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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 10d

he's not "predicting" it, he's expressing his selfish vision of nobody doing anything he doesn't want (not that we should care what any of these comemierdas predict anyway, but since some people do, sub-heads should be clear). Also who's going to monitor all this surveillance? #Infomocracy

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11d

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune

Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.

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Clarkisha Kent @clarkishakent.blacksky.app · 12d

“I have advocated, and I still advocate revolutionary change. I advocate an end to capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the eradication of sexism, and the elimination of political repression. If that is a crime, then I am totally guilty.”

- Assata Shakur

Assata Shakur, sitting cross-legged, stairs at the camera. She has a book in her hand/lap and is wearing a multicolored garment. Her hair has been twisted.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12d

As Netanyahu addresses the United Nations in New York City this morning, the world recoils in horror at the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

This morning, Benjamin Netanyahu will address the United Nations — an institution which has concluded his government is committing a genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. He arrived in New York after a flight that added hours to its path to circumvent the airspace of countries which might enforce the International Criminal Court's warrant for his arrest. During the course of his speech, another Palestinian child will undoubtedly be killed by the Israeli military in Gaza, as they have been every single hour for nearly two years.

Eric Adams will greet Netanyahu as a friend. Andrew Cuomo proudly served on his legal defense team. Both have jockeyed for the approval of Donald Trump, who has sent billions of our taxpayer dollars to support these war crimes.

A Mayor cannot end these atrocities. But they can speak for the values of this city: a commitment to human rights for all people, including Palestinians, and a yearning for peace and justice. Even if those values are anathema to those in power now, they will endure.

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E.G. Condé (Author) 🇵🇷✍🏼 @boriscrito.bsky.social · 19d

Gracias! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 20d

Fans of Sordidez, rejoice! Next year will see two sequels, set in that universe!

(I haven't yet read it, but I have heard many good things.)

E.G. Condé (Author) 🇵🇷✍🏼 @boriscrito.bsky.social · 23d

Thanks to your support for Taínofuturism, @stelliform.press is publishing TWO standalone sequels to SORDIDEZ in 2026! 📕The first is called CACIQUES. Set in Borikén, our heroes learn how to live without the Empires that have long defined them. Can they vanquish the lingering ghosts of coloniality? 9/

Publishers Marketplace announcement for CACIQUES and MAQUECHES with Stelliform Press forthcoming in 2026.

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Syr Beker @syr.bsky.social · 20d

I could NOT be more excited for a sequel. FRIENDS you have just enough time to order @boriscrito.bsky.social EG Condé's Sordidez from @stelliform.press. You won't be **ready for this greatness, but you can at least prepare.

E.G. Condé (Author) 🇵🇷✍🏼 @boriscrito.bsky.social · 23d

Thanks to your support for Taínofuturism, @stelliform.press is publishing TWO standalone sequels to SORDIDEZ in 2026! 📕The first is called CACIQUES. Set in Borikén, our heroes learn how to live without the Empires that have long defined them. Can they vanquish the lingering ghosts of coloniality? 9/

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 21d

a canceled streaming subscription is easily converted to several spec fic magazine subs on patreon and similar services, some are as low as 1-2 bucks. the more you know.

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Ren Hutchings @voidcricket.bsky.social · 20d

⭐️BOOK LAUNCH incoming!⭐️

See you this evening, Bristol!! Come see @garethlpowell.bsky.social & me in conversation, hear us reading from our new books & pick up a signed copy at Forbidden Planet, 5:30 pm!👋

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Issues in Science and Technology @issuesinst.bsky.social · 22d

Introducing our new podcast miniseries: “Not Now, But Soon”!

In the first episode, @boriscrito.bsky.social talks with host @older.bsky.social about his academic life researching data centers, his #speculativefiction life, & how those worlds collide in his book SOLIDEZ. issues.org/hurricane-of...

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E.G. Condé (Author) 🇵🇷✍🏼 @boriscrito.bsky.social · 22d

@older.bsky.social invited me on her podcast mini-series to talk about disaster. It's rare that I get a chance to bring my research on the environmental impact of computing, AI, data centers into conversation with my speculative fiction - especially when it comes to Puerto Rico. #datacenters 🌀🚀✍️

Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 22d

The 1st episode of the new pod-miniseries I'm hosting at @issuesinst.bsky.social is out now! I talk with spec-fic writer & anthropologist of tech @boriscrito.bsky.social about the slow disaster of data centers, the rapid disasters of hurricanes in the Caribbean, & the ways we envision the future:

Not Now, But Soon: A Hurricane of Data

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 22d

The 1st episode of the new pod-miniseries I'm hosting at @issuesinst.bsky.social is out now! I talk with spec-fic writer & anthropologist of tech @boriscrito.bsky.social about the slow disaster of data centers, the rapid disasters of hurricanes in the Caribbean, & the ways we envision the future:

Not Now, But Soon: A Hurricane of Data

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Tiffany Morris @tiffmorris.bsky.social · 23d

I’m so grateful to @stelliform.press for taking a chance on my weird swampcore novella and to the Indie Ink Awards! I was so honoured to share the ballot with @boriscrito.bsky.social and his brilliant Taínofuturism novella Sordidez- a must-read book of imagination, vision and knowledge. Wela’lioq! 💖

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E.G. Condé (Author) 🇵🇷✍🏼 @boriscrito.bsky.social · 23d

Gracias!!!!

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E.G. Condé (Author) 🇵🇷✍🏼 @boriscrito.bsky.social · 23d

Mil Gracias! 🙏🏼

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E.G. Condé (Author) 🇵🇷✍🏼 @boriscrito.bsky.social · 23d

Thank you so much!

E.G. Condé (Author) 🇵🇷✍🏼 @boriscrito.bsky.social · 23d

Gracias mano!

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E.G. Condé (Author) 🇵🇷✍🏼 @boriscrito.bsky.social · 23d

Gracias!!!

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E.G. Condé (Author) 🇵🇷✍🏼 @boriscrito.bsky.social · 23d

Many thanks friend!

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E.G. Condé (Author) 🇵🇷✍🏼 @boriscrito.bsky.social · 23d

ANOTHER COUNTRY by James Baldwin remains one of the most inspiring texts for me, not only for its searing realism and sensory immediacy, but also as a way to tell a story of aftermath and how aftermath can be a structure or blueprint for storytelling.

E.G. Condé (Author) 🇵🇷✍🏼 @boriscrito.bsky.social · 23d

Both sequels arrive in Fall 2026. Until then, you can pick up a copy of SORDIDEZ anywhere books are sold (or request it at your library). In 2024, I released an indie audiobook narrated by me & the incredible Isabel Salazar in the role of the Loba Roja. #Latinxbooks
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SORDIDEZ

An indigenous futurist science fiction novella In the ruin created by climate disaster and a devastating civil war, survivors in Puerto Rico and the Yucatán peninsula struggle to rebuild their comm…

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E.G. Condé (Author) 🇵🇷✍🏼 @boriscrito.bsky.social · 23d

Fans of the Yucatán storyline with Doña Margarita + Juaco get an entire book devoted to these characters. In MAQUECHES 📕, Juaco is on a path to healing from a dark past forged by war. With Margarita's help, can he find a way to love himself enough to open his heart to another? it's 🏳️‍🌈💘 #mmromance!

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E.G. Condé (Author) 🇵🇷✍🏼 @boriscrito.bsky.social · 23d

Thanks to your support for Taínofuturism, @stelliform.press is publishing TWO standalone sequels to SORDIDEZ in 2026! 📕The first is called CACIQUES. Set in Borikén, our heroes learn how to live without the Empires that have long defined them. Can they vanquish the lingering ghosts of coloniality? 9/

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E.G. Condé (Author) 🇵🇷✍🏼 @boriscrito.bsky.social · 23d

I also interviewed Taíno revivalists, looked at contemporary 📚 like TAINO, a historical novel by Jose Barreiro, & PUERTO RICO: A NATIONAL HISTORY @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social , which retells the long history of Afro-indigenous resistance in Borikén from Agüeybaná to cimarrones to nationalism. 8/

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E.G. Condé (Author) 🇵🇷✍🏼 @boriscrito.bsky.social · 23d

For the #indigenousfuturism worldbuilding (2), I skeptically consulted archaeology & the writings of Spanish colonizers who witnessed (& helped facilitate) the cataclysmic demise of the Taíno including De Las Casas, Ramón Pané, & Columbus himself. interzone.digital/refusing-ext... 7/

REFUSING EXTINCTION: E.G. Condé in conversation with Ariel Marken Jack

Ariel Marken Jack talked to E.G. Condé about the power of language, survival through art, and what it means to help found a new literary genre…

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E.G. Condé (Author) 🇵🇷✍🏼 @boriscrito.bsky.social · 23d

SORDIDEZ was a child born from my imagination, lived experience & extensive research into the harrowing history of Latin America; (1) Real-life Caudillos who sought to erase Maya communities from existence, a story told with excruciating resolution in PAPER CADAVERS by @kirstenweld.bsky.social 6/

E.G. Conde reading form a copy of SORDIDEZ at a book event in New York City on his 2023 book tour.

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