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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 10h

And in fairness, I do have really broad reading tastes, to the point where I sometimes need to force myself to read more inside my own genre. But it just doesn't feel quite the same.

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 10h

I often miss the days as a kid before my reading tastes solidified, when I would read literally any volume I could get my hands on. Of course, cultivating your tastes isn't a bad thing (as long as they're not too narrow), but... I do miss being so open to anything.

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 13h

I'm the Assistant to the Executive Assistant of the Undersecretary to the Secretary of Executive Assistants of Antifa.

Could be worse, I could be the Assistant to the Executive Assistant of the Undersecretary to the Secretary of Assistants to Executive Assistants of Antifa.

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 17h

I didn't take the time to scroll back across their whole timeline to try and puzzle it out- even if I thought I could puzzle out the true answer that way, which I don't, I just don't want to sort through the tech booster bullshit.

It's still going to disappoint me, though.

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 17h

Have they fully embraced the grift to drink down as much VC capital as possible before the bubble pops, or did they somehow fool themselves into becoming a true believer?

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 17h

I immediately unfollowed, and moved along with my day, but it's kinda stuck with me, wondering how they went from the whip-smart, intimidating person I met at a friend's party to running an AI start-up.

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 17h

Just logged into one of my old personal social media accounts for the first time in a while, and saw, to my disappointment, that an old acquaintance had gone in HARD on AI bullshit Was pretty disappointing, given how impressive their career in tech had been up until this point.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 1d

I'm excited for fans of Famous Artist, at least! But yeah life's too short to have an opinion on everything.

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 1d

Nope, we're in the same club! I have no strong opinions about Famous Artist That Just Released an Album, and have not listened to said album.

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the seed oil sommelier✨ @mollytanzer.bsky.social · 1d

When a famous musical artist I don’t care about / don’t like releases a new album I simply ignore it and don’t listen to it, which apparently makes me unique in this day and age

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 2d

If you're looking for a dark Weird Western comic, I highly recommend the just-released Dead Acre! I got the chance to read it early, and it definitely hit the spot for me! Love me some Weird West.

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Dead Acre | Vault

About The Book The Creative Team Buy The Book Demons. Monsters. Witches. His sacred duty as a Black Badge is to hunt them down. Life isn't simple for a ...

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 2d

Hah nice!

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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 4d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 2d

I'm in the sizeable minority of progression fantasy authors that don't serialize yet, though there's so much money down that path that it's certainly tempting.

But yeah, like you said, market incentives always matter!

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 2d

I also see lots of authors chasing the market in a way that's simply not possible for other modes of publication, because they can start writing and monetizing a serial via Patreon (offering early chapters to audiences) within literal weeks or even days of starting the story.

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 2d

extremely long series with almost precisely 150k length volumes- which is the length that said audiobook publishers prefer, in turn due to Audible's internal incentives- and very non-traditional story arcs due to the serialization.

(Audible's new system might be changing that.)

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John Bierce @johnbierce.bsky.social · 2d

I've been seeing that massively in my own niche subgenre of fantasy (Progression Fantasy, a close cousin of LitRPG), which overwhelmingly dominated by web-serials, and combined with the dominance of audiobook companies as the main publishers for the stories in book form, results in...

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