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Annalee Newitz
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bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd
latest books: Automatic Noodle, Stories Are Weapons
bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc.
pod: www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com
pronouns: they/them
all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com .. more

Annalee Newitz is an American journalist, editor, and author of both fiction and nonfiction. From 1999 to 2008, Newitz wrote a syndicated weekly column called Techsploitation, and from 2000 to 2004 was the culture editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. In 2004, Newitz became a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. With Charlie Jane Anders, they also co-founded Other magazine, a periodical that ran from 2002 to 2007. From 2008 to 2015, Newitz was editor-in-chief of Gawker-owned media venture io9, and subsequently its direct descendant Gizmodo, Gawker's design and technology blog. They have written for the periodicals Popular Science, Film Quarterly and Wired. As of 2019, Newitz is a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times. .. more

Communication & Media Studies 20%
Political science 19%
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Holy crap -- Automatic Noodle is an instant USA Today and Indie bestseller! Thank you so much, humans and robots, for reading this li'l book and making it soar. Now go eat something! Or get your noodle swag at automaticnoodle.website

Now I need duck for our next DnD game

You should thank @andy.baio.net -- he's the guy who has kept the website archive available all this time.

Still proud that I published this important essay by Steve Robles (writing under one of his many pseudonyms) for Thanksgiving at my very first job, working as an editor for GettingIt.com back in the year 1999 gettingit.com/article/488

Haha I do love the north for biang biang noodles tho

I love them

It's right on the 24 line.

I love that they basically have an FAQ about why this is not Peking Duck.

You will not go wrong with this place.

This is Cantonese style, and honestly I like it better than Peking duck.

If you live in San Francisco and eat meat, you need to have the duck at Go Duck Yourself. And then order the sesame balls for dessert. Honestly the best meal I've had in quite a while. A small luxury in dark times. www.go-duck-yourself.com
Go DUCK Yourself | Chinese BBQ in San Francisco | 439 Cortland Ave, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
Go DUCK Yourself proudly continues to serve Hing Lung Company's famous Cantonese style barbecue in San Francisco's Bernal Heights, consisting of honey-glazed char siu (BBQ pork), crispy roast pork bel...
www.go-duck-yourself.com

One of my favorite bookstores!! 💓

Thank you so much!!!

This is next week, 12/2! For the release of the amazing anthology "We Will Rise Again," come hang out with activists and authors @booksmith.bsky.social to talk about hope, storytelling, and resistance.
Bay Area friends! Where do we find the hope that fuels our resistance and protests? In stories! On Dec. 2, come out to @booksmith.bsky.social for an unforgettable evening with speculative fiction authors and activists, celebrating our new anthology "We Will Rise Again"! booksmith.com/event/WWRA1125

Thanks!

Reposted by Annalee Newitz

Incredible story of tracking down the real human behind AI slop stories, by @nickhunebrown.bsky.social
"I was embarrassed. I had been naively operating with a pre-ChatGPT mindset, still assuming a pitch’s ideas and prose were actually connected to the person who sent it"

Stunning investigation of how slop merchants are getting work into established media outlets

thelocal.to/investigatin...

Thank you!
"I was embarrassed. I had been naively operating with a pre-ChatGPT mindset, still assuming a pitch’s ideas and prose were actually connected to the person who sent it"

Stunning investigation of how slop merchants are getting work into established media outlets

thelocal.to/investigatin...

Perfection. Also Cliff's is the greatest.

I feel like I'm in a @bootsriley.bsky.social movie at this point

I love this so much

Love it.

Long may its failure continue

Literally the plot of M3gan

Feels very Space Merchants

oh holy shit that is dark. but also -- ads in the lobby of an apartment building????????

So wild. I love that the combined narrative of these ads is "date AI. fire women." At least the AI is breaking up with whoever the imaginary audience for these ads is.

Two perfectly normal ads in the perfectly normal city of San Francisco.

Great article from @felipedlh.bsky.social about a rarely-acknowledged vibe among recent immigrants: disappointment in the United States. Especially among people who believed they could succeed here by working hard. Only on Flaming Hydra!