“The Compromise” was first drafted in a series of voice memos I dictated while canvassing, in the gaps between houses. It is about the conversations you have while trying to change the world, and what it really takes to defeat fascists.

another way to say this: fascism isn't about rules people follow, it's about categories people are in if you're in the right category nothing you do is bad if you you're in the wrong category nothing you do is good it's not about what you do, it's about who you are

You can save yourself so much time and money by deciding you like the color of primer.

I hated working in digital marketing, but at least I’ll always be blessed by the memory of the PowerPoint I saw from Fox’s marketing team that predicted that their 2015 film Fantfourstic would make a billion dollars

I'm harnessing the unprecedented power of AI to forget how to read and develop a severe mental illness that makes me unrecognizable to those who once knew me.

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing

This review of "Isolate" came out back in April, before I was on Bluesky: "Although the empire is clearly an authoritarian one, the relationship between its representatives and the locals is more complex than simply that of oppressor and oppressed..." tangentonline.com/print-bi-mon...

I love this review of “Isolate” by @acwise.bsky.social for @locusmag.bsky.social: “Histories and cultures can just as effectively be erased and suppressed through policy and education as through war and violence.” locusmag.com/2025/09/anal...

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but we don’t need to fight fairly against fascism. We just need to fight.

This isn’t my first rodeo. It’s my second but I didn’t really pay attention the first time. So how does this work, we’re kicking the horses?

Yes! If people didnt share their weird fun shit when things are terrible then we would never get to see it, and that wouldn't make anything less terrible.

People who use AI think that they’re skipping to the success when they’re skipping to the failure. You begin and end your life as someone who has not written the novel, you did not teach yourself to express what was inside of you, you died without making something that no one else could make.

I love to show up every day for my job, which is standing around holding the front of my tactical vest and getting told to choke to death by thousands of passers-by while 11 of my coworkers handcuff a roofer on his way to work. Every night I drive 80 minutes home, thinking about nothing at all.

Imagine going into a bookstore and purchasing a book and being told that it can only be read in an authorized cafe. And when the cafe owners fail to maintain it and the the paint is peeling and the lights are flickering--too bad. When they finally go out of business, the book is unreadable.

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details: LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au... (This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

The Nassau County legislature on Long Island attempts to silence a young American citizen whose father was abducted by ICE.

All the dire implications notwithstanding it is hilarious how evil this technology is. Billions of dollars spent on this greasy lying stupid thing that was literally built to replace people, and everyone that uses it gets weaker, lazier, dumber, and sadder for having done so. Well done all around.

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

Further to this: don't stick to consuming recognised masterpieces of media. You'll pick stuff up, sure, but it's hard to draw from near-perfection without simply imitating. But if you read something that makes you go "this could have been so good if only...!" then you've learned what NOT to do.

I support calling out publications who use AI art. You can call me a Luddite in the accurate historic sense in that I dont object to technology but I object to it being used to devalue human labor.

@interzone.press I remember there was a fairly well-respected magazine that I submitted to for the first time, probably around late 2023. I read a bit of it; I think I requested a sample. It contained an editorial about how AI for stories is evil, but AI to make movies from prose is useful/good.

I was made aware of a really satisfying analysis of Elemental Council (link below): medium.com/@aasa.timone... To be really honest, I love reading analyses of Warhammer fiction. That includes analyses of my own — and yes, often I cringe at the sheer egoism in that. But another truth is I can't...

In any case, having come across this just a week or so after posting the blog, I thought I'd share it in case anyone else finds it interesting! To read more: tomrpike.com analogsf.com/issue/may-ju... www.warwick.ac.uk/cosmicstories/language_and_linguistics 7/7 [End]

The short story is dedicated to linguist Rosina Soyan who worked with bilingual Tuvan/Russian speaking children. bsky.app/profile/anal... 6/n

The main themes here are of cultural and language manipulation as a form of political control, but also touch on how languages evolve, shape and are shaped by the cultures of their speakers. 5/n

It's up to the protagonist to grow close enough to the natives to learn their speech, and decide whether the language of northern Emepera is indeed one of the Golden Tongue language families, or instead an isolate destined for destruction. 4/n

Part of its strategy is that only languages which descend from one of the founding Arean languages are permitted to survive on conquered worlds, while others are forcibly replaced by single-language schooling as part of the empire's programme of cultural and political reprogramming. 3/n

In this story, Ares (clearly a far-future Mars) is the centre of a vast interstellar empire, and is looking to recover lost human colonies, drawing them into both its political control and its state-controlled religion of Emperor worship. 2/n

Anyone who enjoyed my recent post on Language and Linguistics may be interested by a story I've just come across in the May/June 2025 edition of @analogsf.bsky.social Isolate by language hobbyist @tomrpike.bsky.social follows a linguist assigned to evaluate the language of the planet Emepera. 1/n

Check out this week's blog post to find out how research on speakers of the Tuvan language of southern Siberia helped inspire Tom Pike's "Isolate" from our May/June issue theastoundinganalogcompanion.com/2025/06/09/l...

Is a conquest still evil if the conquered agreed to it? What is lost when a people survives conquest, but loses their language? I wrote this essay to unpack the linguistic science behind "Isolate", my novelette in the latest @analogsf.bsky.social. theastoundinganalogcompanion.com/2025/06/09/l...

Learn about the fascinating history of early 20th century climate science in this week's blog post by Tom R. Pike, whose latest story "Strange Events at Fletcher and Front!" appears in our Jan/Feb issue [analogsf.com/store] theastoundinganalogcompanion.com/2025/01/15/t...

"Dream of the Locust" is my first story for Black Library. It's a run-and-gun boarding action of a ghost ship led by the barely-human Adeptus Mechanicus. Explosions are the main character, but there's also a doomed, chaste love story between a man and a spaceship. www.amazon.com/Dream-Locust...

In "Isolate", a linguist is sent by an empire to determine whether the language of a remote settlement is related to one of the empire's Golden Tongues, and acceptable, or an isolate, in which case it must be replaced. Order the May/June issue of @analogsf.bsky.social: analogsf.com/contact-us/f...