This video of a Ukrainian Yak-52 crew taking down drones with a shotgun is incredible, but the music is deeply, and profoundly inappropriate. There was really only one option. So I've fixed it.
This week's newsletter: cognitive independence, LLMs, and why I gave up Reddit for Lent. buttondown.com/MaxGladstone...
And if you’ve not read This Is How You Lose The Time War by @amalelmohtar.com & @maxgladstone.bsky.social, then do what Mr Wolfwood here suggests.
@amalelmohtar.com @maxgladstone.bsky.social
hahahaha fuck them up!
Here’s what @johnchu.bsky.social and @maxgladstone.bsky.social were up to this weekend! Thanks @portersqbooks.bsky.social ! The Subtle Art of Folding Space is out now from @torbooks.bsky.social
Sequel to THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR confirmed @maxgladstone.bsky.social
Boy, talk about an easy one.
I'd do what Gene Roddenberry did: hire science fiction writers.
David Gerrold, Harlan Ellison, Norman Spinrad, Robert Bloch, Richard Matheson, Theodore Sturgeon, Fredric Brown (if indirectly) ... Jerome Bixby, DC Fontana, and George Clayton Johnson ...
And while you're here, out #BookSky friends should definitely stick around for @johnchu.bsky.social with @maxgladstone.bsky.social tonight at 7PM
been putting off moving to kobo for years but it's probably past time
I'm touring in the UK for the first time! 🇬🇧 Kicking things off @cymerafestival.co.uk in Edinburgh then @waterstones.bsky.social in Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, London (already sold out 😮) and Bath, plus @forbidden-planet.bsky.social ! @orbitbooksuk.bsky.social #thelastcontractofisako CAN'T WAIT
So some interesting books are on sale on Kobo right now, while the world burns, including Courtney Floyd's debut Higher Magic, which has a @maxgladstone.bsky.social blurb.
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The perfect case would be something like:
*can see and edit index-card synopsis in Ulysses since that’s where my outlines often live
*binder order preserved, so I can do revisions that re-order scenes
*text syncs, of course (complex w/ Markdown maybe)
that’s most of what I’m looking for, I think?
Okay, /gripe, back to work
Quite possibly, if I were better at scripting! The weirdness of my use case is that when I’m out and about I like to write on my iPad, which may extra-complicate matters.
To be fair to unnamed people, few are making this suggestion directly, in this case the call is mostly coming from inside the house, for values of “the house” equal to “my own head”
I have heard this! & I am waiting so eagerly for it. I don’t need feature parity, when it comes to Scrivener I’d be surprised if I even use half of the bit of the iceberg that’s above the water. Basic notecard functionality, binder, compile, sync, and fullscreen gets me 95% of the way there.
All honor to House Scrivener, I mean, they strike an excellent balance between offering features w/out railroading you into a ‘right’ composition process (looking at you, Arc Studio), and manuscript compile works a treat, and almost every time I want to do something, I learn that I can! Except sync
lmao
Sure, but plenty of apps use, say, iCloud, which I wouldn’t say is “Neal Stephenson character”-secure but which is pretty good for my threat model
‘Use Obsidian’ this is PROBABLY the answer, but requires learning a bunch of extra Obsidian bells and whistles to replicate functionality that already exists in Scrivener
‘Just use Ulysses’ I *do*, and then I end up spending time I don’t have porting chapters written in Ulysses over into Scrivener where I can view scene synopses, track character and POV timelines, and have a docx export feature that yields something relatively functional for my editor
“But Scrivener has working multi-device sync” I am sorry it does not, ‘You can only have the document open on one device at a time’ is not multi-device sync in 2026. I am sympathetic to the devs’ legacy file structure issues but c’mon
My kingdom (or the share of same that represents a reasonable price for a piece of professional software) for a product that is Scrivener but with working multi-device sync
Join JOHN CHU on tour! APRIL 8 - ODYSSEY BOOKS WITH JEDEDIAH BERRY South Hadley, MA APRIL 9 - PRINT: A BOOKSTORE WITH LIBERTY HARDY Portland, ME APRIL 10 - PORTER SQUARE BOOKS WITH MAX GLADSTONE Cambridge, MA
Friday! I'm now in Cambridge, MA. Join the always insightful @maxgladstone.bsky.social and me at Porter Square Books tonight (4/10) at 7pm as we chat about stuff, including my novel The Subtle Art of Folding Space.
portersquarebooks.com/event/2026-0...
www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/... Just a few days left for the Locus fundraiser! Lots of cool rewards left!
to Goblin Market, by Christina Rossetti — from the 1860s I think: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44996/...
I don't quite have time to sharpen the point I'm trying to make here, but every time the "Kill, kill, kill" lady cuts in to talk about how they're changing the rules to increase violence, limit the cast of characters, etc., I just imagine the forum conversations Dinneman must be seeing...
Also, there's something very spot-on about a live-published litRPG composed in conversation with fans & against a political backdrop, about... basically, a live-published litRPG composed in conversation with fans against a political backdrop...
