Hitler’s SS had immunity, too. Until he was gone. Then they were hanged. This would look great written on protest signs, where ICE cubes could read them . . .

New #WriterBeware blog post: my annual look back at the topics the Writer Beware blog covered in 2025. Scams, of course, but also contracts, copyright, generative AI, and more. If you missed any of our posts last year, here's your chance to catch up writerbeware.blog/2026/01/16/b...

Goldman: Until DHS reins in this rogue and authoritarian ICE secret police force, there should be no more funding provided to DHS.

What am I working on now? Almost finished with the sequel to HAZE and looking ahead to the third and final book in that group. I have a half-finished split multiverse novel lined up, too, very very different and fantasy not SF.

from Lucas Pederson on FB

“Guzzler,” by Barry Blitt:

Remember, kids: cops lie.

If anyone in Portland Oregon would be willing to offer housing to a friend with Parkinson's who is about to get brain surgery, is on disability, can pay rent, and is being forced out of his current housing situation please reach out. This is time sensitive.

2/3 under Denmark since it had been under the Danish crown for over 400 years even if it was part of Norway. Miller say Denmark do not have a claim. They do. And it will be defended by the Nordic. The US has a defense treaty from 1951 that grants right to as many bases it wants in Greenland.

That is why Millers words is pure bullshit. It has nothing to do with the defense of America. Denmark has invited the US to build more bases if it wants. But instead you are now down to just Thule. Trump just want the natural resources. That’s it.

Five years ago.

from Brook West on FB

barnesandnoble.com has the hardback HAZE. Posting this for those who've had trouble with Amazon.

from my publisher. I thought it was of general interest "Amazon has told our reps that they are no longer stocking all books, and are going to have a more curated inventory, or depend on third party sellers.

For Jelly Bean and anyone else who's having a problem finding Haze on amazon. It somehow got "delinked" to the ebook. The publisher is linking it back up. Try this link if you'd like.

The pictures from the Oval Office are utterly gross these days. A worm in a gilded apple is still a worm.

suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research: they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.

Wait, is there meant to be a downside to this?

Getting a lot more people on this list for sharing antisemitic lies about the Talmud over the past couple of days. Reminders: 1. The entire Talmud is public and freely available online. This Anyone claiming to know about "secret" or "hidden" Jewish teachings from it is lying to you.

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AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.

Quote with your #art with horns 🦌 spellboundcrimescomics.com #fantasy #comic #indiecomic

This is the kind of thing the jerks who try to say animals don't have emotions, feelings, that they are somehow less than we are. They are more. This bird is having a blast.

Having to be told by GenAI that you've been involved in a war crime says a lot about your intellectual capacity.

Let's not forget who's really calling the shots on ICE s outrages. Miller and Vought will still be with us when Der Rump's current decline reaches its inevitable end. Oderint dum metuant, as Caligula liked to say.

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

www.wired.com/story/a-comp... If you have an account at Wired, this is well worth reading.

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Deeply pleased in an incredibly reserved Danish-American way that THE WITCH ROADS is named as one of the Best Books of 2025 by Library Journal: www.libraryjournal.com/story/Editor...

Merry Christmas to our billionaire overlords. (from Karen Loftstrom on FB)

Police Chief Brian O’Hara has delivered a blunt message to his department: If an officer witnesses ICE agents using illegal force and fails to step in, they will be fired. 👏 👏 👏

I know Newsom has made some bad decisions, but you've got to hand it to the guy for trump-baiting like this.