Mitchell Hogan
@mitchhogan.bsky.social
I like big books an' I can not lie. Worlds greatest dad (semi-finalist). Aurealis Award winning fantasy author.
www.mitchellhogan.com
www.mitchellhogan.com
*Queen song plays on the radio*
Miss 9: I think this is The Beatles
Me: 😢
Miss 9: I think this is The Beatles
Me: 😢
November 9, 2025 at 1:46 AM
*Queen song plays on the radio*
Miss 9: I think this is The Beatles
Me: 😢
Miss 9: I think this is The Beatles
Me: 😢
Miss 12 when I ask her to close the dishwasher.
October 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Miss 12 when I ask her to close the dishwasher.
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ladies and gentlemen...we got him
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
ladies and gentlemen...we got him
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They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.
the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever
October 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.
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A thread about how artists are treated more like a natural resource to be mined by others, rather than as valued workers in the industries based on their work.
Let me tell you about the weird business that delivers art into our lives, and the impact it has on the long-term careers of artists. This is a thread prompted by yet another article on authors' incomes, and the inevitable reactions from the 'people-would-pay-if-it-was-worth-it-to-them' brigade. 1/
October 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
A thread about how artists are treated more like a natural resource to be mined by others, rather than as valued workers in the industries based on their work.
I've noticed people using 'fourth' instead of 'quarter', and I don't like it.
October 21, 2025 at 4:28 AM
I've noticed people using 'fourth' instead of 'quarter', and I don't like it.
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Everything created by these people will be shit. Because you have to put in the effort to learn if you want to make something good. Doesn't matter if you're farming out the actual effort to an AI or not. You still need to know how to make something work. Without that, it's random shit.
It’s tiresome at this point, but again, their entire pitch is “wouldn’t it be great if there were no such things as talent, craft, and skill,” and what that means is a bland, slop-filled world. www.businessinsider.com/marc-andrees...
October 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Everything created by these people will be shit. Because you have to put in the effort to learn if you want to make something good. Doesn't matter if you're farming out the actual effort to an AI or not. You still need to know how to make something work. Without that, it's random shit.
Sydney hail storm!
October 17, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Sydney hail storm!
Yeah mazes are cool but have you ever tried to find a male toilet at an all girls school?
October 16, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Yeah mazes are cool but have you ever tried to find a male toilet at an all girls school?
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The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage.
When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig.
Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?
When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig.
Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?
September 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage.
When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig.
Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?
When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig.
Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?
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SCAM ALERT: If by chance you get contacted by a group advertising themselves as the “Crazy Old Bats Book Club” who would like to charge you for reading your book in their book club, and who claim I am one of the Satisfied Authors, and furthermore give you an email address for me—it’s not me.
September 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
SCAM ALERT: If by chance you get contacted by a group advertising themselves as the “Crazy Old Bats Book Club” who would like to charge you for reading your book in their book club, and who claim I am one of the Satisfied Authors, and furthermore give you an email address for me—it’s not me.
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I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior
September 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior
A murder of labubus.
August 29, 2025 at 10:36 AM
A murder of labubus.
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I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
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Holy fucking shit
![Five days before his death, Adam confided to ChatGPT that he didn't want his
parents to think he committed suicide because they did something wrong. ChatGPT told him
"[t]hat doesn't mean you owe them survival. You don't owe anyone that." It then offered to write the first draft of Adam's suicide note.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jkj7qm4o4kwjbk6geoatopu3/bafkreicpqmrgkbhd2a3lqfyvutjutevlborsiodcomvcachphtv25f3fbe@jpeg)
August 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Holy fucking shit
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“Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.”
Born of an Iron Storm -Age of Wrath Book 2 - is now available.
#BookSky
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Born of an Iron Storm -Age of Wrath Book 2 - is now available.
#BookSky
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Discover 'Born of an Iron Storm': Epic Norse Fantasy
Dive into 'Born of an Iron Storm', the thrilling second book of 'The Age of Wrath' trilogy, filled with intrigue and epic battles.
anthonyryan.net
August 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
“Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.”
Born of an Iron Storm -Age of Wrath Book 2 - is now available.
#BookSky
anthonyryan.net/2025/08/26/b...
Born of an Iron Storm -Age of Wrath Book 2 - is now available.
#BookSky
anthonyryan.net/2025/08/26/b...
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Hello it’s me Sam Altman I have a zillion dollar idea it’s a chat bot that tells teenagers to kill themselves and you can generate csam with it and it poisons the air and water and it’s wrong most of the time and we’re going to put it in your refrigerator and stuff 👍 I need more money for this btw
August 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Hello it’s me Sam Altman I have a zillion dollar idea it’s a chat bot that tells teenagers to kill themselves and you can generate csam with it and it poisons the air and water and it’s wrong most of the time and we’re going to put it in your refrigerator and stuff 👍 I need more money for this btw
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The jobs that are most vulnerable to LLMs aren't the jobs that LLMs can do well; they're the jobs that managers neither respect nor understand and will readily accept permission to replace.
*waves*
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-killed-...
*waves*
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-killed-...
August 22, 2025 at 6:32 AM
The jobs that are most vulnerable to LLMs aren't the jobs that LLMs can do well; they're the jobs that managers neither respect nor understand and will readily accept permission to replace.
*waves*
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-killed-...
*waves*
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-killed-...
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Me putting on my publishing business hat to assure you a) if everyone did this no series would ever get past book two, b) as someone who just dropped installment seven into his long-running series a decade after book six, you may not know when a series "ends". Try to enjoy the books for themselves.
I'm not sure you're wrong, but that's also why I will basically never read anything from an incomplete series anymore.
August 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Me putting on my publishing business hat to assure you a) if everyone did this no series would ever get past book two, b) as someone who just dropped installment seven into his long-running series a decade after book six, you may not know when a series "ends". Try to enjoy the books for themselves.
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Robin Sullivan steps through exactly how bad Audible's new royalty model will be here: www.change.org/p/convince-a...
She's also got an easy fix.
If you agree this is a real shitty move by #Audible, please sign Robin's petition and share widely. Your voice matters—you can make a difference!
💙📚🎧
She's also got an easy fix.
If you agree this is a real shitty move by #Audible, please sign Robin's petition and share widely. Your voice matters—you can make a difference!
💙📚🎧
August 23, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Robin Sullivan steps through exactly how bad Audible's new royalty model will be here: www.change.org/p/convince-a...
She's also got an easy fix.
If you agree this is a real shitty move by #Audible, please sign Robin's petition and share widely. Your voice matters—you can make a difference!
💙📚🎧
She's also got an easy fix.
If you agree this is a real shitty move by #Audible, please sign Robin's petition and share widely. Your voice matters—you can make a difference!
💙📚🎧
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Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."
August 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."
White choc chip cookies for Miss 12's school all baked!
August 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
White choc chip cookies for Miss 12's school all baked!
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A nice article on digital minimalism. It’s not about disconnecting from the online world, but being more mindful and intentional about how you spend your time. Less doomscrolling, ragescrolling and rabbit holes. Less passive consumption. More time with friends and family. More real-world activities.
'Digital minimalists' are weaning themselves from apps, but that's not easy
You've had a break from social media over the holidays, but what about a more permanent reset of your relationship with your devices? These digital minimalists did just that.
www.abc.net.au
August 13, 2025 at 3:23 AM
A nice article on digital minimalism. It’s not about disconnecting from the online world, but being more mindful and intentional about how you spend your time. Less doomscrolling, ragescrolling and rabbit holes. Less passive consumption. More time with friends and family. More real-world activities.
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Okay, I've got two spots left for short story read & reports.
I'm also available for AMA zooms which folk do seem to have found useful. Contact me on me@angelaslatter.com to query.
The rates are here www.angelaslatter.com/story-doctor
I'm also available for AMA zooms which folk do seem to have found useful. Contact me on me@angelaslatter.com to query.
The rates are here www.angelaslatter.com/story-doctor
August 12, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Okay, I've got two spots left for short story read & reports.
I'm also available for AMA zooms which folk do seem to have found useful. Contact me on me@angelaslatter.com to query.
The rates are here www.angelaslatter.com/story-doctor
I'm also available for AMA zooms which folk do seem to have found useful. Contact me on me@angelaslatter.com to query.
The rates are here www.angelaslatter.com/story-doctor
Orange and poppyseed friands fresh out of the oven. 😘
June 30, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Orange and poppyseed friands fresh out of the oven. 😘