Brainstorming session for Widow's Bay: "What if we made the mayor from Jaws a sympathetic protagonist?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLMo...

It’s Ky Gives Day! Help the Lexington Writer’s Room unlock a generous $1,000 match from the @scalzi.com Family Foundation! www.kygives.org/organization...

Book to launch! In Toronto? Please come!

My adult crime thriller written with Justine Larbalestier comes out July 21. It's called The Mortons. You can pre-order it now: scottwesterfeld.com/blog/2026/03...

Tom BetGeorge said delivery drivers often enter the wrong driveway, despite efforts to resolve the matter on Google Maps. “We even have a sign on our street signaling toward our driveway. Nothing worked, so we figured this might help,” BetGeorge said.

We’ve shared the opening scene of Devil in Silver. Let’s just say it sets the tone, and look, and sound, for what’s to come. Play it with the volume up so you can really hear it when things start to…crack. THE TERROR: DEVIL IN SILVER 5/7 on AMC+ & SHUDDER

It's in the spirit of Ezekiel x.com/BY1959/statu...

Florida is a world leader in Sentence™ exports

His plans are measured in centuries

Meanwhile, in Mage:

‘Well, Well, Well, Not So Easy To Find A Plot That Doesn’t Suck Shit, Huh?’

I understand the criticisms, but this could really rejuvenate the mid-budget action movie industry

Discovered a new YouTube genre, cover versions of songs in old or dead languages. youtu.be/DHspDQZKvwg?...

I laughed until I cried

I have, no paywall, attempted to make sense of the expression "millennial feminism" phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/what-iswas...

If you haven’t read this yet, you should fix that.

"Deckard: take these blades and just ... run! Run like the wind!"

Just think what mid-70s Argento could have done with this 📽️🍿🔪👹

AI is empowering a new generation of online scammers but it's also making them really lazy.

these Wicked sequels keep getting worse

sliwa got to him, man

Ceci n'est pas une food replicator.

Family Dog Suspected Cause Of Miniature Chuck-Wagon Disaster https://theonion.com/family-dog-suspected-cause-of-miniature-chuck-wagon-dis-1819564597/

My novel about systematic evil & the need for regular people to team up & fight it is now available in the UK. Sadly, some themes never go out of style. THE DEVIL IN SILVER. With a gorgeous cover and a wonderful introduction from the great @sgj.bsky.social www.penguin.co.uk/books/476343...

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers:

coming here while twitter is down

This isn't even what the article says! It's mostly about how nobody can really tell if AI is useful for science or maths, and as ever with every single one of these stories, there's one anecdote of a person saying "yeah it's good but you know, you need to check if it's right"

Happy Birthday to the world’s greatest living actor, Nicolas Cage!

Interesting Freddy deBoer piece on LLM hallucinations: open.substack.com/pub/freddied...

The problem with, say, trying to sell copies of one's book online, isn't limited to the algorithm or the competition. One thing I've noticed is that nobody has any money.

Car Rolls Up To Stoplight Blasting Google Maps Directions https://theonion.com/car-rolls-up-to-stoplight-blasting-google-maps-directio-1819579513/

From Old English to Modern American English in One Monologue: youtu.be/842OX2_vCic?...

Curating my Bluesky feed to get the perfect ratio of people saying everyone needs to get off X to people reposting screenshots from X

Peter Weller starred in a PSA about this four decades ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y46...

The Shadow Year is on Fantasy Book Review's list of the 100 Best Fantasy Books of all Time. www.fantasybookreview.co.uk/top-100-fant...

Does "used LLMs at any point during the writing process" necessarily refer to having the LLM write prose for you? Because these days, technically, I'm using an LLM every time I Google something.

me, preparing for winter

I wrote, not paywalled, about the Compact white men essay that everyone with opinions about shared these opinions about ages ago. phoebemaltzbovy.substack.com/p/loss-of-pr...

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

It's my capybaraversary. Met these guys a year ago today in the Nordelta suburb of Buenos Aires:

To those who celebrate, Happy Thanksgiving. To those who don’t, Happy Thursday.

I’m a writer not a publicist so expect periodic similarly inelegant reminders that my book is coming out in May.

okay here's that "one set of footprints" thing

Trying to read this with an open mind, but it doesn't bode well that Yudkowsky needed three years to figure out that intelligent beings are hard to control.

i appreciate the critical thinking skills of people i agree with

New Hell House LLC installment just dropped on Shudder.