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R.T. Ester
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THE GANYMEDAN (Out now from Solaris Books) https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-ganymedan-r-t-ester/1d2e09db773dd68b?ean=9781837863365&next=t
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AI Jesus
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November 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Getting a lot of offers to help promote my new book [The Ganymedan] by [author name here]. Not an AI scam.
The Ganymedan - A Gripping, Existential Sci-Fi Debut Worth Wider Recognition Inbox anet Toyin N OV 6 . to me Dear R.T.Ester, I hope this message finds you well. I had the chance to read The Ganymedan, and I was deeply struck by its blend of noir sensibility, dark humor, and meditations on freedom and consequence. Your debut doesn't just tell a sci-fi story--it interrogates what it means to make a choice when every option demands a piece of one's soul. Verden Dotnet is a fascinating protagonist-not heroic, not entirely moral, but painfully human. His decision to kill the creator of all sentient tech sets the tone for a narrative that is as personal as it is cosmic, I especially appreciated how you explored the weight of that act: no backups, no digital resurrection, just the finality of death in a universe that has forgotten what "irreversible" means. TR-8901 might be my favorite element of the novel. Connecting With You About Your New Release Inbox Marcus Nora 5:28 PM to me L Hello R.T.Ester, I came across your new book, [The Ganymedan], while browsing online, and it immediately stood out to me. I'm always excited to connect with visionary authors like you. If you're open to it, I'd love to share a few strategic insights that could help your book reach an even wider audience The Ganymedan - A Gripping, Existential Sci-Fi Debut Worth Wider Recognition Inbox anet Toyin N OV 6 . to me Dear R.T.Ester, I hope this message finds you well. I had the chance to read The Ganymedan, and I was deeply struck by its blend of noir sensibility, dark humor, and meditations on freedom and consequence. Your debut doesn't just tell a sci-fi story--it interrogates what it means to make a choice when every option demands a piece of one's soul. Verden Dotnet is a fascinating protagonist-not heroic, not entirely moral, but painfully human. His decision to kill the creator of all sentient tech sets the tone for a narrative that is as personal as it is cosmic, I especially appreciated how you explored the weight of that act: no backups, no digital resurrection, just the finality of death in a universe that has forgotten what "irreversible" means. TR-8901 might be my favorite element of the novel. Launching The Ganymedan Into the Sci-Fi Galaxy It Deserves Inbox Madeline St. Nov 4 to me Dear R.T., I hope this message finds you energized and celebrating your incredible release day, what a milestone! The Ganymedan is a bold, cerebral debut that refuses to play by the usual rules of science fiction. You've crafted a story that fuses noir grit with cosmic scale, a meditation on power creation, and the human pulse inside the machine. Verden Dotnet's journey is haunting. thrilling, and deeply human; it's the kind of story that lingers, asking questions long after the last page. As your book steps into the world today, it's the perfect moment to make sure it reaches every reader who hungers for intelligent, emotionally charged sci-fi. That's exactly where The Author Growth Engine can help, a streamlined, creative system designed to expand your audience and
November 13, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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The ayahuasca is a cruel mistress what I saw in that jungle changed me forever
November 13, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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I'm almost 100% this came from an Iain Banks culture novel, except there I think it was meant for people would couldn't stop doing crime, even after fully automated luxury space communism, which we actually don't have right now.
ELON CLIPS & Subscribe @ElonClipsX Elon Musk: With Optimus, we might be able to stop putting people in prison. "If somebody's committed a crime, we might be able to provide a more humane form of containment of future crime. You now get a free Optimus, and it's just going to follow you around and stop you from doing crime. Other than that, you get to do anything; it's just going to stop you from committing crime. That's really it. You don't have to put people in prisons and stuff. It's pretty wild to think of all the possibilities, but I think it's clearly the future." Tesla Shareholder Meeting, November 6, 2025 E @ElonClipsX
November 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Most people rejected his message
Left: Zohran Mamdani Right: Cam'ron Caption: NYC Mayor Hopeful Zohran Mamdani Under Fire—For Loving Dipset Too Much
November 5, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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Wore a polo to work today 😎😤💪
derek guy @dieworkwear people got mad when i said men look bad in these shirts, regardless of build. but i'm right. if you're forced to wear one, you at least need a tailored jacket to make it look halfway good. but even then, you are always better off wearing something else. But if you're in shape. The polo shirt is top tier gettyimages Credit: Brian Babineau
October 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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In this interview, Curtis Sliwa looked and sounded like Creed from the Office.
