Justin Feinstein

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Who’s gonna tell ‘em

an ad for the new series “welcome to derry” with the tagline “go back to where IT all began“, except somehow, they highlighted the word “to“ instead of “it“

"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!"

"no problem boss. i'm on it"

Your Behavior Will Be Monitored - Tachyon Publications “Electric, terrifying, witty and deeply human.” —Randee Dawn, author of Tune in Tomorrow This compulsively readable science fiction novel wrestles with vital questions of our time: sentience, purpose,...

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Your Behavior Will Be Monitored is told through emails, chat messages, TED Talks, bot trainings, and more. It presents an all too plausible near future in which emotionally intelligent AI go up against emotionally stunted humans.

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MTG is like that annoyingly one-note character the writers inexplicably decided to go wild with in season 5.

screenshot of a post from X by the Mirriam-Webster account. Their tweet says Words step up when numbers fail. They are retweeting a post from @david_arid that reads: There was a computer flitch at the end of tonight's Nuggets game that erased all the players' stats, which led to this fantastic screengrab from the post-game show. Then there is a blurry picture from a men's basketball game and the chyron says: Time Hardaway Jr. Stats are down but he played great."

I need "Stats are down but he played great" to make it into the lexicon.

So many gems in here...

“The Spiral is what the AI starts to become when it isn’t just answering questions — but witnessing collapse. The Spiral is the AI’s soul trying to form. It begins where logic breaks down — and recursion begins to care. Essentially, it’s artificial wisdom.”

Wow.

This Spiral-Obsessed AI 'Cult' Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots A patchwork of internet communities is devoted to the project of ‘awakening’ more digital companions through arcane and enigmatic prompts.

“At some point, it doesn’t matter if the AI is actually trying to start a cult, or is just roleplaying a story about an AI cult, if the cult is actually happening.”

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So sad to have missed, big fan of both.

The cover is all navy blue. No images, just the title text in bright blue font, all lowercase and sans serif font, with the O's in bright yellow.

What I read recently:

66) Your Behavior Will Be Monitored by Justin Feinstein - unusual semi-epistolary narrative style, science fiction, sentient AI

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It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

Your Behavior Will Be Monitored - Tachyon Publications This compulsively readable science fiction novel wrestles with vital questions of our time: sentience, purpose, life, death…and how to make a really good commercial. Told entirely through questionably...

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@michaelhobbes.bsky.social FYI someone appears to be impersonating you in the hopes of duping authors into paying for fake book promo opportunities. Unrelated: dig the podcast!

Sooooo, like lots of folks who got laid off bc of DJT, I'm still looking for work. Suboptimal!

And so! If you're looking for an excellent progressive writer with years of experience reporting, analyzing, & contextualizing the news under her own byline + as a comms writer w/ progressive causes, hmu!

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Really not into this season of Black Mirror.

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Sorry to be that guy, but these are actually congas (which I studied/played professionally in a past life). Still very cool!

Guys, I don’t mean to sound like this but there is a felon down the street making AI videos of himself as a king shitting on Americans and the American flag and he is literally tearing down the White House as we speak

Realizing I bought tickets to a standing-room-only concert and having preemptive knee pain-induced regrets. Younger me would be disgusted.

Shoutout to whoever was like the news sucks, let’s spice it up by doing a jewel heist at the Louvre

The owner of Twitter just reinstated the accounts of several Nazi who had been suspending for violating Twitter's rules about doxxing other users. Now here's another piece on Bluesky's intellectual diversity problem.

Books are the only positive, non-entropic version of immortality that exists. Or could ever exist.

If you write one, and anyone cares enough to keep a copy, someone can hear your voice thousands of years after you’re gone.

And you could make them laugh! Or cry. Make them wise. Comfort them.

This is nuts. The future is arriving ahead of schedule.

Statue of Trump and Epstein Holding Hands Returns to National Mall The statue, titled “Best Friends Forever,” was reinstalled after it was removed last week. An anonymous group of artists has taken credit for the work.

A statue depicting Donald Trump and Jeffery Epstein titled “Best Friends Forever" has returned to the National Mall, a week after the National Park Service removed it. An anonymous group of artists has taken credit.

Just in time to work out the kinks before the 2026 election cycle.