Arturo Sierra @artsierra.bsky.social · 17hIt's a before and after after in automotive history, someone told me. Before, cars that go on the street. After, cars that leave craters on the street. I don't think that's what they meant, but I don't see what else it could be. 010 0
Arturo Sierra @artsierra.bsky.social · 15/10/2026To anyone with a functioning brain, at least, it is. 000 0
Reposted by Arturo SierraArbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Watching a data center burn to the ground might be the highlight of our year 544151162862 0
Arturo Sierra @artsierra.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I am reasonably certain that I'm the first person to quote Final Destination (2000) in serious scholarly research about Thucydides. 000 0
Arturo Sierra @artsierra.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A new story by yours truly in the fantastic Sci Phi Journal. This one requires you to take out pen and paper and fight for your sanity using trigonometry. That's the stuff thrillers are made of, you know. www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/20...sciphijournal.orgOn Birthdays, Turnagún - Sci Phi JournalBut for heaven's sake, just don't get the dates mixed up! By Arturo Sierra. 000 0
Arturo Sierra @artsierra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I remember hearing something about someone having some biolabs somewhere, about four years ago... Now, where was that...? Oh, right— 011 0
Reposted by Arturo SierraClarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 01/10/2026It all started on this day. Thank you for a wonderful twenty years. 26526128 0
Arturo Sierra @artsierra.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The Russian attack. Though I must admit, when I made the comment I thought this was about Leipzig. Not much of a statement to say attacks on Ukrainian soil are acts of war, 4 years into the war. Anyway, point is, EU should treat attacks as what they are. 021 0
Arturo Sierra @artsierra.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Back in my day, this would have been considered an act of war. I am unsure as to when it stopped being "my day", since I don't understand how you could call it anything else, but clearly I must be out of touch with reality. 180 0
Reposted by Arturo SierraPaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right). 187165515088 0
Arturo Sierra @artsierra.bsky.social · 09/09/2026It did tingle my "possibly fake" senses, good that you checked. The fact that you can see Jupiter's color bands is just too much... Amazing picture 050 0
Arturo Sierra @artsierra.bsky.social · 27/08/2026This post really disconcerted me for a second. I sometimes have trouble remembering that Mary Robinette Elsie's human AND a writer. 110 0
Arturo Sierra @artsierra.bsky.social · 27/08/2026All the best, and thank you for the perspective you provide. May it be over soon. 000 0
Arturo Sierra @artsierra.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Oh, and don't get me started on luck and probability. 020 0
Arturo Sierra @artsierra.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Oh, you mean you haven't gotten into a rabbit hole about historical contingency and necessity, and how it's different from metaphysical determinism, and whether the idea of fortune shouldn't have been abandoned, and what about Greek tyche? You're missing out. 120 0
Arturo Sierra @artsierra.bsky.social · 06/08/2026If you ask me, we need better critics, and more severe ones, too. The art of literary criticism has been reduced to back-cover blurbs and tiktoks. I feel like there needs to be a layer of defense between myself and bad books. Also, tastemakers. I think tastemakers are a good thing. 110 0
Arturo Sierra @artsierra.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I'm old school: I will absolutely tear a book apart in a review. Then again, the people who read my reviews are two or three randos on GR and my cat. 110 0
Arturo Sierra @artsierra.bsky.social · 31/07/2026What's the deal with seasons 3 and 4? Why did they have to be different? 100 0
Reposted by Arturo SierraGrumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 13/07/2026Oh, 'don't worry', they say, 'LLMs may produce a lot of slop & cause tremendous harm but in the hands of a brilliant genius like me they work really well. Other people might be creating garbage, but my LLM output is great, because I'm special. Everyone should use LLMs so that I don't feel judged.' 1339 0
Arturo Sierra @artsierra.bsky.social · 10/07/2026My first year students know how to sprinkle some mistakes around so that it looks like human error. That's definitely not my litmus test. 000 0
Reposted by Arturo SierraJoe Griffin @thejoegriffin.bsky.social · 16/06/2026I always find it funny when people say "this era will be judged harshly in history books". Like, if we've learned anything from recent world events, it's that nobody reads history books. 2825872913 0
