"They weren't building a model," Charlie said. "They were building a contract."
"A contract?" Abby asked.
"A marriage license," Charlie said. "That was always the trade."
#WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk
While the critique of big tech is out there, & everyone is entitled to their view, this isn't about that. I'm a writer with a documented disability making a case for my own accommodation. Not a marketing slogan. carlmfreeman.substack.com/p/i-was-diagnosed-dyslexic-in-1983
You're right, I don't speak for you & I meant that. I'm also not talking about generative AI the way most critics mean it. I use it as a scaffold, not a substitute. Longer version if useful: carlmfreeman.substack.com/p/i-was-diagnosed-dyslexic-in-1983
Wrote the long version. Diagnosed dyslexic 1983, ADHD confirmed 2026, using AI since 2025. What the research says, the steelman objections, & what sane policy actually looks like.
carlmfreeman.substack.com/p/i-was-diag...
First post on my new Substack. Dyslexic & ADHD writers are being caught in a net built for plagiarists. Those aren't the same problem. They shouldn't share the same solution. carlmfreeman.substack.com #dyslexia #ADHD #dreampunk #amwriting
Am a big fan of fast forward, I use it a fair amount in #FOM would love to see some examples. Elegant FF is hard.. A lot of books use it as a blunt instrument for bad plot management.
Faculty of Matter starts here; a world where the image arrived before the fact, and the fact never caught up. The lie doesn't need to win. It just needs the truth to feel like it's still loading. #sciencefiction #dreampunk
The principle is right; the blanket approach harms people it wasn't aimed at. Dyslexic & ADHD writers use AI as an accessibility tool — not to replace thinking, but to get it out. Banning the tool conflates lazy plagiarism with genuine access need. Those aren't the same problem. #dyslexia #AIethics
This is the exact mechanism Faculty of Matter is built on; not that the lie wins, but that truth becomes too exhausting to defend. Once universal skepticism sets in, narrative control is effortless. #sciencefiction #dreampunk
His parents left their signature in his skull before he could read. He spent twenty years learning what it said. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
Above him the dream flux moved like a river of signatures — thousands of sleeping minds sliding past, smeared light and private static. Most nights it was background. Tonight it looked oversaturated. Something just felt wrong. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
A great article by @cliffjones.bsky.social on the mysterious dream punk genre. We get asked a lot!
I remember discussing this with you, it was before or during our interview. (Or may be after I’m getting more forgetful). It’s a #dreampunk work of art!
Abby as she had been — small, hidden behind debris, trying to be brave enough not to make a sound. Jay felt her shock course through her like electricity, the kind that makes your whole body go cold. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
He saw his child self pinned under the panel, face smeared with dirt, eyes wide. He saw his parents only metres away, lifeless, bodies thrown into shapes no one should have to recognise. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
That distinction is exactly right; Natural Reader & VoiceDream are output tools, not generators. The ideas, the voice, the structure are all mine. AI removes the friction between thinking and expression, it doesn't replace the thinking. That's the line. #dyslexia
Faculty of Matter is set exactly here; a world where the image came first and the truth had to fight to catch up. The lie doesn't need to win. It just needs to slow the truth down enough. #sciencefiction #dreampunk
n Faculty of Matter the NESTs don't need to invent the crisis; they just need to own the announcement. Urgency without verification is just another word for compliance. #sciencefiction #dreampunk
In Faculty of Matter the Encoding is marketed exactly this way; optimised for short-term compliance, not long-term human agency. The covenant always looked like help. #sciencefiction #dreampunk
In Faculty of Matter the Encoding is marketed exactly this way; optimised for short-term compliance, not long-term human agency. The covenant always looked like help. #sciencefiction #dreampunk
The world broke before it fell. Not all at once. Not clean. Humanity didn't need a warning. It needed to have been paying attention. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
He let the rain hit his face and tried not to think about how thin the line had become between witness and thief. He needed the truth. He needed her. He wasn't sure anymore which need scared him more. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
Octavia Butler is the answer to every question about what's possible; the imagination is the thing, not the mechanics. I use AI as a read/write bridge, Natural Reader & VoiceDream on the go. Ideas are mine, friction is just less. FoM wouldn't exist without it.
Interesting, emotionally I agree. And if it’s an off topic big red button bang away. If it’s a false narrative on a truth. Would you provide an alt? Better to just show an immutable fact and let the world decide? Can they handle the truth? #FOM aims to surface these questions. In a cool way!
What Wonderful News! South #Australia generated 84 per cent of its electricity from #solar and wind energy in the final Q 2025, the highest of any major grid in the world. They plans 100 per cent by the next year. Way to anchor a #truth SA Don’t let anyone add a #narrative. #Jobdone
People did not want the truth most of the time. They wanted the version that let the next day happen cleanly. A film over the lens is easier than what's behind it. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk
"You don't get to love me like I'm somewhere to hide." #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
The world broke before it fell. Not all at once. Not clean. Like a film peeling back from something that had always been underneath. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
The Dream Tower always greeted him the same way: rain on rock, and the sound of it — patient, steady, honest. Jay could turn it off if he wanted to. He almost never did. #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting
The Dream Tower always greeted him the same way: rain on rock, and the sound of it — patient, steady, honest. Jay could turn it off if he wanted to. He almost never did. #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting