Fiona Moore 🇨🇦
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BSFA Award winning SFF author represented by the John Jarrold Literary Agency. Anthropologist who wandered into a business school. Author of Management Lessons from Game of Thrones (2022). www.fiona-moore.com www.adoctorofmanythings.com .. more

Fiona Moore is a Canadian academic, writer and critic based in London (UK). She is best known for writing works of TV criticism, short fiction, stage and audio plays, and academic texts on the anthropology of business and organisations. Her research work has been described by Professor Roger Goodman at the University of Oxford's Nissan Institute as "engaging head-on with the growing and increasingly complex literature on transnationalism and globalisation and relating it constructively to key ideas in symbolic anthropology." A graduate of the University of Toronto and the University of Oxford, she is Chair of Business Anthropology at Royal Holloway, University of London. In 2020, she was shortlisted for the BSFA Award for Shorter Fiction, and in 2023 she won the BSFA Award for Short Non-Fiction. .. more

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drfionamoore.bsky.social
This would be a great final tribute to On Spec's legacy.
cornellwriter.bsky.social
Something to keep in mind if you’re voting for the Hugos. Thanks for all the great reads @onspecmag.bsky.social.
hugobookclub.bsky.social
On Spec has long deserved recognition for best semiprozine at the Hugo Awards, but has never even made the ballot because it's Canadian and most Hugo voters are U.S.-based.

2026 will be your final opportunity to nominate an institution that has been an incubator for so much talent.

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cutawaycomics.bsky.social
The kickstarter for The DNA of Doctor Who: The Graham Williams Years from Roundel Books is nearly funded and only went live this morning! Here's @twilightstreets.bsky.social explaining more about the project...

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cornellwriter.bsky.social
Something to keep in mind if you’re voting for the Hugos. Thanks for all the great reads @onspecmag.bsky.social.
hugobookclub.bsky.social
On Spec has long deserved recognition for best semiprozine at the Hugo Awards, but has never even made the ballot because it's Canadian and most Hugo voters are U.S.-based.

2026 will be your final opportunity to nominate an institution that has been an incubator for so much talent.
onspecmag.bsky.social
With our new issue, we are making the sad announcement that this will be the final year for On Spec. See www.onspec.ca for details.

drfionamoore.bsky.social
Exactly right. It can't even get Save The Cat right, not in its essence, because the point of Save The Cat is to write an emotionally satisfying story (if a predictable one).

drfionamoore.bsky.social
Interesting article in the FT. The tl;dr is that there isn't a graduate employment crisis, there's a wider crisis for all job market entrants; that those with a degree are actually doing better than those without one; and AI is having less of an effect on the market than expected.
archive.is/qZoj3
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drfionamoore.bsky.social
Sorry, I just needed to get all of that off my chest.

drfionamoore.bsky.social
So call it "human creativity" if you like, but without it, all we've got are some novelty images, or possibly animated fanfiction prompts, but frankly at the end of it all it's kind of boring. /end 🧵

drfionamoore.bsky.social
You have to do a lot of thinking about how Picard is, and isn't, like a 1980s drug lord. Or how other characters from TNG map, and don't map, onto the characters of Scarface. Or *why* you can map TNG onto Scarface in the first place: something was in the air in the 1980s, clearly 6/🧵

drfionamoore.bsky.social
"We could just teach the AI narrative logic and it would turn the sequence of images into stories!" But again, you can't get a creative, interesting story just by following every beat in Save The Cat. Getting back to Scarface: TNG, it's not enough just to put Patrick Stewart in a white suit 5/🧵

drfionamoore.bsky.social
Same with the Bible videos. They have an advantage in that they've got a story ready-made, but what you get is a voice reading out Ezekiel's vision and on the screen: here's a chariot of fire, here's a different chariot of fire. It's disjointed and disconnected. 4/🧵.

