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Stephen Cox
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Novelist+comms. London, bi, Quaker, parent. Spooky? THE CROOKED MEDIUM's GUIDE TO MURDER. "A pleasure from start to finish"

Also Our Child of the Stars/Our Child of Two Worlds.

https://stephencox.co.uk/ https://linktr.ee/stephencoxauthor
The most striking thing is he doesn't need the AI.
January 21, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Apparently one has to state the bleeding obvious.
January 21, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Anyone who believes Anonymous was about the public good, I have a bridge to sell you
January 21, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Fine of 20% for a first offence, methinks. 100% for second and later ones
January 21, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Reposted by Stephen Cox
I have also heard that when they user-tested Clippy, most of the women who used it were like, "It's so creepy, we hate it, can we turn it off?" and the all-male design team took that as a sign to proceed.
January 20, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Agree, and the scheme has got less progressive not more.
January 20, 2026 at 2:55 PM
They can track your car, your phone, and you. If they think you're a wrong un, they can get your financial records and possibly medical ones.

We need MORE surveillance????!
January 20, 2026 at 12:40 PM
good
January 20, 2026 at 11:06 AM
I do think the 1974 wargame scenario (a three day invasion, repelled, but at significant cost) is one of the most interesting. Hitler seen as fallible. Might Russia attack. Etc.
January 19, 2026 at 1:18 PM
The two trad books history is changed by the arrival of aliens, signalled very dramatically in the book. In the latest, I'm looking at a similar twist. As for the Confederacy, there's a route for Europe to recognise it but I suspect there would have been another war.
January 19, 2026 at 10:07 AM
Yes, the "only giant space bats" people. I always qualify my view with 'if British morale holds'.
January 19, 2026 at 10:03 AM
You are right but it is not fit for purpose
IT MAKES SHIT UP.
Lawyers find nonexistant cases
My brother in law found it misrepresented scientific papers

It is not Luddite to evaluate the quality of what is done.

(also the Luddites had no way of making their point short of violence)
January 19, 2026 at 9:38 AM
If I had written Trump as the President in my first unpublisheed novel, it would have been written off as ridiculous.
January 19, 2026 at 8:55 AM