David Lee Zweifler
@davidleezweifler.bsky.social
Work in Analog, Nature Futures, and Saturday Evening Post. Married real estate novelist. Inactive active-level SFWA. Half Canadian and half polite. Bad Codexian. Transally. https://linktr.ee/zweifler
CNBC buries the lede a bit when they get a private equity expert to admit that the "retailization" of private equity is designed to tranfer their unsellable assets to individuals... in the last few paragraphs of the story. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/12/w...
Why private equity is stuck with 'zombie companies' it can't sell
Private equity firms are facing a new reality: a growing crop of companies that can neither thrive nor die, lingering in portfolios like the undead.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
CNBC buries the lede a bit when they get a private equity expert to admit that the "retailization" of private equity is designed to tranfer their unsellable assets to individuals... in the last few paragraphs of the story. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/12/w...
Muad'Dib
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Conservation body asks Israel to protect rodent vulnerable to extinction
International Union for Conservation of Nature asks Israel Nature and Parks Authority to protect endemic Buxton's jird in sandy area set for development in central Rishon Lezion
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November 11, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Muad'Dib
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The chilling final chapter to Y'All Go Die Now, Y'Hear and Bless Your Disembodied Heart.
If you only read one stereotypical Southern horror novel this year... let it be... Author's Name's, The Monsters In Them There Woods.
If you only read one stereotypical Southern horror novel this year... let it be... Author's Name's, The Monsters In Them There Woods.
November 10, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The chilling final chapter to Y'All Go Die Now, Y'Hear and Bless Your Disembodied Heart.
If you only read one stereotypical Southern horror novel this year... let it be... Author's Name's, The Monsters In Them There Woods.
If you only read one stereotypical Southern horror novel this year... let it be... Author's Name's, The Monsters In Them There Woods.
Heartbroken to see this. www.cbc.ca/arts/on-spec...
Canada’s premier speculative fiction magazine calls it a day after 35 years | CBC Arts
Edmonton-based On Spec, which showcased authors like Julie E. Czerneda, Tony Pi and a young Cory Doctorow, will publish its final issue in December
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November 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Heartbroken to see this. www.cbc.ca/arts/on-spec...
Watson given attention for another discovery that was first made by Rosalind Franklin. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
James D. Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97
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November 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Watson given attention for another discovery that was first made by Rosalind Franklin. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
To paraphrase Big Daddy Kane, foraging ain't easy.
September 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
To paraphrase Big Daddy Kane, foraging ain't easy.
My dog barks when anyone walks through the front door.
Had a dream last night that she was spending her time alone in the house watching Fox News. When I got home and walked through the door, she was yelling, in dog language, "It's like they said! The squirrels are coming! They're here!"
Had a dream last night that she was spending her time alone in the house watching Fox News. When I got home and walked through the door, she was yelling, in dog language, "It's like they said! The squirrels are coming! They're here!"
September 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
My dog barks when anyone walks through the front door.
Had a dream last night that she was spending her time alone in the house watching Fox News. When I got home and walked through the door, she was yelling, in dog language, "It's like they said! The squirrels are coming! They're here!"
Had a dream last night that she was spending her time alone in the house watching Fox News. When I got home and walked through the door, she was yelling, in dog language, "It's like they said! The squirrels are coming! They're here!"
(Intrusive thoughts as I prepare foraged puffball mushrooms for dinner.)
a bald man is laughing with his mouth open while wearing a robe .
ALT: a bald man is laughing with his mouth open while wearing a robe .
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September 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
(Intrusive thoughts as I prepare foraged puffball mushrooms for dinner.)
I definitely have to make some noise about the awesome @acwise.bsky.social calling Ronan's my recent story in Analog "effective... quiet science fiction."
Thanks for giving it a read A.C.! locusmag.com/2025/09/anal...
Thanks for giving it a read A.C.! locusmag.com/2025/09/anal...
Analog: Short Fiction Reviews by A.C. Wise
Analog 5-6/25 “Isolate” by Tom R. Pike opens the May/June issue of Analog with a thoughtful reflection on language and colonialism. Sister Arzhana is a linguist sent to study the language of the Ga…
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September 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I definitely have to make some noise about the awesome @acwise.bsky.social calling Ronan's my recent story in Analog "effective... quiet science fiction."
Thanks for giving it a read A.C.! locusmag.com/2025/09/anal...
Thanks for giving it a read A.C.! locusmag.com/2025/09/anal...
