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Michael J. DeLuca@michaeljdeluca.bsky.social |
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Environmental justice hermit
THE JAGUAR MASK is my novel coming out from Stelliform Press August 2024
Do these contradict? I'd like to think not
michaeljdeluca.com
reckoning.press
weightlessbooks.com
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Ian Miles Schlong
@tedcruznipples.com
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Wow. Just heard some very damning things about Trump’s conduct while he was president, as well as before he was president, and after. He should drop out of the race.
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Six-Eyed Kitten
@thedrellum.bsky.social
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I want a dedicated "AI FUCK OFF" button on all software, websites, and services. That is the only AI-related thing I want.
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Jazz.
@jl3001.bsky.social
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Just thinking about how Taraji P. Henson warned Black folks to pay attention to Project 2025 at the BET Awards and now everyone is starting to catch on
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Michael J. DeLuca
@michaeljdeluca.bsky.social
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never have I sarcastically exaggerated for effect with more pinpoint accuracy
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Dia Lacina
@dialacina.bsky.social
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YOU GUYS WE HAVE TO STOP GLOBAL WARMING SO THE ECHIDNAS CAN DREAM
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Michael J. DeLuca
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Highlander 2
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Coach Finstock
@coachfinstock.bsky.social
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WTF. The electric company in Texas doesn't have a map of outages so people have been using the Whataburger App to figure out who lost power. This is like when Homer was using the Krusty Burger map when they got lost at sea.
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Neil S. Bulk
@nsbulk.bsky.social
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Here's a gifted link from The Washington Post that shares some of the details of "Project 2025." Feel free to share it with everyone you know.
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Michael J. DeLuca
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On a panel about this at Readercon next week, so I feel compelled to say—not to contradict Lincoln’s points here but to add—that everything around you should plainly indicate all the time that it’s your job to become a better person in spite of it, and this also applies to writing and to reading
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Stelliform Press
@stelliform.press
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THE JAGUAR MASK is shipping! If you preordered your book will ship within a few days. There is still time to get an order in! There are also other ways to get an early copy - pick one up from @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social at Readercon or from us at next weekend's Flamborough book fair!
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Michael J. DeLuca
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Huh interesting I am on a Readercon panel next week about this very thing
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist)
@fisherdanar.bsky.social
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As summer burns on and more disruptive climate activism is planned, I continue to remind the media what we know and what we need to know: "Historically, there is substantial evidence that shows that the radical flank drives support for the cause and moderate factions" www.barrons.com/articles/air...
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WildGorillaMan
@wildgorillaman.bsky.social
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You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”
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Michael J. DeLuca
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Likewise! It has been a minute!
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Michael J. DeLuca
@michaeljdeluca.bsky.social
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They sure did! I anticipate being grateful for the existence of coffee
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Michael J. DeLuca
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I’ll be at @readercon.bsky.social next Saturday and Sunday, in the dealer’s room selling @reckoningmag.bsky.social and some @stelliform.press titles (including limited copies of THE JAGUAR MASK which isn’t officially out for 2 more weeks!) when I’m not on programming. My schedule:
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Michael J. DeLuca
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Me and my scythe are the grim reaper for gas mowers. Not literally. Yet. But just wait. Quake in yer unfiltered fumes, ye noise belching abomination
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Ariel Marken Jack
@arielmarkenjack.bsky.social
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Oh my gosh the propaganda art in the scythes vs gas-powered lawnmowers war is really
(image found here: scytheassociation.org/monty-don-sc... )
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Michael J. DeLuca
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I’ve read my generously inscribed copy of @kellylink.bsky.social’s THE BOOK OF LOVE across an ocean, a sea, and a lake. It’s battered, the gold embossing is marred, and I spilled water on p.517. I feel bad, but I think a lesson of this dreamily, cruelly wise book is the damage is kind of the point?
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Sonia Sulaiman
@soniasulaiman.bsky.social
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Hey, specfic friends. Can you think of any podcasts that would be interested in featuring Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction?
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Paris Marx
@parismarx.bsky.social
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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.
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Michael J. DeLuca
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This thing where people have no idea how computers/AI work so assume they’re godlike magic—even when writing about how humans are prone to wrongly assuming things are godlike magic—feels like it needs a term. Til I find better: “computation mysticism”? harpers.org/archive/2024...
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Michael J. DeLuca
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There is a really thoughtful, perceptive, and generous review of THE JAGUAR MASK by @casella.bsky.social, who is a treasure of this field, in the new @locusmag.bsky.social: weightlessbooks.com/locus-july-2...
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Paul Tobin
@paultobin.bsky.social
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Look, I'm willing to try anything at this point.
