@justinocelot.bsky.social just read the published stories listed on your website. They're so lovely. I can't wait to see what's next.
Blaize K.
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Programmer and occasional writer. [Trying to passively keep this account open as a comms channel without falling into the existential vacuum that is social media - feel free to ping though and I will emerge from my hole in the ground] https://bomoko.net
"I need some trigonometry to calculate the height of that radio tower" "Do you have enough tokens? Great. Fulfill his need, Astra" "I have calculated the height with eight-dimensional sphere-packing. Would you like a slightly more accurate answer using topological set-theory"
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
I love curated “Best-Of” SFF anthologies. There's something about someone collecting stories & saying, “Here, you should read these. Sadly there are fewer Best of anthologies every year. You can help reverse the trend with Locus's new anthology by Friday Aug 7! www.kickstarter.com/projects/204...
Locus Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year: Volume 1
Delve into the creative worlds of the finest minds writing contemporary science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
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Locus Magazine@locusmag.bsky.social · 2d agoEveryone! Funding ends Fri Aug 7 @ 6PM PDT. We are so close to reaching our $60k goal (adding a novella), but our DREAM GOAL gets us original cover art and allows us to double pay contributors. We want to show more love to our authors & you can help @ kck.st/4wtYJ6X !
Expect nothing less <3
Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY@wtalabi.com · 2d agoY'all! trade reviews are starting to come in and THE FIST OF MEMORY got a STARRED review in Publishers Weekly calling it an "expertly executed epic". As a writer its one thing to craft something you think is special and unique, another for others to agree. 🙏🏾⭐ www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-7564-1...
Hello world! 👋 We’re Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) 👤🤖🧠 a new open access journal from @mitpress.bsky.social exploring the principles of intelligence and cognition across natural and artificial minds. Submissions open this Fall! 🔗 direct.mit.edu/mmb
Minds, Machines, and Brains | MIT Press
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Just a bump on this, my story "Ethics after the end of the world" is out now. If you like your apocalypse quiet, or you ever ate at Mookie noodles in Durban, you might like this.
Blaize K.@bomoko.bsky.social · 5d agoMy story "Ethics after the End of the World" is out today via @zamashort.com! "Before I left, I lay on our bed and breathed deep, smelling her, trying to hold what I could of her to take with me. I then walked to an Exit Point, up the gangway into the pitch-black nothingness and into the Outside."
Presumably people who think this didn't pay attention to how a subset of users responded to GPT-4o.
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 5d agoI feel like takes scoffing at the idea that people could have addictive behavior patterns relating to LLMs are likely to age poorly
I just read this! It's a fantastic story that is, in part, about knowing there's a creator of the world and choosing to want nothing to do with them, and what it means to love someone who wants different. Very much recommend!
ZamaShort@zamashort.com · 2w agoZamaShort #16 'Ethics after the End of the World' by Blaize M. Kaye @bomoko.bsky.social What if you suddenly knew the true purpose of life. A touching tale and exploration of a mathematician and philosopher faced with the ultimate truth of reality. #AfricanSFF #Africanfuturism #booksky 🪐📚💙
My story "Ethics after the End of the World" is out today via @zamashort.com! "Before I left, I lay on our bed and breathed deep, smelling her, trying to hold what I could of her to take with me. I then walked to an Exit Point, up the gangway into the pitch-black nothingness and into the Outside."
ZamaShort #16 'Ethics after the End of the World' by Blaize M. Kaye
ZamaShort #16
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The site says "Science Fiction Weekly is a community effort to bring that archive back — with author consent — and to keep the form alive with new work on a regular cadence." Err ... I'd like to know their working definition of "consent", because to me this feels more like "imma steal your shit".
Beth Cato@bethcato.bsky.social · 6d agoHey! If you were published at Daily Science Fiction, be aware that a site called Science Fiction Weekly has stolen the entire story database & posted it on their site. All of my DSF stories are there without my permission. sciencefictionweekly.com
Coming soon from @zamashort.com - I'm stoked for this one. @ivorhartmann.bsky.social is a great editor, I'm really honored to got to work with him on this.
