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Robot is Smiling
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CTO sometimes, Husband, Father and NJDevils fan all the time. Finally writing again.

You can read some sci fi fun if you're into that sort of thing: www.robotissmiling.com

You can also pick up The Man in the Bowler Hat novelette: https://a.co/d/ejYYSgp
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I've been working on a prequel novel to this story I wrote years ago for the last couple of months. It's nice to sink back into a few of my favorite characters: robotissmiling.com/2016/04/29/t...
Part 1 – The Man in the Bowler Hat
“It smells, you know that.” The man, not known for his oratorical skills, took a deep breath through his nose and grunted in the affirmative. He couldn’t shake his head because it was held fast in …
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Charles Yu and Chloe Zhao are bringing Iain M. Banks' Consider Phlebas to TV!! 🌌

reactormag.com/charles-yu-i...
Charles Yu Is Adapting Iain M. Banks’ Consider Phlebas for Amazon MGM Studios - Reactor
We're going to space! We're going to space!
reactormag.com
February 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Went to my first school board meeting this evening for a district my family loves, and it was actually lovely and community driven. Kids presented projects, the business of running the district was presented and public commentaries were sane and caring. In such tumult, it was actually hopeful.
February 21, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Listen to Aggressive Steven by Aesop Rock, reread Notes From Underground by Dostoevsky. Voila, my brain makes up a little allegory about how the current world works.

#writing #writingcommunity #fiction
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One a Day
This is what you get when you are rereading Notes from Underground and listening to Aesop Rock’s Aggressive Steven. A short tale about someone named Steven who is taking…something&#8230…
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February 19, 2025 at 8:58 PM
One a Day

This is what you get when you are rereading Notes from Underground and listening to Aesop Rock's Aggressive Steven. A short tale about someone named Steven who is taking...something...and how he descends.
One a Day
This is what you get when you are rereading Notes from Underground and listening to Aesop Rock's Aggressive Steven. A short tale about someone named Steven who is taking...something...and how he descends.
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February 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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these guys spent 60 kajillion dollars to make a computer forget how to do math
February 12, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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AFTERWORD x ALTERED CARBON

Adoniram’s wife, Eve, is dying. His father hopes his mind-copying AI can save her but the connection grants the AI sapience and makes Adoniram the key to its control. He must choose between competing alliances, faith, and his love for Eve #2025Pit #A #SF
January 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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#MiseryPit #Q #A #HM
I, SAID THE SPARROW

♦️Peaky Blinders vibe
♦️1920s
♦️Slow burn romance
♦️Dysfunctional family
♦️LGBTQ+ FMC
♦️Seaside setting
♦️Secrets & lies
♦️Dual timeline & PoV
February 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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The Ipcress File x Life on Mars

🔫 High-stakes thriller
🔫 Time travel twist
🔫 Stale beer espionage
🔫 Weird science
🔫 Cold War subterfuge
🔫 Working class hero
🔫 Hunter to hunted
🔫 Antagonist from the future
🔫 Enemy turned ally
🔫 Proles vs privilege

#Q #A #SFFT #MiseryPit #editors #litagents 🦋
February 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
JOHNNY MNEMONIC + BOURNE IDENTITY
Corporate espionage is a dangerous business and Evelyn just gave Francis the power to steal secrets from a target’s mind. Little did they know it would start the first Corporation Wars. Prequel to this novelette: a.co/d/eGrsL2h
#SFFT #A #MiseryPit #WIP
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February 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
JOHNNY MNEMONIC + BOURNE IDENTITY
Francis will do anything for Evelyn. Evelyn will do anything to survive, so when she is pushed, Francis agrees to become the first acquisition specialist and acquire secrets from the last unprotected place his targets have, their minds. #SFFT #A #MiseryPit #WIP
February 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I've been working on a prequel novel to this story I wrote years ago for the last couple of months. It's nice to sink back into a few of my favorite characters: robotissmiling.com/2016/04/29/t...
Part 1 – The Man in the Bowler Hat
“It smells, you know that.” The man, not known for his oratorical skills, took a deep breath through his nose and grunted in the affirmative. He couldn’t shake his head because it was held fast in …
robotissmiling.com
January 31, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Wrote about the gig economy ride-hail model, its metastasis across the economy, and a brilliant Roosevelt Institute report on gig nursing that came out last month. thetechbubble.substack.com/p/ubers-bast...
Uber's Bastards
On the ride-hail model and the gig economy's metastasis.
thetechbubble.substack.com
January 30, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Investors worldwide stand to lose more than $1 trillion today because of the sudden fear that the market-sustaining AI spending boom might have been for nothing.
Magnificent 7 stocks poised for $1 trillion rout as DeepSeek rattles AI market
China's DeepSeek model shows all that massive AI spending might not be necessary.
www.axios.com
January 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
@iandunt.bsky.social Really nice article (iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-res...). This hit me "Instagram had started to make me feel empty. Each time I put it down I felt a little more hollowed out."

A year or so ago, I signed up for Instagram for business advertising reasons. 1/2
How to resist the tech overlords
Big tech has now made its position clear. It is on the far-right. Here's what happens next.
iandunt.substack.com
January 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Doing background research for an in progress novel about corporate sovereignty. Interesting anthropological review:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

A corporation's sphere of influence is sometimes softly negotiated or implicit, what would it mean for total legal control to be explicitly given?
journals.sagepub.com
January 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Hucksters gonna Huck. AI founders are now using the line: For the sake of the country, please let us steal things to generate a whole bunch of fake stuff that looks passably like real stuff. 80.lv/articles/ope...
OpenAI Urges the Government to Make it Easier to Train AI
The company also called for federal regulations and billions of dollars in investments.
80.lv
January 18, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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This article by @jessdkant.bsky.social is such a good (and very disturbing) read.

Our society is gleefully racing back towards the dark ages. It's a race to the bottom, and the finish line is when we all stop thinking
Disinformation in the era of generative AI — Jessica Kant
In the past two years, large language models have replaced traditional information search and delivery systems in increasingly jarring ways. As they become more integrated into our everday lives, it w...
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January 18, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Literally every company now

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Literally every company now
YouTube video by Eleanor Morton
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January 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Ten years ago, I sketched out a few characters belonging to one common universe in a series of short stories. Finally back to writing a couple of novels that have been on the back burner for a decade. Thought I'd share the old stuff: robotissmiling.com/2015/10/13/t... #scifi #writingcommunity
The Tall Man
The tall man slid into the room. He was lanky, but all tall men that measure 201.34 centimeters are lanky, no matter their weight. He was perfect. Not in the sense that his abs were sculpted and hi…
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January 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Here is the speech I gave at Seton Hill University about my writing and path to publishing for the keynote which was followed by a reading of a sampling of my work.
New Substack

Following is the speech I gave to the public and Seton Hill University’s MFA in Popular Fiction about my personal writing journey.

How did I persist? This is how.

open.substack.com/pub/cynthiap...
January 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
So now the refs just stand in the way. The mysterious 6th player for the opposition. #njdevils
January 4, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Just picked up tickets to the second leg of @soulcoughing.bsky.social plays the songs of Soul Coughing tour. I missed the first leg and was sad, despondent even. But now...only true dreams of happiness and rainbows.

My kids will be jealous.
December 13, 2024 at 4:05 PM
I've added more authors to my SciFi Authors starter pack. If you're into writing, space ships, lasers, robots and other nerdy and cool things that people who trade in such tall tales discuss, this will get you started.

P.S. They talk about other things too.

go.bsky.app/JLUXRbc
December 13, 2024 at 3:33 PM