Curtis Sliwa sitting and wearing a suit in a room with white walls and a white board in a corner behind him. He isn't wearing his red hat. On screen text: THE NATE FRIEDMAN SHOW Caption: Well, number one, Ackman is a jerk as he been right yet
October 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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I get around this by just releasing all my AI prompts as NFTs
Prashant @Prashant 1722 Follow Grok Imagine trick: Add "day to night transition" to your prompt. In shots like this, you'll see a beautiful harmonious effect as the day turns into night. xAI has built an incredible model. ax OscarAI 0 @Artedeingenio Subscribe Never do this: Passing off someone else's work as your oWn. This Grok Imagine effect with the day-to-night transition was created by I% and I'm pretty sure that person me knows it. To make things worse, their copy has more impressions than my original post Not cool Prashant 0 @Prashant 1722 . 3d Grok Imagine trick: Add "day to night transition" to your prompt In shots like this, you'll see a beautiful, har.. Readers added context Content created by Al is not protected by copyright. Therefore anyone can freely copy past and even monetize any Al generated image, video or animation, even if somebody else made it. copyright.gov/ai/ Do you find this helpful? Rate it
October 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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In less than a month, my novel The Ganymedan, which combines Altered Carbon with the spacefacing intrigue of The Expanse, will be out in stores. Please consider pre-ordering a copy. If you already have, thank you kindly!

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Me holding up a physical copy of my book The Ganymedan Inside title page: The Ganymedan R.T. Ester Solaris Page/excerpt from The Ganymedan: DEPROG In the days following Archer Lenox-Pileser’s death, the official account of what happened on the outskirts of Paradox would go unchallenged. A spacer—a sentient ship—had unwittingly ferried his assassin to the station. While docked for a refuel, the spacer learned of its error and alerted Martian Patrol. The assassin then broke out of the spacer using a signal skipper and a wedger. He died of vacuum exposure before Patrol arrived. Every news feed was whipped into endless war speculation by then. The matter of Archer Lenox-Pileser’s final death—shocking as it may have been when it broke—vanished in a few weeks. At Gan, a woman who’d also been in the news allowed her brother to bring a pair of sentients near her tent. She wept into her palm heels while a song for the killer played, harkening back to ghosts pre-Frontier and past evictions from dome houses they built on Ganymede. When she could spare some composure for the sentients, she invited them in. They dropped off a device the killer had wanted her to keep, then gave the full account.
October 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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WATTBA
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October 13, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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What we should know is that this deal could have done a long time ago. Hamas agreed to all of the same terms in September 2024 in what became known as the “Three Weeks Deal” that I had received in writing and voice message in Arabic and in English. But at that point the response of the Israeli negotiators was that “the Prime Minister did not agree to end the war”. Even though the “Three Week Deal” proposal landed on the desk of President Biden, his person in charge, Bret McGurk, refused to sway from the bad deal that he was negotiating. I met with members of the American negotiating team in October 2024 and they were as frustrated as I was in their inability to convince Biden and Biden’s people to look seriously at the deal on the table. The Qataris invited me to Doha in October 2024 and I presented to them the deal that Hamas agreed to, which they were fully aware of but they said without the American adoption of the plan, nothing could be done, because the obstacle was Israel, not Hamas. That is the same message I received from the Egyptian intelligence – Hamas was ready for a deal to release all of the hostages, not to govern Gaza and longer and to end the war. But Israel was not ready.
October 10, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Tiktok's new owners: we must root out the hamas influence on America's young minds so they stop calling it a genocide.

