Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
A stack of unread books in a trenchcoat
@schyzm.bsky.social
Avid gamer. Board games, video games, card games. Lifelong reader of SFF. XIV enthusiast. Ierys/Siacae
Just finished @fondalee.bsky.social ‘s latest, •The Last Contract of Isako.” What a ride. I can’t say too much about it without spoiling so many parts, but there are certain narrative choices that have this book bouncing between cyberpunk and sci-fi noir until it’s all blended smoothly together.
"Only an economy oriented around coveting and coddling losers would have let AI get this far."
Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 2mo agoToday’s free newsletter is about how LLMs are the perfect grift to exploit an economy dominated by do-nothing managers and executives disconnected from any real work, and how the facade is crumbling as companies pay the true cost of AI. www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-of-the-business-idiot/
Tell me again why we need to build reactors that leave poison lying around for longer than human civilization has existed? Batteries and Solar+Wind cost less to build, do the job better, and don't leave our children and their children dying of radiation sickness. Nuclear just isn't worth it.
California’s Battery Array Is as Powerful as 12 Nuclear Power Plants. Here’s What’s on the Horizon. - Inside Climate News
An expert in the state’s energy grid explains how the state is faring amid federal cuts.
insideclimatenews.org
When I count up all the novels (files or links to full novels via netgalley) in the Hugo Voter Packet this year... It appears that @seananmcguire.bsky.social has breached the 25% mark of included books (19 of 69, since it contains all of the October Daye novels). This amuses me greatly.
@diane.dianeduane.com 's Young Wizards should be the top of any list like this, in my humble opinion....
Helen Rosner@hels.bsky.social · 11mo agoMore: - Tiffany Aching, Pratchett - Prydain, Alexander (great as a pre-LOTR series imo) - Dark Is Rising, Cooper - His Dark Materials (hits real hard for weirdo smart kids) - Graceling, Cashore (I mistakenly read them in order 1-3-2 and actually might recommend that) - Queen’s Thief, Turner
Based on @seananmcguire.bsky.social’s glowing recommendation, I just finished reading “How to Survive Camping: The Man with no Shadow” Somehow a gore splattered yet wholesome camping season with cryptids who are downright terrifying, and a major body count… it works perfectly. #books #booksky
I just DNF'd my first book of the year... well, audio-drama. It was extremely jingoistic, features military leaders barking orders and pounding the table a lot, and a constant scientific mistakes like "geosynchronous orbit over the south pole" which threw me right out of suspension of disbelief.
okay, @djangowexler.bsky.social , I'm invested in this silly steampunk alien world (and this absolutely bonkers pilots). Are we getting a squeal to Last Stop soon(ish)?
Every year, I put together a collage of the covers of books I read during that year. here's 2025: Too many authors to tag; Titles and Authors in the alt text. Favorites were written by @aptshadow.bsky.social, @seananmcguire.bsky.social, @travisbaldree.bsky.social, & @charliejane.bsky.social
Chuck's basic point about AI apologism demands that we accept the idea that "AI is inevitable" is correct. It's fundamental economics. Stein's Law: "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop." AI investment cannot go on forever. AI growth cannot go on forever.
Chuck Wendig@chuckwendig.bsky.social · 7mo agoApparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice. Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.
Sexiest bookstore person in the history of the movies.
Nothings Monstered@nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 8mo agoDorothy Malone in The Big Sleep (1946)
Another day, another @seananmcguire.bsky.social preorder to be had. This time... Velveteen vs. The Consequences of Her Actions! I believe that makes.. five 2026 books up for preorder, now? Wayward Children, Incryptid, MTG: Strixhaven, Inkpot Gods, and Velveteen.
“FUCK AI” is turning into a movement. After his Frankenstein Q&A at the Chinese Theater, Guillermo del Toro asked the audience to scream “FUCK AI.”
@annaleen.bsky.social My almost 12 year old child is resisting going to bed. Tonight’s form of resistence is grabbing books off the shelf in my bedroom and checking what they’re about. Child stopped and opened “Stories are Weapons” and read for 20 minutes… I think it’s a hit…
People act like all the men are gone. The men are attending protests. The men are putting together scooters for their kids. The men are getting a set of turntables for the first time. The men are buying Nikes. The men are getting super into noir. They're not Nazis and they're fine. Keep your freaks.
Just finished the latest October Daye novel from @seananmcguire.bsky.social , entitled “Silver & Lead.” As expected a wonderful outing, even if there were some events in the back half that made me wondering I was going to have to riot. Here’s hoping I get to see Toby and crew again soon…