers of the trashiest families? #music #eugene #summer

Your retirement fund might soon include SpaceX and OpenAI. Stand by for your 401k to start hallucinating. moneywise.com/news/t... #AI #finance #future

If a story is free it must earn attention fast; no brand cushion. That pressure creates sharper hooks and riskier themes. Good for readers tired of safe sci fi loops inkican.com/smashwor... #scifi #summerbooks #bookreview #library

When 'garbage in - garbage out' is a career. tech.yahoo.com/ai/ch... #AI #training #tech

Think of this as open source storytelling; writers release ideas and see who picks them up. You get bold concepts in ethics and tech without filters. That is where new genres start inkican.com/smashwor... #scifi #bibliophile #book #readingtime

4th of July is always hard on the author cats. Moxie is comforted when she can hide in her t-shirt cave. #catstagram #Caturday #Cats #rescuekitties #aww

What do writers give away when they have nothing to prove? My strangest ideas - this is where sci-fi becomes a petri dish of ideas. inkican.com/smashwor... #scifi #booklover #bookish #bookrecommendations

Raw ideas in ethics and tech with no filter. That tension is the point inkican.com/smashwor... #scifi #summerreading #bookstagram #readmorebooks

Truckloads of batteries vanish into thin air? Not quite. www.wired.com/story/... #energy #tech #future

AI judging truth? Where have I heard that story before ... theintercept.com/202... #AI #media #technology

I'll take my biscuits smothered in L-O-V-E #catsofMastodon #CatsofBluesky #Caturday #Cats #rescuekitties #aww

Dear Diary - today a surveillance pole spawned in my yard. No warning. Quiet. Legal. Irreversible. www.yahoo.com/news/u... #surveillance #tech #scifi

AI music can't earn money - full stop. www.musicbusinesswor... #AI #music #future

A free story can cost a writer months; that trade shows how brutal audience building is. If you read indie sci fi this is the real economy behind it. You get insight and stories at once inkican.com/smashwor... #indieauthor #reading #books #bookblogger

Erin Brockovich. Same song - different decade. www.theguardian.com/... #AI #energy #society #solarpunk

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Most writers hide their weirdest ideas; free promos expose them. You get unfiltered sci fi that big publishers would soften. That is where the genre evolves. There is more going on here than a sale inkican.com/smashwor... #scifi #booklover #bookish #bookrecommendations

Meta tracked employees then leaked the tracking. Then leaked that the tracking stopped. Or not. You'll never know. www.wired.com/story/... #privacy #AI #scifi

Rewatching Remo Williams: the Adventure Begins ... I'm not sure if that's a sign of taste or tastelessness. #movies #FredWard

Free sci fi sounds like bait; but this list shows how authors test bold ideas without risk. You get raw experiments in ethics and tech for zero cost. That is rare. Worth a quick scan before it vanishes inkican.com/smashwor... #scifi #summerreading #bookstagram #readmorebooks