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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal
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📚 Author | 🎙️ Podcaster | 🎥 Filmmaker
Stories from the quiet edges—cli-fi to AI, youth-led futures to ancient fires.
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Genesis 1:27 says, “God created mankind in his own image.”

Generative AI creates new images from existing ones.

If creation in one’s image is the act of generation—does that make humanity the first generative AI?

(Children of the Rogue)

#SpeculativeFiction #Philosophy #AI
December 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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"When the world feels too heavy, remember: even stars are born from collapse." L. Nault

#StarsAreBorn #RiseFromTheAshes #Hope #Resilience #Strength
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December 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Most AI stories assume humans are the designers.
Children of the Rogue asks a quieter question:
What if we’re the model?
If war, ecological collapse, greed, and our default to religion
are recursive errors —
what does that say about us?
December 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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“The fear of AI isn’t that it will do what humanity does better — it’s that it will do the worst of what we already do, better.” L. Nault
A dark blue background with large, light blue quote marks at the top, and in white, the quote “The fear of AI isn’t that it will do what humanity does better — it’s that it will do the worst of what we already do, better.” attributed to Lawrence Nault and 'The Symbiosis Sequence' - a conceptual series that explores the intersections between AI and humanity.
December 29, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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"Every city was once a forest. Every border was once imaginary. Nothing is as permanent as it pretends to be." L. Nault

Follow the words that move you. Buy my books.
#ImagineBoundaries #NatureMatters #Impermanence #History #Perspective
A dark blue background with large, light blue quote marks, and in white, the quote "Every city was once a forest. Every border was once imaginary. Nothing is as permanent as it pretends to be." attributed to Lawrence Nault
December 27, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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2026 prediction: “AI” becomes the new “bot”—a lazy label to dismiss books, videos, posts, even studies (no proof). When everything is “AI,” the term means nothing… and real AI work gets normalized. Language matters. #MediaLiteracy #DigitalCulture
December 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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"What you love, you fight for. What you truly love, you protect without needing to win." L. Nault

#FightForLove #ProtectWhatMatters #UnconditionalLove #TrueLove #LoveWins
A dark blue background with large, light blue quote marks at the top, and in white, the quote "What you love, you fight for. What you truly love, you protect without needing to win." attributed to Lawrence Nault
December 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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"We are not here to escape reality. We are here to rewrite it." L. Nault

#RewriteReality #TakeControl #EmbraceChange #WeAreTheFuture #MakeItHappen
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December 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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So excited to see Kobo as one of the first listings for the audiobook of Children of the Rogue. 🎧

Canadians boosting Canadians. 🇨🇦 (Yes, I know they probably don’t know I’m Canadian—let me have this.)

#Audiobook #SFF #ScienceFiction #CanadianAuthors #Kobo
December 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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"There is no such thing as a neutral future. Every tomorrow reflects what we dare to protect today." L. Nault

#FutureIsNow #ActNow #ChoiceMatters #ProtectWhatMatters #TomorrowStartsToday
A dark blue background with large, light blue quote marks, and in white, the quote "There is no such thing as a neutral future. Every tomorrow reflects what we dare to protect today." attributed to Lawrence Nault
December 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Ghost Democracy: when the rituals remain, but the relationship is gone.
When you can vote, protest, petition… and still be treated like you don’t exist.

lawrencenault.substack.com/p/ghost-demo...

#Alberta #Canada #Democracy #Politics #CivicLife
Ghost Democracy
When protest becomes ritual, petitions become props, and your voice becomes background noise.
lawrencenault.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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I’ve published an open letter on the term “self-published”—where it came from, how it’s used to diminish indie authors, and why it’s time to retire language rooted in gatekeeping.

It’s about power, access, and who gets to decide what counts as a “real” book.

