John Wilker, Writer

Made it back from Vail. Stopped in Breckenridge to see the snow sculptures. VERY cool.

Wallace got to test out his little sling bag. Worked great. No barking or causing a scene. He snuggled in and watched the people as we walked around.

Ready for a weekend!

Regular reminder that ICE is NOT law enforcement.

Oh yes, she does. A whole ‘academy’

WA Senate passes ban on police face coverings • Washington State Standard The Washington state Senate voted Wednesday to ban law enforcement from covering their faces amid concerns over masked immigration agents.

The Washington state Senate voted Wednesday to ban law enforcement from covering their faces in response to growing concerns over masked federal immigration agents. washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/01/28/w...

As parting gifts go, that’s pretty awesome!

Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.

“Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world,” an internal planning document unsealed in legal filings last week said. “We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.”

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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

“Melania” is truly the worst experience I’ve had in a theater”

-Abraham Lincoln

One of my biggest issues with how the whole indie author community behaves is that it's INCREDIBLY selfish and driven by a desire just to win no matter what. Lots of 'rising tides float all boat' nonsense gets spouted, but in the end? Nah.

Why I've distanced is in this article! These people suck.

LOL Yup. Don’t forget “NFCs are the future of author business”

Same. This was shared on the laterpress NL, which I guess I’m unsubscribing from.

RE my last post.

Way to go team!

The Tsunami of Excellence: Why AI Isn't Creating More Bad Books Countering the "flood of crap" narrative with what's actually happening

It never stops amazing me how hard the AI apologists work to prove they're not in the wrong.

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Yes new tools come up and we should adapt. AI isn't that. It's built on stolen goods. It's proven unreliable.

It's becoming a creative crutch.
#writers

An image of Earth from space with the title “This week on…” followed by the Planetside magazine logo. Featured article: “Handling Longer Projects Without Relying on a Plot Outline” by Adriana Kantcheva Teaser: Following her momentum made revisions harder. Here’s how a pantser rethought her drafting process.

This week on Planetside… “Handling Longer Projects Without Relying on a Plot Outline” by Adriana Kantcheva: www.sfwa.org/2026/01/27/h...

Amazon just announced another round of 16,000 layoffs, months after it laid off 14,000 workers.

Reminder that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raked in over $40M in 2024.

And Amazon is spending at least $75 million producing and promoting the Melania documentary.

The system is rigged.

“i don’t stay up to date on politics”
just say you’re stupid and lack empathy

These Ultra-Cute, Handsfree Walkie-Talkies Are Built For Cycling Hackaday Article

These Ultra-Cute, Handsfree Walkie-Talkies Are Built For Cycling

Drawing of Wil Calder, main character in the Space Rogues series. He’s wearing a long brown duster, blue trousers and a red shirt with some armor over his chest

Wil Calder will return in Avengers Doomsday


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#booksky #scifi #spaceopera

😲 outstanding and totally agree. We should have seen so much more of the Akira class.

A cranky one-eyed Shih Tzu being held

A black and gray Shih Tzu sleeping on a rug

In the short time we knew him, muppet made a big impression on our lives. Today is 1 year since we said goodbye.

Still hurts. I still miss our one-eyed agent of chaos a lot.
#dogs

I feel like those people would also be. “What the hell is a Quish? Why is she quishing? What does that mean? And what’s a Flobin? That makes no sense and ruins it for me.”

Awesome work!

Let's be clear. ICE is Cobra.
There's no reforming or adjusting.

Dismantle it all the way to the ground.

#USPOL #GIJOE

You think Greg Bovino has to turn in his Nazi cosplay coat or is that like a parting gift?

So many mainstream news outlets treat right wingers as children who don’t know any better and leftists as disgruntled parents of those children.

If leftists just became more invested in their hobbies we’ll be good “parents”, but it just fuels the right wing victim mentality. 1/3

Made it to Vail (Wife and friend will Ski. I'm working from a different desk, LOL).

Nice little cabin rental. Dogs seem happy with the place. Internet is good enough.

Be a nice change of venue for workin' and writin'

#writerslife #writers

Mozilla is building an AI ‘rebel alliance’ to take on industry heavweights OpenAI, Anthropic Mozilla is looking to deploy its roughly $1.4 billion in reserves to support "mission driven" companies and nonprofits, and is particularly focused on AI.

Dear @mozilla.org No one wants this. You’re not the rebel alliance. You're an also ran in a market that's on the edge of a bubble pop.

#ai

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JesusFreakingCongress posted: Just so we're clear... The trump admin has officially [also unoficially] stripped away your: 1st, 2nd, 4th, & 5th Amendment rights. Free speech gets you assaulted. Legal gun ownership treated as a death sentence. Homes can be broken into whenever they want. Access to lawyers is now dictated by the government. The Constitution is being dismantled in real time.

He & his cabal are certainly ACTING like these rights mean fuck all.

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