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Congratulations!

20.09.2025 01:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I saw a thing the other day that basically said β€œno matter what prompt you give it, the question an LLM is answering is β€˜what would a plausible response to this prompt look like?’”

09.09.2025 01:54 β€” πŸ‘ 553    πŸ” 159    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 21

So looking forward to this! Their nonfiction separately and together are insightful and compelling

06.09.2025 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It worked! Order placed. Thank you!

22.07.2025 02:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I just tried placing an order to Canada via the UK site, and it says no delivery to Canada :(

Any suggestions?

17.07.2025 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Seconded! And if you like β€œLanguage of the Night”, while it’s not quite out yet, you can now pre-order the essay collection @bluejo.bsky.social & I have coming out soon, β€œTrace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction & Fantasy” (available any normal book pre-order place).

02.06.2025 19:43 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Happy Birthday!

10.05.2025 20:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The first time? Wow, that's pretty great! First time I tried, I could not deadlift my own body weight

06.05.2025 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Implement a 100% tariff and run a movie

Twice

05.05.2025 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is it just me, or is anyone else thinking that this could/should apply to ICE agents "arresting" the wrong people?

23.04.2025 00:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Extraordinary rendition, the apprehension and extrajudicial transfer of a person from one nation to another

Extraordinary rendition, the apprehension and extrajudicial transfer of a person from one nation to another

I learned very recently that the term is extraordinary rendition.

18.04.2025 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 143    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1
Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us.

So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.

Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.

james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country

"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

02.04.2025 22:32 β€” πŸ‘ 12538    πŸ” 5371    πŸ’¬ 458    πŸ“Œ 1293

If this is true, it's still wild to me that individual ICE agents are willing to do that bidding.

When you've got this kind of anonymous state-endorsed chaos, the agents are at risk of being shot by good Samaritans with guns.

And everyone is at risk from criminals posing as ICE

31.03.2025 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Orange cat wearing a tie, sitting on an antique chair beside some full bookshelves, looking attentively offscreen, waiting for instructions

Orange cat wearing a tie, sitting on an antique chair beside some full bookshelves, looking attentively offscreen, waiting for instructions

31.03.2025 02:11 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sure, there's the vigilantes that will cosplay as law enforcement.

But why isn't ICE concerned about a vigilante with a gun stopping a kidnapping?

31.03.2025 02:05 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Can someone explain it to this Canadian? If law enforcement are plainclothes or masked and don't identify themselves, how are citizens supposed to know whether they are witnessing a criminal kidnapping or a lawful arrest?

30.03.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 134    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 1

Just bought Cross Fire by @fondalee.bsky.social on sale for $1.99 from Google Play books. For how much I loved the Green Bone saga, there was no good excuse for this book to be missing from my library. Can't wait to read it!

20.03.2025 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That was a great article. Wild that there hasn't been more public pushback against Gladwell for this. Or at least pushback that I've seen

31.01.2025 01:06 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Glad to see you here!

29.01.2025 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Advance Reader Copy of Octavia E Butler's Unexpected Stories

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Giveaway time! We're going to be doing a lot more of these over here (rather than Facebook and Insta). Follow us and share to enter to win this ARC of Unexpected Stories from Octavia E. Butler, which is now out of print: subterraneanpress.com/unexpected-s...

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29.01.2025 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 110    πŸ” 72    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 9

At risk of repeating myself: The Luddites weren’t against technology. They were against getting put out of work by a technology that did a version of their job faster but worse, in the service of increasing profits for their bosses.

26.12.2024 19:13 β€” πŸ‘ 6251    πŸ” 2066    πŸ’¬ 85    πŸ“Œ 89
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14.12.2024 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 7
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06.12.2024 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4
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Today's my birthday! You ain't gotta get me anything but if you're so inclined to spare a like and a RT, I'd be thankful! Trying to build up again on a new social media platform is a pain.

✨Some of my work✨

05.12.2024 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1971    πŸ” 597    πŸ’¬ 100    πŸ“Œ 16

When Animorphs ended, fans were vocal about how they didn't like the depressing ending.

K.A. Applegate responded with amongst the most brutal letters I've read.

It takes a generational talent to tell your fans "If you're mad at me because that's what you have to take away from Animorphs, too bad."

04.12.2024 08:55 β€” πŸ‘ 13233    πŸ” 4137    πŸ’¬ 160    πŸ“Œ 297

Any chance of a Toronto stop? Maybe @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social ?

03.12.2024 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

What a great article! Martha Wells really does have grit. I thought Death of the Necromancer was going to be her breakout novel, but better late than never

27.11.2024 03:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Samsquatch

25.11.2024 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is when I started following you, even though I don't read romance (SFF is more my jam). I am so sorry that you felt like everybody hated you. I have so much respect for you in standing up against entrenched bigotry and regret not telling you so when it might have mastered more

24.11.2024 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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