Reposted by Daniel AbrahamJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18hA thing I learned not too long ago is that when an LLM selects a token that leads it down an incorrect path (factually), it has no way to back up, or even know that it should back up, it's just on to the next likely bit. Literally every LLM is just posting their way through it. What an image. 411209180
Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 20hAI as Procrustean lifestyle tool. I am so not interested in playing that gam. 0131
Reposted by Daniel AbrahamKingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 22hFor my ABQ peeps, Launch event tonight at Books on the Bosque! B&N Santa Fe on Saturday! New York City Comicon, where I’ll be appearing with the one and only Neil Newbon! (Did I mention what an incredible job he did narrating? HE SINGS A SEA SHANTY AS AN ENCHANTED HARP) 41996
Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Giving AI its due: it has been useful for tracking down things with only random bits of information. (That one mystery novel about the artist and the fire where the audiobook reader’s name started with X) Not convinced that’s worth staking the whole economy on, but…. 🤷 2430
Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Surprising how many of these discoveries appear because some human already put them in the dataset. Wait, no. Not surprising. The other thing. 48817
Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Ceci n'est pas une pipe turns out to be the most important artistic insight for the 2020s. I maybe can't tell what images are on a screen are representations of real events, but that dog on my couch is a dog. 2383
Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I have been reminded of an old line: Authors don’t get paid to write. We get paid to suffer the casual judgment of others. 4848
Reposted by Daniel AbrahamBrian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026You ever see a post that, for professional reasons, you want to print out and laminate 330981
Reposted by Daniel AbrahamTobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I've launched a GoFundMe to help me get my cats to a safer home in Scotland, and you can pay-what-you-want using the GFM system and get 15 of my books as eBooks as a Thank You every Friday as an update! www.gofundme.com/f/help-autho... That's almost 700,000 words of fiction, pay what you want!gofundme.comDonate to Help Author Tobias Buckell and His Cats Move to Scotland, organized by Tobias BuckellHi, I'm author Tobias S. Buckell, and these are my two cats, P… Tobias Buckell needs your support for Help Author Tobias Buckell and His Cats Move to Scotland 17305341
Reposted by Daniel AbrahamRep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 23/09/2026In New Mexico, 1 in 5 children face food insecurity while our state exports over 90% of our agricultural products and imports over 90% of our food. If we’re serious about fixing hunger and getting food from our farmer to hungry families, we have to fix our broken food system. 25514132
Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Since the cool kids are doing it… www.nytimes.com/shared/v1/be...nytimes.comMy Top Shows — the 100 best TV shows of the 21st centuryJane the Virgin, The Expanse, Russian Doll and 7 more. 250
Reposted by Daniel AbrahamRJ @rj-ctl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Please read the Trilogy of Kithamar! It's genuinely so good and the idea of building a trilogy on simultaneous stories rather than a sequel as continuation works wonders 2132
Reposted by Daniel AbrahamJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21/09/2026Don't fuck your staff, folks 1112294125
Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Trans panic is a desperate distraction by a party that has been astonishingly dedicated to protecting the Epstein class. 19415
Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 21/09/2026LLMs should only ever be deployed in situations where errors have little or no impact. 1535
Reposted by Daniel AbrahamPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The entire presidential television press pool — Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN — has agreed to suspend coverage in the wake of Trump’s decision to ban CNN, Politico, and MS NOW from the White Housenewrepublic.comMajor TV Networks Band Together in Boycott After Trump’s Ban on CNNThe five major TV networks are joining forces after Trump’s press ban. 971212310
Reposted by Daniel AbrahamEmily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I truly don’t understand this “transplant” nonsense. The whole THING about NYC is that ppl come here from other places to mutate into New Yorkers! TO SEE IF THEY CAN BE KING OF THE HILL, TOP OF THE HEAP! Imho a rando who moved here a year ago is the MOST NY person. Welcome Ohio rando, have a bagel 1835848371
Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 18/09/2026As we approach 100 sessions in, Ty and I have gone from brainstorming, outlining, writing the first draft, and halfway through the first rewrite pass with occasional asides for Q&As and life getting in the way. If you ever wondered how the sausage gets made... www.patreon.com/c/JamesSACor...patreon.comGet more from James SA Corey Writes a Novel on PatreonGet more from James SA Corey Writes a Novel on Patreon. Join for free or become a member for just $5/month. We’re Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, who write… 6488
Reposted by Daniel AbrahamBrian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Getting "Craft makes money, and A.I. tends to wreck your sense of craft" tattooed across my entire back in the big gothic Tupac font.nytimes.comOpinion | A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It. (Gift Article)Just because A.I. is revolutionizing coding, doesn’t mean it will automatically revolutionize our apps. 0154
Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 17/09/2026One of the great lessons I have learned is that status ladders are largely illusions. Someone can objectively reach the absolute commanding heights of power, fame, and authority and still be a total fucking loser. Someone can be firmly among the despised and still be a class act. 211613
Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Recursive self-improvement seems like making a photocopier that adds more detail than the original image. 2281
Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I appreciate @jamellebouie.net‘s gentle use of “as if.” “It is as if the Republican Party has simply given in to the fact that it is little more than a cult of personality centered on an aging celebrity real estate developer.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...nytimes.comOpinion | The Cult of Trump Is Waning (Gift Article)The president has a very simple strategy for the midterms. 0291
Reposted by Daniel AbrahamKameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 14/09/2026All of this. "LLMs are real, AI is fake." pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/g...pluralistic.netPluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 15514
Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 12/09/2026A genuinely totally fair sport would be a game of pure chance. When you start arguing about what is or isn't fair in sports, you better nail down what you mean by "fair" and why you think these arbitrary sets of athletic rules matter in the first place. 0506
Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 12/09/2026It seems to me that "AI may be misaligned with human values and do things we can't predict or understand" and "AI is a shitty, unpredictable tool that provides wrong answers all the time" is fundamentally a difference about whether you think LLMs are conscious beings. They are not. 212211
Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This is not only true but so obviously true it’s kind of amazing 111213
Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Man, there really are days you look at the world and think maybe Biden was onto something with that getting onto renewable energy and electric vehicles thin. 1965
Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Reminds me of when they interviewed Miss Piggy.static.klipy.comYolandafister Miss PiggyALT: Yolandafister Miss Piggy 7200
Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 07/09/2026My father-in-law was cognitively compromised for years and the family was just committed to pretending that he wasn't. Until folks are ready to talk about that openly and honestly, it's just living in a David Lynch flick. 11339
Reposted by Daniel Abrahamjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026huh, looks like trump’s cheap beef ploy is one part standard issue trump corruption and one part “republicans are ideologically committed to allowing tainted food on the market” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Why Did Trump Order Up 660 Million Pounds of Mystery Meat?On second thought, I’m not that hungry. 851722404
Reposted by Daniel AbrahamTade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Cooperation, not fighting, is what drove humanity to the top of the food chain. Literally any of our problems can be solved or mitigated by more cooperation, not more conflict. 215129
Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Fiona Apple has, imho, become a more idiosyncratic, mature, challenging artist. But even her early work was just fucking _smart_ I‘m a fan of her whole catalog, but my favorite line is the two words she doesn’t sing at the end of I Know. The play between structure, context, & content is perfect. 4430
Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Since there seems to be some discourse about who counts as “real men,“ I would like to take a moment to assure all my masculine brothers that they define the spectrum of manhood. Your place is as valid and valuable as any other. 4608
Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The conundrum of maintenance is that you can fix it too early or you can fix it too late. 7351
Reposted by Daniel AbrahamJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 02/09/2026You cannot rely on your priors during a bubble. It’s a fundamental error. 1713
Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I could be wrong. Probably am. But it seems like a consequence of the transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics is that no photon can be emitted unless it will eventually be absorbed. Not even a single photon coming off all the billions of stars can pass through the universe unrequited. 5311
Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Once again the greatest problem with technology is people 2522
Reposted by Daniel AbrahamThe Onion @theonion.com · 29/08/2026“Women who average more than 8.4 points, 2.3 rebounds, or 1.3 assists per game clearly have an unfair biological advantage over women who don’t, and we need to maintain a level playing field.” — Sophie Cunninghamtheonion.comSophie Cunningham Claims Any Woman Who Averages More Than 8 Points Per Game Should Not Be Allowed To Play In WNBAINDIANAPOLIS—Contending that the proposed restrictions were “common sense” and necessary to preserve the integrity of the sport, Indiana Fever shooting guard Sophie Cunningham claimed Friday that any ... 443943630
Reposted by Daniel Abrahammidi @atmidimidi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026See if Canada will agree to call it Lake Epstein Files instead. 5396
Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 27/08/2026You know who else has an unfair advantage in sport? Naturally talented athletes. And people with high hemoglobin. And rich people with money for sports camps and coaches. Why should they be allowed to compete? “Fairness in sports” my ass. Never since NFTs have I heard such bullshit. 30115402281
Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 26/08/2026When I was in my 20s — an ambitious and imperfectly souled young man — I met a Very Successful Writer, and thought to myself “Someday, I’m going to be where you are now.” Recently, I ran into VSW again. They are in poor health, their work largely forgotten. And I thought “Ah! Now I get the joke.” 4792
Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Anyone who talks about feminism as if it were monolithic probably hasn’t actually engaged with feminism. 1604