Lincoln Michel
@thelincoln.bsky.social
Author and professor type person.
SF noir novel! 🤖🕵️♂️🧬 http://tinyurl.com/5f6nxu24
Newsletter: http://countercraft.substack.com
SF noir novel! 🤖🕵️♂️🧬 http://tinyurl.com/5f6nxu24
Newsletter: http://countercraft.substack.com
Pinned
Happy Halloween, everyone. And, uh, some spooky personal news:
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"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 3:37 AM
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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#TheIslandofLastThings, #StarWarsRevengeoftheSith and #MetallicRealms all arrived in the #LocusHQ recently! Thanks to:
@penguinrandomhouse
#MatthewStover
@Flatironbooks
@emmasloley
@atriabook
@thelincoln
Buy the books at our bookshop link in bio, and visit our site for all things bookish!
@penguinrandomhouse
#MatthewStover
@Flatironbooks
@emmasloley
@atriabook
@thelincoln
Buy the books at our bookshop link in bio, and visit our site for all things bookish!
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Typical Kafkaesque call with my health insurance where I owe a bunch of money because it was a "diagnostic procedure" instead of a "preventative procedure" even though it literally preventatively removed a cancerous growth.
November 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Typical Kafkaesque call with my health insurance where I owe a bunch of money because it was a "diagnostic procedure" instead of a "preventative procedure" even though it literally preventatively removed a cancerous growth.
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#TheIslandofLastThings, #StarWarsRevengeoftheSith and #MetallicRealms all arrived in the #LocusHQ recently! Thanks to:
@penguinrandomhouse
#MatthewStover
@Flatironbooks
@emmasloley
@atriabook
@thelincoln
Buy the books at our bookshop link in bio, and visit our site for all things bookish!
@penguinrandomhouse
#MatthewStover
@Flatironbooks
@emmasloley
@atriabook
@thelincoln
Buy the books at our bookshop link in bio, and visit our site for all things bookish!
November 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
#TheIslandofLastThings, #StarWarsRevengeoftheSith and #MetallicRealms all arrived in the #LocusHQ recently! Thanks to:
@penguinrandomhouse
#MatthewStover
@Flatironbooks
@emmasloley
@atriabook
@thelincoln
Buy the books at our bookshop link in bio, and visit our site for all things bookish!
@penguinrandomhouse
#MatthewStover
@Flatironbooks
@emmasloley
@atriabook
@thelincoln
Buy the books at our bookshop link in bio, and visit our site for all things bookish!
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‘Aren’t learning new skills and trying new things sort of the whole point of life? … Perhaps one thing AI is revealing is that a certain percentage of the population has no real interest in doing, learning, or enjoying anything at all.’
By @thelincoln.bsky.social
By @thelincoln.bsky.social
Short Little Difficult Books
Novels that challenge with style, story, or form that you can read in a day.
countercraft.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
‘Aren’t learning new skills and trying new things sort of the whole point of life? … Perhaps one thing AI is revealing is that a certain percentage of the population has no real interest in doing, learning, or enjoying anything at all.’
By @thelincoln.bsky.social
By @thelincoln.bsky.social
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Time is a flat circle.
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Time is a flat circle.
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Kind of feel like being "addicted to failure" is defending a losing campaign's losing moves like using Liz Cheney as a surrogate?
i cannot imagine being so addicted to failure that you will not allow your enemies to deliver an unconditional surrender
The more important thing is that Mamdani is not the type of politician that Liz Cheney would want to campaign for. It was bad that Harris campaigned with her, it is even worse that she was someone Liz Cheney wanted to campaign for
November 24, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Kind of feel like being "addicted to failure" is defending a losing campaign's losing moves like using Liz Cheney as a surrogate?
You've heard of Chekhov's gun, but did you know it shoots out a little clown flag that says "bang"?
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
‘He was just trying to earn a few kopecks’: how newly translated stories reveal Chekhov’s silly side
With daft jokes and experimental wordplay, the first comprehensive translations of his lesser-known stories show Anton Chekhov in a new light
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 AM
You've heard of Chekhov's gun, but did you know it shoots out a little clown flag that says "bang"?
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
I cannot begin my day with a confrontation, Charlie Brown.
“And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin', Charlie Brown. I'm tryin' real hard to be the shepherd.”
I’m not the guy you kill, Charlie Brown. I’m the guy you buy!
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I cannot begin my day with a confrontation, Charlie Brown.
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well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
November 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
Couldn't we have gotten RFK into writing erotic fan fiction instead of destroying millions of people's health? open.substack.com/pub/telos/p/...
November 22, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Couldn't we have gotten RFK into writing erotic fan fiction instead of destroying millions of people's health? open.substack.com/pub/telos/p/...
"When we hired her, we knew she was a hack access journalist who got romantically entangled with her subject... but we didn't knew she did it twice!"
November 22, 2025 at 2:54 AM
"When we hired her, we knew she was a hack access journalist who got romantically entangled with her subject... but we didn't knew she did it twice!"
Well, being on the right side for once broke her.
Marjorie Taylor Greene announces she is resigning from Congress
"I will be resigning from office with my last day being January 5, 2026”
"I will be resigning from office with my last day being January 5, 2026”
November 22, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Well, being on the right side for once broke her.
Crazy how a static .jpg somehow also plays the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme song....
“I wish American visitors would stop giving me jerseys,” I said. “How about a little change of pace,” I said.
November 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Crazy how a static .jpg somehow also plays the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme song....
It is a little, uh, something how Trump is talking more positively about Mamdani than certain Dem leaders.
November 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
It is a little, uh, something how Trump is talking more positively about Mamdani than certain Dem leaders.
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“Perhaps one thing AI is revealing is that a certain percentage of the population has no real interest in doing, learning, or enjoying anything at all.” countercraft.substack.com/p/short-litt...
Short Little Difficult Books
Novels that challenge with style, story, or form that you can read in a day.
countercraft.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:12 AM
“Perhaps one thing AI is revealing is that a certain percentage of the population has no real interest in doing, learning, or enjoying anything at all.” countercraft.substack.com/p/short-litt...
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I mean, I believe the last part
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I mean, I believe the last part
Looks like Grok got nuked again. My contribution was asking if Musk could beat Hector and Achilles if he was transported to the Iliad:
November 20, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Looks like Grok got nuked again. My contribution was asking if Musk could beat Hector and Achilles if he was transported to the Iliad:
Tournament of the Books longlist just dropped. Excited / nervous to see METALLIC REALMS here, among many other novels I loved this year. www.tournamentofbooks.com/the-year-in-...
The 2026 Long List — The Tournament of Books
Literary bloodsport approaches! As we narrow down our shortlist of Tournament competitors, here are the 70 works of fiction in consideration from this year.
www.tournamentofbooks.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Tournament of the Books longlist just dropped. Excited / nervous to see METALLIC REALMS here, among many other novels I loved this year. www.tournamentofbooks.com/the-year-in-...
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La mémoire / Memory
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/3113241
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/3113241
November 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
La mémoire / Memory
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/3113241
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/3113241
This administration daily says who they are even as the media pundits bend over backwards to not believe them.
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
This administration daily says who they are even as the media pundits bend over backwards to not believe them.
It is very hilarious but I gotta say very believable. Remember MechaHitler Grok?
this thread is unbelievable
November 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
It is very hilarious but I gotta say very believable. Remember MechaHitler Grok?