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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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09.06.2025 17:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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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06.06.2025 20:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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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05.06.2025 14:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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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04.06.2025 13:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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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03.06.2025 11:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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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02.06.2025 20:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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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26.05.2025 15:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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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09.05.2025 12:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Very Badly Indeed (Infinimata Press) Why

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01.05.2025 11:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

30.04.2025 23:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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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30.04.2025 12:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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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29.04.2025 12:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

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15.04.2025 12:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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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14.04.2025 12:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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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10.04.2025 15:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

Happy incep date, Leon Kowalski

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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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08.04.2025 14:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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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04.04.2025 21:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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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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30.03.2025 14:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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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28.03.2025 18:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Not drink

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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.

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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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20.03.2025 12:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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