Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says

Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

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Fae: “Tell us your true name.” Me: “…Just my name? No birthdate, no SSN, no fingerprint scan, no address, no mother’s maiden name? Are you sure you’ve even got the right Olivia Waite? There’s like six.” Fae: “What the hell kind of bargains have you been making?” Me: “They call it health insurance.”

The project for this past weekend: hanging signs for our market booth!

THIS IS NO APRIL FOOL! My book is coming April 1, 2027 from Bloomsbury Academic, and THIS is the cover! Can't wait for you to read and find out the science of our fave dystopian tales and how we can use that knowledge in the present.

"The Trump administration admitted that it terminated nearly 300 federal research grants 'solely because' the projects were connected to states that voted against Donald Trump in 2024 and had two Democratic senators in office, according to court filings." www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Trump administration concedes it canceled research grants in blue states

The administration said 284 research grants were canceled because they were in states that voted against Donald Trump in 2024.

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I'm in conversation with @travelinbrian.bsky.social this Thursday at Books in the Bosque at 5:30pm to celebrate the release of his debut novel Skies of Fire and Smoke, an alternate history of WWI with dragons! Hope to see you there, Albuquerque!

What's new with me plus all about my upcoming events this August, including Worldcon and Bubonicon, other author updates, and recaps of this whirlwind summer on my website!

All About August 2026

Author Lauren C. Teffeau's August 2026 events including a book launch at Books on the Bosque, Bubonicon, and Worldcon conference schedules. Plus updates on summer happenings.

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We are going to WorldCon! @laworldcon.bsky.social is in Anaheim August 27th-31st. You can find Shiraki Press in the Dealer's Room and on a number of panels... We're also hosting a Shiraki Press party featuring some of our awesome authors on Friday night. We hope to see some of you there!

Looking forward to @laworldcon.bsky.social this August! I have a great line up of panels and am so excited to talk about technology in sff, all things internet, mythology, and robots...oh my! Plus a celebration of @shirakipress.com books and authors! Hope to see you there!

Increasingly, Soylent Green serves as one of the best metaphors for AI -- it's taking all that we are, as people, chumming it up, and feeding the slurry back to us. We're told that we need it, it's nutritious, it'll save the world, even as it damns it and us.

“Modern life is standing at a gas station sink with your hands under a motion-activated faucet waiting for water that doesn’t come.” sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/quicksand

Quicksand

Gen X was right after all.

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keep thinking about the evil of this. It's not just destroying the physical books, bad as that is. They are trying to remove the underpinnings of knowledge, destroy all the accumulated wisdom - and silliness, and creativity, and whatever else humans have thought worthy of writing down.

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

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.

The sword dangling over my head had lowered a touch over night. Still not close enough that I was freaking out but I could sense its movement.

Orchids revived, the corpse ambulant and a poetic ruined abbey. These are the news stories I want to read.

New Mexicans' voices must be heard! What happened last night in the Doña Ana County Commission hearing over Project Jupiter is unacceptable. New Mexicans have been clear: they don’t want their public lands, waters, and taxpayer dollars going to unchecked and unregulated data centers.

To Burn the Walls of Troy; To Break the World Entire - Christopher Nolan's Odyssey Another take on mythology's most complicated man, and the world he lived in A very rich and detailed piece from @chloroformtea.bsky.social at the NOAF blog: www.nerds-feather.com/2026/07/to-b...

To Burn the Walls of Troy; To Break the World Entire - Christopher Nolan's Odyssey

Another take on mythology's most complicated man, and the world he lived in. Before I get into the review, a quick PSA. After I had already ...

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I'm not letting AI horseshit maneuver me into a defensive position with my writing. I write like I write. I love emdashes. I keep using emdashes. Whatever we write, AI will take and copy it -- all you can do is keep writing the best shit you can write in the form you want it to take, and fuck it.

Manisha Krishnan@manishakrishnan.bsky.social · last wk.

Authors and journalists are doing more first-person (hello 2010s blogging) and embracing "mistakes" in writing to prove they're not chatbots. There's even an “anti-Grammarly" app that leaves in typos and signs off "sent from my iPhone" to create more authenticity: www.wired.com/story/more-t...

'Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.'

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

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.

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

Good grief, this hits home.

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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Yes. Once again thinking about Kate Losse’s work: modelviewculture.com/pieces/the-m...

The Male Gazed

Surveillance, Power, and Gender

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.

FWIW, Meta was fully aware of how these glasses would primarily be used. The glasses were designed to erase consent, and that is why they exist. Anything that they do that suggests they want to ameliorate this use is an attempt to win the PR battle and manipulate public opinion.

Finally saw The Odyssey yesterday and I don't know why more people aren't talking about John Leguizamo's turn as Eumaeus, a standout performance in a stacked cast.

Here is ACCELERATED GROWTH ENVIRONMENT author Lauren C. Teffeau on writing satisfying climate fiction at novella length. climatefictionwritersleague.substack.com/p/writing-sh...

Writing Short without Shortchanging Readers

Thoughts on Writing Climate Fiction Novellas by Lauren C. Teffeau

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I've got publishing news and some really great links from around the web in this month's general update. joshsutphin.com/blog/july-20... Some highlights will follow in this thread!🧵 #writingcommunity

July Updates and Links

July Updates and Links

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Someone get me in a room with MacKenzie Scott’s folks and I’ll deliver my impassioned / well-constructed argument that it’s a moral imperative that she give $20 million to a new distributor specifically for nonprofit and small presses in order to offset her ex’s dismantling of the book industry.

oh my goodness we somehow lost control of our own software in a country with no functioning regulators, time for some protectionist legislation our lawyers ghost write locking consumers into enshittified walled gardens

Kinds of data centres I will accept: 📚 Libraries and archives 🍄 Mycelium networks 🌲 Tree rings 🦷 Teeth and bones 🧊 Ice cores or rock layers 🐴 Dating a centaur (to each their own)

Why Aren’t There More Imax 70mm Screens for ‘The Odyssey’? variety.com/2026/film/ne...