J.T. Greathouse
@jeremyteg.bsky.social
BFA nominated author of The Tower of the Tyrant and the Pact and Pattern series from Gollancz. Other books cookin' website: www.jtgreathouse.wordpress.com
This is just a fucking carjacking. How the hell was he supposed to know it was a state sponsored carjacking. what the fuck are we doing here.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d agoThe NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera). Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas.
Probably obvious, but a lot of publishing people think the rapid fall in nonfiction sales is primarily due to AI. Makes sense when you remember how popular self-help type are and how many people will now, say, ask ChatGPT for child rearing advice instead of buying How to Raise a Kid books.
but when I call Fox News and tell them about my journey through the fractal patterns on my friend's rug (which FELT like 18 days, at least) where I met a machine god (which might have been an ant? or a misplaced shard of potato chip?) I'm dismissed as a lunatic
Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · 7d agoGabe Poirot says he spent 18 days in Heaven and met a Jesus who was six feet tall, made of fire, and overflowing with testosterone. Fox treated this as news. There's no evidence of this. Just a deeply manipulative story and a book to promote. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/a-christia...
why would you cite a survey of parents and not children to uncover the behavior of the children
that kind of discovery requires a different world of in-depth reviews and critical essays in a sphere of independent magazines and bloggers &c. in the absence of a robust bookish internet of this kind, what you get is books that vanish into the dark and can at best hope to be "rediscovered" some day
New #fantasy review from me today. The Tower of the Tyrant by J.T Greathouse. A deep, thinky novel with some glorious worldbuilding. potsandplots.blog/2026/09/24/t... #bookreview #booksky
The Tower of the Tyrant by J.T. Greathouse: The Long Tail of History
The Tower of Tyrant by J.T. Greathouse is a thoughtful novel thay takes worldbuilding in new directions.
potsandplots.blog
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Final Fantasy XIV is great because what if I told you the little lizard guy in the middle of the screenshot was the king of this neon soaked cyberpunk metropolis?
Between Nathan Fielder's movie on Elizabeth Holmes and Alex Gibney tackling Elon Musk, it's gonna be a crazy year for the Oscars documentary feature betting markets
THE SEGWICK COUNTY ZOO PRINTED OUT MY DRAWING OF THE BABY TAWNY FROGMOUTH AND GAVE IT TO THE KEEPERS AND SHOWED IT TO THE FROGMOUTH ITSELF!!! HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!!! 💕💕💕💕
If you're still on the fence about whether AI is good or bad for society, consider this: The fascists desperately want it
it should be illegal for so many video games I want to play to release at the same time
holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway
Jason Kint@kint.bsky.social · 4w agoEye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
The trouble with the rationalists isn't the polyamory, and it isn't precisely the freaky sex stuff or the play parties, except inasmuch as all of that stuff is downstream of the actual problem: that they're part of an extremely insular, incestuous millenarian religious movement trying to build God
I keep seeing videos of a guy who catches crabs and lobsters, cracks all the barnacles off them, puts a shrimp in their claws and throws them back. can you imagine. abducted by aliens but they just give you a spa day and hand you two hot dogs and let you go
The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.
I cannot tell you what absolute fiction this is. AI is heading for a crash and this cackhanded Terminator narrative is being engineered to save them. The fact that the unsubstantiated testimony of a former employee has been the top story on BBC News all day is absurd and irresponsible.
crypto, car dealerships and MLMs. ripe targets for political and policy reasons.
🎃🎃🎃Michael Scare-anicolas🎃🎃🎃@karanicolas.bsky.social · 4w agoDemocrats should be targeting crypto, as a Republican constituency, with the same zeal that Republicans targeted universities for being liberal-coded. But they won’t, because it might jeopardize the crumbs that industry throws their way.
“To leave no loopholes Hitler exacted from all officers and men of the armed forces an oath of allegiance—not to Germany, not to the constitution, which he had violated by not calling for the election of Hindenburg’s successor, but to himself.” -Shirer, Rise & Fall of the Thrid Reich, p. 375
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."
Director Krennic: Oh, It's Beautiful
Alt: Director Krennic: Oh, It's Beautiful DEEP SUBSTRATE FOLIATED KALKITE
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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️@spahn711.bsky.social · last mo.Were it not for calcite, it might have been centuries before scientists discovered the polarization of light. Huygens found that, by rotating a second piece over the first, he could make one of the images disappear! Calcite was the key to discovering that light has orientation!
Weird thing people try to do in AI debates is redefine plagiarism as just being about credit. No. Plagiarism is *passing off work you didn't do as your own*. Copying from public source (e.g. wikipedia), friend writing your essay who doesn't want credit, LLM writing it - all plagiarism.
This bellicose, corrupt regime is a national embarrassment and an international danger. We could not hope for a more steadfast and welcoming ally and neighbor than Canada. 🇨🇦 I love Canada 🍁
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · last mo.Most American have zero interest in the US government treating one of our most important historical allies and trading partners like this. But the worst among us is running the country, thanks to the worst and most irresponsible voters among us.
“Tony [Gilroy] finally turned to me, and he said, ‘Hey, you just got to stop pitching plot. Plot is bullshit. Plot is what happens when you get the behavior right. Pitch me a line of dialogue, pitch me atmosphere, pitch me something visual. Stop pitching stuff that happens.’” 1/2
btw i am ON THE COVER and WITHIN THE PAGES of the next GRIMDARK MAGAZINE ISSUE. live october 1st. if you know me this is a dream come true and basically the only publication i ever wanted to, ahem, crack. 🙏🏻🙏🏻
It's Bandcamp Friday! And while I do not make music, my good buddy Jack does. His band Timeworm just released a new single and it slaps. timewormband.bandcamp.com/track/thoughts
Thoughts, by Timeworm
track by Timeworm
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This is how fast oil use can disappear China's reduction in oil consumption during first half of 2026 due to replacement of fossil vehicles with EVs exceeded the UK’s entire oil consumption during that period China’s CO2 emis fall Q226 due to plummeting oil use carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.
carbonbrief.org
