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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 13h

Read that as "Catholic-Confucian parrots" and I like my version better.

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 14h

A designer friend hates AI, loves one of the authors on that site. She's going to be heartbroken.

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Analog Science Fiction and Fact @analogsf.bsky.social · 19h

Check out this week's blog post by six-time Analog contributor A.T. Sayre! Here he discusses the problematic nature of romanticizing the past. Don't miss his novelette "Bella's Heart" in our Sept/Oct issue theastoundinganalogcompanion.com/2026/10/07/a...

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A.T. Sayre on Bella’s Heart

A.T. Sayre returns to Analog for the sixth time with his novelette “Bella’s Heart”! Here is a short companion piece where A.T. discusses some of the ideas around names and what fi…

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 18h

They "can able to proceed"? Oh noes! I certainly hope you're doing something about that.

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 20h

Difficult to see clearly in the photo, but I think that's three fatal highway accidents and a round dozen liability lawsuits.

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 20h

Maybe half the point is to try to put an end to the notion of corporate liability. “Our AI did it, no one’s to blame. Moving right along …” “Maybe you should have arranged things so your AI couldn’t do it.” “What? But it’s AI! Our great hope for the future! Why do you hate progress?”

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'd like to live in a world where we had the Democrats that Republicans invent to scare their voters instead of the Democrats we actually have.

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If they had to remake "The Boys from Brazil", they could at least have respected the original source material.

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Charles? King? Over my dead …

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My Amazon "About You" is boringly mundane and contains no speculation about the shape of my ass. They suspect I have a cat, which could explain all the cat litter I keep buying, and that I "cook with specialized techniques", which sounds faintly perverse but is, alas, untrue.

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

He switched between projects. During the first session, he was working on a novel of his own. In the second, he was a ghostwriter.

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Never let Reverend Spooner make you a sandwich.

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You hear that, Rule 34? You’ve got some catching up to do.

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"You're right. You specifically told me not to change your booking, but I went ahead and changed your destination from Paris to Murmansk anyway. That's on me, and I'm sorry for the inconvenience. To make it up, I've booked you into the Intourist hotel & scheduled a tour of a nearby bauxite mine …"

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

2026 Me: Listen, I'm you from the future. The war on AI is coming. Past Me: Cool. Do we have to fight off swarms of killer robots with machine guns? 2026 Me: Actually, no. Most of your time and energy will be spent tarpitting aggressive webcrawlers and trying to reclaim your disk space.

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Long ago Tim Berners-Lee wrote a piece about how URIs should be stable. Some of it's dated (who here remembers `cgi-bin`?) but the principles are sound. And soundly ignored, for the most part. Some linkrot is due to sites going offline, but much could be avoided. www.w3.org/Provider/Sty...

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Hypertext Style: Cool URIs don't change.

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Headline: “With axe-throwing bars proving unexpectedly safe, leisure industry entrepreneurs see lucrative opportunities in venomous snake petting zoos and shooting ranges for preschoolers”

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"What if the Singularity, but really fucking dumb?"

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The application of Marx's dictum that history repeats itself "the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce" to Philip K. Dick's "The Man in the High Castle".

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Can't spell "too big to fail" without "AI".

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Happy Battle of Cable Street Day to all who celebrate.

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Does anyone know where I can buy "Condolences on your imminent ejection from the solar system" cards to send to Jupiter and Saturn?

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

<maurice-denham-voice>It's in the trash! It's going!</maurice-denham-voice>

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Any sentence that begins "No one is fool enough to …" is off to a bad start. Whatever you follow that with, you're almost certainly wrong. Granted, Herodotus didn't have the benefit of our additional twenty-five centuries of experience, but he should still have known better.

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Frankie feels something similar about the tiny spinning fan on this ZimaBoard 2 SBC.

A gray tabby cat, lying on a wooden floor. His front paw is resting on a small silver computer, which he appears to be studying intently. Other electronic equipment is visible on a shelf behind the cat.

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

2016 - We're too lazy to research a story, so here are quotes from 9 different Twitter users who had some kind of opinion on the subject. 2026 - We're too lazy to write a story, so here's six paragraphs of output from a chatbot that we prompted to give us a comment on the subject.

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

But you have so many choices for creating virtual environments. Why, if you don't like one, you can just use one of the other seven … eight … wait, I'm sorry, I've just been told there are actually nine … hang on, I'm getting an update …

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

On the plus side, you’ll be able to schedule your arrest AND pay your bail through a handy smartphone app.

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's not angry, just very, very disappointed in you.

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don't believe in the Great Man Theory of History, but I'm becoming increasingly convinced by the Giant Asshole Theory of History.

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What if it's like musical chairs, and they take one away every time the music stops?

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s not altruism. It’s “effective altruism”, which is a different animal entirely. “Effective altruism” is the gateway drug to the whole TESCREAL package (it’s the ‘EA’ in TESCREAL), which is a philosophy much loved by the new conscienceless rich. No surprise “The Economist” approves.

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I assume this is a map of post-apocalyptic Britain, and these represent the fiefdoms ruled over by different musical warlords. "But everything changed when the Depeche Mode stans attacked …"

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, that takes care of the title for the "collected works" volume.

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

(twitches) They're not talking about me, I submitted my story fully thirty-six whole minutes before the deadline, they're not talking about me …

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Yes, arguably, AI is helping to destroy the planet and what's left of our society, I get that. But on the other hand, it's made a handful of people feel good about drinking their own waste. I'm just saying we shouldn't overlook the positive aspects."

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A question I often ask is "Is this technology that I use working for me, or is it working for someone else?" Social media pretends to work for you, but actually works for someone else. Even some software you paid for keeps trying to sell you things: you wanted a tool, but it's really a storefront.

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We are watching the founding of a Fat Bear Dynasty. By 2090, Backpack's descendants will each weigh an average of 23 tons and collectively consume a third of all the salmon on the planet annually.

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 30/09/2026

"Right out of the gate, Muse launched with a nasty zero-day flaw that created a backdoor on Mac computers, allowing a hacker to not only gain total control of the Muse AI client, but surveil you without your knowledge."

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Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess

Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wish he hadn’t made his protagonist a literal rapist. Yes, Foyle is an anti-hero, yes, he changes and, I think, comes to regret his actions. But that aspect of the book is really hard to get past. Can you find a character sympathetic who has done something inexcusable?

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ironically, she's failing up fast enough to arouse suspicion that she might actually be a white man, triggering an anti-trans reflex that could block her further progress.

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every skill is a heist skill if you can dream up a sufficiently contrived heist. ("... then Joey distracts the guards by reciting pi to seventy-eight decimal places …")

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

At least we haven't yet reached the point where Claude says to you "Why don't you keep working on that while _I_ go to lunch?"

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Angus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Apparently Thiel missed the bit where Tolkien speculated that elves would write fairy tales about the escape from deathlessness.

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