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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

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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

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · Aug 13
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 words "An instant USA Today and Indie bestseller" arch over a picture of my novella "Automatic Noodle," with a picture of a robot hand holding biang biang noodles in chopsticks, done in rainbow colors. There is a faint flower pattern in the background of the picture.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 2h
the call of churu unleashes eldrich purror

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 13h
A group has suggested, albeit without evidence, that the cats of San Francisco have formed a powerful, psychic hive mind that forces me to raise money for the demonic Churu sect. Luckily @nytimes.com is on the case, and will be covering this important story.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 1d
you're welcome! hope it helps.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 1d
It's always appropriate to discuss polar exploration

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 1d
How do you replace magical thinking with critical thinking? Question for our #SciWri25 plenary speaker but it really is the true challenge of our times. 🧪#ScienceSky

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 2d
Haha glad you liked Bannerless!

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 3d
Yay!! 🤖💖

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 3d
Totally agree! I love its mouthfeel!

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 3d
Went to the Santa Cruz Bookshop (in California) and secretly signed their last copy of Automatic Noodle!

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 3d
Ha! That's the perfect name. People sometimes call them belt noodles in English.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 3d
OMG that looks soooooo good

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pcmag.com @pcmag.com · 3d
After all, if you post enough to social media that a stranger can build a picture of your daily schedule, what you do for a living, where you work, where you eat, and the products and services you use, they can probably make an educated attempt to pose as you.
Oversharing, Weak Passwords, and Digital IDs: How Your Online Life Is Feeding Hackers, Scammers, and Governments
After all, if you post enough to social media that a stranger can build a picture of your daily schedule, what you do for a living, where you work, where you eat, and the products and services you use, they can probably make an educated attempt to pose as you. So, take our advice and just post less, OK?
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 4d
Thank you so much!

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 4d
Yay!! 🤖💖

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 5d
The problem with digital ID cards isn't what you think. Here's why Britain and other nations should stop pushing digital ID apps, right now. My latest for @newscientist.com, now free from the paywall! www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
Digital ID cards could be a disaster in the UK and beyond
The British government isn't the only one looking to introduce digital ID cards. There is so much to worry about here, not least the threat of hacks, says Annalee Newitz
www.newscientist.com

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 5d
And so it continues ...

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 5d
Defense says that the officer's testimony was "very questionable" because he said the sandwich both exploded in spray of mustard and onions and also landed in its wrapper on the ground.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 6d
Glad to see this guy in his "find out" phase

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 6d
Sending all my love to New York City right now. Fuck yeah. What a great town.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 6d
I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 6d
In the intro issue of New Left Review, Stuart Hall noted, “The humanist strengths of socialism—which are the foundations for a genuinely popular socialist movement—must be developed in cultural and social terms, as well as in economic and political.“

Zohran Kwame Mamdani‘s campaign got the point!

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jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 6d
Virginia's election results should teach us that people reject anti-trans politics, and we must all immediately move as far left as possible on the issue

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 6d
I'm so happy to hear that

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 6d
Hell yeah!

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 6d
“Condé was content to hold Teen Vogue up as a prop for diversity, youth representation and progressive ideals when it benefited it, and then to unceremoniously discard the entire publication”

a sad, too-fucking-familiar story
What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 8d
Yep. The problem is that we are actively funding a business that promotes reinventing slavery. When the AGI fantasy fails, corporations will look for another group to enslave

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 8d
I think it was definitely percolating in the back of my mind, but so were the works of Beatrix Potter and so many fairy tales with talking objects.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 8d
If your business plan is "we will make human-equivalent beings" and "we will buy and sell what we make," then you've just put billions of dollars into reinventing chattel slavery.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 9d
Nooooooooooooooo
a cartoon of a bird crying in front of a laptop computer
ALT: a cartoon of a bird crying in front of a laptop computer
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 9d
Yep