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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 2d

I've been thinking about this ever since I read it... and I think there's some deep truth to this. COVID as well broke our connection with reality, but decades of pretending the climate wasn't shifting laid the foundation for delusion-as-cope at large.

Andrew Dana Hudson @solarshades.club · Aug 25

I wrote about how climate change might be behind our acceptance of politicians that lie to us, chatbots that hallucinate, the general unravelling of consensus reality—and what we do about it.
www.solarshades.club/p/how-climat...

How Climate Broke Reality

We can't agree on what's true. Is it because the truth about the planet is too inconvenient?

www.solarshades.club

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Andrew Dana Hudson @solarshades.club · 8d

So you can preorder my novel...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/803125...

Absence by Andrew Dana Hudson: 9781641297585 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

In this moving, richly detailed speculative crime debut, the world is unraveling from an epidemic of human vanishing. Two novice investigators are dispatched to small-town Kansas to interview a woman ...

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Andrew Dana Hudson @solarshades.club · 13d

Got one of these through my website today. The “reply with the words I am interested” ask felt like a dead giveaway.

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Words-ish Katamari @cyballard.bsky.social · Aug 26

FINALLY dealt with the annoying AZ rental brick wall next to my bed. Wove them on my rigid heddle with some cotton/linen blend from my local yarn store and some stash while watching Vampire Diaries bc it’s been a summer

Five woven pieces of fabric on a gray brick wall in gold, light green, aquamarine, and teal. Guest starring sea scorpion and giant isopod plushes

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Andrew Dana Hudson @solarshades.club · Aug 25

I wrote about how climate change might be behind our acceptance of politicians that lie to us, chatbots that hallucinate, the general unravelling of consensus reality—and what we do about it.
www.solarshades.club/p/how-climat...

How Climate Broke Reality

We can't agree on what's true. Is it because the truth about the planet is too inconvenient?

www.solarshades.club

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New Door Books @newdoorbooks.bsky.social · Aug 24

@solarshades.club connects #climate denial to the surge of reality denial we are all experiencing.
www.solarshades.club/p/how-climat...

How Climate Broke Reality

We can't agree on what's true. Is it because the truth about the planet is too inconvenient?

www.solarshades.club

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · Aug 24

"inaction in the face of a terrible reality has culturally prepared us to collectively acquiesce to"(lies of all kinds)—from @solarshades.club

I agree although I'd emphasize that people *demand* the lies; the reality denial is *active* for many.
#climatesky

www.solarshades.club/p/how-climat...

How Climate Broke Reality

We can't agree on what's true. Is it because the truth about the planet is too inconvenient?

www.solarshades.club

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Andrew Dana Hudson @solarshades.club · Jul 28

If we're going to make CDR work for both the climate and communities, we need to talk seriously about the scope of our civilizational project.

www.solarshades.club/p/where-and-...

Where and When (and How Much) to Fix the Climate

reflections on carbon removal and environmental justice

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Jul 26

I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.

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Andrew Dana Hudson @solarshades.club · Jul 25

Published this story in February lol
lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/an-o...

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Andrew Dana Hudson @solarshades.club · Jul 13

Pure thermochauvinism

www.solarshades.club/p/against-th...

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SolarPunk Stories @solarpunkstories.bsky.social · Jul 13

‘The very name “solarpunk” implies that scientific breakthroughs alone won’t fix our environmental, social and economic problems.... No magical tech fixes for us. We’ll have to do it the hard way: with politics.’ - @solarshades.club Do you agree? medium.com/solarpunks/o...

Medium

https://medium.com/solarpunks/on-the-political-dimensions-of-solarpunk-c5a7b4bf8df4>

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · Jun 30

when people feel the need to confess to me, a hater, how and when they use chatgpt?? as if i might grant papal dispensation for their little emails??? honey that's between you, god, and the melting ice caps good luck

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · Jun 28

You read this shit and you just wonder how this tech can be legally and widely accessible to people.
futurism.com/commitment-j...

Her husband, she said, had no prior history of mania, delusion, or psychosis. He'd turned to ChatGPT about 12 weeks ago for assistance with a permaculture and construction project; soon, after engaging the bot in probing philosophical chats, he became engulfed in messianic delusions, proclaiming that he had somehow brought forth a sentient AI, and that with it he had "broken" math and physics, embarking on a grandiose mission to save the world. His gentle personality faded as his obsession deepened, and his behavior became so erratic that he was let go from his job. He stopped sleeping and rapidly lost weight.

"He was like, 'just talk to [ChatGPT]. You'll see what I'm talking about,'" his wife recalled. "And every time I'm looking at what's going on the screen, it just sounds like a bunch of affirming, sycophantic bullsh*t."

Eventually, the husband slid into a full-tilt break with reality. Realizing how bad things had become, his wife and a friend went out to buy enough gas to make it to the hospital. When they returned, the husband had a length of rope wrapped around his neck.

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Andrew Dana Hudson @solarshades.club · Jun 16

In 2015, I wrote a long essay about solarpunk politics. How has it held up?
www.solarshades.club/p/the-politi...

The Political Dimensions of Solarpunk...Ten Years Later

We've spent a decade imagining better futures. Now what?

www.solarshades.club

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Benjamin Harnett @benjaminharnett.com · Jun 15

We are in the 5 out of 6 doctors smoke chesterfields period of Gen AI-technology and we’re not going to make it out without a lot of death and destruction.

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Andrew Dana Hudson @solarshades.club · Jun 9

Wow and last I heard sleeping outside in California is one of the worst sins imaginable

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Andrew Dana Hudson @solarshades.club · Jun 8

Putting together an AWP panel proposal on ‘pandemic literature’ and looking for one more potential panelist. If you’ve got something covid-inspired out or coming out, hmu!

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · Jun 7

Watching events that I lived through be completely distorted by ideologues in real time has increased my skepticism toward the average history book by about 500%.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Jun 7

Every one of these covid-revisionism pieces consists of people lying to your face about events that you remember
www.persuasion.community/p/frances-le...

Now, very quickly, the idea of let's not have concerts indoors turned into let's close down schools and let's have government regulations tell people you're not allowed to leave your house unless you have an excuse and so on and so forth. The idea of flatten the curve turned into make people stay at home indefinitely. That is a really striking development that happened within a span of a few weeks in March 2020. How did that come about?

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Andrew Dana Hudson @solarshades.club · May 15

One thing I haven't seen brought up much is that, while vetting potential panelists may be a necessary and time-intensive task, the prompt amounting to "here's a list of names, compile dossiers of their scandals and transgressions" is in fact a very dystopian use of AI.

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Andrew Dana Hudson @solarshades.club · May 12

Collecting my thoughts on what we do now that every college student is either using AI to cheat or struggling with the temptation

www.solarshades.club/p/dispatch-f...

Dispatch from the Trenches of the Butlerian Jihad

Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine.

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New Door Books @newdoorbooks.bsky.social · May 12

@solarshades.club on AI's use by students: it lets them "skip the 'desirable difficulties' that produce real learning."
www.solarshades.club/p/dispatch-f...

Dispatch from the Trenches of the Butlerian Jihad

Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine.

www.solarshades.club

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · May 11

Great newsletter: "Dispatch from the Trenches of the Butlerian Jihad" @solarshades.club www.solarshades.club/p/dispatch-f...

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Jay Springett @thejaymo.net · May 8

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Andrew Dana Hudson @solarshades.club · May 7

English teacher here. Reading bot-generated text is mentally and spiritually deadening. Triply so when I'm trying to sort out the slop from actual student writing. It smears the entire educational process with both paranoia and disingenuousness on all sides.

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