I am SO excited for this!

Genie: This is your life remote. You can pause your life, rewind your li... Me: [pic of someone pressing power button on remote control]

I heard you read an excerpt at Scintillation last year and I am so looking forward to this.

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:

Thompson Twins/OMD
Chris De Burgh
The Cult/Lenny Kravitz
The Mountain Goats
Bug Hunter/Narcissist Cookbook

Scintillation is a small convention in Montreal in June, focused on reading and writing SF and fantasy. It is a lot of fun, and all people of goodwill who like reading and talking about books are welcome. Membership for 2026 is now open

www.scintillation.ca

Only took until 2025

Today I learned that Burnaby, BC had municipal bylaws that "prohibited the employment of Chinese and Japanese workers by the municipality or its contractors" and restricted "people of Chinese descent from owning land" until yesterday.

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I am so looking forward to this!

#SomethingBeautiful

Congratulations!

I saw a thing the other day that basically said “no matter what prompt you give it, the question an LLM is answering is ‘what would a plausible response to this prompt look like?’”

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

It worked! Order placed. Thank you!

I just tried placing an order to Canada via the UK site, and it says no delivery to Canada :(

Any suggestions?

Seconded! And if you like “Language 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, “Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction & Fantasy” (available any normal book pre-order place).

Happy Birthday!

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

Implement a 100% tariff and run a movie

Twice

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

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.

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."

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

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

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?

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?

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!

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

Glad to see you here!

Advance Reader Copy of Octavia E Butler's Unexpected Stories

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