Sean Dillon
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Let us assume that we are fucked.
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I’d missed that NaNoWriMo managed to kill itself in a single year purely by crassly endorsing AI. Amazing. You don’t get self-immolations like that often.
I'm glad National Novel-Writing Month is dead and we never have to talk about it again.
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I’d missed that NaNoWriMo managed to kill itself in a single year purely by crassly endorsing AI. Amazing. You don’t get self-immolations like that often.
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This is a hell of a read, and that special kind of essay where I know I would never have had the background knowledge or aptitude to draw the conclusions made, but those conclusions are explained clearly enough that I understand how they were reached.
If that makes sense.
Anyway: it’s good.
If that makes sense.
Anyway: it’s good.
In which I articulate the case that AGI is impossible and machines just plain cannot think. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/on-inco...
On Incomputable Language: An Essay on AI
An incidental consequence of having written a book on tech-fascism and the so-called rationalist movement is that I find myself periodically queried for my thoughts on artificial intelligence. On the ...
www.eruditorumpress.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
This is a hell of a read, and that special kind of essay where I know I would never have had the background knowledge or aptitude to draw the conclusions made, but those conclusions are explained clearly enough that I understand how they were reached.
If that makes sense.
Anyway: it’s good.
If that makes sense.
Anyway: it’s good.
I have been waiting for this to go public for years. It does not disappoint.
In which I articulate the case that AGI is impossible and machines just plain cannot think. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/on-inco...
On Incomputable Language: An Essay on AI
An incidental consequence of having written a book on tech-fascism and the so-called rationalist movement is that I find myself periodically queried for my thoughts on artificial intelligence. On the ...
www.eruditorumpress.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I have been waiting for this to go public for years. It does not disappoint.
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mamdani is a no go, but marjorie taylor greene the transphobic, racist, homophobic antisemite bigot - they have room for her, they got room for nazi tattoo guy. no room for you though.
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 6:08 AM
mamdani is a no go, but marjorie taylor greene the transphobic, racist, homophobic antisemite bigot - they have room for her, they got room for nazi tattoo guy. no room for you though.
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Rebecca Heineman doesn't have much time left. If you can, please donate for her and her family to make end of life arrangements.
One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...
One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...
Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman
I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer
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November 17, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Rebecca Heineman doesn't have much time left. If you can, please donate for her and her family to make end of life arrangements.
One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...
One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...
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Tomorrow morning on Eruditorum Press, ON INCOMPUTABLE LANGUAGE: AN ESSAY ON AI. Ten thousand words exploring the case that computers cannot and never will be able to pass the Turing Test. Don't miss it.
November 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Tomorrow morning on Eruditorum Press, ON INCOMPUTABLE LANGUAGE: AN ESSAY ON AI. Ten thousand words exploring the case that computers cannot and never will be able to pass the Turing Test. Don't miss it.
Though @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social is over, its presence lingers still.
November 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Though @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social is over, its presence lingers still.
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Thank you @penamerica.bsky.social for taking the time to talk to people actually involved in the creation of young adult literature about this issue. It’s been a difficult few years, and we’re grateful to be heard.
Book bans often target YA titles with sexual content. In a new interview, @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social editor Andrew Karre explains that these books offer teens a safe, ethical way to learn about their desires and experiences — and merit their place on library shelves. pen.org/andrew-karre...
November 16, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Thank you @penamerica.bsky.social for taking the time to talk to people actually involved in the creation of young adult literature about this issue. It’s been a difficult few years, and we’re grateful to be heard.
I’ve seen more Locked Tomb cosplayers at Thought Bubble than at FlameCon, which feels like a failure on the part of the latter.
November 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I’ve seen more Locked Tomb cosplayers at Thought Bubble than at FlameCon, which feels like a failure on the part of the latter.
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Never assume malice when incompetence will suffice and, just as importantly, never overestimate how much the distinction matters.
incompetence without good faith efforts to improve is indistinguishable from malice. at best it suggests large scale ignorance on a companywide level and at worst it shows they actively do not give a fuck.
November 16, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Never assume malice when incompetence will suffice and, just as importantly, never overestimate how much the distinction matters.
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‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet:
“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”
“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 AM
‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet:
“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”
“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”
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Having a twenty year old blog, I get reminded of this all too frequently. 😬
(If I ever cite an old post of mine, click on any links in it at your own risk, y’all. I have no clue which ones go to active pages and which ones are being cybersquatted by Malaysian porn bot farms.)
(If I ever cite an old post of mine, click on any links in it at your own risk, y’all. I have no clue which ones go to active pages and which ones are being cybersquatted by Malaysian porn bot farms.)
Penguin Random House emailed me last night because their ebook team was going through the citations on TRUE BELIEVER and found like 40 URLs that no longer went anywhere
I had to correct them, and luckily most were caught by the Wayback Machine, but some are just… gone
Dead Internet Theory is real
I had to correct them, and luckily most were caught by the Wayback Machine, but some are just… gone
Dead Internet Theory is real
November 16, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Having a twenty year old blog, I get reminded of this all too frequently. 😬
(If I ever cite an old post of mine, click on any links in it at your own risk, y’all. I have no clue which ones go to active pages and which ones are being cybersquatted by Malaysian porn bot farms.)
(If I ever cite an old post of mine, click on any links in it at your own risk, y’all. I have no clue which ones go to active pages and which ones are being cybersquatted by Malaysian porn bot farms.)
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When John Lees recommends a horror book you pick up that horror book. But in case you’re feeling slow and that’s not enough I will add that yr beloved CPUK considers anything @erikapriceart.bsky.social puts out a must read. Run, don’t walk.
