@ydn.bsky.social
(((globalist))), universalist, secularist, urbanist, transhumanist, Tottenham supporter. Fully Automated Luxury Space Communism :)
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Smart science fiction awaits in the thriller and more that is All That We See Or Seem by Ken Liu www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/10...
All That We See or Seem by Ken Liu — Runalong The Shelves
I would like to thank Head of Zeus for an advance copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Head of Zeus Published – Out Now Price – £20 hardback £6.02 ebook ...
www.runalongtheshelves.net
October 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Smart science fiction awaits in the thriller and more that is All That We See Or Seem by Ken Liu www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/10...
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I can’t use my old email anymore because the iPhone doesn’t support Linear B.
September 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I can’t use my old email anymore because the iPhone doesn’t support Linear B.
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New short story by two of my favorite SFF writers, Ken Liu & Caroline M. Yoachim!!!
New story day! "If a Digitized Tree Falls" is my latest collaboration with @kyliu99.bsky.social, an exploration of technologies that bridge the divide between digital and physical, with a focus on environmental themes.
Now up at @reactorsff.bsky.social!
reactormag.com/if-a-digitiz...
Now up at @reactorsff.bsky.social!
reactormag.com/if-a-digitiz...
If a Digitized Tree Falls - Reactor
As humanity moves to the stars, a young woman attempts to preserve the magical forest she fell in love with as a child.
reactormag.com
September 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New short story by two of my favorite SFF writers, Ken Liu & Caroline M. Yoachim!!!
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A lot of people have been calling me the
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social of Seattle. But where Zohran is charismatic, telegenic and stylish, I've spent my whole adult life looking pretty dumpy. To look more mayoral, I enlisted my friend Andrew Ashiofu, who took me to one of Seattle's premier boutiques.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social of Seattle. But where Zohran is charismatic, telegenic and stylish, I've spent my whole adult life looking pretty dumpy. To look more mayoral, I enlisted my friend Andrew Ashiofu, who took me to one of Seattle's premier boutiques.
September 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
A lot of people have been calling me the
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social of Seattle. But where Zohran is charismatic, telegenic and stylish, I've spent my whole adult life looking pretty dumpy. To look more mayoral, I enlisted my friend Andrew Ashiofu, who took me to one of Seattle's premier boutiques.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social of Seattle. But where Zohran is charismatic, telegenic and stylish, I've spent my whole adult life looking pretty dumpy. To look more mayoral, I enlisted my friend Andrew Ashiofu, who took me to one of Seattle's premier boutiques.
Redefining Shock and Awe: What We Can Learn from Israel’s Opening of Operation Rising Lion
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Redefining Shock and Awe: What We Can Learn from Israel’s Opening of Operation Rising Lion
Imagine if Operation Overlord in World War II began with the elimination of Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the German High Command; Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS; Field Marshal Erwin Rommel...
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June 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Redefining Shock and Awe: What We Can Learn from Israel’s Opening of Operation Rising Lion
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open.substack.com/pub/spencerg...
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The undiscussed headline of last week: Victoria is the only state even close to achieving their housing target under the National Housing Accord.
This is huge news for housing affordability in Melbourne and state-wide.
This is huge news for housing affordability in Melbourne and state-wide.
May 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The undiscussed headline of last week: Victoria is the only state even close to achieving their housing target under the National Housing Accord.
This is huge news for housing affordability in Melbourne and state-wide.
This is huge news for housing affordability in Melbourne and state-wide.
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A photo from today's walk: scilla peruviana (aka Cuban lily) and bee 🐝
#photography #bee #flowers #FlowerReport #gardening #garden #FloralFriday #FlowersOnFriday #bloomscrolling
#photography #bee #flowers #FlowerReport #gardening #garden #FloralFriday #FlowersOnFriday #bloomscrolling
May 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
A photo from today's walk: scilla peruviana (aka Cuban lily) and bee 🐝
#photography #bee #flowers #FlowerReport #gardening #garden #FloralFriday #FlowersOnFriday #bloomscrolling
#photography #bee #flowers #FlowerReport #gardening #garden #FloralFriday #FlowersOnFriday #bloomscrolling
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I think there's a fundamental misunderstanding at play when things like this come up...
The wealthy/elite want their children to get an *education,* suitable for future leaders and thinkers.
They want everyone else's children to get *training* to be more efficient, cheaper cogs in their machine.
The wealthy/elite want their children to get an *education,* suitable for future leaders and thinkers.
They want everyone else's children to get *training* to be more efficient, cheaper cogs in their machine.
I went to a private Waldorf high school in the 2000s that was filled with the children of tech professionals - who explicitly wanted a lower-tech education for them.
Many tech execs believe in careful exposure to tech for their kids, while also thinking AI teaching is fine for the great unwashed.
Many tech execs believe in careful exposure to tech for their kids, while also thinking AI teaching is fine for the great unwashed.
Sam Altman doesn't want his son to grow up with an AI best friend
"I do not," Sam Altman replied when asked if he'd want his son's best friend to be an AI chatbot.
www.yahoo.com
May 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I think there's a fundamental misunderstanding at play when things like this come up...
The wealthy/elite want their children to get an *education,* suitable for future leaders and thinkers.
They want everyone else's children to get *training* to be more efficient, cheaper cogs in their machine.
The wealthy/elite want their children to get an *education,* suitable for future leaders and thinkers.
They want everyone else's children to get *training* to be more efficient, cheaper cogs in their machine.
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Can we just spare a thought, too, for the official end of News Corp as a political force. No one outside an aging political class pays any attention to them.
May 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Can we just spare a thought, too, for the official end of News Corp as a political force. No one outside an aging political class pays any attention to them.
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Hace unos meses os recomendé la primera temporada de Pantheon, serie de animación basada en un relato de Ken Liu. La segunda temporada está siendo increíble también. Podéis encontrarla en Netflix, de verdad que TENÉS que verla.
March 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Hace unos meses os recomendé la primera temporada de Pantheon, serie de animación basada en un relato de Ken Liu. La segunda temporada está siendo increíble también. Podéis encontrarla en Netflix, de verdad que TENÉS que verla.
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Netflix's Pantheon. Great show. Somehow, made cyber attack/defend interesting & cool on screen.
Never seen anything like it.
Never seen anything like it.
January 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Netflix's Pantheon. Great show. Somehow, made cyber attack/defend interesting & cool on screen.
Never seen anything like it.
Never seen anything like it.
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Mom also warned me about feds. 😂🥰 ("If you're part of a group and a new person shows up and wants to talk you into violence, that person is probably an agent provacateur and trying to get you into trouble.")
April 6, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Mom also warned me about feds. 😂🥰 ("If you're part of a group and a new person shows up and wants to talk you into violence, that person is probably an agent provacateur and trying to get you into trouble.")
What was the cost per nuclear reactor for the 7 reactors Libs are proposing that Angus Taylor just gave, please? I thought I heard 170 billion but that's probably wrong. insiders #auspol
March 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
What was the cost per nuclear reactor for the 7 reactors Libs are proposing that Angus Taylor just gave, please? I thought I heard 170 billion but that's probably wrong. insiders #auspol
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March 14, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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Australia is not just the largest cash buyer of US military equipment in the world (no subsidies), we are the only country that actually subsidises US military capability. Colby needs to be told to fuck himself, and that our defence budget is what we choose www.defenceconnect.com.au/geopolitics-...
US Pentagon hopeful confirms 3% is the floor, not the ceiling in warning to Australia
Donald Trump’s choice to be under-secretary of defence for policy at the Pentagon, Elbridge Colby, has put Australia’s policymakers on notice, warning that this new administration expects ...
www.defenceconnect.com.au
March 15, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Australia is not just the largest cash buyer of US military equipment in the world (no subsidies), we are the only country that actually subsidises US military capability. Colby needs to be told to fuck himself, and that our defence budget is what we choose www.defenceconnect.com.au/geopolitics-...
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French Senator Claude Malhuret:
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
March 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
French Senator Claude Malhuret:
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
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Every time I hear about DOGE I think about this Kim Stanley Robinson line, "Efficiency was just a measurement of how fast money moved from the poor to the rich. We prefer the opposite of efficiency, which is to say, justice."
February 19, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Every time I hear about DOGE I think about this Kim Stanley Robinson line, "Efficiency was just a measurement of how fast money moved from the poor to the rich. We prefer the opposite of efficiency, which is to say, justice."
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90% of our collective societal problems would be solved if we abandoned the notion that being good at math is otherwise indicative of intellectual capacity for Reasoning™
February 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
90% of our collective societal problems would be solved if we abandoned the notion that being good at math is otherwise indicative of intellectual capacity for Reasoning™
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“One-eight-billionth wasn’t a very big fraction, but then again there were poisons that worked in the parts-per-billion range, so it wasn’t entirely unprecedented for such a small agent to change things.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
February 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
“One-eight-billionth wasn’t a very big fraction, but then again there were poisons that worked in the parts-per-billion range, so it wasn’t entirely unprecedented for such a small agent to change things.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
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It's time to acknowledge the astounding triumph for Vladimir Putin in having Tulsi Gabbard installed as DNI. It is no longer merely conceivable that he has film of key GOP leadership with Russian hookers. Those hookers are likely male, underaged and dead. Or possibly, non-mammalian.
February 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
It's time to acknowledge the astounding triumph for Vladimir Putin in having Tulsi Gabbard installed as DNI. It is no longer merely conceivable that he has film of key GOP leadership with Russian hookers. Those hookers are likely male, underaged and dead. Or possibly, non-mammalian.
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you know this would 100% have happened if they had meme coins in Ancient Rome
Caligula minting a meme coin in honor of his horse
February 12, 2025 at 9:43 AM
you know this would 100% have happened if they had meme coins in Ancient Rome
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Catching up on 2024 reading?
I wrote a story this year that I truly believe is something special. It is the most challenging thing I've ever attempted, and I'm proud of how it came out. I'd be honored if you consider it for your award ballots.
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-w...
I wrote a story this year that I truly believe is something special. It is the most challenging thing I've ever attempted, and I'm proud of how it came out. I'd be honored if you consider it for your award ballots.
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-w...
November 21, 2024 at 5:26 PM
Catching up on 2024 reading?
I wrote a story this year that I truly believe is something special. It is the most challenging thing I've ever attempted, and I'm proud of how it came out. I'd be honored if you consider it for your award ballots.
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-w...
I wrote a story this year that I truly believe is something special. It is the most challenging thing I've ever attempted, and I'm proud of how it came out. I'd be honored if you consider it for your award ballots.
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-w...
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The moment Israeli captive Arbel Yehud was transferred to the Red Cross in Khan Yunis.
January 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The moment Israeli captive Arbel Yehud was transferred to the Red Cross in Khan Yunis.
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What we are witnessing is the normalisation of extremism. If we allow the right to pretend that the German AFD is just another conservative party... or that Donald Trump is just another president... or that Elon Musk was just getting carried away with that salute are on a distinctly dangerous path.
January 22, 2025 at 9:03 AM
What we are witnessing is the normalisation of extremism. If we allow the right to pretend that the German AFD is just another conservative party... or that Donald Trump is just another president... or that Elon Musk was just getting carried away with that salute are on a distinctly dangerous path.