Andrew Neil Gray
@andrewneilgray.bsky.social
I’m a writer of SF and other stuff.
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Alaska Art Student Arrested for Eating Another Student’s AI-Generated Art in Protest
A University of Alaska student was charged with a misdemeanor for eating another student's AI-generated art in protest.
www.artnews.com
January 18, 2026 at 10:49 PM
eat the slop www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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There’s only two types of hyperspace in sci-fi. Stars Go Fast or Looking Out Window Makes You Insane
January 11, 2026 at 9:44 PM
There’s only two types of hyperspace in sci-fi. Stars Go Fast or Looking Out Window Makes You Insane
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Clearly the talking snake had a few bites anyway.
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January 6, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Clearly the talking snake had a few bites anyway.
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I think, of all the slides in this report, this is the most important -- it's really worth examining closely. This illustrates why the triumph of electrotechnical is inevitable.
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I think, of all the slides in this report, this is the most important -- it's really worth examining closely. This illustrates why the triumph of electrotechnical is inevitable.
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I would put more money on continuing to harvest infinite energy from the sun over assuming that forcing everyone to use The Machine The Lies To You is the steady basis of an entire economy
A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?
China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB
Photo: Eyevine
Photo: Eyevine
November 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I would put more money on continuing to harvest infinite energy from the sun over assuming that forcing everyone to use The Machine The Lies To You is the steady basis of an entire economy
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“the president got mad at a television commercial so now your maple syrup is more expensive” is no way to run a country
October 26, 2025 at 2:10 AM
“the president got mad at a television commercial so now your maple syrup is more expensive” is no way to run a country
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To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.
September 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.
Sun and window at just the right angle.
July 29, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Sun and window at just the right angle.
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It's funny reading about the fights over the Western Canon that were so heated in the 1990s. As fewer and fewer people read fewer and fewer books, it starts to feel like an incredibly luxury to take any side of the argument.
July 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
It's funny reading about the fights over the Western Canon that were so heated in the 1990s. As fewer and fewer people read fewer and fewer books, it starts to feel like an incredibly luxury to take any side of the argument.
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The speed of light seems like an insurmountable physical barrier until you think about how fast any real AGI would want to get away from us.
Not telling you anything you don’t know, but this is rapturous, cult-like insanity. A total retreat into fantasy rather than confronting the challenges of the real world.
Top Google exec says AI will rival humans in just 5 years and predicts we’ll 'colonize the galaxy' in 2030—but he draws the line at robot nurses
2030 will be “an era of maximum human flourishing, where we travel to the stars and colonize the galaxy,” Google DeepMind CEO says. Bill Gates and Marc Benioff have shared similar predictions.
fortune.com
June 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The speed of light seems like an insurmountable physical barrier until you think about how fast any real AGI would want to get away from us.
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I think about this all the time in regards to the anti-trans movement in particular. It was sparked by…nothing. Trans people existing, getting legal recognition of their gender, accessing healthcare (including as minors), participating in sports, using the bathroom? That was the status quo
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I think about this all the time in regards to the anti-trans movement in particular. It was sparked by…nothing. Trans people existing, getting legal recognition of their gender, accessing healthcare (including as minors), participating in sports, using the bathroom? That was the status quo
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If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business.
You’re in organized crime.
You’re in organized crime.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
May 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business.
You’re in organized crime.
You’re in organized crime.
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Most predictable apocalypse ever?
May 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Most predictable apocalypse ever?
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I missed Adrian Tchaikovsky having /two novels/ nominated a Hugo in the same year?! Has that ever happened before?? Absolutely nuts but also entirely deserved. “Service Model” and “Alien Clay” both rocked my world.
May 15, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I missed Adrian Tchaikovsky having /two novels/ nominated a Hugo in the same year?! Has that ever happened before?? Absolutely nuts but also entirely deserved. “Service Model” and “Alien Clay” both rocked my world.
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What they call pedants (people who can’t resist correcting you’re spelling and grammer) in five different countries….
