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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Okay, I'm calling it: AI has solved music, or at least pop rock. The songs coming out of it are pure fire, and they're making pretty solid videos at the same time. BTW, you don't get to argue about AI unless you watch this at least up to the bridge with the mom. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXoP...

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Nothing Went Foom!

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

People arguing whether AI will kill us all are missing the point. It might be *by accident*. If nothing else, the (supposed) solution to the Navier-Stokes problem shows a vulnerability - if AI solves P=NP then civilization comes to a halt *suddenly*. It might not be the end but it'll be a disaster.

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Need suggestions. 10th wedding anniversary is coming up. We had originally planned a reception-like party, but then we figured why not go to Australia, but now it looks like we won't be getting to Oz before the spring, so I need something to do or somewhere to go. London? Vegas? A train? Karaoke?

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

There's a new AI video generator called Minimax H3. Someone hooked it up so that it creates video in real-time, to user prompts. This is the first infinite AI generated content stream. I dunno. Your brain wants to make sense of it, but can't. It's random and bizarre. infiniteslop.ai

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Infinite Slop by @levelsio + fal.ai

An endless AI-generated TV channel where the chat decides what airs next.

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I love the camera on this phone. Minneapolis, about ten minutes ago.

Picture of tonight's lunar eclipse. The moon is red with visible craters, and a sliver on top is bright white.

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

None, and I mean zero, of the responses are addressing the problem here -- AI lets people bring their dreams to life. It is the *wrong* way to give life to your dreams, because your dreams are now enslaved to a tool. But people just want to dream. Doesn't help to insist they practice.

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A criminal seen leaving the scene of the crime.

My dog Ripley, a tricolor setter, walking toward the camera away from his water bowl. Around the water bowl is a lake of spilled water sprayed out from the bowl by this messy criminal. He has no regrets.

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Socialism and totalitarianism are similar. How? They're both responses to capitalism. Capitalism needs to be reined in. The right chose totalitarianism to do that. And it could have worked! A benevolent, competent totalitarian could have forced reforms on capitalism. We, ah, didn't get that.

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Best analogy I can think of for the AI data center problem? Transmutation. You *can* transmute lead to gold, it just takes a giant cyclotron. If you want to build an industry around transmutation, you'll need lots of giant cyclotrons. And you'll crash the gold market so it won't be worth it.

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

So how exactly do horcruxes work? If you're about to die, do your horcruxes spontaneously and suddenly die after a short trip to Ukraine and Disney World? Asking for an enemy. 😁

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Yes, I have a comfort video game. Don't judge me. 😁

A screenshot from the video game City of Heroes, showing my character Hope Hellbound -- a demoness-looking youth with bat wings, horns, and red skin -- lounging on a rubber innertube with a drink in her hand. The inner tube is floating in a pool with a marble walkway and some other heroes visible in the distance. Beyond that is extradimensional space...but let's not talk about that.

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

There's a new version of Claude out called Mythos, and here is a review by someone who played with it pre-release. It's...scary powerful, creating entire games from a single prompt. Whether you're pro or against AI, this is something you probably want to read. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/what-it-fe...

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What it feels like to work with Mythos

Claude Fable represents another big jump in AI

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The illustration for FRIDAY was in my mind when it came to make the cover for PLATINUM DONKEYS. While I am nowhere near as talented as Mr. Whelan, images get stuck in my head the same way. This is how Maggie was meant to look and I'm glad (even using some sketchy tools) I was able to get there.

The cover to PLATINUM DONKEYS, my sci-fi novel. It shows a blonde wearing an iridized dress and holding a wineglass as if in toast. The blonde has a sly smile. Behind her is the porthole of a space station, looking down onto the planet Earth.

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I had an image in my head this morning and I wanted to bring it to fruition. A blue fist of rebellion, punching outward at a surrounding circle of red ideologies -- but it's clear that the blue outnumbers the red, overall.

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Gully Foyle is my name, Terra is my nation, Deep space is my dwelling place, and death's my destination.

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

My parked car was hit by someone at about 5am last night. Thankfully our dogs have deployed full cuteness protocol to make us feel better.

My dog, a soft-coated Wheaton terrier, laying on the bed and looking cutely at the camera. His collar tag is clearly visible reading, "Hello my name is MIMIC".