ZamaShort@zamashort.com · 2w agoZamaShort #16 'Ethics after the End of the World' by Blaize M. Kaye @bomoko.bsky.social What if you suddenly knew the true purpose of life. A touching tale and exploration of a mathematician and philosopher faced with the ultimate truth of reality. #AfricanSFF #Africanfuturism #booksky 🪐📚💙
Hi all--been a long few days and I forgot to post how excited I am to have a story at Hawkeye this week! Check out "Fight Night": hawkeyemag.com/stories/rink...
Fight Night
Chad and I started live-streaming our fights after we found out insurance only covered twenty percent of our daughter’s orthodontic bill. Live-streaming was his idea, said he read about a site where p...
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I'm not going to do the Goodreads annual challenge again. It gives me too much anxiety and makes me competitive in a way I hate. I read essays, short stories, and textbooks mostly. I'm not reading many books these days, but I'm reading more than ever.
New Excerpt up! 'Descendants of Balance' by Rafeeat Aliyu, ZamaShort #14. #fantasy #AfricanSFF #BookSky 💙📚
Excerpts
ZamaShort Excerpts
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Scored at the Wellington 2nd hand bookstores today. Arty Bees has just got in a ridiculous collection of philosophy texts.
Wow! DOOM was selected by The Washington Post as one of the 25 Most Influential Works of American Culture! The only videogame on there! So awesome. Proud of id's legacy & the games we worked on. Congrats to @theromero @adriancarmackartist and @john.carmack. Thanks to @genepark and @washingtonpost.
Bastani's "Fully Automated Luxury Communism" is like a genre unto itself. Also, wasn't expecting Peter Drucker to make an appearance in the early chapters, but there you have it. Wild ride.
Borges on "Finnegans Wake". Lol. interrelevant.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/b...
Borges Reviews ‘Finnegans Wake’
Jorges Luis Borges Reviews Finnegans Wake Work in Progress has appeared at least, now titled Finnegans Wake, and is, they tell us,the ripened and lucid fruit of sixteen energetic years of literary …
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Great interview with Jon Rée from around the time "Witcraft" came out. Definitely one of the more interesting people in philosophy philosophersmag.com/the-philosop...
The Philosopher-Historian Rebel: an interview with Jonathan Rée - The Philosophers' Magazine
Emily Thomas talks to Jonathan Rée about Witcraft, his subversive history of philosophy.
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Oh man. Hard agree. I actually have some thoughts on this. 1/
Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY@wtalabi.com · last mo.I'm not a fan of African SFF stories that have African settings but don't actually engage with African traditional philosophies, histories, beliefs, concepts or ideas. I need to see it in the source code.
oh this is gold - I was just thinking where I was supposed to find what to read to nominate for this years @africansfs.bsky.social Nommo awards. Stumbled across @africansffhype.bsky.social! Hell.Yes. Let's get reading.
This is going to be very, very good. Over the last few months I've read basically everything Rinkema has written (or, at least, that's linked on her webpage). Stunning vision, deeply smart. This is an instabuy for me.
Emily Rinkema@emilyrinkema.bsky.social · last mo.I've cried a lot of happy tears in the past 24 hours. This is my first collection, and I'm thrilled to be working w/ @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social & @mooncitypress.bsky.social to bring it alive. I'm so so grateful to this whole flash community. Thank you, thank you, thank you for this opportunity! ❤️
One of the things I had always hoped to do was more Formal Logic. I studied philosophy AND logic in my undergrad, and when I did it, there was substantial overlap with the CS department. There's basically no evidence that this was my actual major other than old transcripts though
No doubt - this will be a killer book. Get it for xmas in July.
Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY@wtalabi.com · last mo.Here we go again! B&N is running a preorder promo from June 23-26 and you can use it to preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY. Use code PREORDER25 to get 25% or more off. Check it out here: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-fist-o...
Hey y'all. I'm giving away 1 physical copy of the latest issue of Locus Magazine! (US for now). To win, all you need to do is either 1) add my novel THE FIST OF MEMORY as "want to read" on your Goodreads/Storygraph/Any book tracking site, or, 2) subscribe to my new website. Details below ⬇️⬇️⬇️