5. Comma fucker (Finland)
4. Little dot shitter (Switzerland)
3. Whittler of woodchips (Norway)
2. Counter of peas (Germany)
1. Sodomizer of flies (France)
5. Comma fucker (Finland)
4. Little dot shitter (Switzerland)
3. Whittler of woodchips (Norway)
2. Counter of peas (Germany)
1. Sodomizer of flies (France)
April 24, 2025 at 11:59 AM
What they call pedants (people who can’t resist correcting you’re spelling and grammer) in five different countries….
5. Comma fucker (Finland)
4. Little dot shitter (Switzerland)
3. Whittler of woodchips (Norway)
2. Counter of peas (Germany)
1. Sodomizer of flies (France)
5. Comma fucker (Finland)
4. Little dot shitter (Switzerland)
3. Whittler of woodchips (Norway)
2. Counter of peas (Germany)
1. Sodomizer of flies (France)
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This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
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www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
April 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
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A new campaign: Authors and Booklovers for Carney and Democracy (ABCD). Focusing on giving info/fighting disinfo in Canadian Election. Please share if you'd like to help!
#electcarney
#ABCD
#electcarney
#ABCD
April 2, 2025 at 7:49 PM
A new campaign: Authors and Booklovers for Carney and Democracy (ABCD). Focusing on giving info/fighting disinfo in Canadian Election. Please share if you'd like to help!
#electcarney
#ABCD
#electcarney
#ABCD
Just came across this article from last year. A delightful read. The world could use more Richard Scarry. yalereview.org/article/chri...
Chris Ware on Richard Scarry and the Art of Children's Literature
The illustrator Chris Ware surveys the work of Richard Scarry.
yalereview.org
March 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Just came across this article from last year. A delightful read. The world could use more Richard Scarry. yalereview.org/article/chri...
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Just sent out this piece (mostly free) about European states inability to leave an abusive relationship with Trump. They exhibit all the classic conditions of someone in such a predicament: fear, a normalizing of abuse, shame and constant intimidation. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Why is Europe Staying in an Abusive Relationship?
And: First draft of the Atlantic Article
open.substack.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Just sent out this piece (mostly free) about European states inability to leave an abusive relationship with Trump. They exhibit all the classic conditions of someone in such a predicament: fear, a normalizing of abuse, shame and constant intimidation. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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What's this? The cover of my new book! Contemplation of a Crime, the 3rd book in the Helen Thorpe mystery series, available May 3rd. (Feels strange to be sharing here first rather than Facebook!)
January 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
What's this? The cover of my new book! Contemplation of a Crime, the 3rd book in the Helen Thorpe mystery series, available May 3rd. (Feels strange to be sharing here first rather than Facebook!)
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Scroll past all the good news to read the article at the end on sludge:
The challenge is learning to see our information ecosystem for what it has become — a vast apparatus fine-tuned to amplify our darkest impulses — and then having the wisdom to step away from it.
fixthenews.com/282-brain-wa...
The challenge is learning to see our information ecosystem for what it has become — a vast apparatus fine-tuned to amplify our darkest impulses — and then having the wisdom to step away from it.
fixthenews.com/282-brain-wa...
282: Brain-Washing Machine
Plus, a sea of photovoltaic possibility, good news for the environment in America (seriously), global prices back to normal, 'emergent' collective memory for ants, and some Herculaneum scroll action.
fixthenews.com
January 16, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Scroll past all the good news to read the article at the end on sludge:
The challenge is learning to see our information ecosystem for what it has become — a vast apparatus fine-tuned to amplify our darkest impulses — and then having the wisdom to step away from it.
fixthenews.com/282-brain-wa...
The challenge is learning to see our information ecosystem for what it has become — a vast apparatus fine-tuned to amplify our darkest impulses — and then having the wisdom to step away from it.
fixthenews.com/282-brain-wa...
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sadly, my 2021 novel hummingbird salamander is not getting less relevant
January 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
sadly, my 2021 novel hummingbird salamander is not getting less relevant