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

That's an interesting (?) place to be. I think it's saying that I'm difficult to classify. But seriously, just throw me in the furry cluster, leaning to the tech/science side. 😊

A map of Bluesky users clustered by interest and specialty, with @genocideman labeled in it. I'm far away from several clusters. Closest to 'Science & Health Journalists', which is fair, I suppose.

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

1. Elites enjoy a culture of decadence. 2. The decadence creates widespread economic hard times. 3. To protect their wealth, the elites prop up an authoritarian stooge to ensure austerity programs don't hit them. 4. The authoritarian stooge goes wacky and starts wars. That's 1920s Germany. Right?

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Today on "Deep Dives in which Google has failed me", I'm trying to figure out why everybody hates Will Stancil. He seems like a socialist that right wingers hate, and the enemy of my enemy is my friend. More importantly, he lives in my broad neighborhood and is offering what sounds like good advice.

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

A coalescing thought: If super-rich people are terrible and a danger to society, doesn't government have an interest in preventing people from getting too rich?

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

"The very first rubber dick to touch government-issued leather boots triggered a full-blown chemical weapons response. That is not metaphor. That is not exaggeration. That is a literal sentence that happened in America in 2026."

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

If you're from Minnesota, this article is a great pat on the back. My favorite paragraph:

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Huh. Midwinter is not the time you'd expect to see cracks in the ICE. 😊

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I find it intriguing, in mythic terms, that the agents of darkness have so far unleashed their violence against that which was Good and Pretti.

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Well, I almost got into a fistfight at Chuck E. Cheese because I was wearing a mask around a horde of coughing kids. Great start to 2026, everyone! 😁

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

What am I doing on New Year's Day, you ask? Well, we have the grandchild so, you know...I'm in hell.

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

It's not official that we have a new dog yet, but my granddaughter has grown unreasonably fond of this one. For those not keeping track, the scrawny white one is new. He's a foster that we are considering keeping.

My four-year-old granddaughter sitting on a beanbag chair with her family's dog -- an aussie shepherd mix whose tongue is curled over his nose in this pict -- and our dog Ripley, a handsome spotted setter. A third dog, a scrawny white Wheaton terrier with a brown ombre on his ears, is being held by the collar by my granddaughter as she beams.

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

I was interviewed by Konstantine Paradias as part of his author interview series on YouTube! Konstantine is a short story and game writer who has worked on Raft and many other things. We geeked out a lot about sci-fi and the process of writing. Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyQM...

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An Interview with Author Pat Scaramuzza

YouTube video by Συγγραφικό Στέκι

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Woke up in afib, I guess; heart rate 154, pain in my chest. Got it to 50, then normal 75, so I guess I'm still alive. Should sleep some more, I guess. Hard to do when death's within your chest. Two steps forward and I'll be fine. When I take a step back, forgive my whine.

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I know I'm going to make enemies of people I admire, but I think this is the precisely wrong take on generative AI. 🧵

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Breaking news: I'm hearing reports that Ghislane Maxwell had a horse named Bubba, and I can't stop laughing about it. 😆 #Bubba #WhoisBubba

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want!

Manifold and Tribune

Have you been paying attention to Earth like I have? Here, check out their feeds:

TRANSCEND! Are you still mortal? WHY?

Tribune Section 1, "World News", Headline: 'Seven transmortals for every human being.' Underheading: 'What are they waiting for?'

query / curiosity / archival: chameleon research, earth: status?

No, no, no. Use Human modes. You won't understand them or the results of my research if you don't at least try to communicate like they do.

TRANSCEND! All this:
-- holo of Sol system (Dyson sphere edited out), zoom out to galaxy, tickle pineal gland with 17 Hz subsonics --
Could be yours! Contact the nearest representative of the Manifold, they'll help choose a species that's right for you!

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

I'm honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand: Errata is never published.

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I've just been cocooning in games lately, and I made a mistake with Rimworld. It's a fine game, but if you've played Dwarf Fortress then Rimworld is deeply boring. Yes, lots of things can happen but you'll never see anything like that insanity of a dwarf fortress spiral.

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Quote this with a book you read way too young that explains why you are the way you are. Hahahaha! I think I was eleven when I read this. Soft porn -- and *weird* porn -- definitely had an effect on this young boy's development.