Generally speaking, digital transformation is the relentless pursuit of converting fairly priced things that we like and need into poor counterfeits that can be produced at scale for low- or no cost.
I'm pleased I had the opportunity to experience a pre-AI world, but I grieve for my children.
I'm pleased I had the opportunity to experience a pre-AI world, but I grieve for my children.
September 2, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Generally speaking, digital transformation is the relentless pursuit of converting fairly priced things that we like and need into poor counterfeits that can be produced at scale for low- or no cost.
I'm pleased I had the opportunity to experience a pre-AI world, but I grieve for my children.
I'm pleased I had the opportunity to experience a pre-AI world, but I grieve for my children.
Philly road trip. (We're halfway there. 🤣)
August 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Philly road trip. (We're halfway there. 🤣)
Got paid today
August 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Got paid today
USCSS Maginot, eh?
Someone at Weyland Yutani in charge of ship naming is sooooo fired.
Someone at Weyland Yutani in charge of ship naming is sooooo fired.
August 14, 2025 at 2:15 AM
USCSS Maginot, eh?
Someone at Weyland Yutani in charge of ship naming is sooooo fired.
Someone at Weyland Yutani in charge of ship naming is sooooo fired.
PSA: Don't fondle wheat if you ever plan on seeing your family again.
August 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
PSA: Don't fondle wheat if you ever plan on seeing your family again.
Well partner, I'm afraid that this here town ain't big enough for two emergent medical professionals
July 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Well partner, I'm afraid that this here town ain't big enough for two emergent medical professionals
If you're in a workplace that has a pack of these sitting next to the phone, let's grab a beer sometime.
July 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
If you're in a workplace that has a pack of these sitting next to the phone, let's grab a beer sometime.
After 7 months of research and calculation I have finally confirmed my amazing discovery: nobody can predict when winter will arrive in Game of Thrones because that world exists in the same universe as the Three Body Problem. A 🧵 1/25
June 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
After 7 months of research and calculation I have finally confirmed my amazing discovery: nobody can predict when winter will arrive in Game of Thrones because that world exists in the same universe as the Three Body Problem. A 🧵 1/25
A lot of people slam generation X for splitting up to cover more ground in horror movies, but it's the generation before us that will call the number when the message that they've been hacked comes up on the screen.
June 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
A lot of people slam generation X for splitting up to cover more ground in horror movies, but it's the generation before us that will call the number when the message that they've been hacked comes up on the screen.
"Meanwhile, in national news..."
June 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
"Meanwhile, in national news..."
I have my EMT exam tomorrow. I just learned that the answer to "What are electrolytes?" is NOT "what plants crave."
a man wearing a costco apron says welcome to costco
ALT: a man wearing a costco apron says welcome to costco
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June 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I have my EMT exam tomorrow. I just learned that the answer to "What are electrolytes?" is NOT "what plants crave."
Police can claim that the husband is outright making stuff up, or they can choose not to take his statement, but if they say there's no evidence that this is a hate crime, they're lying. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Jonathan Joss: King of the Hill's John Redcorn actor shot dead
Jonathan Joss's husband says it was a homophobic hate crime, but police say there's no evidence of that.
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June 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Police can claim that the husband is outright making stuff up, or they can choose not to take his statement, but if they say there's no evidence that this is a hate crime, they're lying. www.bbc.com/news/article...
You ever hear about the first modern EMS service in the US, Freedom House Ambulance Service? Neither did I, and I'm studying to be an EMS! This was the program that shaped and professionalized paramedicine in the US and across the globe. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom...
Freedom House Ambulance Service - Wikipedia
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May 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
You ever hear about the first modern EMS service in the US, Freedom House Ambulance Service? Neither did I, and I'm studying to be an EMS! This was the program that shaped and professionalized paramedicine in the US and across the globe. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom...
I don't think it's a coincidence that "what cha makin'?" rhymes with "bacon."
May 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I don't think it's a coincidence that "what cha makin'?" rhymes with "bacon."
HBO is usually pretty good at deciding when to depart from source material for a much loved franchise that goes off the rails. With all due respect to the great Mr. Martin, they knew to do this in Season 3 and beyond in GOT.
a woman is holding a dragon in her arms while sitting on a couch .
ALT: a woman is holding a dragon in her arms while sitting on a couch .
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May 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
HBO is usually pretty good at deciding when to depart from source material for a much loved franchise that goes off the rails. With all due respect to the great Mr. Martin, they knew to do this in Season 3 and beyond in GOT.