drfionamoore.bsky.social
And here's where the "human creativity" bit comes in, because there's no story there. Give a fanfic writer a prompt like that, and we'd be in Scarface: TNG culminating in a multi-fatality gun battle with Klingons in police uniform. Or something wilder. 3/🧵

drfionamoore.bsky.social
First, and hear me out: the ideas, and imagery, aren't bad. Picard as a cocaine kingpin? Yeah, I'd totally read that fanfic. But the problem is, it never goes any further than that one image. Here's Picard as a cocaine kingpin, here's Picard as a slightly different cocaine kingpin. 2/🧵

drfionamoore.bsky.social
I'm having some thoughts about the "AI will never replace human creativity" cliche, based on the fact that I went and watched some videos by The AI Bible, and now YouTube is serving me a lot of classic-SF AI slop videos (you know, Star Trek: TNG but in the style of Miami Vice, etc). 1/🧵

drfionamoore.bsky.social
The Seventh Doctor was a frequently-cruel manipulative type who emotionally abused his companion, committed genocide, and identified with Odin. What all this says about the chap in the middle in the Seventh Doctor vest, I'm not sure.
bagpuss.org
The photography in this article really feels like The Times are deliberately setting these people up for ridicule. (You can read it without visiting The Times here archive.ph/KZZC1)
An article from The Times: "Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future". Featuring bizarre portraits of Charles Amos, Rhys Benjamin and Daniel Campbell.

drfionamoore.bsky.social
If writers were paid what their work is apparently actually worth to the gen-AI industry, then I'd be taking early retirement and buying a six-bedroom house in Vancouver.
keithwdickinson.bsky.social
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
theverge.com
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

bagpuss.org
The photography in this article really feels like The Times are deliberately setting these people up for ridicule. (You can read it without visiting The Times here archive.ph/KZZC1)
An article from The Times: "Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future". Featuring bizarre portraits of Charles Amos, Rhys Benjamin and Daniel Campbell.

Reposted by Fiona Moore

srfantasyclub.bsky.social
This Tuesday - IAN MCDONALD @ianmcdonald.bsky.social and
NUZO ONOH @nuzo.bsky.social

As Halloween approaches, top horror and sci-fi authors
will chill you - in a super-relaxed way - with readings
from their latest novels.

7pm, Tuesday 14th October
Star of Kings, near Kings Cross Station, London
THIS TUESDAY
Ian McDonald
Nuzo Onoh
7pm Tuesday 14th October
Star of Kings, near Kings Cross
Free donation optional

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drfionamoore.bsky.social
Also bonus feature The Vampire Lovers, starring Kate O'Mara, and Ingrid Pitt's bottom.

drfionamoore.bsky.social
Most of the admin staff in my department are history graduates.
Did they get a job in history? Clearly not. So what was the value? It makes them really interesting people who are fun to work with.
chaptersbookstore.bsky.social
They’ll tell you that the arts & humanities aren’t practical and then …

drfionamoore.bsky.social
In case anyone needs cheering up, here's a wolf. Wolves are awesome.

drfionamoore.bsky.social
Song (1928): Wong is in love with an abusive bastard who's in love with another woman; when he is blinded she impersonates her rival to get close to him. Wong is a star now and the camera loves her, but sadly we're at least a year off her getting a major role that doesn't end in tragedy.

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keithwdickinson.bsky.social
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

drfionamoore.bsky.social
For a while I've had a habit of reading McDonalds' product names as porn star/pornbot names. Chicken Big Mac, Jaffa Cakes McFlurry, Oreo Blizzard, Peppermint Milkshake...

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roselerner.bsky.social
My synagogue's warm clothing drive is back and better than ever! This drive puts warm clothing directly into the hands of the 200+ food-insecure families who come to our weekly food bank.

I just checked and a few items on our wishlist are Prime Big Deals today!!! bit.ly/bundled25
graphic with same info as thread and a logo of two little knit gloves with candle flames on the fingers to look like a menorah (the thumbs meet to make the shamash in the middle)

drfionamoore.bsky.social
Today's research rabbit-hole: Jewish humanitarian organizations during World War II. Must stick to point of research and not go off into all the fascinating stories.