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Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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I was born in Lansing, Michigan. I live in Tucson, Arizona. The farthest outside the US that I’ve ever lived is Toronto.
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden@pnh.bsky.social |
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Editor-at-large at the Tor Publishing Group. Series editor, Tor Essentials. Opinions mine, not Tor’s. Musician and layabout. He, his. Intolerant of anti-trans nonsense. After decades in NYC, happily in Tucson, Arizona.
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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I was born in Lansing, Michigan. I live in Tucson, Arizona. The farthest outside the US that I’ve ever lived is Toronto.
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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“Your”?
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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Thanks, I needed that correction to my tiny twenty seconds of good cheer
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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I always wince when American writers and media outlets refer to “Sir Elton” or whatever. It seems precious, in a truly dopey way.
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Ian Boudreau
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Just now getting word that Jacob Rees-Mogg has been sealed back inside the ceremonial grandfather clock and dropped in the sea
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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This is the “Hitler did one good thing” argument
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ryan cooper
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"I spent a lot of money in that CVS, often multiple times a week, week after week, for years. If I wasn’t their very best customer on the consumer good side, I would like to meet my competition. And they drove me away, while providing me no mechanism to tell them why." itself.blog/2024/06/15/w...
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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Finally saw a Cybertruck in the wild; specifically, yesterday on Swan about a quarter-mile south of Sunrise. Discolored and patchy-looking. Would not recommend.
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scott⚡️mccloud
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As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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No!
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David Forbes
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Whenever one reads accounts like this it's also worth remembering the confederate regime had entire units of death squads dedicated to murdering - and burning the homes of - the many, many people in the South who resisted their rule.
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Elizabeth Bear
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Creative types, this is a great week to reread your copy of Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories by @charliejane.bsky.social.
I mean, if you're feeling a little stressed out by everything and it's hard to focus.
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Lydy
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The Court's immunity ruling is, I think, usefully understood to be a continuance of the putsch from 2000, which put Shrub in power. Notice how many of the current Justices had some hand in it. We memory-holed the Brooks Brothers riot, but that was a clear warning we should have heeded.
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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy
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the conservative theory of law in one headline
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Gillian Branstetter
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Must be nice to have choices
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Anna Phylaxis
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that's the whole idea, yes people lose their jobs, their health care, and their homes, and then, once they get arrested for sleeping rough or nonpayment of tickets, they become slave labor for prison jobs.
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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You don’t say, New York Times
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Ada Palmer
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Reminder for a rough day: bad news gets re-shared 100x as much as good news, creating the morale-eating doomscroll illusion in which it seems like all news is bad, while real victories don’t get reported. We need to see victories to remind us the fight is worth-it. Don’t forget to #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Paolo Bacigalupi
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Was just asked in an interview what one piece of advice I have for new writers. Enjoy the act of writing. If you can enjoy the process--the one thing you can control--then you'll be more resilient in the face of the things you can't control. And in this business, you can't control most of it.
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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The Annotated Alice predates Bob Foster et al by a few years.
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Django Wexler
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Every morning I check the news and it's like -SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain -President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler -New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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This. Seriously considering self-induced coma for a few days.
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Django Wexler
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Most common writing advice (kill your darlings, no adverbs, show don't tell, etc) is intended to push back on the failures of freshmen in Creative Writing 101, not be applicable in all situations.
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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Fantastic. Some of the best TV we’ve watched in a while. The books are good too.
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Mattie Lewis
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One of the reasons I think fiction writers should consider their own tastes first and audiences second is because your own taste is actually a pretty good proxy for audience taste. Maybe not always mass appeal, but none of us are so idiosyncratic that nobody but us will like what we write
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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I disbelieve in the idea that Fred Hoyle was born; rather, he always existed in a stea—
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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This is long but fascinating, and you _must_ watch to the end
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David Forbes
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Importantly the Florentine elite were also terrified of commoner revolts, which were really frequent in that era and region. During Strozzi's childhood the oligarchy was overthrown by a working class revolt that then held power for about four years. That threat hung over their heads.
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Ada Palmer
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Sometimes people ask me about the super rich in Renaissance Florence, whether the art/culture/science boom was an example of trickle-down working. (A) Florence had a wealth tax, (B) its richest man Palla Strozzi had the equivalent of only $250 million. Want more Leonardos? Tax the Rich. 🎨🧑🎨🖌🎭🔭🖼📚📐🏛🎻💰
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John Morrison
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Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life. But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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One of my all-time favorites, and I’m a diehard Michael Whelan fan.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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we’ve already mostly lost the generation of americans who experienced the depths of jim crow as adults, we will lose, pretty soon, the generation of americans who experienced jim crow as younger people. and when that happens this country will pretend like it never happened.
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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Also, “incredibly prone to sound off on subjects they think they understand but don’t.”
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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It is in fact very slightly north of Reykjavik
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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N: Gullfoss, Iceland E: Narita, Japan S: Wellington, New Zealand W: Ozette, Washington
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Michael
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there are a lot of ways for the state to suppress dissident speech. one particularly bad one is by having armed agents of the state stand by and do nothing while partisan-aligned thugs or paramilitary groups beat you because of your speech, and then have the DA decline to prosecute the assaulters.
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Michael Hobbes
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This was cathartic
ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-...
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Anya Johanna DeNiro
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I think people in the genre might be surprised about how few literary fiction novels are about ‘middle aged professors having affairs.’ Regardless of legitimate snobbery or reverse snobbery, this trope (and genre people do like their tropes!) is so fucking tiring.
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Seth Cotlar
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I think my favorite flavor of Trump voter is the person who a) is very upset about high grocery prices and b) is fired up about Trump's plan to deport 50% of the nation's agricultural workforce.
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Tom Scocca
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As plenty of people have said, the folks holding forth on what to do today to benefit humanity 30,000 years from now are the exact same folks who couldn't see the FTX meltdown coming
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Dave Weigel
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14 years ago @pattonoswalt.bsky.social wrote a really perceptive essay about this.
Decades of "I wonder what this album in the Trouser Press guide sounds like? Hope I find it at Other Music" replaced by "sounds good, gonna stream it."
www.wired.com/2010/12/ff-a...
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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They're not gonna deport 20 million people. They're gonna deport the labor organizers, the guys who ask for raises, the guys who leave the pork processing plant to get a better job elsewhere. Our agriculture sector runs on immigrant labor and draconian immigration laws are about giving bosses power
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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This is absolutely correct
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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Please, never, ever use the stupid phrase “old-timey”
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery
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Linda Holmes
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The way we’re all told to treat all this as normal. It’s fine that half your email is scams. It’s fine that you can’t answer your phone. It’s fine that every Instagram post is full of scam bait comments. It’s fine that people text you weird phishing links. Just adjust your behavior.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin
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“Do not use your phone to answer phone calls” is not advice as much as it’s a condemnation of regulatory inaction that has led a vital means of communication to ruin.
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Shiv Ramdas
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CEOS are especially high on this list, they have spent lifetimes selling themselves as indispensable because they lack emotion and can handle large quantities of info and process fast and lol what do you think AI does best
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Shiv Ramdas
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my conspiracy theory about why a certain type of person is so obsessed with making AI an art thing is that the actual functions AI's best suited at- volumetric data analysis , classifying large datasets etc- is literally their jobs so they need redirection before their bosses replace them with AI
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Don Moynihan
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what do economists have against the front of envelopes?
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