#AwesomeCharacters Who of my characters spreads more joy? Saraswati, probably. Her wizard specialty is music cybermagic, after all. Kai also is quite outgoing and cheerful… when not overwhelmed by his patients’ issues, of course.

This is refreshing. The AMA is standing up to Trump. They said acquiescence would be "an abdication of doctors’ moral duty." Would that more of our institutions & powerful groups were doing the same, instead of rolling over & presenting their bellies, like the NYT. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

I have added a section about Marie Vibbert's science fiction novella "Multitude" to my Medium article on hive minds. Having more interesting takes on hive minds is always good, even when it makes me go and revise my words. :) tinyurl.com/2c27d6es #ScienceFiction #HiveMinds #Evolution

As a science fiction author with stories set on Venus, I must know what the color of sky is like on that planet. Most people think it's orange. Most Google searches will tell you the same. But that's the sky seen from the surface. 1/2

I’ll bite. So, #AwesomeCharacters Many of my characters are members of VIRGA: Vènusienne Intelligence, Retribution, and Guerrilla Agency, whose goal is stopping Earth from exterminating the new human species of Homo vènusienne. The best of them oppose, however, the “reprisal actions” (terrorism).

The phrase “artificial intelligence” is flawed anyway. As if only intelligence matters! Should be “artificial mind.”

Why did ICE shackle a British tourist, a grandmother with no criminal record, who had all the correct papers, and lock her in a cell for SIX WEEKS?? Because ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. Eliminate this agency now.

Technology, including artificial minds, is often seen as mechanistic. But this is because we are still at an early stage. Discover why it must develop not through rigid programming but through free growth, integrating digital with analog in order to stay far from equilibrium. tinyurl.com/mv5xmknc

Good. Dems not backing down in the slightest in the face of Trump's call for their execution. Keep this up, Dems. Treat Trump like *he's* the violent criminal and the real threat to our Constitution order. Because he is.

these guys just love doing this. nothing like 8 storm troopers beating the absolute shit out of a defenseless old person www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Imagine a nation where no single group dominates, neither by race nor by faith nor by ethnicity. Would it be pulled in different directions? Or would it be more resilient and superior to ethnic states? Read now and share with your community! tinyurl.com/4bykzech

The final post in my Transgressive Science Fiction series is more political in nature. Imagine a nation where no group has absolute majority—not by race, faith, nor ethnicity—and then compare it to ethnic states. Which is superior? tinyurl.com/4bykzech 1/8

Having finally read The Murderbot Diaries, I have added a section on the series to my opinion piece on whether artificial minds must be emotional or rational (see the link below), the essay #2 in my Transgressive Science Fiction series. tinyurl.com/44x54shc

One of the craziest stories I've seen in a long time. If you think Trump and his administration are extreme and depraved, just wait until you learn about the young guns who are positioning themselves to take over the reigns in the next few decades www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

This em-dash thing is just another case of laziness. People want a SIMPLE criterion to detect AI. They won’t accept that no simple rule would do. It will always be the forest you must look at yo detect AI, never the trees.

A good book and a good series!

Cyberhumans, their minds always online, can speak any language fluently. In reality, they speak hodgepodge of languages in almost every sentence. But everyone has a favored language, usually related to their heritage—which can be anything.

A snippet from Book 2 in my series (not a single mention of “gold” in Book 1, alas). #WritingPrompt

My Bk 1’s four main characters live at a cutthroat military school, where the survival pressure pushes them into tight teams that usually become polyamorous families. The stress is constant, from vicious rivalry to training bordering on torture. They release it with each other. #AwesomeCharacters

An interesting approach.

I have updated my essay on artificial minds (aka AI), the essay #2 in my Transgressive Science Fiction series, with a section on artificial minds in fantasy. medium.com/@leonidkorog...

NEW: A major AI copyright legal showdown just took a huge twist today. Facing a class action on behalf of book authors that could've seen it pay over a TRILLION in damages for alleged piracy, Anthropic has agreed to settle instead: www.wired.com/story/anthro...

The last, seventh essay in my Transgressive Science Fiction series will be political. Comparing majority-minority states to ethnic ones.

Alarming if true.

I have updated my essay on diverse hive minds (the first one in my Transgressive Science Fiction series) with a section on Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky. medium.com/@leonidkorog...

People just want to find a “simple” way to tell if something has been written by an AI. But that makes light of the human ability to judge the whole. It will always be the forest, never any tree. Always the whole style, never a grammar idiosyncrasy.

I’m a very, ahem, dashing writer, too. 😊

"-le" is a forgotten suffix in English - it's integrated so far into words that we no longer register it. It indicates continuousness: to sparkLE is to repeatedly spark, to scribbLE is to continuously scribe, etc. Which implies that to chortLE is to repeatedly do something called a chort.

Lungarni di Pisa at night. The riverbanks of Arno.

Sunset in Pisa along the Arno riverbanks. The Leaning Tower isn’t the only interesting thing about the place. Here, you can see Santa Maria della Spina and La Torre Guelfa.

On the #Toretsk direction, soldiers found a bird’s nest made with fiber optic cables from drones. War leaves its mark everywhere. 📷: Soldier of the Support Forces Battalion, 12th Azov Brigade

Indeed.

bigots love to see marginalized communities attack each other. Empathy and Kindness, y'all. empathy. and. kindness.

Didn’t know that tiramisu could come with lox and vodka. This place in Pisa has more than 50 kinds of tiramisu.

Now I know I have arrived in Pisa.

Tatiana came to today’s POW exchange hoping for news about her husband — but never expected to see him among the freed defenders. “I didn’t know... but I had a dream I’d meet him on the road. Yesterday we were waiting there, but the guys didn’t come,” she said. Today, her dream came true.

The Alps! On the way to the Futurescapes writers workshop in Florence, Italy.

It’s especially difficult to diagnose in adults, since so many of us have learned to mask our autistic traits. The diagnosed ones are only the tip of an iceberg. Most adults in the middle of the spectrum, like myself, go undiagnosed.

Reading about calendars in the 15th century Italy.

I have published the essay #6 in my Transgressive Science Fiction series. In science fiction, cyber wizardry is usually deliberate and conscious. But when our brains will link to cyberspace even subconsciously, the world turns magical. medium.com/@leonidkorog...

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

The Passover Seder is always relevant to the current world but especially now.

I wouldn’t call it “the fun part.” At least some of us work out our own trauma through creative art.

I have updated my essay #5 in the Transgressive Science Fiction series, "Evolution: Classical or Quantum?" with a section on Derek Künsken's Quantum Evolution series of books. I was unaware of them at the time, but they were brought to my attention since. tinyurl.com/2vmcn88e

The full statement from the family of R.E. Burke clarifies that there were no grounds whatsoever for the British cartoonist to be detained by ICE for almost 3 weeks – she held a valid ESTA, had broken no rules or laws in the US, and was ready & able to return home. downthetubes.net/comic-creato...

In my WIP series, it takes several generations and organizing mass movements, rather than individual heroics, to succeed. No one saves the world in Book 1.