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Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com · 4d

Do not be driven mad by The Shadow Out of Time. Gou Tanabe's next manga adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's work is coming in December. Pre-order: https://bit.ly/3IzROWj

In H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time, one professor’s mental sabbatical becomes a literal descent into the occult. #DHhorror

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

Australia's grid operator has a clear line of sight to 100% renewables. There's nothing unknown or exotic required.

It'll be fun when the first large/major economies start hitting the goal. Too bad the US is likely to be at the rear of the pack.

As coal fades, Australia looks to realize dream of 100% renewable…

The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other…

www.canarymedia.com

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Paul Chadwick @paulchadwick.bsky.social · 2d

Nice moonrise tonight

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Paul Chadwick @paulchadwick.bsky.social · 2d

Literary oddities set my curiosity circuits humming, and this account really speaks to me.

Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 5d

On this date in 2022, I wrote about Silhouettes crépusculaires, Carola Ernst's account of taking a blinded French officer from German-occupied Belgium to his home in France early in World War One. She called it a “sketch of an autumn twilight, of an end of civilization.”

neglectedbooks.com/?...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

Old joke about an economist stuck in a well who isn't worried since they have a solution: "assume there's a ladder." Except it's the world's largest economy going "assume there's a digital genie in a couple of years and we control it."

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 3d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

www.ft.com

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Paul Chadwick @paulchadwick.bsky.social · 2d

Parable of the Talents

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Paul Chadwick @paulchadwick.bsky.social · 2d

They create little orbs of neurons and supporting cells that they then hook to electrodes.

Eerie: activity races just before the orbs die.

One outfit has taught them to play "Pong." They're making tiny gamers.

Better scale up so they can have a war with Ai!

bbc.com/news/article...

Scientists race to make 'living' computers powered by human cells

BBC News goes inside the lab powering computers with 'mini brains' grown from human cells.

bbc.com

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Dec 8

Seasonal greetings for both the #bookhistory and #digitalhistory folks: a keyboard waffle iron. 🗃️

A waffle iron that forms keyboard waffles.

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Paul Chadwick @paulchadwick.bsky.social · 4d

Why the pic of Aaron Rupar?

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · Sep 4

It has been a good writing year for me, with five books issued and a few more to come 😊 #booksky

1) THE DEVILS HALO - Elsewhen Press
2) THE ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT - Recital Publishing
3) ROBOTS IN LOVE - Eibonvale Press
4) THAT OTHER EGYPT - Eibonvale Press
5) TRUMPET FACE - Incunabula Press

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Paul Chadwick @paulchadwick.bsky.social · 4d

Direct link

www.amazon.com/dp/B0FT65CP54

Tangents: 100 Fictions

Amazon.com: Tangents: 100 Fictions eBook : Hughes, Rhys: Kindle Store

www.amazon.com

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Paul Chadwick @paulchadwick.bsky.social · 4d

Try his work out for free (act soon; expires)

bsky.app/profile/rhys...

bsky.app

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Paul Chadwick @paulchadwick.bsky.social · 4d

In a great injustice, my favorite literary absurdist Rhys Hughes' Wikipedia entry is flagged for not meeting notability standards.

Scandalous.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhys_Hu...

Rhys Hughes - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Paul Chadwick @paulchadwick.bsky.social · 7d

Sorry, I screwed up the thread. Don't miss these.

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Paul Chadwick @paulchadwick.bsky.social · 7d

And the others. A rock band, I don't remember which, reused the painting for The Big Sleep as an album cover. Adams did many covers for Agatha Christie, which were collected in a coffee-table book. He also worked on the film Alien!

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Paul Chadwick @paulchadwick.bsky.social · 7d

And the others. A rock band, I don't remember which, reused the painting for The Big Sleep as an album cover. Adams did many covers for Agatha Christie, which were collected in a coffee-table book. He also worked on the film Alien!

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Paul Chadwick @paulchadwick.bsky.social · 7d

A couple more

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Paul Chadwick @paulchadwick.bsky.social · 7d

One of Tom Adams' Raymond Chandler novel covers, maybe, collectively, his crowning achievement.

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Charles Apple @charlesapple.bsky.social · 7d

Your art direction must-read for this week. Gift article from the New York Times.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/t...

The 25 Most Influential Magazine Covers of All Time

www.nytimes.com

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Paul Chadwick @paulchadwick.bsky.social · 7d

Richard F. Stone had a similar style.

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Paul Chadwick @paulchadwick.bsky.social · 8d

Huh. I didn't know moderation settings defaulted to hide nudity. Toggled it off and I see it now.

Style reminds me of David K. Stone, who did a little book that formed my vision of what being an illustrator in 60s America was when I was a teen.

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Paul Chadwick @paulchadwick.bsky.social · 8d

It seems to be removed here, too.

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Paul Chadwick @paulchadwick.bsky.social · 9d

What feature films? Can’t think of too many petro-state feel-good movies.

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Paul Chadwick @paulchadwick.bsky.social · 9d

A rag-tag group of ink-stained wretches must defy pepper-spray and hurled milkshakes to somehow, unbelievably, make their deadlines

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Paul Chadwick @paulchadwick.bsky.social · 9d

Impressive, people!

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9d

SCOOP / UPDATE — Disney saw more than 1.7 million total paid streaming cancelations during the period 9/17-9/23, a Disney source confirms to me. The total includes Disney+, Hulu and ESPN.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15d

NEW — I wrote about my confirmed scoop from last night that Disney hastened Kimmel's return because of a planned Disney+ streaming price increase announcement coming on Tuesday:

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Paul Chadwick @paulchadwick.bsky.social · 9d

Whose idea was that great crazy cover?!

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