Arturo Sierra @artsierra.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Yeah, it's my main cause of frustration with PDX games. Strategy games in general just tend to be about snowballing, and that's only fun at the beginning. 020 0
Arturo Sierra @artsierra.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Video conferencing company? I thought Zoom was an AI company. 😶 000 0
Arturo Sierra @artsierra.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Sorry, mate, it wasn't my intention to get confrontational. The subject of chatbots just puts me on edge, is my excuse. 000 0
Arturo Sierra @artsierra.bsky.social · 02/06/2026So... "some online rando"? Now I'm really impressed. 100 0
Arturo Sierra @artsierra.bsky.social · 28/05/2026In the process, wealth gets destroyed as dry grass burning, and not just in the region where the conflict takes place, as iran shoes. 000 0
Arturo Sierra @artsierra.bsky.social · 28/05/2026I get the impression that today every conflict is a frozen conflict. Not even superpowers can deal with asymmetric insurgencies effectively , and in an asymmetric conflict one side fights really cheaply, the other very expensively. 200 0
Reposted by Arturo SierraKate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 25/05/2026ZELENSKYY: We attack military targets in Russia, or their energy, which they sell to fund war. Russians deliberately target civilian objects: museums, schools, apartments. They destroyed this Chornobyl museum that we built for 40th anniversary just one month ago. Crazy assholes. 18837276 0
Arturo Sierra @artsierra.bsky.social · 18/05/2026I switched to a search engine which allows de-activating chatbot-produced results or summaries. Switched from Crome while I was at it, because it insisted in auto-translating pages and I could not turn it off. 020 0
Arturo Sierra @artsierra.bsky.social · 01/05/2026I've never met someone who cared about Pluto's categorization who knew the slightest thing about science other than this made up controversy. 000 0
Arturo Sierra @artsierra.bsky.social · 19/04/2026This is like "video games cause violence". The sort of people who "think SF is real" are willing to believe in just about anything else, too; SF is not the problem here. 000 0
Arturo Sierra @artsierra.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Lightspeed is my favorite magazine. I envy your stories there more than any others! ❤️ 110 0
Arturo Sierra @artsierra.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Calling the "authors" of such stuff liars and shaming them in public seems to me the only thing to do. I hate cancel culture as much as anyone, but no one deserves a career in knowledge-seeking who makes up knowledge. 020 0
Reposted by Arturo SierraDave Johnson @dcjohnson.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Do Americans know that their Vice President was in Hungary campaigning for a Putin ally to be reelected, instead of in DC during a war in which Putin is helping Iran target Americans? 49490213061 0
Arturo Sierra @artsierra.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Years ago I dreamed I was watching a movie — legal drama: Batman was on trial for being a vigilante. Prosecution was Al Pacino, Defense was Matthew McConaughey, Judge was Morgan Freeman. Don't remember who Bruce Wayne was. Still one of my top 5 dreams. And it would make for a great movie irl !!! 061 0
Arturo Sierra @artsierra.bsky.social · 29/01/2026'Tis probably time to stop prefacing with "I hate to make the 'Dolf comparison" when speaking about the winner of the 'Dolf lookalike contest. 000 0
Arturo Sierra @artsierra.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Are people still self-describing as "prompt engineers"? Dear me... 030 0
Arturo Sierra @artsierra.bsky.social · 20/12/2025I know Laöcoon isn't actually in the Iliad, but I'm having trouble thinking of any actual creatures that made an appearance in the Iliad? 010 0
Arturo Sierra @artsierra.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Reading Homer, I was more impressed by there being lions in Greece than by any number of fantastic creatures. I mean, if Laöcoon's kids get dragged away by sea tentacles, I'm more astonished by the fact that he fought like a lion, from which it follows there were once lions in Europe. What?! 110 0
Arturo Sierra @artsierra.bsky.social · 20/12/2025For a moment I thought lions had been reintroduced. 110 0
Reposted by Arturo SierraZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 12/12/2025I know not everyone is down for free trade and open immigration, but separate from the particulars, it's both sad and scary to me that every day Earth's countries seem to be closing the doors. There's plenty to complain about with the post-WWII order, but also so many good things taken for granted. 721420 0
Arturo Sierra @artsierra.bsky.social · 30/11/2025Yesterday I asked my bank's AI customer service a question — since there was no other guide, etc. — and it said "find the button in your phone app and press it". 010 0
