Sofia Jeppsson
@jeppsson.bsky.social
Mad philosopher, doting dog parent, techno-fantasy author. she/they. Personal website: https://www.sofiajeppsson.com/ Debut novel Kugghjulssjälar is doing great in Swedish - currently searching for a new home for the English version.
Obs, detta är alltså en NOVELL, inte en hel roman, därav det facila priset.
Sofia Jeppsson@jeppsson.bsky.social · 13h agoDet Nya Köttet släpps officiellt i morgon, men jag har redan mina författar-ex. Fristående föregångare till Kugghjulssjälar, utspelar sig c:a 10 000 år innan romanen. Vill ni ha ett signerat ex på posten så skicka meddelande med er adress och swisha 65 spänn. (250 kr för både roman och novell!)
Det Nya Köttet släpps officiellt i morgon, men jag har redan mina författar-ex. Fristående föregångare till Kugghjulssjälar, utspelar sig c:a 10 000 år innan romanen. Vill ni ha ett signerat ex på posten så skicka meddelande med er adress och swisha 65 spänn. (250 kr för både roman och novell!)
No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.
news.com.au
Okay take this FWIW bc I'm tired and associating wildly: Youtuber zoologist Lindsay Nikole says psilocybin evolved 50-60 million years ago; possibly to poison bugs that otherwise eat those mushrooms. So, like in the Naked Lunch where people get a "Kafkaesque" high from snorting insecticides?
My nephew challenged me to a game of chess. He's recently played in a big children's tournament. I hadn't played any chess for years. Tried to just follow my intuition, like captain Kirk in TOS. Guess what? STAR TREK LIED TO US ABOUT CHESS. Rational thinking wins every day of the week. (1/2)
Even if you insist on a stark moral distinction between actions and omissions, the whole DOGE bullshit and Musk gleefully laughing about destroying USAID was a whole shitload of ACTIONS. This isn't some Singerian "the child in the pond and starving children in Bangladesh" thought experiment.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2w agoFuck you, Ian Bremmer, you abject ghoul.
Today is Spock's fourth birthday, so we spoiled him by going to the beach to play in the sea. It's cloudy and 16 C so not a weather that makes you WANT to do that, but anything for our birthday boy.
By a country road, hundreds of meters from the nearest house, we found this random kettle bell.
Alexander nearly ran over a hedgehog with the lawnmower: She was lying flat on her stomach, completely still, one hind leg stretched out behind her. I Ducked for wild animal rehabs, what to do. Then she woke up, pulled her leg back in, and waddled into the bushes. Wonder what had happened. (1/2)
Finally got my act together and fixed up my personal website! www.sofiajeppsson.com For the longest time, it was just sitting there, with almost no info. Now it has philosophy papers, my NOVEL and more. Eventually decided to have it in English, despite the novel only existing in Swedish (so far).
sofiajeppsson.com
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I wrote an article for specfic website Mythcreants: Six reasons why Gordo Stevens provides stellar Mad representation. mythcreants.com/blog/six-rea... Might be interesting to mad and neurodivergent folks in here, and psych people. #philpsy
Six Reasons Why Gordo Stevens Provides Stellar Mad Representation
The stigma and oppression isn't imaginary.
mythcreants.com
We watched Maggie Gyllenhaal's "the Bride!" It begins with Mary Shelley's ghost, or, like, she's undead in her grave or something, and she wants to write a sequel, and it's gonna be much cooler than the OG book! Then, she does a supervillain laugh. (1/5)
Back from a roadtrip further up north: Luleå, Boden, Jokkmokk, Arvidsjaur, Storuman, Lycksele, home again. Pretty towns, beautiful nature and scenery. And every teeny-tiny village sports fast chargers for electric vehicles. Driving an EV up here couldn't be any easier.
Neighbour: "You know you're in my yard? Cutting into my tree? Me: "No ... This tree is in MY yard, but its branches go in your driveway, now I'm finally doing something about it! Neighbour shows where the border actually is. Me: 😶 Neighbour: 🤷"You're already at it, might as well finish the job!"
Well worth checking out! Reading books (rather than just scrolling) isn't merely about how your brain is "wired", and either you've got it or you don't. It's a capacity you can build up with exercise, like running. (1/3)
Naomi Alderman@naomialderman.bsky.social · last mo.She’s here! Today is the start of this Couch to 5k for reading I’ve put together! Come and join us :-D open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
Teachers complain that kids use AI to pass their exams, but this is nothing new. Philip K Dick said an AI helped him pass the necessary exam to get into college. However, since it was the 1940s, the AI was a voice that only he could hear, not a smartphone app. Even AI-cheating was harder back then.
Reading about Philip K Dick getting a Rorschach test in therapy; made me remember when my psychologist gave me one in 1997 or thereabouts (she was a Rorschach specialist). My result was "very serious" (she didn't say more than that). Out of curiousity, #philpsy - is Rorschach still a thing?
My boys hanging out by the river because it's hot (by our standards, likely not by yours, wherever you are - we've had a bit over 20 C and sunshine).
Såhär flyttar man pengar från statskassan till privata fickor som en boss. När vi väl kommer så långt att alla fattar att inga reaktorer kommer byggas, har miljarder och åter miljarder regnat ned över kontraktörer, OCH förhindrats från att användas till välfärd.
Magnus Vinqvist@magnus-vinqvist.bsky.social · last mo.Så de blåbrunas jävla prestige ska kosta våra barn sisådär 300 miljarder. Nästa regering måste riva upp känkraftsidiotin omgående efter tillträdet. omni.se/nya-karnkraf...
I watched Project Hail Mary, thinking it would be an entertaining space adventure - but it was BAD. My two biggest issues: 1. It's the (very) near future, but they built a super-duper-spaceship that goes at near-light speeds (as long as it gets sufficiently high-energy fuel) just like that. (1/2)
Reading PKD's VALIS. A guy calls the MC and asks "where are you?" Me: Normal question when calling. MC: What a bizarre question - I'm obvs at home, by the phone I just picked up! Me: Right, it's the seventies! I'm old enough to remember the beforetimes, but it's been SO LONG with cellphones.
What *actually* works — right here, right now — to address climate change? Here you go. This is the result of thousands of hours of painstaking research and analysis from the Project Drawdown team.
Awesome exhibition by Ylva Snöfrid at Liljevalchs in Stockholm.
Alexander and I bumped into two drunks late last night. One was mostly quiet and seemed embarrassed, but the other one insisted on talking to us. He was like "hey ... Hey. I really must tell you: I tolerate you! You should live your lives as you please, be yourselves!" We: ?? uh thanks ??? (1/4)
Latest in "completely unnecessary gen-AI": I pick up a train ticket on my job computer. An "AI assistant" I never asked for goes "This looks like a long document, should I explain it to you?" Very useful for people capable of understanding gen-AI texts but incapable of recognizing train tickets.
