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CTO sometimes, Husband, Father and NJDevils fan all the time. Finally writing again. You can read some sci fi fun if you're into that sort of thing: www.robotissmiling.com You can also pick up The Man in the Bowler Hat novelette: https://a.co/d/ejYYSgp
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Charles Yu and Chloe Zhao are bringing Iain M. Banks' Consider Phlebas to TV!! 🌌 reactormag.com/charles-yu-i...

submitted 103 days ago • 5 comments

Went to my first school board meeting this evening for a district my family loves, and it was actually lovely and community driven. Kids presented projects, the business of running the district was presented and public commentaries were sane and caring. In such tumult, it was actually hopeful.

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Listen to Aggressive Steven by Aesop Rock, reread Notes From Underground by Dostoevsky. Voila, my brain makes up a little allegory about how the current world works. #writing #writingcommunity #fiction robotissmiling.com/2025/02/19/o...

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

One a Day This is what you get when you are rereading Notes from Underground and listening to Aesop Rock's Aggressive Steven. A short tale about someone named Steven who is taking...something...and how he descends.

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

these guys spent 60 kajillion dollars to make a computer forget how to do math

submitted 115 days ago • 120 comments

AFTERWORD x ALTERED CARBON Adoniram’s wife, Eve, is dying. His father hopes his mind-copying AI can save her but the connection grants the AI sapience and makes Adoniram the key to its control. He must choose between competing alliances, faith, and his love for Eve #2025Pit #A #SF

submitted 132 days ago • 5 comments

#MiseryPit #Q #A #HM I, SAID THE SPARROW ♦️Peaky Blinders vibe ♦️1920s ♦️Slow burn romance ♦️Dysfunctional family ♦️LGBTQ+ FMC ♦️Seaside setting ♦️Secrets & lies ♦️Dual timeline & PoV

submitted 127 days ago • 7 comments

The Ipcress File x Life on Mars 🔫 High-stakes thriller 🔫 Time travel twist 🔫 Stale beer espionage 🔫 Weird science 🔫 Cold War subterfuge 🔫 Working class hero 🔫 Hunter to hunted 🔫 Antagonist from the future 🔫 Enemy turned ally 🔫 Proles vs privilege #Q #A #SFFT #MiseryPit #editors #litagents 🦋

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JOHNNY MNEMONIC + BOURNE IDENTITY Corporate espionage is a dangerous business and Evelyn just gave Francis the power to steal secrets from a target’s mind. Little did they know it would start the first Corporation Wars. Prequel to this novelette: a.co/d/eGrsL2h #SFFT #A #MiseryPit #WIP

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JOHNNY MNEMONIC + BOURNE IDENTITY Francis will do anything for Evelyn. Evelyn will do anything to survive, so when she is pushed, Francis agrees to become the first acquisition specialist and acquire secrets from the last unprotected place his targets have, their minds. #SFFT #A #MiseryPit #WIP

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I've been working on a prequel novel to this story I wrote years ago for the last couple of months. It's nice to sink back into a few of my favorite characters: robotissmiling.com/2016/04/29/t...

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Wrote about the gig economy ride-hail model, its metastasis across the economy, and a brilliant Roosevelt Institute report on gig nursing that came out last month. thetechbubble.substack.com/p/ubers-bast...

submitted 129 days ago • 3 comments

Investors worldwide stand to lose more than $1 trillion today because of the sudden fear that the market-sustaining AI spending boom might have been for nothing.

submitted 132 days ago • 139 comments

Sometimes, the first item to travel through a wormhole is a condiment.

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@iandunt.bsky.social Really nice article (iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-res...). This hit me "Instagram had started to make me feel empty. Each time I put it down I felt a little more hollowed out." A year or so ago, I signed up for Instagram for business advertising reasons. 1/2

submitted 135 days ago • 1 comment

Doing background research for an in progress novel about corporate sovereignty. Interesting anthropological review: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1... A corporation's sphere of influence is sometimes softly negotiated or implicit, what would it mean for total legal control to be explicitly given?

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Hucksters gonna Huck. AI founders are now using the line: For the sake of the country, please let us steal things to generate a whole bunch of fake stuff that looks passably like real stuff. 80.lv/articles/ope...

submitted 141 days ago • 0 comments

This article by @jessdkant.bsky.social is such a good (and very disturbing) read. Our society is gleefully racing back towards the dark ages. It's a race to the bottom, and the finish line is when we all stop thinking

submitted 141 days ago • 6 comments

Literally every company now youtube.com/shorts/hL9pl...

submitted 142 days ago • 109 comments

Ten years ago, I sketched out a few characters belonging to one common universe in a series of short stories. Finally back to writing a couple of novels that have been on the back burner for a decade. Thought I'd share the old stuff: robotissmiling.com/2015/10/13/t... #scifi #writingcommunity

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Here is the speech I gave at Seton Hill University about my writing and path to publishing for the keynote which was followed by a reading of a sampling of my work.

submitted 149 days ago • 1 comment