Michael Arnzen

The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?

Please write your own stories — and especially write your own obituary before AI does it for you. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Intriguing suggestion!

Become unslopperable.

And one final thought: Ozzy going out after giving an emotional final performance that raised a ton of money for charity is more spiritually uplifting and did more genuine good than anything any televangelist and religious grifter who railed against him ever did combined.

New Report Calls for Faculty Control in AI Decisions Today, the AAUP released a new report, Artificial Intelligence and the Academic Professions, sharing survey findings and calling for the establishment of policies in colleges and universities that pri...

Today, the AAUP released a new report, "Artificial Intelligence & Academic Professions." The report calls for policies that prioritize economic security, faculty working & student learning conditions as AI tech accelerates.

www.aaup.org/news/new-rep...
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ONLINE COLLEGE ENROLLMENT This year is the first time that more U.S. college students will learn entirely online compared to being fully in-person. And research shows most online programs cost as much or more than in-person.Th...

Academic Librarians take note:
This year is the first time that more U.S. college students will learn entirely online compared to being fully in-person. 📚
www.npr.org/2025/07/11/n...

We’re Light-Years Away from True Artificial Intelligence, Says Murderbot Author Martha Wells Today’s large language models are hardly related to the kinds of machine intelligence we see in science fiction, according to Martha Wells, author of the Murderbot Diaries series

Loved this @sciam.bsky.social conversation with @marthawells.com by @clarakm.bsky.social — Martha’s voice and perspective really come through, on everything from LLM scams to corporate personhood and the wondrous personal discoveries one’s work can yield: www.scientificamerican.com/article/were...

Follow them here at @humanartistry.bsky.social

Human Artistry Campaign

I have just signed on to the Human Artistry Campaign's fundamental principles on the use of AI in the creative arts. Join me if you agree. And if you don't, who do you think you are fooling and what have you become as a human being, anyway? www.humanartistrycampaign.com

Gabby Giffords: Americans Deserve Freedom From Gun Violence | Opinion On this Independence Day, the last before our nation's 250th birthday, Republicans and Democrats alike must recommit to keeping the American people safe.

For victims, survivors, and the millions of Americans who live in fear, our government is not upholding its end of the deal. It's failing to protect our safety.

This Independence Day, I urge elected officials to set us free from gun violence.

Yes, that's what happens to those tech-bro's...

D Harlan Wilson Takes Us into Strangelove Country Writers on Film · Episode

“If someone tells me: ‘You can’t do it this way. This is no good.’ I’m going to do it that way times 1,000.” I enjoyed listening to this fantastic conversation about the Kubrickian mind with @dharlanwilson.bsky.social. open.spotify.com/episode/5kUB...

28 Years Later — very good zombie vibes but I wanted so much more of some things (the gang at end, the alphas) and a whole lot less of others (the tired familial tropes and the overwritten talks and the lack of plot coherency). The sequel will be better if we don’t have to wait 28 Centuries.

The HWA has been changing the operation of the con behind the scenes, and since I'm not involved in that (& not con chair this time), I'm sorry to say I don't know. Pricing likely has not been set yet. I'll share news as it comes, esp if I oversee Dealer's Room again. Very glad you're returning!

If you are looking for the earlybird #StokerCon registration for #PITTSBURGH in 2026, then try this: www.eventbrite.com/e/stokercon-... @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social Join ussss......... #bramstoker #horror #writing #convention

THANK YOU for joining the "Halloween people" at the con this year!

(I'm discovering that most of the fascinating people I met at Stokercon are on Bluesky!)

Ouch. This is too true. Good meeting you at the con!

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I found the 2026 event listed under the registration page on eventbrite for this year's con. Try: www.eventbrite.com/e/stokercon-...

Just a quick note to everyone I met at #StokerCon, from new friends to old pals to idols who graced me with a handshake or wink as I walked by. Home now and will post more later. You are all amazing, and I can't wait to see so many of you again here in PITTSBURGH. (Get your early bird tix asap!).

Some of the events I’ll be a part of at #stokercon this week! Come join in the fun. I’ll also be at the mass signing and Stoker banquet. And often at the Seton Hill table in the dealer’s room.

Cool! Hope I can make it to this one! If not, good luck!

Thanks, John!

Everyone should get on board the Arnzen train of thought.

Speculative Poetry Initiative What Are the Hugo Awards and Who Can Participate?

We just gave our official support to the campaign to create a poetry category for the the Hugo Awards. They're looking for public feedback and help from poets. Read more about the campaign here: www.poetryhugo.com

6:66 with Michael Arnzen: EP 10 | Brain Candy Birthdays | 6:66 w/Michael Arnzen | 6.3.25 Arnzen reconsiders the meaning of birthdays, and shares an excerpt from his old spoken word cd, Audiovile -- a short zombie tale called "Brain Candy."

New episode of my podcast, "6 minutes and 66 seconds" has just dropped. And it remains only 6m66s long. Pls subscribe, share, sacrifice a goat, etc.

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the cat
walks on my keyboard
Writes a poem
probably
better than mine

#gogyohka #haiku #poetry #poem

“We’re seeing a growing movement within civil society, that has to be maintained, & and has to be maintained for years. The damage that the Trump administration is doing is absolutely beyond the pale & has never, never been equaled in American life with regard to higher education.”
— Ellen Schrecker