My painting SUMMER STORM

Drew this on brown cardboard.

Faded distances. Made by copying something by an artist called Andreas Rocha on Artstation.

Bridge over the clouds

From on high. Perspective art.

Meanwhile, the Chronicle has decided to interview Dr Kustov, who repeats his claim that AI agents do "qualitative social science research better than most professors globally" Imagine having tenure and stability, and choosing to shit on his colleagues in a time of great instability for academia.

Grey ghost. Pencil on pencil action. Or maybe pencil on pencil crime.

Moonbeam. Colour pencils.

When you start drawing in your forties.

AI bros stole her music and her voice from her YouTube channel, fed it to a model to generate AI music, and then got her youtube channel demonetised for using "their" music apparently. "AI is going to create opportunities" apparently. Opportunities for scammers and thieves.

Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.

Stages of the AI hype cycle.

How many thousands of people are gonna get charged $70 a month because they didn't read to the third paragraph of this fucking email

To spite the ones they hate...

Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed futurism.com/science-ener...

Whenever spmeone says this "AI users have to hide now" as if they're a persecuted minority, we all should just respond with glee and supervillain laughter. No. All authors don't use AI. That's just a lie AI hustlers tell you to make you think you are the odd one out. You're not.

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

When you have criminals in power, all you get as solutions are crimes.

The opening paragraph of “The Leviathan’s Mercy” that got published in @theberlinreview.bsky.social is perfect for today's #WIPSnips looking for “fool” If you've not read it yet, go give it a read today! theberlinliteraryreview.com/dr-suvajeet-... #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Why we must scream as we fight AI www.patreon.com/posts/154326...

A great assessment of Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary. A male pattern fantasy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x6L...

Dynamics of the distraction machine.

Centrism explained using a spoon.

Book club scams are now threatening authors who don't fall for their BS. In December, I received an email from Herry Sharp, so-called CEO of "Super Book Lover Curator" praising my novella We Who Hunt Alexanders. Totally AI-generated and a scam so I didn't respond. Now Herry is threatening me. 1/

That Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt AI video isn't exactly that www.youtube.com/watch?v=12P-...

AI filmmaking is completely unserious. You've got people with $30k begging the internet for ideas by next week because they have nothing of their own to say, it's just slop for the sake of slop. Embarrassing state of affairs.

Social media as your afterlife futurism.com/future-socie...

They're saying "AI may be sentient" months after all promise of it flew straight out the window because they need you to stop thinking about THIS. www.zdnet.com/article/ai-f...

He means "the Left needs to start accomodating greed and exploitation because they seem impossible to escape".

No, it's that it's an infoweapon built by evil billionaire oligarchs to disenfranchise labour, surveil, destroy art, poison all information on the internet, spread disinfo & propaganda, poison education, & make a pliant, uncritical population that accepts any content fed to them by the ruling class.

Today I learned that some people have an internal monologue.

Nominations are now open for the 2026 Hugo Awards! Emails are going out to eligible nominators (those who became a member of LAcon V by January 31, 2026, or were a member of the Seattle Worldcon 2025) about how to set up their LAcon V virtual convention account.

Kolkata!!! We have a very special event scheduled for next Saturday! 3 contributors to THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF will be discussing their work, including Nebula- and Hugo-nominated, Locus-Award-winning author @mimimondal.bsky.social on a rare India visit! Head to Bahrisons on Feb 21, 5 PM!

This morning, I got one of those scam emails that are currently abundant in the writing community, where someone offers to "feature" your book at a book club for a fee. These messages always include an effuse essay about how great your book is, written by a LLM.

Dawkins, Krause, Epstein www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoO9...

AI 'writers' in a nutshell www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvIH...

Science fiction writers, Comic-Con say goodbye to AI techcrunch.com/2026/01/25/s...

This account stuck my comic through an ugly AI filter, removed my @ from the bottom and blocked me when I called them out.

I'm an Oxford guy, but this might just make me switch allegiance to Merriam-Webster.

The sloppification of reading www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHW-...

In #Odisha, as police largely ignore growing persecution of #Christians, Syed Affan investigates 5 cases where #Hindu mobs stopped #Christians from burying their dead. One body was ‘re-converted’, one buried in a forest, one exhumed & burnt article-14.com/post/refused...

He who flows

Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.

HEAD'S UP FELLOW #CREATIVES! If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒 I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI www.grammarly.com/blog/company...

Binging @aptshadow.bsky.social this year. Read Children of Time and Elder Race last year. 💜💚❤️🩷💛

He, he... he should see the responses to Kash Patel tweeting about Diwali.

He chased his dreams so hard that his dreams got a restraining order against him.

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

You can’t libel the dead. But that doesn’t mean you should deepfake them. techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/y...

New Yale Study Finds AI Has Had Essentially Zero Impact on Jobs futurism.com/artificial-i...