We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Fat Man and Little Boy bombed.

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Proud tech-forward Luddite right hear. It ain’t the machines we want to destroy, it is primarily the tech-bro owners. (and then maybe the machines, too).

“‘You can’t stop a country from happening, Good Stab.’ ”‘But we were already a nation,’ he said up to me. ‘We didn’t ask you to come.’” — @sgj.bsky.social, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter #WoundedKnee #IndigenousHistory

My latest musings: the end of summer, things I have loved, and a broken toe. jonathangensler.substack.com/p/broken-bon...

If you think Tylenol is bad for children’s health what until you see what guns do.

Broke my toe in my final sparring match this weekend, bringing home 2nd place in a 3-2 loss. But then went on to win the Kata competition, hopping around on a broken toe for my Stature of the Crane!

My first place finishing kata, Stature of the Crane, from today’s USSD Karate Invitational in Las Vegas.

Nobody’s Mama says to knock you out anymore and that’s sad.

@natcassidy.bsky.social’s “…SuperLawyer” is the perfect penultimate story in THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT and my favorite of the whole standout anthology. Well done, sir.

Co-sign!

Superb news for one of the shining gems in indie publishing!

People who throw around the word Luddite without knowing where it comes from or why and think it means some version of rabid anti-technology are the lazy ones.

And just when you thought our great news was over 👀👀👀... We're holding an OPEN READING PERIOD for novella and novel submissions November 3RD-14TH! Bring us your best strange fantasy, beautiful horror, and surreal scifi! 🖤👽 Full details in the link below! ⬇️ www.apexbookcompany.com/pages/submis...

This is a stunning edition of my overall favorite read from 2024. I got #47!

This is what literally everything Big Tech creates is for. Everything.

If by people, you mean me, in particular, then yes. Very much yes. Can’t speak for any other potential “people.”

Use this one weird trick: Don’t fucking use chatgpt.

One of my favorite short stories written to date, "Tommy the Leg Ain't No Witch," is out today in this month's @chmmagazine.bsky.social. Appalachian folk magic, ancient demons, and high school football combine for a rollicking disaster story. cosmichorrormonthly.com/store/issue-...

Hard Agree.

I think y’all are gonna just LOVE Tommy the Leg. He ain’t no witch, but things might’ve turned out better for everyone if he had been…

Apex @apexmag.bsky.social is one of the sparkling gems in the SFFH community (granted, a weirdly dark sparkle that is just as likely to infect you as illuminate) and you will want to jump on this KS when it launches.

truth

…rewatched The Departed. A damn fine movie.

SLOPPERS LIVE IN VAIN

🚨ICE agents are racially profiling and arresting Hispanic drivers in the DC area today, targeting work vehicles like trucks and vans. A friend who was targeted sent me video today. Here’s a picture that shows one of two agents before he pulled on his mask. Unmarked black Ford truck, plate: NTV9211.

Die. Die. Die.

A very solid book day. @patrickbarb.bsky.social @yerpalskipp.bsky.social

Mine is on the way from Dark Matter. Don't wait, or you might end up.. ABDUCTED.

Got the email from Dark Matter that my signed copy is on the way!

Sharing a CHM cover with my friend @xavilawrites.bsky.social! I hope you all love TOMMY THE LEG AIN'T NO WITCH and the rest of what is certain to be a baNger issue.

follow us here on bsky if: BONES you have them + like / RT if deep down, underneath it all you are SKELETON or a future ghost

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

+1

Sold a new short story today! Looking forward to sharing more details when I can (as I've been told by a few of my regular early readers that this is my best work yet), but what I CAN say is that this will be part of an anthology put out by @demagoguepress.bsky.social Press & Moanaria's Fright Club!

From a writer group post someone sent me: "...the attitude now is so exclusive and unwelcoming for those of us who are either pro-AI or use AI" GOOD JOB, EVERYONE, KEEP MAKING THEM FEEL UNWELCOMED, YOUR SHAME IS WORKING. 🥰

We are not trivialising LLMs. Copyright theft is not trivial. Environmental damage is not trivial. Unreliability is not trivial. Risk to human cognition is not trivial. Ignoring consent when shoving it into every fucking thing while making us pay our hard-earned money for it is not trivial.

I am registered (at the Stamford Special Rate) and did not get the hotel i fo email. I assume others did not as well.

Thank you to all boosters! Please like and share!

Another in the long, long list of reasons to not use any of these damned AI chatbots.

An interview with @undertakerbooks.bsky.social ! undertakerbooks.com/blogs/news/g...

AI "Artists" getting upset when you say their slop sucks is funny, because you can be like "why do you even care, it's not like you actually made it" and get them more wet and red.

Ten days on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon wilderness will change you. Especially if there is good music.

Lee’s Ferry and the Vermillion Cliffs. About to put in in the morning and head down the Grand Canyon.

Good, indeed.

Hell yeah, @dangerslater.bsky.social!

This is fantastic news after a terrible string of events with their previous publisher. Nice work making this happen, Team Apex!

I feel like a human em-dash.