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The Avatar season after Korra is looking like it's taking some admirable risks.

Best way I can describe Elon Musk is that he could have been Tony Stark, but ended up being Lex Luthor.

Soup for My Soul…

I look at past stories I've written and find them amateurish. Too bloated. Excessive exposition. Even some missing words. It haunts me a little. But if a writer looks on work they've done in the past and thinks it's perfect, then they're not growing, right? #writingcommunity

There is not a single sci-fi writer who understood people and society better than Octavia Butler. Sociology was a second language to her. www.axios.com/2025/02/01/o...

"...there is no stopping this train. More than that, this is exactly why openness is so important: we need more AIs in the world, not an unaccountable board ruling all of us." Bitter pill to swallow. If AI is truly is inevitable, then openness and friendly competition is the safest path forward.

Congolese people working hard towards that #solarpunk future. Plenty of challenges, but overwhelming hope for one of the largest and most biodiverse carbon sinks in the world. Great educational article. www.weforum.org/stories/2025...

Bad Space Comics is on Bluesky. His ten-panel comics are easily some of the coolest sci-fi on the internet. If you haven't seen this artist's work before, you're in for a treat.

Study suggests dark energy is actually time (because mass strengthens gravity and gravity slows time which alters how we perceive cosmic expansion). I wrote a short story last year about a tree who theorizes dark energy is time. Quite proud of my tree. academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...

Top 5 Pixar movies based on their insight on the human condition: 1. Soul 2. Coco 3. Inside Out 4. Wall-E 5. Up

Negative news cycles can get us down. But 2024 also saw many positive milestones in the areas of conservation and renewable energy. Read this for a hit of the good stuff. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Recently, I’ve noticed a lot of people advising against engaging with dark or bleak art when you’re in a bad mental space, but all I can think about is how that kind of art has saved me from my worst impulses during my lowest points.