Thought Bubble Reads: Worms, Book the Second
One of the event books of the show for me. I’ve been excited for this religious horror since the first issue last year, and this one builds on its horror with some truly nightmarish imagery. Get it from @erikapriceart.bsky.social at 2000AD Hall B9.
One of the event books of the show for me. I’ve been excited for this religious horror since the first issue last year, and this one builds on its horror with some truly nightmarish imagery. Get it from @erikapriceart.bsky.social at 2000AD Hall B9.
November 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
When John Lees recommends a horror book you pick up that horror book. But in case you’re feeling slow and that’s not enough I will add that yr beloved CPUK considers anything @erikapriceart.bsky.social puts out a must read. Run, don’t walk.
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I love this.
November 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I love this.
Sometimes, it’s nice to meet your major influences.
November 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Sometimes, it’s nice to meet your major influences.
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This is why I am so vehemently down on people scaremongering the trans community. The assault on the trans community is one on our dignity, trying to drive us to suicide. Scaremongering does their work for them.
Repeat after me: I am too punk to kill myself when my government wants me to.
Repeat after me: I am too punk to kill myself when my government wants me to.
In the case of trans people, I think most of this Administration would be plenty happy if they drove us to suicide or to voluntarily detransition. They're lazy, they're focused on optics and le epic owns, and even where they are marshalling state capacity (ICE, et al) they're at a breaking point.
November 15, 2025 at 5:55 AM
This is why I am so vehemently down on people scaremongering the trans community. The assault on the trans community is one on our dignity, trying to drive us to suicide. Scaremongering does their work for them.
Repeat after me: I am too punk to kill myself when my government wants me to.
Repeat after me: I am too punk to kill myself when my government wants me to.
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Periodic reminder that someone needs to pay @imgarysuarez.bsky.social a large sum of money to write a book about the post-Y2K business dealings of 90s alt acts, entitled, "So Much for the Afterglow."
A depressing thing about contemporary culture is that back in the 90s you had loads of 60s/70s acts making big critically acclaimed returns: Bowie, Dylan, Nelson, Young, Emmylou Harris. And yet you struggle to think of any 90s acts doing the same today.
November 13, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Periodic reminder that someone needs to pay @imgarysuarez.bsky.social a large sum of money to write a book about the post-Y2K business dealings of 90s alt acts, entitled, "So Much for the Afterglow."
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pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes
November 12, 2025 at 10:08 PM
pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes
The Parable of the Sower (Octavia Butler): Expressed philosophical ideas that were in my mind but hadn't had words for before
Assata (Shakur): An autobiography that gave me the kick in the ass I needed
After (Francine Prose): A childhood favorite about the encroaching presence of fascism
Assata (Shakur): An autobiography that gave me the kick in the ass I needed
After (Francine Prose): A childhood favorite about the encroaching presence of fascism
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 3:38 AM
The Parable of the Sower (Octavia Butler): Expressed philosophical ideas that were in my mind but hadn't had words for before
Assata (Shakur): An autobiography that gave me the kick in the ass I needed
After (Francine Prose): A childhood favorite about the encroaching presence of fascism
Assata (Shakur): An autobiography that gave me the kick in the ass I needed
After (Francine Prose): A childhood favorite about the encroaching presence of fascism
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@victorlavalle.bsky.social BALLAD OF BLACK TOM
And @djolder.bsky.social SHADOWSHAPER
The only two books that have ever made me sit and journal to process what they meant to me after reading them
Changed my heart in terms of how i could reshape the genres i love to look like ME
And @djolder.bsky.social SHADOWSHAPER
The only two books that have ever made me sit and journal to process what they meant to me after reading them
Changed my heart in terms of how i could reshape the genres i love to look like ME
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 AM
@victorlavalle.bsky.social BALLAD OF BLACK TOM
And @djolder.bsky.social SHADOWSHAPER
The only two books that have ever made me sit and journal to process what they meant to me after reading them
Changed my heart in terms of how i could reshape the genres i love to look like ME
And @djolder.bsky.social SHADOWSHAPER
The only two books that have ever made me sit and journal to process what they meant to me after reading them
Changed my heart in terms of how i could reshape the genres i love to look like ME
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The finale of the great TV comedy show Blackadder goes Forth.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The finale of the great TV comedy show Blackadder goes Forth.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.
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I've yet to hear a good argument for it by the way.
Like... how is it that these publishers can afford to rent the office space but not afford to pay their workers a livable wage?
Shifting to remote would save them soooo much money?
Or even moving the office to a more affordable area.
Like... how is it that these publishers can afford to rent the office space but not afford to pay their workers a livable wage?
Shifting to remote would save them soooo much money?
Or even moving the office to a more affordable area.
Publishing (as an industry) needs to be decentralized from NYC.
Sincerely, what is the argument for keeping so much of the labor force "in office" three days a week in one of the most expensive cities on the planet? While Publishers continue to pay editors, designers, etc monstrously low wages...
Sincerely, what is the argument for keeping so much of the labor force "in office" three days a week in one of the most expensive cities on the planet? While Publishers continue to pay editors, designers, etc monstrously low wages...
November 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I've yet to hear a good argument for it by the way.
Like... how is it that these publishers can afford to rent the office space but not afford to pay their workers a livable wage?
Shifting to remote would save them soooo much money?
Or even moving the office to a more affordable area.
Like... how is it that these publishers can afford to rent the office space but not afford to pay their workers a livable wage?
Shifting to remote would save them soooo much money?
Or even moving the office to a more affordable area.
Repost with an iconic fictional band
November 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Repost with an iconic fictional band