The pulp-art cover of 'Venus on the Half-Shell', showing a spaceman wearing red briefs, black knee-length boots, a bubble helmet -- and nothing else. There is also a woman wearing somewhat less. They are stanging on an oyster shell, floating in space, with a dog and an owl (the spaceman's pets) and a space station in the distance.

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Someone -- and her grandmother -- is getting her first pedicure. Hey grandfather, namely me, does not need anyone touching his feet, thank you.

Interior of a nail salon. A lady is sitting next to a four year old girl while both are being attended to. The girl has animal crackers in her mouth and a somewhat skeptical look.

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Just wanted to point out that we are on the timeline that now has an 'Official Porn Bot of the United States Government'. So that's FUN.

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

You all know that I'm avoiding the news, and I fell into a hole of Rap Battles on YouTube. The flows are pretty good and the disses are fine, but I'm worried that these songs are affecting my mind. I'm talking in a rhythm and what's even worse, everything I say is in two-line rhyme verse! 😁

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Post a picture of when your pet was little.

My dog Ripley, so young that his black spots are just coming in, sleeping in the sunlight on our leather couch.

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

My second submission. I think I prefer this one. Graphics can be misunderstood; words are clearer, and being a quote from a famous advocate of liberty gives a strong impression.

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Pour a bottle out for Landsat 7. At 1808z today, they switched my boy off. L7 was the first satellite program I worked in and the first space launch I attended. While L7 had its problems I'm proud of the work we did calibrating it into the most accurate land cover satellite of its era. Vale, L7!

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

This kid is just weird, and I approve!

My granddaughter Delaney, a four-year-old weirdo, holding a sign with a skull wearing an eyepatch and the saying, "The beatings will continue 'til morale improves". She's holding up her other hand with her finger as a hook, and I'm told she said 'Yaaar!' when the picture was taken.

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Here are two versions of a promo I made for Narrativity, the best little writing convention in the Midwest. Which one do you like better? Narrativity is June 26-29 in Minneapolis this year! Hope to see some of you there! www.narrativity.fun

Line art of an anthropomorphic weasel sitting at a table with a laptop, their fingers raised as they type, obviously enjoying themselves. A bookcase behind them shows titles from Narrativity authors. There's a window with a black cat, and a mug labeled 'PJF'.

Line art of a feral weasel standing on a stack of books and a table with a laptop, their fingers raised as they type, obviously enjoying themselves. A bookcase behind them shows titles from Narrativity authors. There's a window with a black cat, and a mug labeled 'PJF'.

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

You can hate the MCU movies all you like, but Thunderbolts* was an excellent film that was the most emotional sci-fi work I've seen a long while. Thoughtful, timely (since everyone is depressed these days), and with fantastic emotive acting. Gotta give the MCU makers credit on this one!

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

It's the First of May, and you all know what that means! Passing around this song is mandatory: www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1GD...

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Jonathan Coulton - First of May (Lyrics)

YouTube video by Jonathan SK

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I call this composition, "Grandpa is watching me this morning."

Picture of my granddaughter Delaney, sitting in a sunny bay window, with water, milk, cookies, a plushie, and an expression that says, "I'm not sure what I can get away with but I'm gonna test the boundaries."

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

By the way, the perfect ratio for Paas Easter egg colors is one color tablet, one teaspoon of baking soda, and then one half cup of vinegar. You get the fun volcanic explosion (mix this in at least a two cup container) and then you're left with a useable dye.

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Easter eggs colored. Any embellishment in black sharpie is mine; everything else is straight from the four year-old granddaughter.

A dozen Easter eggs in various pastel colors. Some have colored lines circling them and some have black drawings of faces, including a cat, dog, Spider-Man, and members of our family.

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Gonna ride out the end times in here.

The painting Diogenes and his Barrel, by Jean-Léon Gérôme. It shows the mostly naked philosopher Diogenes sitting in an overturned barrel holding a lantern. Three dogs watch him from outside. A prosperous marble city is in the distance.

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Pat Scaramuzza @genocideman.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

This may be a hot take, but aside from the entertainment of their incompetence I don't care what Trump's administration does with the economy. The economy can be fixed. It's a sideshow. I care about the damage Trump does to civil rights and democracy. Everything, everything else is a distraction.

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