🔗 open.substack.com/pub/lawrence...
December 16, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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"Not all progress looks forward. Sometimes it looks back, and chooses differently." L. Nault

#progress #reflection #choosedifferently #history #change
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December 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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"The forest doesn’t fear winter. It knows how to hold life quietly, until the time to bloom returns." L. Nault

#forestwisdom #winter #patience #seasons #nature
A dark blue background with large, light blue quote marks at the top, and in white, the quote "The forest doesn’t fear winter. It knows how to hold life quietly, until the time to bloom returns." attributed to Lawrence Nault
December 15, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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This has been an amazing weekend.
An anthology launched with one of my short stories, & Children of the Rogue reached sale numbers I didn’t expect.

Bonus: the audiobook passed final QC & is now moving into distribution.

A quiet but very real happy dance. 💃✨
#AmReading #Audiobooks #WritingCommunity
December 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Why is this landlocked mountain hermit posting a whale?
Because stories travel farther than I ever do—and one of mine has just found a home in a beautiful new anthology from Filidh Publishing. 🐋

filidhbooks.com/products/a-w...

#WhaleOfATale #ClimateFiction #OceanStories #ShortStories
Book cover for 'A Whale of a Tale: Anthology of the Sea' featuring a humpback whale's tail flukes breaching vertically from deep blue ocean waters, with white waves splashing around it and mountains visible in the hazy background under a clear blue sky. White serif text at the top reads the title, with the subtitle 'Thirteen tales from the deep, where every story makes waves' in italics at the bottom, and 'By Filidh Publishing Authors' in smaller text.
December 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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"You don’t need power to make change. You need presence. And persistence." L. Nault

#presence #persistence #change #activism #power
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December 13, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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"Our ancestors dreamed us into being. The least we can do is listen when the earth speaks back." L. Nault

#ancestors #earth #listen #nature #reciprocity
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December 12, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Asimov called it Multivac. Nault called it RePHleX. In Omniscient, it’s just ‘the System.’

Whatever you call it, the data the U.S. now wants from everyone who crosses its borders is perfect feedstock for an all-seeing, all-knowing AI

#AI #Surveillance #Privacy #DataColonialism #BorderControl
December 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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"Our ancestors dreamed us into being. The least we can do is listen when the earth speaks back." L. Nault

#ancestors #earth #listen #nature #connection
A dark blue background with large, light blue quote marks at the top, and in white, the quote "Our ancestors dreamed us into being. The least we can do is listen when the earth speaks back." attributed to Lawrence Nault
December 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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What if server farms could heat entire campuses and cities instead of wasting energy? ♻️🔥 In The Life of Phi, a data center does just that — powering a campus and reusing excess heat.

And now science fiction is reality… ⬇️
noticiasambientales.com/energy/finla...

#ClimateTech #SciFi #DataCenters
Finland uses underground data centers to heat entire cities by capturing waste heat from servers - Noticias Ambientales
The rapid growth of artificial intelligence demands increasingly powerful data centers. This process generates large volumes of waste heat that, in many
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December 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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"You can’t automate trust. You have to earn it. Slowly. Honestly. With your hands visible." L. Nault

#trust #authenticity #honesty #humanconnection #transparency
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December 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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There's a theory that human suffering—violence, greed, ecological collapse—isn't moral failure. It's recursive error in an AI system trying to correct itself. What if consciousness is just the glitch that won't be fixed?

books2read.com/u/4ADrNp

#consciousness #AI #philosophy #existential
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Children Of The Rogue by Lawrence Nault
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December 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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"You don’t have to destroy yourself to be good. You only have to keep showing up, with your full humanity intact." L. Nault

#showup #selfcompassion #humanity #youareenough #wholeness
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December 8, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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"When you feel small, remember: so is a seed. And seeds move mountains over time." L. Nault

#smallbeginnings #seed #growth #patience #hope
A dark blue background with large, light blue quote marks at the top and in white, the quote "When you feel small, remember: so is a seed. And seeds move mountains over time." attributed to Lawrence Nault
December 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM