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Daniel Abraham

@abraham.bsky.social

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Novelist, screenwriter, and the James half of James SA Corey. He/him [email protected]

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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 1d

Loved the first one in the series. Loved the second one too (which I got to read early).

Can recommend.

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The Glass Slide World (The Naturalist Society)

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 9d

I don't think this is limited to elite pundits, writers, etc. I think it's a common trap to get to a certain point in your life believing you'd be in one future, and discovering you're in another, and then failing to plan how to move through that actual future.

Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 9d

Klein is a prime example of what I was talking about here, and what this post alludes to. Elite journalists are failing the moment because elite journalists are trying to do the job they imagined they would have instead of the job they actually need to do right now.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 10d

A friend writes:

I saw someone's post somewhere that talked about how their
nine-year-old and all his friends have started using "That's AI"
instead of "I don't believe you."

Mom: "We're having dinosaur meat for dinner tonight."
Kid: "That's AI."

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10d

Important info on scams for authors here.

Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 10d

My new Genre Grapevine dives into the book club scams targeting authors. These scams now include creating fake Discord communities filled with AI slop and chatbots. Artificial intelligence circles every level of this scam like water down the toilet.
www.patreon.com/posts/139940...

Genre Grapevine: Book Club Scams Are a Warning of Emerging AI Super-Scams | Jason Sanford's Genre Grapevine

Get more from Jason Sanford's Genre Grapevine on Patreon

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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 10d

…The scapegoat, eventually, is released, to death: his murderer continues to live. The suffering of the scapegoat has resulted in seas of blood, and yet not one sinner has been saved, or changed, by this despairing ritual?

~ James Baldwin as quoted by Christopher Hunt:

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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 10d

James Baldwin:

That the scapegoat pays for the sins of others is well known, but this is only legend, and a revealing one at that. In fact, however the scapegoat may be made to suffer, his suffering cannot purify the sinner; it merely incriminates him more, and it seals his damnation…

Cover of Hunt’s “Jimmy’s Faith”

Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 11d

I respect their optimism.

Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 11d

With respect, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, you might get better engagement with:

"Why is Trump talking about illegally deploying troops against American citizens?

Insurance costs spiking? The Epstein files? That ridiculous UN speech?

We're tracking all of it, Donnie. #dems #nodistractions"

Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 11d

The Trump administration’s threat to deploy troops in Portland is unlawful.

Here’s a thought.

Focus on protecting the healthcare of the American people.

Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 11d

Leave the relationship unrepaired.

The only right any of us have in any relationship is the right to walk away from it. Everything else is negotiated.

Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 11d

I think you can repair a lot if you can come together as equals, be realistic about the damage, and sincere about the ask for forgiveness.

Without those, you can get past it. But you can't repair the relationship.

Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 11d

Oh, no. I love Jesus as a philosopher, not a supernatural being. You could fit my faith in a thimble and have room for cream.

It's not really the hurt that bugs. It's the broken relationship. I miss the people I had before they did the thing.

Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 11d

We understand the term differently.

I can come to a place with no anger or pain -- a place of letting go -- but it's not what I mean when I say forgiveness. Forgiveness (to me) is the reparation of a relationship.

What you're describing, I would call "exhaustion" or "no longer giving a fuck." 🤣

Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 11d

I live Jesus, but His fandom can be might sus.

I have a couple people I would love to forgive for some things, but I don't think I can because I don't think they care. So I find other ways to let it go.

Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 11d

Fire away.

Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 11d

Seems to me you don't know whether you can forgive really someone until they ask for forgiveness.

Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 11d

Good thread. Can recommend. Will vouch for the fact that a human wrote and posted it.

Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 11d

"Half the people boycotting Cracker Barrel weren't actually people. They were bots."

See also many other weird "culture war" pile-ons. We, the media, the gov... are all being wholesale manipulated by bots. We are responding to and promoting the views of...bots.

gizmodo.com/cracker-barr...

Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say

Doesn't that make more sense than lots of people caring about Cracker Barrel?

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Senator Martin Heinrich @heinrich.senate.gov · 13d

Vought and Trump say they'll destroy the federal government if it shuts down.

That's like saying, if you don't let me break this toy, I'll break it anyway.

No shit. But that's on you guys.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 14d

My kid’s favorite superhero cartoon just laid out a plain simple truth the adults are REALLY struggling with:

“He’s an influencer. By definition he’s not there to inform people, he’s there to INFLUENCE them!”

Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 15d

I have a book of Asa Baber essays.

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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 15d

Fascinating old economist quote perhaps relevant to AI:

You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.
~ Robert Solow (1987)

Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 15d

And I am looking forward to it.

Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 15d

And it was Asa Baber for a while before that. But that's dating myself.

Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 15d

And sometimes Dan Savage.

Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 15d

Yup.

Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 15d

Money is a really good point, though. I left that out. I should include it.