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Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

New essay up: a love letter to the greatest car-based contact sport of my youth (and also adulthood). Featuring: sibling justice, color-based punching, and the moment I knew I’d marry a man who drove a red Beetle with a flower vase. No punch backs. open.substack.com/pub/nicolere...

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Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

New Essay: On the Tradeoff of Ticks. I live in tick country. I also live in hiking boots. This is a short piece about the war between nature and neuroticism and why I keep walking into the woods even when the odds say “maybe don’t.” open.substack.com/pub/nicolere...

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New Essay: On the Tradeoff of Ticks I live in tick country. I also live in hiking boots. This is a short piece about the itch behind my knee, the war between nature and neuroticism, and why I keep wal...

Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Its not often i get accused of a crime, tent-napping and a misdemeanor substack.com/@nicolereine...

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Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Prepping for tomorrow’s big women in STEM event! 200 signed up for my AI talk 😍

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Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

The Penguin Games Part 18 - Complete Novel Reading. What starts as an inspiring conservation effort becomes a Pandora’s box. As collaborators around the world modify her system, Stella faces her ultimate challenge: How do you control the ripple effects of unleashed AI? #booksky #scifi #AI #fiction

Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

The Penguin Games Part 17 - Complete Novel Reading. What starts as an inspiring conservation effort becomes a Pandora’s box. As collaborators around the world modify her system, Stella faces her ultimate challenge: How do you control the ripple effects of unleashed AI? #booksky #scifi #AI #fiction

Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

The Penguin Games Part 16 - Complete Novel Reading. What starts as an inspiring conservation effort becomes a Pandora’s box. As collaborators around the world modify her system, Stella faces her ultimate challenge: How do you control the ripple effects of unleashed AI? #booksky #scifi #AI #fiction

Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

The Penguin Games Part 15 - Complete Novel Reading. What starts as an inspiring conservation effort becomes a Pandora’s box. As collaborators around the world modify her system, Stella faces her ultimate challenge: How do you control the ripple effects of unleashed AI? #booksky #scifi #AI #fiction

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Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The Penguin Games Part 14 - Complete Novel Reading. What starts as an inspiring conservation effort becomes a Pandora’s box. As collaborators around the world modify her system, Stella faces her ultimate challenge: How do you control the ripple effects of unleashed AI? #booksky #scifi #AI #fiction

Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The Penguin Games Part 13 - Complete Novel Reading. What starts as an inspiring conservation effort becomes a Pandora’s box. As collaborators around the world modify her system, Stella faces her ultimate challenge: How do you control the ripple effects of unleashed AI? #booksky #scifi #AI #fiction

Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The Penguin Games Part 12 - Complete Novel Reading. What starts as an inspiring conservation effort becomes a Pandora’s box. As collaborators around the world modify her system, Stella faces her ultimate challenge: How do you control the ripple effects of unleashed AI? #booksky #scifi #AI #fiction

Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The Penguin Games Part 11 - Complete Novel Reading. What starts as an inspiring conservation effort becomes a Pandora’s box. As collaborators around the world modify her system, Stella faces her ultimate challenge: How do you control the ripple effects of unleashed AI? #booksky #scifi #AI #fiction

Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

The Penguin Games Part 10 - Complete Novel Reading. What starts as an inspiring conservation effort becomes a Pandora’s box. As collaborators around the world modify her system, Stella faces her ultimate challenge: How do you control the ripple effects of unleashed AI? #booksky #scifi #AI #fiction

Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

The Penguin Games - Part 9 Complete Novel Reading. What starts as an inspiring conservation effort becomes a Pandora’s box. As collaborators around the world modify her system, Stella faces her ultimate challenge: How do you control the ripple effects of unleashed AI? #booksky #scifi #AI #fiction

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Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The Penguin Games - Part 8 Complete Novel Reading. What starts as an inspiring conservation effort becomes a Pandora’s box. As collaborators around the world modify her system, Stella faces her ultimate challenge: How do you control the ripple effects of unleashed AI? #booksky #scifi #AI #fiction

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Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

The Penguin Games - Part 7 Complete Novel Reading. What starts as an inspiring conservation effort becomes a Pandora’s box. As collaborators around the world modify her system, Stella faces her ultimate challenge: How do you control the ripple effects of unleashed AI? #booksky #scifi #AI #fiction

Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

The Penguin Games - Part 6 Complete Novel Reading. What starts as an inspiring conservation effort becomes a Pandora’s box. As collaborators around the world modify her system, Stella faces her ultimate challenge: How do you control the ripple effects of unleashed AI? #booksky #scifi #AI #fiction

Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The Penguin Games - Part 5 Complete Novel Reading. What starts as an inspiring conservation effort becomes a Pandora’s box. As collaborators around the world modify her system, Stella faces her ultimate challenge: How do you control the ripple effects of unleashed AI? #booksky #scifi #AI #fiction

Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The Penguin Games - Part 4 Complete Novel Reading. What starts as an inspiring conservation effort becomes a Pandora’s box. As collaborators around the world modify her system, Stella faces her ultimate challenge: How do you control the ripple effects of unleashed AI? #booksky #scifi #AI #fiction

Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

The Penguin Games - Part 3 Complete Novel Reading. What starts as an inspiring conservation effort becomes a Pandora’s box. As collaborators around the world modify her system, Stella faces her ultimate challenge: How do you control the ripple effects of unleashed AI? #booksky #scifi #AI #fiction

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Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

The Penguin Games - Part 2 Complete Novel Reading. What starts as an inspiring conservation effort becomes a Pandora’s box. As collaborators around the world modify her system, Stella faces her ultimate challenge: How do you control the ripple effects of unleashed AI? #booksky #scifi #AI #fiction

Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The Penguin Games - Part 1 Complete Novel Reading. What starts as an inspiring conservation effort becomes a Pandora’s box. As collaborators around the world modify her system, Stella faces her ultimate challenge: How do you control the ripple effects of unleashed AI? #booksky #scifi #AI #fiction

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Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

The Penguin Games - Prologue Complete Novel Reading. What starts as an inspiring conservation effort becomes a Pandora’s box. As collaborators around the world modify her system, Stella faces her ultimate challenge: How do you control the ripple effects of unleashed AI? #booksky #scifi #AI #fiction

Bookaholic Bex @bexbookaholic.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

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Book post!!! Huge thanks to the lovely @nicreineke.bsky.social for a copy of this fascinating sounding novel... #BookSky

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Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The Penguin Games is now streaming live on YouTube youtube.com/playlist?lis... Produced by @kayjeeprod.bsky.social Slow down and listen. It’s an amazing telling of a compelling, 5-star rated novel. Narrated by the incomparable Jessica Gates

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“The Penguin Games by Nicole Reineke is a brilliant blend of accessible technology insights and a gripping narrative that had me hooked from start to finish....

Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

“Using AI” on private citizens data requires consent in the EU AI Act. In the US that’s not a protection we are afforded from non-elected govt teams. Can’t wait to see this hit the exploitation and manipulation stages (also banned in the EU) … “I’ll take social media algorithms for $1000, Ken “

Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Even beyond fiction, the misuse of software is commonplace. Shared code going wrong is a story as old as shared code. It’s an inherent risk. It’s a bigger risk when you don’t have humans with deep expertise and strong ethics overseeing it. Feels appropriate to ponder this today.

Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

One of my dreams growing up was to have one of my books read on reading rainbow. Here is a preview of @kayjeeprod.bsky.social and the talented Jessica Gates making my dreams come true. @levarburton.bsky.social would be proud.

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Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Oh wow!! Thank you all so much!! 7,000 ?! 🤯 🐧 #booksky #novel you are all amazing 💙

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Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

“Violet, software already tracks people. We aren’t creating anything that doesn't already exist,” Stella said quietly. “I’ll add the license restrictions to make clear that this code is not to be used for military applications.” #book #reading #writing

Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

The 5 🤩 reviews are in, 6000 readers can't be wrong, please grab a copy on Amazon and help it hit the top 10 ❤️. It's good. a.co/d/aOlShtZ #fiction #booknerd #scifi #speculativefiction

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Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

It could go from the original intent to save the penguin families to tracking people, and that was a line they’d never meant to cross. #booksky #fiction #Ai #books #amreading #thepenguingames for the complete novel: a.co/d/dlwl7xQ

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Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Things neither of them wanted to be responsible for unleashing. A few more tweaks, a few people creating a few more branches, and suddenly, it would not be about animals anymore.

Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

It was easy to get caught up in the elegance of a solution, to see it as just lines of code, a new problem solved. But this wasn’t just code. It was something that could be twisted into a tool for surveillance, for monitoring, for control. Yes, for crops now, but what next?

Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

“Stella, we can’t let this out,” Violet said softly, the urgency of her past coloring her voice. They sat in silence, the weight of her words settling over them.

Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

She pictured a person labeled as a “repeat offender” because they’d walked through a field too many times, only now it was a city, a town square, someone’s home. The Penguin Games a.co/d/aRdc5Du

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Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Her fingers hovered over the keyboard as her mind raced through the implications. She imagined someone with less scruples, someone in power, leveraging this technology to monitor individuals, to track their every move under the guise of “safety.”

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Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Violet knew the darker side, knew how fast the lines blurred when tracking entered the picture. One tweak, one misused line of code, and this wouldn’t just be about nature preservation anymore. It could become something far more sinister.

Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Now, here she was, staring at lines of code that could open the same doors she’d spent her life closing. Stella saw a way to protect penguins, a charming, almost innocent mission to humanize these animals and tell their stories to the world.

Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Data was powerful, and in the wrong hands, it was lethal. Violet knew this in her bones, in the cautious way she moved through the world, always aware of who was watching. It was why she’d chosen to work in tech—to understand the mechanics behind the system, to see the monster up close. #book

Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Living under constant observation, even the smallest decisions felt like quiet rebellions. Growing up, she had watched neighbors disappear, and careers destroyed over an action that didn’t align with the prevailing agenda. #Follow for the complete novel or buy now: a.co/d/dlwl7xQ

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Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

It was a place where the data they gathered on you could decide your future. By the time she was old enough to realize what was happening, Violet had become accustomed to the faint hum of distrust that underscored her every action.

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Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Violet’s face grew hot. She grew up in a country where surveillance was woven into the fabric of daily life, but not in the innocuous, neighborhood-watch kind of way. No. A kind of watching that made you think twice before saying anything, before sharing too much, before letting anyone see too deep.

Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

... it wouldn’t take much for someone to adapt it. This could go beyond animal tracking fast, and there are people out there who wouldn’t hesitate to use it that way.”

Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

A dark thought crept in, one she couldn’t shake. She turned back to the camera, her voice quiet but laced with unease. “Stella, do you realize how close this is to becoming a military surveillance tool? The way Garrett’s integrated this with drone technology

Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

their changes were ready to be merged into the-penguin-games and then pulled into GH-KH. Violet clicked to initiate the merge, watching the lines of code blend together. But as they fused, a chill settled over her.

Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Stella nudged the algorithm to filter out anything resembling a dog and reinforce kangaroo identification. Violet even pushed a small update to the front-end drone shim, giving Garrett’s model access to extra data from the drones, including altitude, speed, and wind direction.