Scott H. Andrews

"How to Install Generative AI on a Zombie CEO" by Jason Sanford In this tutorial we will learn how to install generative AI on a zombie CEO. Please note this tutorial is for “educational purposes” only. Despite our sarcastic air quotes, this tutorial does “not” en...

Tech bros running the billion-dollar companies cramming genAI down our throats forget their positions could also be outsourced to AI. In honor of this fact, @apexmag.bsky.social and I present my humorous story "How to Install Generative AI on a Zombie CEO." 1/ www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...

There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc. There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation. There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely. Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual. As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone. Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism. No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get: The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.

Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
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human skull with antelope horns and stringed crossbar to make a lyre from skin stretched across the skull

New cursed magic item:

Skull Lyre

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Base of the ancient Roman walls of Lugo, Spain.

Om top of the Roman walls of Lugo, Spain, with a mural of a local tribeswoman the walls were built to keep out

Roman walls of Lugo, Spain

Visited the ancient Roman walls of Lugo, Spain, yesterday. Built over 1700 yeas ago to defend the then Roman town from various European tribes, the walls are in amazing shape. Loved walking where people have lived for so many centuries.

The 2025 volume of BASFF once again features some great stories! Full disclosure: For the past 6 years or so, I've been @johnjosephadams.com's assistant editor for these annual anthologies.

Do check out the full list of Notable Stories too: tinyurl.com/3rswhjes

#ScienceFiction #Fantasy #BookSky

Enjoying the solstice heat...

I'm also nominating @shereereneethomas.bsky.social for editing F&SF and @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social for running Mo Con. And Glen Cook for lifetime achievement (The Black Company started the whole grimdark mercenary epic F thing, in 1984).

Pls DON'T nominate me for World Fantasy Award (Special Award Non-Professional). I'm honored to be 9x finalist & 2019 winner! I've recused from nominations. Consider other editors & people who deserve it too. (I'm nominating Jeanne Cavelos for 25+ yrs teaching & running @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social.)

"done read".

I remember that counter-program panel! Among the other misconceptions we corrected: that AI is beneficial for beginning or English as Second Language writers, to 'edit' or correct their fiction prose. Not so! Write in your unique voice; don't homogenize it with an inaccurate plagiarism machine.

Reminds me of the time we had to create a counter-program item because a convention decided it was time to feature "the good things." Had to dedicate the first question on ours to correcting things they said. (Among them, correcting a false statement about my guidelines & AI.)

Deadline for World Fantasy Award nominations is June 1st. If you're a member of WFC 2023, 2024, or 2025, you received a ballot in March via email. If voting, Northern Nights is eligible in Best Antho category, and all the stories from it and issues 8 & 9 of Weird Horror are eligible in Short Story.

Not yet, but the day is early. :\

I don't get why cons for readers & writers give air to genAI; platforming its 'benefits' or 'showing both sides'. That's mainstream chat; not discussion for creatives & attendees come to see them. Treat genAI like the environmentally destructive inaccurate plagiarism machine we creatives know it is.

Podcast Episode 42: Exit Here | Reckoning Subscribe via RSS, Google Podcasts, Android, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Apple or Amazon. Aaron: It's the Reckoning Press Podcast. I'm Aaron Kling, audio editor for Reckoning, here to introduce the reader ...

New podcast episode! Produced and introduced by audio editor Aaron Kling, @andrewkozma.net reads his story "Exit Here" from Reckoning 3, in which a team of scientists pour their hearts (literally) into detoxifying a poisoned lake: reckoning.press/podcast-epis...

AI giants reject government’s approach to solving copyright row OpenAI and Google have objected to Labour’s proposed opt-out model and pushed for broader exemptions to let AI software use copyrighted material free

1/4 Well look at that. Open Ai and Google outright reject “Opt-Out” models, hell they even reject basic transparency requirements.

AI companies demand they get everything, including our Intellectual Property, for free, and without anyone ever being able to tell the companies no.

Happy to once again be a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Editor, Short Form. Congratulations to all my fellow finalists and thank you to everyone that nominated me!

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More dreaded marketing.

We really do count on our readers though.
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Update: The TERRIBLE 10-Year Ban on State AI Regulations advanced House Committee. What does this mean?

It means we BLAST the HELL out of their phones! Call your House Members AND Senators today! Called a few days ago? Call again!

Tell them NO on 10-year State AI Regulation Ban!

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Worst part was interview w the writer who 'wrote' the piece. No compunction about using genAI; only regretted he didn't fact-check its (junk) output. If non-creatives short on time & even creatives churning out content see genAI as an acceptable unharmful useful tool, the tech bros have already won.

UNEXPECTED NEWS.

Wizards Vs. Lesbians: ASUNDER What if the dude who is possessing you is actually a nice guy? And what if you're the kind of gremlin who can only be fixed by a live-in boyfriend, and by "live-in" I mean in your actual brain?

What we have here is a well-paced and entertaining fantasy novel which moves briskly from one compelling set piece to the next. This is such a rare quality that it doesn't need any ideas, so it's cool that it has some anyway.

The eternal question: has the quality of my writing dramatically improved, or am I just reading it in Garamond?

Cheers, @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social and Mo Con!

Thank you!!!!

And when you can really work as a team with an editor, when it's not just a tangential but a lasting set of shared goals, that's really special.

@scott-h-andrews.bsky.social isn't the only one on that list for me, but he's high on it, and I sure am glad he is. Thanks, Scott.

Yes! Next, 3-4 coats of "Sonic Blue."