Language and Thought

I like to spend my lunch hours learning new things. I tend to do this by semi-randomly finding videos on topics I wouldn’t normally take in, and just seeing what they have to say. A few days back I stumbled upon an hour and a half long video of a talk made by linguist Lera […]

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What Are You Reading?

Comic From: http://www.basicinstructions.net/ A couple days ago, an acquaintance asked me what I was reading. They know I’m a Skiffy kinda writer, so I wasn’t afraid to say. “First, a whacked-out short story collection by Robert Jeschonek—which is really good if you like wild, whacked-out stories—and a pre-published novel by Michael Warren Lucas that’s about […]

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Is LaMDA Sentient?

This latest news that LaMDA (an AI) is sentient is just too juicy for a SF writer to stand aside for. I mean. The idea has a long, long tradition in the world of speculation. I’ve written my own bits about it, and in fact have something of that ilk coming out in an upcoming […]

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Double Dare: The Almost Two-Week Update

So a bit back I dropped a note to say I was embarking into the great unknown of a Double Dare—writing two books in one month. Or at least two full first drafts in a month. (Aside: one of the things I like best about being a writer is that, in general, you don’t have […]

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The Last Sleep

It’s a bit of a sad day around the Typosphere. My favorite sleeping shirt has, alas, seen its last sleep. The shirt in question is a standard white T-shirt with a cartoonish image of cats done in cubist style. I want to say Lisa got it for me at an art fair or something, but […]

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Science Fiction Can Change the World

In the past I have occasionally said that I think science fiction is the most human of all genres. For me this is because pretty much every SF story had at its core “what it means to be human.” I probably stretch that a bit. I suppose an aficionado of any genre could make the […]

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