Leo Korogodski

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

I had more.

Happy birthday!

To help democracy, I wrote an essay on why nations where no group has absolute majority are superior to ethnic states. Not yet ready to publish it, but soon…

This em-dash thing is just another case of laziness. People want a SIMPLE criterion to detect AI. They won’t accept that no simple rule would do. It will always be the forest you must look at yo detect AI, never the trees.

A good book and a good series!

Protesting against bad developments doesn’t have to be anti-technology in general. Let’s not swing too hard the other way.

Cyberhumans, their minds always online, can speak any language fluently. In reality, they speak hodgepodge of languages in almost every sentence. But everyone has a favored language, usually related to their heritage—which can be anything.

A snippet from Book 2 in my series (not a single mention of “gold” in Book 1, alas). #WritingPrompt

They save each other so many times and get into each other’s minds (including literally, via cybermagic) that it’s no wonder that they form a family. Happens to almost every team at the Academy.

My Bk 1’s four main characters live at a cutthroat military school, where the survival pressure pushes them into tight teams that usually become polyamorous families.

The stress is constant, from vicious rivalry to training bordering on torture. They release it with each other.

#AwesomeCharacters

An interesting approach.

Artificial Minds: Emotional or Rational? Transgressive Science Fiction #2

I have updated my essay on artificial minds (aka AI), the essay #2 in my Transgressive Science Fiction series, with a section on artificial minds in fantasy.
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Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought By Book Authors Anthropic faced the prospect of more than $1 trillion in damages, a sum that could have threatened the company’s survival if the case went to trial.

NEW: A major AI copyright legal showdown just took a huge twist today. Facing a class action on behalf of book authors that could've seen it pay over a TRILLION in damages for alleged piracy, Anthropic has agreed to settle instead: www.wired.com/story/anthro...

A different subject.

The last, seventh essay in my Transgressive Science Fiction series will be political. Comparing majority-minority states to ethnic ones.

I see. That’s a contentious subject.

I hate this sort of thing. What happened? What essay?

Shadowban exists on Bluesky, too?

Alarming if true.

Hive Minds: Diverse or Totalitarian? Transgressive Science Fiction #1

I have updated my essay on diverse hive minds (the first one in my Transgressive Science Fiction series) with a section on Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

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One of my cats also throws up a lot because of eating fast. She grew afraid of other, stronger cats in the household, so took to eating fast.

Cozy is for tired readers.

People just want to find a “simple” way to tell if something has been written by an AI. But that makes light of the human ability to judge the whole. It will always be the forest, never any tree. Always the whole style, never a grammar idiosyncrasy.

I’m a very, ahem, dashing writer, too. 😊

"-le" is a forgotten suffix in English - it's integrated so far into words that we no longer register it. It indicates continuousness: to sparkLE is to repeatedly spark, to scribbLE is to continuously scribe, etc.

Which implies that to chortLE is to repeatedly do something called a chort.

Lungarni di Pisa at night. The riverbanks of Arno.

Sunset in Pisa along the Arno riverbanks. The Leaning Tower isn’t the only interesting thing about the place. Here, you can see Santa Maria della Spina and La Torre Guelfa.

What’s a writing break? Me no understand.