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Kristine Smith

@ksmithsf.bsky.social
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Spec fic writer (the Jani Kilian SF series and more). Joiner of coffee clubs. She/ her. BJ jackal. Book View Café member. www.kristine-smith.com

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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 8h
If you’re living your life vicariously through me, sorry about that.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 9h
Ukraine’s strike on Russia’s Yandex data centers appears to have rendered fascists sock puppets silent in several countries.😂🙏
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Adam Morgan @adamm0rgan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
For @wired.com, I spoke with workers about the quiet push to experiment with AI tools from book publishing executives at the Big Five. www.wired.com/story/book-p...
wired.com
Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting
Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.
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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“An overreliance on AI for answers erodes our cognitive fitness.”
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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Inflation on many everyday items was entirely due to tariffs, New York Fed says - CNBC stocks.apple.com/AKlmxZVbnRVi...
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Inflation on many everyday items was entirely due to tariffs, NY Fed says — CNBC
Tariffs added 2.9 percentage points to inflation in 67 categories of goods by February 2026, researchers at the New York Federal Reserve found.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“She asked the powers at NASA to let her add a safeguard to prevent that error in a real flight, and they laughed it off as too unlikely… When an astronaut did make that blooper during the Apollo 8 mission, it caused necessary navigational data to vanish, and they called Hamilton in to get it back.”
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Saga, sighs queen @saga.iam.bi · 08/10/2026
In case anybody wants a source for this story that *isn't* on a website using AI and doesn't read like it was written by AI, here ya go: heritageheadlines.com/rare-west-vi...
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Rare West Virginia Chestnuts Sit Near a Massive AI Data Center Plan - Hopewell Heritage Headlines
Advocates warn that blight-surviving American chestnuts near Mason County’s former state nursery could be lost to AI data center construction. State…
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Jayme Lynn Blaschke (he/him) @jaymeblaschke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“Meet Me In Another Life” by jaymeblaschke.substack.com/p/meet-me-in...
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“Meet Me In Another Life” by
A quick video book review
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I retweeted it earlier, but realised a bit of quote context might be useful: Excellent comedian (have seen/listened before!) and well worth an evening of your life! National tour, and tour dates are on her site.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Interesting case of fraud by making automated songs then automated accounts to stream them, pocketing $8M in revenue. Few/no real listeners were diverted to listen to the GenAI songs, but the funds he pocketed drank from a zero sum revenue pool that meant real musicians were paid less.
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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I do recall one of the last bouts of the flu that I had, way back in the 90s. The body aches were so severe I thought they might kill me. Then came the secondary infections. In one case, a double round of conjunctivitis. It’s been flu shots ever since.
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MyCupOfTeaLCSW @mycupoftealcsw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm sooooo tired of people acting like politics is this thing that is external to us that we can, somehow, opt out of. Literally everything is political and politics is an extension of who we are as well as the mechanism through which we create society based on who we are and what we value.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Who Is Behind the AI/Existential Risk Scare? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/who-i...
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Who Is Behind the AI/Existential Risk Scare?
For years, and especially in the last month or so, we’ve been...
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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tying health insurance to employment makes workers easier to exploit, bc when you get fired you don’t just lose your job, you might also die or go bankrupt…
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Cat Kimbriel @catkimbriel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Jen Stevenson gets serious! And playful, and. . . Book View Café is delighted to present I MORPH, a collection by Jennifer Stevenson. *Eight stories about death, resurrection, and the messes in between.* #death #Resurrection #InvisiblePlaymates #vampires #romance bookviewcafe.com/bvc-announce...
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BVC Announces I Morph by Jennifer Stevenson
I Morph by Jennifer Stevenson Eight stories about death, resurrection, and the messes in between. The Bundle Solstice The Benefit of Counsel Tragesang
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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Before teaching young men how to run the world, teach them what to do when the world is one room, one woman, one terrible thing happening, and nobody wants to be the first man to ruin the evening.”
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So... "cable"... we're just doing cable again.
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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
::checks out cover:: Oh, nice cover!
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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And program content will be carefully curated so as not to upset our betters.
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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Happy, happy book birthday!!
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emoontxwriter @emoontxwriter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
BOOK DAY!! Yes, #Booksky and #WriterSky, it's HORNGARD's BookDay AND my proof that it's possible to come back from a serious cumulative-over-time-multiple-concussion traumatic brain injury. So many decisions long before (and not counting the bad ones that ensured injuries) made recovery possible.
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
THE FLESH KING, the second Ford and Neuland book (and sequel to THE PALE HOUSE DEVIL), is out in paperback today!
the cover of The Flesh King
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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
But it will be even more expensive!
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com · 06/10/2026
Great article (Ignyte-winning!) about the history of Indian SF by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social. I remember reading Sultana's Dream a couple of years ago and being completely enthralled by it. And now my list of Indian SF to read just expanded! altermag.com/articles/the...
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The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction.
Before Asimov, there was Rokeya.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🎵 Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Annie Hall... 🎶
@ boston.com
Ringo Starr returns to Forest
Hills Stadium
The 86-year-old drummer played the Queens venue for the first time since his former band performed there in
1964. The concert featured a mix of classic rock hits alongside his current arous.
Generated with Al, which can make mistakes

