Dave Mason Writes
@davemasonwrites.bsky.social
Author of historical fiction: Between the Clouds and the River (2024 / 14 literary awards) and EO-N (2020 / 20+ literary awards / film+TV rights acquired). Ex-design / SaaS guy. 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 CVT / YUL / YVR / ORD / YHZ / BZN davemasonwrites.com
"Maybe the successful melding of fact and fiction is intrinsic human behavior, and when authors do it intentionally—with sensitivity, skill, intelligence, and fidelity to the accepted facts within which a story is crafted—their work resonates with us in ways that are deep, and dare I say, true-ish?"
Fictionalizing Our Own Histories - a Guest Post
by Dave MasonI’m lucky to have three really cool siblings. We grew up together, for a number of years, until the natural course of our lives took us in various directions. So we shared many of the exp...
thehistoricalfictioncompany.com
"A dive into a rarely explored character: the enemy. At times heartbreaking, funny, sweet and monstrous, such is the nature of the human animal. This writer seems to have that rare ability to see deep inside us all." Amazon review/Canada 4.60 ⭐ Amazon 4.54 ⭐ Goodreads 4.82 ⭐ Storygraph
"Maybe the successful melding of fact and fiction is intrinsic human behavior, and when authors do it intentionally—with sensitivity, skill, intelligence, and fidelity to the accepted facts within which a story is crafted—their work resonates with us in ways that are deep, and dare I say, true-ish?"
Fictionalizing Our Own Histories - a Guest Post
by Dave MasonI’m lucky to have three really cool siblings. We grew up together, for a number of years, until the natural course of our lives took us in various directions. So we shared many of the exp...
thehistoricalfictioncompany.com
When you don't have any actual intelligence, go with AI!!
PwC AI reports tainted by hallucination errors – report
PwC has released reports on AI and electric vehicles that contained hallucination errors featuring fabricated citations, misattributed material and information that could not be verified, Financial Ti...
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CEO with a net worth of $15+ billion surprised that people who are going to be replaced by AI are working for the income, not the outcome. Is this guy serious?
Anthropic’s CEO says staff want money over mission
Elite AI researchers keep jumping between labs despite huge pay. Anthropic’s CEO fears people join for money not mission, though his lab pays the most.
thenextweb.com
"Mason weaponizes profound symbolism and poignant prose to unite Joseph and Bernhardt’s struggles in oppressive systems. The pacing, patient but never sluggish, excels in visceral depiction… but its focal point is the endearing characters’ existential battles." Overall: 9.5/10 @booklife.bsky.social
Between the Clouds and the River by Dave Mason | BookLife
1943: Twenty-four year old Bernhardt Lang is swept along by the currents of war, until an unexpected ally helps him live a life of his own making, in a place he could never have imagined himself exist...
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Installed Wind Turbines China: ~180,000 United States: ~73,000 Germany: ~28,500 India: ~27,000 Spain: ~22,000 United Kingdom: ~11,500 France: ~9,500 Italy: ~7,450 Canada: ~7,100 Sweden: ~5,400 Turkey: ~4,200 Mexico: ~3,200 Chile: ~3,000 Argentina: ~2,200 Australia: ~2,100
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "Any country with windmills is a loser"
"You know what the trouble is, Brucey? We used to make shit in this country, build shit. Now we just put our hand in the next guy's pocket." Frank Sobotka @benmckenzie.bsky.social
Everyone Is Lying to You for Money | Official Trailer UHD
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"This is not just historical fiction, this is literature, in all its raw, sometimes visceral, moving, touching, heart-wrenching, visual, emotional, lush, brutal, beautiful, cinematic, and as-real-as-a-book-can-get pages." @histficcompany.bsky.social tinyurl.com/359x7wdj
"This is not just historical fiction, this is literature, in all its raw, sometimes visceral, moving, touching, heart-wrenching, visual, emotional, lush, brutal, beautiful, cinematic, and as-real-as-a-book-can-get pages." @histficcompany.bsky.social tinyurl.com/359x7wdj
.@booklife.bsky.social Plot: 9/10 Originality: 10/10 Prose: 9/10 Execution: 10/10 Overall: 9.5/10 Takeaway: Captivating study of the futility of war and the emotional toll of violence. Comparable Titles: Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale, Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
Between the Clouds and the River by Dave Mason | BookLife
1943: Twenty-four year old Bernhardt Lang is swept along by the currents of war, until an unexpected ally helps him live a life of his own making, in a place he could never have imagined himself exist...
booklife.com
They could take take their millions of young, male, incel followers with them? To where? Prison? #buhbyenow
Just Kevin@kevinleecaster.bsky.social · 4d agoThe Tate Brothers are threatening to pull their support from Republicans in upcoming elections if Trump doesn’t come to their aid and protect them from facing consequences for their crimes — and they could take their millions of young, male, incel followers with them www.mediaite.com/media/news/a...
.@booklife.bsky.social Plot: 9/10 Originality: 10/10 Prose: 9/10 Execution: 10/10 Overall: 9.5/10 Takeaway: Captivating study of the futility of war and the emotional toll of violence. Comparable Titles: Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale, Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
Between the Clouds and the River by Dave Mason | BookLife
1943: Twenty-four year old Bernhardt Lang is swept along by the currents of war, until an unexpected ally helps him live a life of his own making, in a place he could never have imagined himself exist...
booklife.com
“These Chinese chip companies appear poised to do to the big chipmakers what they have done to steel, automobiles and a host of other industries, namely undercut them and outcompete them on price.” Trees don't grow to the sky.
Stock market turmoil sheds stark light on the opaque AI economy
Investors scramble to make sense of a shock Chinese challenge to the dominance of western chipmakers
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I asked both of the 95-year old Canadian former fighter pilots I met while researching EO-N if they swore as much in reality as the characters in my book. One of them replied with words to the effect of: "We were trying to kill people and people were trying to kill us. What the f*ck do you think?"
The percentage of Americans who believe AI does more harm than good has increased from 31% in 2025 to 39% in 2026. Negativity is especially pronounced among young adults. Nearly half of adults aged 18 to 29 (47%) now believe AI does more harm than good, up from 36%. The shine is off the fake apple
Americans Cool Toward AI
A Bentley University-Gallup survey finds that Americans are more familiar with AI but more cautious about businesses' use of AI and its effect on jobs.
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I asked both of the 95-year old Canadian former fighter pilots I met while researching EO-N if they swore as much in reality as the characters in my book. One of them replied with words to the effect of: "We were trying to kill people and people were trying to kill us. What the f*ck do you think?"
Why would anyone ask for or take advice from anything that doesn't love, hate, grieve, cry, laugh, worry, rejoice, care, despise, wonder, despair, imagine, or hope? If it doesn't know what it's like to feel, it doesn't know enough to know anything.
Per UBS, OpenAI and Anthropic will account for 27% of Google Cloud's 2026 revenue and more than 48% of 2027's. Investors are being sold a story about diverse AI demand that is simply not true - hyperscalers spent a trillion dollars to feed money back to themselves and pretend it's real growth.
Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 5d agoWas awesome to join Bloomberg to talk about the lie of AI - everyone's buying into the mag7 believing CapEx is going towards diverse AI demand, when all it's really doing is supporting the circular cloud revenues of two unprofitable, unsustainable AI labs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHcZ...