If you’re not an expert and your uninformed personal opinion disagrees with expert consensus on a technical topic: Please consider that “the experts who’ve spent years studying this know something I don’t” is far more likely than “I alone discovered something that all the world’s experts missed.”
In case you didn’t know, librarians and libraries absolutely whip ass.
TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 2w agoAt libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
Billionaire logic is that it makes more sense to terraform Mars rather than to stop venusifying Earth, and that it is a better strategy to build underground bunkers than to make the whole planet a better place to live for everyone.
A “Dead” Coral Reef Found Thriving Off the Coast of Africa nautil.us/a-dead-coral... 🧪🌎🦑
A “Dead” Coral Reef Found Thriving Off the Coast of Africa
A “Dead” Coral Reef Found Thriving Off the Coast of Africa: Scientists in the 1960s thought the ecosystem was lifeless
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QuestPit has been amazing. I found many new people to follow and got to read all those great pitches.
THE KNIGHT AND THE MOTH x THE BEAR AND THE NIGHTINGALE X KATABASIS 🧹🗡️ Murdered 19th-century witch Olena awakens in the Slavic underworld and strikes a deadly bargain for revenge with Baba Yaga, uncovering buried truths. #questpit #A #Q #F #agentsguide
STAR TREK x PRIDE AND PREJUDICE Sarah Callaghan is recruited by a merchant captain from a reclusive alien civilization to perform a very specific job. But he won't tell her what it is, or why he chose her out of a universe of candidates. #QuestPit #AgentsgGuide #SF #W #A
BREATHER. 71K words. #YA #SF adventure. #q #amauerying #questpit #agentsguide When a disgraced scientist’s daughter discovers she can breathe her alien world’s toxic atmosphere, she becomes a feared mutation and must uncover the truth about her father’s failed expedition before she’s put down.
I am a finalist of two writing contests in the USA and I can barely explain to those organizations that I can't attend because I need a visa and I might not get it.
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[BREAKING NEWS]: BROKE PHD STUDENT FAKES DEATH AND STEALS IDENTITY OF BILLIONAIRE TECH HEIRESS. TOO BAD HER GENIUS RIVAL IS ONTO HER & IS OBSESSED WITH EXPOSING HER NEW SKIN
the opulence of CRAZY RICH ASIANS
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the futuristic atmosphere of LOCAL HEAVENS & THE BOOK OF RECORDS
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the socio-satirical tone of THE IMMORTAL KING RAO
set in a floating city owned by tech conglomerates, in a world ravaged by climate change
inspired by Silicon Valley & East/Southeast Asia
@thelialao
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![Romantic neon pink and a starry background: Excerpt. “Those are pre-set…” Jayro warned as Anora toggled a series of switches at the nav computer and began actively moving data streams around the screen.
“Pre-set for scans for //stationary objects//. You pick out your nav programs like you pick out your paint schemes?”
Jayro felt annoyance rising up in him again. The cockpit was his domain. Never mind that he agreed with her about the deco. “It took Fish weeks to get those programs running!”
“Look, unless you want to meet an asteroid face to face, shut the hells up and let me work.” Anora frowned as she watched some data return from the program. “Call engineering.”
“Gladly.” Jayro opened the channel on his wrist communicator.
“Yeah?” Fish’s voice responded.
“The new navigator is having trouble with her—” Jayro broke off as Anora grabbed his forearm and yanked his wrist in front of her own face, causing his chair to whirl towards her.
“What are your pre-sets accounting for?" [...]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qvy3kymbkgduclmlgsh2m6g7/bafkreiboz3dhgw4nm5k6l4fgyjln5k6qxt4hy563y5m7sb7kpwfun5tapy)
