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Annalee Newitz
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bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd
latest books: Automatic Noodle, Stories Are Weapons
bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc.
pod: www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com
pronouns: they/them
all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com .. more

Annalee Newitz is an American journalist, editor, and author of both fiction and nonfiction. From 1999 to 2008, Newitz wrote a syndicated weekly column called Techsploitation, and from 2000 to 2004 was the culture editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. In 2004, Newitz became a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. With Charlie Jane Anders, they also co-founded Other magazine, a periodical that ran from 2002 to 2007. From 2008 to 2015, Newitz was editor-in-chief of Gawker-owned media venture io9, and subsequently its direct descendant Gizmodo, Gawker's design and technology blog. They have written for the periodicals Popular Science, Film Quarterly and Wired. As of 2019, Newitz is a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times. .. more

Communication & Media Studies 20%
Political science 19%
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Holy crap -- Automatic Noodle is an instant USA Today and Indie bestseller! Thank you so much, humans and robots, for reading this li'l book and making it soar. Now go eat something! Or get your noodle swag at automaticnoodle.website

The two sides of the SFF ledger: cunt and cunt

Initially confused by the use of cunt (derogatory) rather than the more-common cunt (complimentary). "Cunty Rick Berman?" I asked myself. "No, it can't be."

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The stories and essays in We Will Rise Again, a new SFF collection edited by @older.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social and Karen Lord, already hit hard, but in the new year I daresay they're even more on point.
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Voices of resistance to dystopian forces coalesce in collection’s stories, essays
Speculative fiction has no shortage of oppressive dystopias, from George Orwell’s 1984 to Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games. But how do ordinary people fight back? What does successful resistance to ...
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A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference | TechCrunch
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
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Yes. I honestly think about this movie all the time.

Nice!

I hope you like it! I'm glad the book found its way into your hands.

Glad you liked it!!

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"Automatic Noodle" by @annaleen.bsky.social
An utter delight of a little book. I ate this up so fast. I am trying to read more "comfy" sci-fi, and this hits all those notes. There's commentary on war, identity, and rights, but it's not preachy or heavy-handed. It's a warm bowl of soup. #booksky

lol yes

I think all the time about how Titus was sacking Judea and finishing the Colosseum at roughly the same time. Wartime profiteer/entertainment mogul energy that feels eerily familiar.

their loss! super randomly I learned yesterday that the word for cuneiform likely came from the Latin "cunnus" which cracked me up

There has to be something ... !

Make haste to your closest hand-pulled noodle joint!

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I just learned about this one yesterday but I can tell it’s staying forever

so glad you enjoyed Automatic Noodle!! 🤖

That makes total sense. But also: I've never heard people call cuneiform "wedges"! Love it. Can learned Assyriologists be wedge heads?

Heck yeah Sanskrit

Ohh! Very cool.

It was its own thing, but it did overlap a lot with early Greek culture

not that kind of supine lol

Do you happen to know if it existed in Mycenaean? I thought it was part of early Greek ...

Really? Amazing.

OK who can tell me what languages have the supine case in them.

yay!!

Honored to see "Automatic Noodle" on @andrewliptak.com's year-end list! He's one of the best book critics out there -- a dying breed! -- and I highly recommend subscribing to his newsletter.

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I enjoyed every page, and they were some of the few bright points in the last year.
The best sci-fi, fantasy, and horror reads from 2025
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I dunno I'm not super excited for that universe to become real 💀

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