No plans, but it sounds awesome

Hive mind is, to me, one of the most suspect ideas in scifi. The idea that a subjective experience is generated by the interactions of a bunch of independent bodies isn’t what throws me. It’s that a consciousness built that way would be different or special at all.

#HiveMindOfNeurons

"Tokenmaxxing” is making developers less productive than they think | TechCrunch There's a lot more code—but it's a lot more expensive and requires a lot more rewriting.

There's a lot more code—but it's a lot more expensive and requires a lot more rewriting.

There’s a paradox facing journalism when the president says a bunch of stuff but doesn’t mean any of it a minute late.

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So this is a thing if you're free later today. No trouble if you're busy. We've all got a lot on our plates these days.

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Oh man it IS lead poisoning that makes us GenXers so awful politically.

I mean, if anyone did, it was her.

I mean, whatever works for you is fine with me.

Faith of Beasts.

Officially out tomorrow, though a bunch of stores have let it slip out early.

Just a reminder…

It is legit funny but it doesn’t change the fact that if your mayor went on FB tonight, said that the Pope sucked, and then posted an AI painting of themselves as Jesus Christ performing miracles, they would be removed from office in less than 48 hours.

I would l to have a president in the mode of NYC’s mayor who celebrates the common good that governance can promote.

Clean air, clean water, safe food, healthy & educated kids, support in times of crisis.

We deserve to have the government we pay for.

I am not a religious man, and I can see that this is blasphemy at a minimum.

OTOH, congrats to the tech industry for debasing Christianity in new ways, I guess? Move fast, break spirits.

Will be Tuesday.

If you’ve got time to kill on Tuesday, Ty and I are doing a thing over on Reddit.

Tell your friends and remind your enemies.

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The incredible @sarahexplains.bsky.social spoke with author duo James SA Corey (aka @abraham.bsky.social + Ty Franck) about FAITH OF BEASTS for @sciam.bsky.social to discuss their latest frighteningly realistic extraterrestrial invasion story!

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Honestly, it’s going better than I expected.

Apparently there were some people who unironically thought the second Trump presidency was going to go well.

I don't really know what to do with that.

"Easy as shooting fish in a barrel" is fine, but trite. The simile can be refreshed by the simple expedient of adjusting details.

Gerbils, for example, would be equally unchallenging to shoot.

Nah. Just socially awkward.

James SA Corey and books with aliens.

Agree, disagree, discourse, ignore?

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I mean, it still works. 🤣

Reminder that in this house we do not trash other genres of books to support the genre we like the most. One, come on, we're grown ups. Two, the bottom line is people reading and loving books. Three, every writer you know has friends working other genres, don't trash their friends, thanks.

"You must be mistaking the Clan of the Pointed Stick for one of the _rational_ societies of paranoid, celibate martial artists!"

-- Middleman

Also: the money.

He’s crazy.

It’s not you.

He’s crazy.

I'm finishing the edits on Judge of Worlds, so we're at the two ends of that project.

I’ve written prettier sentence, but the one I return to is “My life has become the single ongoing revelation that I haven’t been cynical enough.”

Wind & solar have been the cheapest energy for over a decade, we have ways to store it for nighttime & calm conditions, & we're still fighting wars over oil.

It is what it is folks

It's been wild watching fancy political soothsayers insist "The next war will be fought over water, not oil!" for the last 20 years because they thought it was obvious that renewable energy would become cheaper than fossil fuels.

They really underestimated how stupid world leaders are.