The picture is of Woody Allen.
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Isabelle Marie @isabellemarie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Nearly 600 Medieval Manuscripts from German Monasteries Now Online. www.medievalists.net/2026/09/600-...
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Nearly 600 Medieval Manuscripts from German Monasteries Now Online - Medievalists.net
Nearly 600 medieval manuscripts from the German monasteries of Heilsbronn and Sankt Jobst have been digitised and made available to explore online.
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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This K is alive and well! Labor compensation vs. corporate profits JPMAM
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It kinda reminds me of a superloud modem. www.wired.com/story/adopt-...
wired.com
Adopt This Data Center Plushie and Hear Its Piercing Scream
The satirical collaboration between a creative studio and the music producer behind Big Data, “Bezzy” is a cute little doll that spews the sounds of real data centers.
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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
THREAD!!
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
wired.com
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Congratulations Symorah! 🦎🎉
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Erica Schultz-Opinions are my own @ericaschultz42.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Working on adapting All Systems Red from The Murderbot Diaries by @marthawells.com with @garyerskine.bsky.social @stillwintercraft.bsky.social @simonbowland.bsky.social @paulcornell.bsky.social @cosmiclighthouse.co.uk Sign up to be notified when the KS goes live! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cos...
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Coming soon: Murderbot: The First Graphic Novel | Multi-award-winning SF!
The official adaptation of the international bestselling multi-award-winning ALL SYSTEMS RED, part of The Murderbot Diaries series.
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T. Frohock (she/her) @tfrohock.com · 02/10/2026
There is an October price drop on Where Oblivion Lives. The Los Nefilim series is near and dear to my heart, so I hope it finds a wider audience this time around. If you enjoy novels with m/m protagonists & gothic mansions set during the 1930s, this might be your October read:
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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Pouring down the stairs...
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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Mike Innocenzi @pantagrapher.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Begging the Pope to participate in a marketing campaign is some rock bottom addict shit.
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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
165 years ago TODAY, Charles Darwin had a normal one. "I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.— I am going to write a little Book for Murray on orchids & today I hate them worse than everything…" I think about this letter a lot.
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To Charles Lyell   1 October [1861] | Darwin Correspondence Project
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: Brown Brothers Media — the vast content network scaled through the heavy use of AI + fake writers w/ fabricated credentials — has halted publishing amid what appears to be a Google crackdown on many of its sites. BBM may have been earning 64m+ readers per month. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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That Company That Buys Struggling News Sites and Turns Them Into AI-Powered Content Mills Has Halted Publishing After a Futurism Investigation
Brown Brothers Media has halted publication at its wide-ranging AI-powered content farm empire -- for now, at least.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"with Claude, we will no longer need lightly stoned weirdos who work at record stores because they are neurodivergent as hell and some band you've never heard of but is about to change your life is their special interest" these tech bros really hate anyone who was cooler than them in high school
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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh I’m not the only person who does this. Cool.
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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Feeling it!
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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh, I remember that thread. "Jail for Mother for One Thousand Years." I don't believe anxiety pee was involved, however.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
This right here, and it’s not just about rape. It’s literally anything he does wrong.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Some writers go ballistic at the mere mention of AI because they take the training of AI models on their work to be a form of intellectual property theft. Like settler colonists, the AI boys want to treat it as a fiat accompli; "here's a pittance—let's move forward." But what if IP theft is ongoing?
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!
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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like them. They remind of New Order.
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Charlotte Canning @cmcanning.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Every time I see this argument, I think of Steve Jobs. He always said that the undergraduate class that had the most impact on him was calligraphy. Today he’d only be allowed to take computer science and never encounter the learning that changed the world.
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I don't know who needs to hear this, but yes, you do deserve to treat yourself to a day of exploring bookstores, greenhouses, libraries, museums, cafés, and bakeries.
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