Infinimata (Serdar Yegulalp)

Promises, Promises (Infinimata Press) What's happened to the world I had been promised? Wait a moment - what world, exactly, and which promises?

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Have Faith In Your Tomorrow Mind (Infinimata Press) It takes a cultivated kind of faith to believe that whatever you don't have a good way of talking about now, you might well have a great way of talking about in even twenty-four little hours.

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Inescapism (Infinimata Press) How many people do you know who, right now, would rather reside in the world of whatever escapes they favor, instead of this one right here?

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The Flavor Of The Thing (Infinimata Press) My new book is in some ways the most conventional thing I've done, but I am trying to make that a strength and not a weakness.

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The Real Story Is Three Feet To The Left Of This One (Infinimata Press) <p>Terry Pratchett is credited with an aphorism I've taken to heart often:

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You Like It Darker (well, actually, no) (Infinimata Press) An expansion on something that has bothered me for a long time: the use of rape as some kind of token element of

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Mythmaking Demythologized (Infinimata Press) Every group you can put a label to, or that puts a label to itself, has its own self-mythologizing -- what it wants to believe about itself, and what it wants others to believe about it.

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Advice On Taking Reviewer Criticism Gracefully (Infinimata Press) You learn a great deal from studying the unforced errors of other people in whatever space you inhabit.

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Very Badly Indeed (Infinimata Press) Why

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Responding to Controversy, Seattle Worldcon Defends Using ChatGPT to Vet Program Participants Seattle Worldcon 2025 Chair Kathy Bond today issued a public statement attempting to defend the use of ChatGPT as part of the screening process for program participants. The comments have been high…

they're going to expend more energy cleaning up the reputational mess from this "labor saving" measure than they will have saved any discernible amount of labor

To Be Skeptical Of All That's Here And Now (Infinimata Press) I do think it's healthy to cultivate skepticism for what exists, for what we are offered as the default by our world. What's not healthy is to let that shade over into sneering contempt.

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Disposable Worlds (Infinimata Press) Maybe there's only so much work you can do in worldbuilding before it becomes diminishing returns.

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This Isn't A Therapy Session (Infinimata Press) Unpacking

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Diamonds Among The Dung (Infinimata Press) More on why I feel the most important creative work of our time may not be anything we know about right now.

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The Desert Of The Unreal (Infinimata Press) We now live in weird times, and our sense of what's plausible in fiction has been moved.

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"My birthday is April 10, 2017. How long do I live?"
"Four years?"
"More than you."

Happy incep date, Leon Kowalski

My Utopia, Your Dystopia (Infinimata Press) Our job is not to show how things could be best, but how they could perhaps be less terrible.

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The Fake Factory (Infinimata Press) The anti-anti-gen-AI-art arguments revolve around ignorant notions of art as nothing but end products or artifacts, not embodiments of lived experience.

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Saw Princess Mononoke in IMAX. Carve out the time to see it. Of all Miyazaki's movies this one demands most to be seen in a theater on a big screen. It's clearer now how this was his big farewell statement (although, we all know how long that lasted, haha)
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The Rip-Off Machine (Infinimata Press) Which is worse, having one's work merely pirated, or having one's work used as the basis to build systems to make writers theoretically irrelevant?

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Not drink

Yes, I'm one of the authors in the LibGen dataset that was allegedly used to train OpenAI. I have a post coming up about this in a bit.

Where Is My Heart Now? (Infinimata Press) Letting go of something does not mean you have to find something else to

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Rile Me Up! (Infinimata Press) Fearlessness in art has to be more than just

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Ides Of March And All That (Infinimata Press) Getting caught up on what I'm all about.

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Parallel Plundering (Infinimata Press) On studying things to get parallel lessons from them for apparently unrelated fields.

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SE7EN (Infinimata Press) Three possible responses to living in a fallen world: you can lament and hope for better, you can shrug and get by, or you can lash out.

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Why I Hate Chess, Pt. 217 (Infinimata Press) What I actually hate is my own incompetence with chess, and all that implies.

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The (Un)Real Thing (Infinimata Press) Welcome to the two halves of my brain, the physics side and the Zen side.

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All Right, Where Was I? (2025 Edition) (Infinimata Press) New year, new agenda. Time to get back to work.

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