Ryan M. Williams

🐙 Cosmoctopus Beyond the Inky Realm Expansion + 2nd Edition ✨ Deepen your devotion with a new cephalopod, devotee cards, resources, player powers + solo mode for Cosmoctopus: The Board Game!

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Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents ‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the “Ghostbusters” theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility....
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Beneath the Leaves by Simone Grünewald Field Notes from the Undergrowth

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Team Building Revenge: Hardcover, Paperback, Large Print An IT sisterhood triumphs in a clever novella of tech job survival, the power of friendship, and the satisfaction of evening the score.

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The Case Against Generative AI Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...

Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI.
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OpenAI’s First Half Results: $4.3 Billion in Sales, $2.5 Billion Cash Burn OpenAI generated around $4.3 billion in revenue in the first half of 2025, about 16% more than it generated all of last year, according to financial disclosures to shareholders. The company said it bu...

So The Information reported OpenAI's revenue was $4.3bn for the first half of this year - which is around $1bn *LESS* than I had estimated, yet they still think this company hits $13bn in revenue by EoY. Even if they hit $1bn a month every month, they miss.
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The Final 3: Your Publishing Playbook, Rewritten Updated, Expanded, and Ready to Help You Sell More Books in 2025 and Beyond.

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Autism isn’t a disease to be cured or even eradicated. It’s a neurotype that results in many of the most beautiful and creative brains to have existed. Autists need systemic support to thrive in a world built for allistics, not the blame and shame that make our lives harder than they need to be.

Graph showing that GMO use in corn in the US correlates to global pirate attacks, courtesy of Spurious Correlations, tylervigen.com

For anyone concerned there may be something to the Tylenol-autism BS, I present:

1101 Digital Stories in an Analog World: A New SF Collection Aliens, science, time travel & humanity. 13 glimpses of futures full of hope and the sense of wonder from Analog writer Ron Collins.

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Whimscal Wonders, a 2026 Calendar A wall calendar featuring colourful and whimsical artworks by Natacha Chohra.

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Savage Strangehollow - Art & Folklore By Emily Hare Explore an enchanted realm of vast forests, unforgiving mountains and uncharted waters

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watercolour image of a huge black dragon diving out of thunderclouds surrounded by lightning and chasing a very unfortunate red dragon. text says 'savage strangehollow - now live on kickstarter'

Guess what? Savage Strangehollow, my new book, is LIVE!! If you are into fantasy, folklore and creature art, then this might be right up your street! You can pre-order yours here: buff.ly/MtZUyIc
#kickstarter #dragon #fantasyart #artbook #folklore #watercolour #art

Networking for System Administrators (2nd Edition) The critically-acclaimed sysadmin reference, updated for modern Windows and Unix

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Transmissions robot art calendars 2026 Share your jouirney through the coming year with a selection of robots from my Transmissions art series in two calendars for 2026.

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I keep saying.

Walled. Garden.

Meanwhile, I can leave @buttondown.com any time I want to, because they're a proper newsletter platform. I just don't leave, because it's awesome and I love it.

Happy Labor Day!

Remember: AI “art” is labor theft. Support human artists!

If you want to support a real human artist who has been fighting this scourge for 3 years now, these stickers and more are here:

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Witnessing the AI artist get kicked out of the DragonCon artist alley was satisfying.

Enshittification: the DRM-free audiobook "Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It" (an audiobook Amazon won't sell!)

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The Stories of Tanith Lee Special edition of Tempting The Gods

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PULPHOUSE FICTION MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION DRIVE 2025 Great Reading! Help Keep Pulphouse Fiction Magazine Alive!

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The Artisan Author: Escape the Self-Publishing Rat Race You dreamed of being an author ... until Rapid Release turned it into a low-profit, high-stress grind. Here's your ticket to freedom.

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If you haven't backed Uncanny Year 12 yet, do consider it. I've been a backer since year 1. With everything else on my plate (government/novels), I'm neither reading nor writing short fiction, but Uncanny is a treasure and I look forward to diving in once I have the time to read widely again.

Republican Nancy Mace says she likes to watch videos of Ice detaining people Congresswoman says she ‘can think of nothing more American’ than Ice dragging people out of court

These are just insanely sadistic people. They love misery and they love to see people suffer.

Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! Funding to support Year 12 of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. We have more stories to tell together!

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Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! Funding to support Year 12 of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine. We have more stories to tell together!

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Kickstarter for Authors 2025: New Fully Updated Edition Ready to fund & flourish? Proven strategies & insider tips from a platform pro to level up your campaign & reach your author dreams!

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FOUR SCIENCE FICTION... Kristine Kathryn Rusch Mysteries of Space and Light

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Strange Horizons 2026 A free weekly speculative fiction magazine with a global perspective.

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