Stockton Smith
@stocktonsmith.bsky.social
Mystery writer. Permanent research phase. Wrote The Hollow Oak and Benoni's Defense. https://stocktonsmithbooks.com/
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Felonious Means: A psychedelic noir thriller
Alex Garibaldi is the kind of guy Cass and Artie can't stand. He's an unrepentant robber baron, coked up on self-importance, and used to everyone around him following his commands to the letter.
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Felonious Means, the third book in the Inveztigators series is out NOW! Grab an ebook, paperbacks are coming soon, and it's on kindle unlimited:
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G4HSBTGM
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Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
December 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
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Any article observing that the AI bubble is about to burst *but then suggesting AI is too important to our financial systems to be allowed to fail* is missing the point. Generative AI is a massive fraud and a brain drain on humanity, even leaving theft and resource issues aside.
December 19, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Any article observing that the AI bubble is about to burst *but then suggesting AI is too important to our financial systems to be allowed to fail* is missing the point. Generative AI is a massive fraud and a brain drain on humanity, even leaving theft and resource issues aside.
And a lot of that military money is going through a revolving door to the private sector. capitalists take turns as government officials and set up contracts with their friends (and themselves). It's in my novel Benoni's Defense!
Government services aren't businesses. Delivering mail to citizens is something we pay for.
But if these are businesses, you won't believe how much money the military loses.
But if these are businesses, you won't believe how much money the military loses.
The USPS faces a tight squeeze. With fewer people using the mail, it’s lost more and more money: $9 billion in the 12 months ending in September alone.
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
December 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
And a lot of that military money is going through a revolving door to the private sector. capitalists take turns as government officials and set up contracts with their friends (and themselves). It's in my novel Benoni's Defense!
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The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse?
You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.
You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.
December 24, 2025 at 2:53 AM
The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse?
You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.
You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.
search engines already had a pay-to-play scheme that would give you garbage, misinformation, and straight up propaganda, but now, with people using AI instead of searching for results, you can get EVEN WORSE information with no idea how it's sourced. Progress?
In the past week, I've seen stories of AI:
- being used by middle schoolers to make porn of other students
- calling innocent people sex offenders
- shutting down highways with busted-ass self-driving cars
- emitting more CO2 than New York City
What the fuck are we even doing?
- being used by middle schoolers to make porn of other students
- calling innocent people sex offenders
- shutting down highways with busted-ass self-driving cars
- emitting more CO2 than New York City
What the fuck are we even doing?
New from me: The storied fiddler Ashley MacIsaac wanted to play a show at a Nova Scotia First Nation. It got cancelled because Google's AI search summary incorrectly called him a sex offender. Now he's worried for his safety www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
December 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
search engines already had a pay-to-play scheme that would give you garbage, misinformation, and straight up propaganda, but now, with people using AI instead of searching for results, you can get EVEN WORSE information with no idea how it's sourced. Progress?
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Felonious Means, the third book in the Inveztigators series is out NOW! Grab an ebook, paperbacks are coming soon, and it's on kindle unlimited:
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G4HSBTGM
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G4HSBTGM
Felonious Means: A psychedelic noir thriller
Alex Garibaldi is the kind of guy Cass and Artie can't stand. He's an unrepentant robber baron, coked up on self-importance, and used to everyone around him following his commands to the letter.
A ra...
www.amazon.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Felonious Means, the third book in the Inveztigators series is out NOW! Grab an ebook, paperbacks are coming soon, and it's on kindle unlimited:
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G4HSBTGM
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G4HSBTGM
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In the past week, I've seen stories of AI:
- being used by middle schoolers to make porn of other students
- calling innocent people sex offenders
- shutting down highways with busted-ass self-driving cars
- emitting more CO2 than New York City
What the fuck are we even doing?
- being used by middle schoolers to make porn of other students
- calling innocent people sex offenders
- shutting down highways with busted-ass self-driving cars
- emitting more CO2 than New York City
What the fuck are we even doing?
New from me: The storied fiddler Ashley MacIsaac wanted to play a show at a Nova Scotia First Nation. It got cancelled because Google's AI search summary incorrectly called him a sex offender. Now he's worried for his safety www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Fiddler Ashley MacIsaac has show cancelled over Google AI-generated misinformation
Cape Breton musician was set to perform in Nova Scotia before a search summary incorrectly described him as a sex offender
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
In the past week, I've seen stories of AI:
- being used by middle schoolers to make porn of other students
- calling innocent people sex offenders
- shutting down highways with busted-ass self-driving cars
- emitting more CO2 than New York City
What the fuck are we even doing?
- being used by middle schoolers to make porn of other students
- calling innocent people sex offenders
- shutting down highways with busted-ass self-driving cars
- emitting more CO2 than New York City
What the fuck are we even doing?
finally feeling seen
December 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
finally feeling seen
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Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.
ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.
December 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.
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I like this poster that looks like Frankenstein is skanking.
December 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I like this poster that looks like Frankenstein is skanking.
should be super easy to find that car with all the draconian FLOCK cameras and other ubiquitous surveillance equipment, but FBI is probably using it to find people at a protest or something.
December 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
should be super easy to find that car with all the draconian FLOCK cameras and other ubiquitous surveillance equipment, but FBI is probably using it to find people at a protest or something.
I'm proposing mutually assured destruction. Make everyone a billionaire!
A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.
This is obscene. Why can't other politicians say that?
The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.
The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.
December 18, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I'm proposing mutually assured destruction. Make everyone a billionaire!
And kept providing weapons after he knew EXACTLY how the weapons were being used. For as long as he had the power to. Against notable public disapproval in the form of nationwide protests. AND was willing to lose the election to keep doing it.