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Audley: leftover wizard
@audleyzdarke.bsky.social
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From Franz Kafka's diaries.
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Gavin, Small Beer, long covid, &c.
@gavingrant.bsky.social
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The Supreme Court already believe they are above the law. Now they've reshaped the country to make the president above the law. Who will they decide is immune next?
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Nicholas Wallace
@wallace.bsky.social
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Absolutely wild that the court accuses the dissent of "fearmongering" with "extreme hypotheticals" when the actual basis for the indictment is a coup attempt that led to an attack on the capitol
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Michael J. DeLuca
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Yeah, remember when we got all excited about Irish reunification in 2024 because Data predicted in in TNG? Alas, Star Trek is not prophecy
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Six-Eyed Kitten
@thedrellum.bsky.social
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Despair is the mind-killer.
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Michael J. DeLuca
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Conceptually this gets my anticapitalist hackles all up. how about I avoid spiraling by ethically harvesting something from the woods instead
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Rachel Deering
@racheldeering.bsky.social
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Morning.
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Michael J. DeLuca
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In Amsterdam today: storks nesting on top of a centuries-disused smokestack in what is now a playground
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Ian Miles Schlong
@tedcruznipples.com
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They made weed legal but also made everything you get paranoid about when you’re stoned come true. Next level trickery afoot.
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin
@bethsawin.bsky.social
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Paralysis and overwhelm don't disrupt dangerous systems. That's one reason I believe even little actions that disrupt domination patterns and support life-sustaining patterns are important. Not because of their size but because of their direction.
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Nails Nathan
@chadstanton.bsky.social
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““Detroit is an extraordinarily surveilled city. There are cameras everywhere,” she said. “If all of this surveillance technology really did what it claims to, Detroit would be one of the safest cities in the country.””
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/29/t...
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Michael J. DeLuca
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I’ve been in Holland 3 days and this 0.5% alcohol ipa is the best beer I’ve had, and not for lack of trying. Narrowly beating out a St Bernardus 12 and a local tripel from a rediscovered 700 year old recipe. Small beer ftw!
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E. Catherine Tobler
@ect.bsky.social
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Dear Samsung, I don't want a "new AI experience." I want children to have free lunch, I want homes for the homeless, I want Jan 6 rioters locked up, I want a president born in the 70s/80s, I want reproductive freedom, I want equality, I want UBI, I want clean air, water, and a steady climate, I want
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Michael J. DeLuca
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Vividly I recall the day @gavingrant.bsky.social broke down and rented separate storage space for the Small Beer backlist and we had to break down all those pallets and pile everything to the celing. My arms were like noodles. That day I vowed I would never go to into indie publishing :P
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Michael J. DeLuca
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All I can say is thank Qʼuqʼumatz I don't have to put that pallet in my basement, @reckoningmag.bsky.social is taking up enough space already
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INTERZONE
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If you’re able, become IZ’s 66th monthly patron today and help feed the foundries and power the engines of INTERZONE so it can continue to publish stories as sublime and as satisfying as ‘The Clockwork Heart of Heaven’ by Roby Davies, and not go the way of the dimetrodons
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Corey Brickley Illustration
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Okay so to be clear we are destroying power grids, the livelihoods of actual humans beings, and communication/research infrastructure for the sake of an algorithm that converts stolen data into unreliable stolen data and consistently loses millions of dollars. Just to be clear
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Janet Harriett
@janetharriett.bsky.social
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I don't know what insights Siri is gleaning from how I use the calculator on my phone, but I'm now embarking on what promises to be a veeeeerrrrryyy long project of undoing Siri's access to every app I've ever even looked at downloading.
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Michael J. DeLuca
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I know! It’s terrible and very obviously designed so you get exhausted and give up. I ended up focusing on what I use the most
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Michael J. DeLuca
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Yesterday Siri suggested I text my wife to tell her I had made a travel connection, even though I’d turned Siri off everywhere I could find, which led me to discover you have to tell it not to spy on each and every app separately now. Today, my battery life is AMAZING. Coincidence? I think not.
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Kieron Gillen
@kierongillen.bsky.social
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In Alan Moore's essays on writing comics, he drops a line in the conclusion: "It's more important to be a good human being than a good writer." Try to remember that.
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Amal El-Mohtar
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Strange Horizons is a marvel & deserves your support!
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Huichilobos
@hellabarnes.bsky.social
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never going to not think about this metaphor now
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Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off)
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
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I literally warned y'all about exactly this kind of harmful outcome from GPT integrations, & even told you *why/how* it'd happen. And if it's showing in résumé sorting, then bet it's about break as having been happening in patient portals & police reports & lending application sorters & on & on & on
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