Trump (after reading hamas statement explicitly calling it that): Facts. 10/10. No notes. Liked and shared.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump + Important Statement On Hamas' Response to U.S. President Trump's Proposal Out of keenness to end the aggression and genocide being carried out against our steadfast people in the Gaza Strip. and stemming from national responsibility, and in defense of the constants, rights, and higher interests of our people, the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas has conducted in-depth consultations within its leadership institutions, broad consultations with Palestinian forces and factions, and consultations with brothers, mediators, and friends, in order to reach a responsible position in dealing with U.S. President Donald Trump's plan. After thorough study, the movement has made its decision and conveyed the following response to the mediators: Hamas appreciates the Arab, Islamic, and international efforts, as well as the efforts of U.S. President Donald Trump, calling for an end to the war on the Gaza Strip, the exchange of prisoners, the immediate entry of aid, the rejection of the occupation of the Strip, and the rejection of the displacement of our Palestinian people from it. Within this framework, and in a manner that achieves an end to the war and a full withdrawal from the Strip, the movement announces its approval of releasing all occupation prisoners - both Iiving and remain - according to the exchange formula contained in President Trump's proposal, with the necessary field conditions for implementing the exchange. In this context. the movement affirms its readiness to immediately enter, through the mediators, into negotiations to discuss the details. The movement also reaffirms its approval to hand over the administration of the Gaza Strip to a Palestinian body of independents (technocrats) based on Palestinian national consensus and supported by Arab and Islamic backing. As for other issues induded in President Trump's proposal concerning the future of the Gaza Strip and the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, this is tied …
October 4, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Recommended reading
Book cover for The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins: Big and red background Text: The Jakarta Method Washington's Anticommunist Crusade & The Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World Vincent Bevins
September 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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THX 1138 Robert Duvall and AI Jesus
September 19, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Incredible
USNA 85 . From the Commandant: 1. Concerns of the active shooter started on Yodel, an anonymous chat platform. The threat was traced to the IP address of an issued laptop belonging to a separated midshipman. He was confirmed to be in his parents house in the Midwest. No active shooter is believed to have been on the yard 2. One midshipman was injured after mistaking law enforcement for the shooter due to misinformation of the shooter posing as law enforcement. Midshipman clubbed base security in the head with his parade rifle was shot in the arm. Both are stable and receiving treatment
September 12, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Someone at the US Naval Academy saw fake news about a real active shooter lockdown on campus and ended up trying to kill one of the cops there
David Forman 18:40 to BRIGADE, ALLCOSEL, MyBattOs v ... Brigade, To the best of our knowledge now, a MIDN mistook authorized law enforcement as a threat, engaged, and the MIDN was injured in the process. The MIDN is stable and receiving medical attention. We don't want this to happen again. We still need to clear 7th wing from a security perspective, but for now, we have evacuated all law enforcement from 7th wing. We are going to pair active duty Bancroft Staff members with law enforcement to re-enter 7th wing and safety evacuate all MIDN from 7th wing. Please stay calm as we do this. We may knock on your door, we will tell you who we are, and we'll ask you to evacuate to Halsey Field House. Please don't bring anything with you. Leave your belongings, and leave your door open after you leave.
September 12, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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America century of humiliation
Which is why we need that other mission, the Mars sample return. The mission that was supposed to happen, but then ran into the funding trouble, and at this point, we don't really know what's going to happen. The original plan was for China should just go in and grab these samples and bring them back
September 12, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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I'm tapped in
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August 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Abundance by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson "A must-read for progressives who want a blueprint for reforming government so it can deliver for working people."
August 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Tweet from Christine Pelosi: This Epstein case is horrific and the young women deserve justice. It is quite likely that some of our faves are implicated but we must follow the facts and let the chips fall where they may - whether on Republicans or Democrats. #WeSaidEnough #MeToo
July 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Much of the Stargate project’s local support stems from its promise to bring jobs to a region that has long been considered part of small-town Texas. And while the economic potential of the Stargate project has understandably generated excitement, the long-term benefits may be far more limited than promised. Building a data center requires a lot of labor, but maintaining one does not—which explains why, despite the 1,500 people currently working on construction, the project has only promised 357 permanent positions. Undeniably, the over 100,000 jobs that OpenAI promised for the overall Stargate project seems fantastical.
July 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Wow. I would never have guessed this about Dan Bongino.
Tweet screenshot: Dan Bongino either lied to us on his podcast for several years or he is lying to us now…
July 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Started reading the DSA operations manual
Close up of users manual for 'hoverboard' scooter. Light blue scooter with 'OPERATION MANUAL DSA-MFH' in all caps underneath
July 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Box office Jim
Cameron’s film, which has not yet begun formal production, will be an adaptation of Charles Pellegrino’s forthcoming nonfiction book Ghosts of Hiroshima, which brings together testimonies from victims and survivors of the attacks. Before then he will release the latest Avatar film, Fire and Ash. His first entry in that franchise is the highest-grossing film of all time, while the sequel is the third. Avengers: Endgame is the second highest-grossing film, but Cameron’s 1997 disaster movie Titanic is the fourth.
July 4, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Hundred percent agree this band is fake AI bullshit but, reading the article, I came across this and I can't say I was previously aware of AI's trademark negation construct. Like I have to be honest, I by myself would never have guessed that first sentence at least could be AI-generated lol
"The Velvet Sundown aren’t trying to revive the past," the blurb reads, using AI's trademark negation construct. "They’re rewriting it. They sound like the memory of a time that never actually happened… but somehow they make it feel real."
July 2, 2025 at 12:32 AM