Biden literally provided the arms for Israel's unlimited child murder and ran cover for Israel, we will not let you rewrite history to hide the blood on your hands
December 18, 2025 at 4:29 AM
And kept providing weapons after he knew EXACTLY how the weapons were being used. For as long as he had the power to. Against notable public disapproval in the form of nationwide protests. AND was willing to lose the election to keep doing it.
Amazon is going to start allowing DRM-free epub and pdf downloads of ebooks in January. This is a step forward. I always select for my books to be DRM-free because you bought the motherfucker, you should own a copy, but so far, there's no actual way for you to easily download them from Amazon.
December 18, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Amazon is going to start allowing DRM-free epub and pdf downloads of ebooks in January. This is a step forward. I always select for my books to be DRM-free because you bought the motherfucker, you should own a copy, but so far, there's no actual way for you to easily download them from Amazon.
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Facebook made an algorithm that gave Boomers whatever they wanted, and they destroyed democracy, and then all those FB product managers went over to OpenAI and made ChatGPT, and now they've made a chatbot that tells Boomers whatever they want to hear, and... well, this should go great.
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Facebook made an algorithm that gave Boomers whatever they wanted, and they destroyed democracy, and then all those FB product managers went over to OpenAI and made ChatGPT, and now they've made a chatbot that tells Boomers whatever they want to hear, and... well, this should go great.
"In America, we do not jail people for political speech [unless it's too critical, hurts our feelings, or disrupts capital]."
Good news is, people tend to see freedom of speech as important, and public pressure makes the difference. He SHOULD win this lawsuit.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_sp...
Good news is, people tend to see freedom of speech as important, and public pressure makes the difference. He SHOULD win this lawsuit.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_sp...
December 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"In America, we do not jail people for political speech [unless it's too critical, hurts our feelings, or disrupts capital]."
Good news is, people tend to see freedom of speech as important, and public pressure makes the difference. He SHOULD win this lawsuit.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_sp...
Good news is, people tend to see freedom of speech as important, and public pressure makes the difference. He SHOULD win this lawsuit.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_sp...
they're waking up and realizing every year is cursed
One thing I'm really glad I've stopped seeing on social media is "Ugh can [current year] just end already" posts. It started in about 2014-2015, and every year people somehow associated their unhappiness with whatever calendar year it was, naming that year individually cursed. It baffled me.
December 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
they're waking up and realizing every year is cursed
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For generations people “cut off” parents by moving away and mailing them a card once a year. Travel and long distance phone calls were expensive; distance effectively cut people off w/o being so explicit.
The difference now is that communication is cheap so cutting them off requires being explicit.
The difference now is that communication is cheap so cutting them off requires being explicit.
There's no hard data, so it's impossible to know for sure, but I suspect the number of adult children cutting off their parents isn't significantly higher than it used to be, and what's actually new is that the children are now explaining it in therapy terms rather than simply ceasing contact.
December 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
For generations people “cut off” parents by moving away and mailing them a card once a year. Travel and long distance phone calls were expensive; distance effectively cut people off w/o being so explicit.
The difference now is that communication is cheap so cutting them off requires being explicit.
The difference now is that communication is cheap so cutting them off requires being explicit.
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If you want a book by a 41 year old crone who whittled it with her bare hands and clacking keyboard and barks at AI like a feral mongoose, spend your money here 🫶😃🧟♀️
Today, The Barre Incidents is officially released upon the world. A Horror book about grieving the “easy” parent (who is undead), falling for your best friend, learning cryptids are real, and banished, embittered gods. Happy born day TBI! You can order here! malarkeybooks.com/store/barre-...
December 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
If you want a book by a 41 year old crone who whittled it with her bare hands and clacking keyboard and barks at AI like a feral mongoose, spend your money here 🫶😃🧟♀️
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I wrote a post about pressing letters and going slow
Embrace friction
On letterpress, tech, and the power of going slow.
eva.town
December 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I wrote a post about pressing letters and going slow
Felonious Means, the third book in the Inveztigators series is out NOW! Grab an ebook, paperbacks are coming soon, and it's on kindle unlimited:
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G4HSBTGM
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G4HSBTGM
Felonious Means: A psychedelic noir thriller
Alex Garibaldi is the kind of guy Cass and Artie can't stand. He's an unrepentant robber baron, coked up on self-importance, and used to everyone around him following his commands to the letter.
A ra...
www.amazon.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Felonious Means, the third book in the Inveztigators series is out NOW! Grab an ebook, paperbacks are coming soon, and it's on kindle unlimited:
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G4HSBTGM
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G4HSBTGM
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The "Larry Summers complained to Jeffrey Epstein that MeToo went too far" and "Olivia Nuzzi committed crimes on behalf of the fascist she masturbated with while reporting on him" are the same story: American elites have no ideology other than "I should be untouchable." Society is run by empty husks
November 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The "Larry Summers complained to Jeffrey Epstein that MeToo went too far" and "Olivia Nuzzi committed crimes on behalf of the fascist she masturbated with while reporting on him" are the same story: American elites have no ideology other than "I should be untouchable." Society is run by empty husks
Why Short Novels?
I wrote something short about short novels. Long story short, I love the unity of experience and how fast they move.
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I wrote something short about short novels. Long story short, I love the unity of experience and how fast they move.
stocktonsmithbooks.com/notes#why_sh...
Case Notes
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November 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Why Short Novels?
I wrote something short about short novels. Long story short, I love the unity of experience and how fast they move.
stocktonsmithbooks.com/notes#why_sh...
I wrote something short about short novels. Long story short, I love the unity of experience and how fast they move.
stocktonsmithbooks.com/notes#why_sh...