Tonight's tagline: There is so much world.

I'm delighted to share this contest that I've been working on, and for which I'll be a judge! We're looking for stories about positive futures and how to get there.

Dazzle-Ships in Drydock at Liverpool, 1919 by Edward Wadsworth

It is somewhat appropriate that the literal only plant that I've managed to grow long enough to flower is rue.

I’m usually not a podcast person but I made an exception to watch @adapalmer.bsky.social.

Spending my day sharing some fun locks to play with here at BSidesSF

Vannevar Bush, an electrical engineer who built one of the first analog computers, was born #OTD in 1890. He headed the Office of Scientific Research and Development during WWII, proposed what became the National Science Foundation, and devised an early hypertext system. 🧪 ⚛️

Come hang out with me here! While "fantasy" is in the name, the 4th Street community is warm and welcoming to all walks of speculative and adjacent writing.

I made it through an entire evening without putting googly eyes on this I deserve an award.

"Your computer isn’t just computing; it’s reluctantly participating in relativity." cubiclenate.com/2026/03/04/d...

I just threw together a website visualizing this ICE contract data! You can browse through the companies and their contracts, and filter them by state micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts/

I don’t know how many Gene Wolfe aficionados follow me, but I’ve got to share this. This artist is planning a stop-motion adaptation of the Book of the New Sun, and here he makes his clay alzabo. Such talent, such fun.

Also, I'm cool enough to have just hung out with the lead singer of Jawbox. I'm not however, cool enough to have realised who he was until we were going to our respective cars.

Landed home safe just to be attacked by the airport museum display.

A dark and lovely reimagining of Peter Pan that explores the pain and joy of motherhood and the roles women are often forced to play - Mother, Darling by @apottern.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Mother, Darling by Allison Pottern @apottern.bsky.social "Was that gold glittering in the girl’s hair? Had the neighbors seen? Was that his laughter that rang out from Kensington Park across the way?" Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi... #shortstories #fiction #fantasy

Hey folks! Due to a series of unforeseen expenses, I need to raise some cash before royalty season rolls around at the beginning of April. Because of that, I am going to do something I don't usually do and offer paid mentoring sessions for aspiring writers.

Brilliant talk tonight by @indyjohar.bsky.social at @longnow.org . I'm still unpacking his model where doubt is foundational to intelligence, and wondering where do ml systems, where uncertainty is defined with respect to a axiomatically problematic ground truth, fit in this framework.

Just passed 11 empty charter buses at the endpoint of the San Francisco 'walk for life' march.

A wild update: these two stories are releasing *on the same day.* Stay tuned on 2/2 for two very different, feminist tales.

(1/4) For anyone else who wants to make the Gemini pop-up in Google docs go away, I just figured out an easy method. Step 1: Download the Stylus Google Chrome extension: chrome.google.com/webstore/det...

there’s stuff circulating about Wikipedia and AI; I’d ask that you dig into this thread before getting concerned.

These truly ridiculous blooms all opened up today after spending half a week in hiding, and that's the energy I wish all of you to have today.

My latest on Substack -- a write-up of the talk I gave at NeurIPS in December. aiguide.substack.com/p/on-evaluat...

If you haven't already done so, please write a positive note or story for @sheilawilliams.bsky.social as she recovers from a brain aneurysm. Sheila Williams is an amazing person and editor. The SF/F genre wouldn’t be what it is today without her decades of hard work. locusmag.com/2026/01/shei...

So excited to announce my motherhood horror story "Hollow Pines" will be published by 34 Orchard in November of this year!

obligatory

TIL: An Oreo cookie translates to about 60Wh of energy. Our brains do the amazing pattern recognition and extrapolation they do on about an Oreo and a half of power. (The conversation this came from was about car batteries, which I've learned are also incredibly Oreo efficient!)

the best antidote to blackpilling is remembering that every video you see of an ICE thug abusing their power was recorded by an American who volunteered to put themselves in harm's way for the sake of people they've likely never met and never will

2026's self care promise: take a day off of work for each time my child is in the ER with a broken bone, whether or not I think I need it.

A collection of Joanna Russ resources: www.kith.org/jed/hodgepod... (Suggestions for additions welcome!)

Make a Bond movie academic: Dr. No: Reviewer #2

Happy Solstice! Here's to brighter days ahead.

If you wanted to speak at Odd Salon but didn't get around to it before it ended - here's your second chance: Pitch a talk for Curiosity Guild! www.curiosityguild.org/speak We're taking general "oooo I'm interested in this!" pitches _as well as_ pitches for specific events! Drop us a line!

My child asked me why vaccines can't be delivered through sweat glands so he doesn't need a needle, so today's exciting science of the day is that, you can vaccinate against covid transdermally, including through sweat glands: www.nature.com/articles/s41... ( #inmice )

Can't get over the fact that in the ML literature the act of *sampling* from an inferred model is now called “inference.” We really are in the worst timeline.

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen Laurie Anderson They Might Be Giants The Cranberries Apocalyptica Rammstein

I fear wandering into Discourse, but I am a little surprised no one has mentioned DRM. I buy in hardback to maximize author support, but then often want an epub to actually read. It is nice when I can pay directly for this.

You've been great, St. Louis, even if I'll never agree with your definition of "salad."

#SC25 wins for most unintentionally acquired swag. I swear I was just trying to get to vendor meetings, and then all of a sudden I was holding 5 studies.

8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.

What are your top 5 movie genres? mine are: - in retrospect, I should have seen that coming - girls just wanna have guns and mysterious backstories - strange things happen and no one speaks - French literature, but make it in space - Katherine Hepburn plays Katherine Hepburn

This paper was rejected 5 times, and I'm so proud of Si for not giving up on it. (She is on the job market, in case anyone is looking for a badass data scientist with a background in high performance computing)

Tonight's pull quote: "Quantum computers are really bad computers." #SC25

I snuck a story about cache invalidation into this anthology and they still gave it an award. Imagine how good the rest of the stories must be.

If you live in Oakland PLEASE consider writing in via this extremely easy form to our city officials to urge them to REJECT a contract w FLOCK surveillance cameras, which shares data directly with ICE and DHS. Keep our neighbors safe. FLOCK OUT OF OAKLAND actionnetwork.org/letters/no-f...

Wow, look at that fancy new cover! Wow, awarded runner-up from the Indie Author Project! Wow, the ebook is on sale now for $4.99!!! www.amazon.com/New-Year-You...

The excitement and joy of being in a ToyRUs and holding the little paper tag to take to the register for the video game your parents finally decided to buy you.

ICYMI! Reading 2025 fiction? Try the novelette "Kaiju Agonistes" by Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social! You can read it here! buff.ly/8ogPvF3