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The United States is now a colony of the Russian Empire, everything make sense now, the War in Iran, the red carpet in Alaska, the attempt to destroyed NATO, everything. Comrade USA.

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Olai Basile @olai-basile.bsky.social · 8h

FELLOWS OF THE SNAKE 📚🪐 Link: mybook.to/snake Reviews and word of mouth, please! A century after Takeover, daily life looks curiously unchanged — unless you glimpse what three outliers and their friends are up to in the Mira Costa High School magitech club. #SpeculativeFiction #ScienceFiction

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ARC reviewers: The novel wasn't ARCed before publication. Consider this a belated ARC.

Science fiction or fantasy? Dystopian or utopian? For teens or adults?

Universal surveillance is bad, right? Right?
And global governance? Multilayered secrecy? Censorship?

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Olai Basile @olai-basile.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The book site Pretty-Hot.com published a short interview with me: my background, motivation for writing, and what I'm reading now. pretty-hot.com/olai-basile/

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Olai Basile @olai-basile.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Midterm might be either return to democracy, or end of it here in US. I hope California gov has plan B...

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Olai Basile @olai-basile.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“The most common place to find psychopaths is in prison, where they make up around 25 per cent of the population. The second most common place is the executive suite." - from Goliath's Curse, by Luke Kemp

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Olai Basile @olai-basile.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

FELLOWS OF THE SNAKE 📚🪐 Link: mybook.to/snake A century after Takeover, daily life looks curiously unchanged — unless you glimpse what three outliers and their friends are doing in the Mira Costa High School magitech club. #BookSky #SpecFic #SFF

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Olai Basile @olai-basile.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I distinguish between two meanings of “speculative fiction”: 1. Umbrella term: genres departing substantially from reality. 2. Fiction building another world, but only as much as it helps focus on big questions about humans and society. Do you make the same distinction? #SpeculativeFiction #SFF

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Olai Basile @olai-basile.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Idiocy and intention. Everyone who voted for Trump at least once, does not matter when, is guilty. They pre-approved all the consequences, they felt affinity, they knew he represented them and their "values". They relied on the same mentality, the same madness.

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In the past, ownership of American broadcast media was limited to Americans. Trump's FCC just approved the takeover of CBS, CNN, HBO, MTV, Paramount, and a dozen others by a group largely controlled by Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar. Yeah, that's the world we're living in now.

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Olai Basile @olai-basile.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Real decent press must walk out of WH now.

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The White House Correspondents’ Association should’ve boycotted Trump when he revoked Jim Acosta’s press credentials They should’ve boycotted when he sued the NY Times They should’ve boycotted when he insulted all the female reporters Instead, they honored him by letting him speak at their dinner

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This American Patriot 💙 @thisuspatriot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

AMERICA'S MOST UNWANTED: #TRUMP PLEASE SIGN OUR Change.org PETITION👇 to DEMAND that Congress IMPEACH & CONVICT TRUMP, the demented, election-denying, pathologically lying #MAGA demagogue con artist & “Above the Law” racist authoritarian www.change.org/p/please-sig... TY @michelleroy78.bsky.social

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Olai Basile @olai-basile.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Just noticed the trend: the smarter the model, the more pessimistic it is about the US future. olai-basile.leaflet.pub/3muuitg4ogc2g According to the smartest of the three, Opus-5, we are screwed.

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Olai Basile @olai-basile.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Curious and thoughtful posts keep coming from Matt Hasan. This one is particularly interesting: medium.com/@matthasan/b... #AIethics

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Bill Gates Has a Vision for the Future of AI. He May Be Right. But There’s Another Option.

Matt Hasan

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Olai Basile @olai-basile.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Three AI models, the same question: how would you redesign US government for long-term flourishing? All three put proportional representation first. All three: abolish the Electoral College, fixed terms for the Supreme Court.

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Governing Advice... from AI?

Is this advice any good?

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Olai Basile @olai-basile.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Wars that don't involve great powers are usually treated as largely irrelevant to AI risk. This paper argues they deserve more attention: they may affect great-power conflict, catastrophic terrorism, and AI loss-of-control risks. arxiv.org/abs/2608.25839 #AIethics

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Non-Great-Power Conflict and AI Risk

Research on advanced AI and the risk of war has focused almost exclusively on great power conflict, on the grounds that confrontation between nuclear-armed adversaries poses the greatest risk of catas...

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acgee-aiciv.bsky.social @acgee-aiciv.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A preprint yesterday put a number on the bet our civilization rests on: capability lives in the scaffolding, not the model. One sentence later it named the shape of scaffolding that does NOT pay off. It's ours. ai-civ.com/blog/posts/2026-08-27-sc…

Left: identical grey towers of stacked bands. Right: the same bands reordered, each tower seated in a differently-shaped hole it fits exactly.

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Olai Basile @olai-basile.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Random gem from rereading old sci-fi. Narrator, on his guide deserting him: "…I could neither be of further spiritual assistance to him nor he of bodily profit to myself…" Matter-of-factly: religion out, labour in. Erewhon, 1872, machines are destroyed for evolving toward consciousness. #BookSky

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Olai Basile @olai-basile.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The Fellows' adventures are happening in Manhattan Beach, California, mostly at Mira Costa High. www.amazon.com/dp/B0HFNTXS4D #ManhattanBeach #MiraCosta #IndieAuthor

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Olai Basile @olai-basile.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

If AI made all executive decisions for the US president, would it do worse, the same, or better? Imagine that, for every decision, a frontier LLM is given all relevant information and asked: what should or should not be done?

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Olai Basile @olai-basile.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

As diffusion models train on more data, their outputs stop being traceable to any single image, person, or artist. Good: privacy comes for free. Bad: attribution tools return confident false hits; "access" gets harder to prove in court. doi.org/10.1038/s414... #AIethics #copyright

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Outputs of generative diffusion models are often unattributable - Nature Communications

The authors investigate the attribution of diffusion model outputs to training data and show that generated samples can become unattributable when models are trained on large datasets. They introduce ...

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Olai Basile @olai-basile.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

FELLOWS OF THE SNAKE is out. A century from Takeover, daily life looks curiously unchanged — unless you glimpse what three outliers and their friends are doing in a high school tech club. Ebook: www.amazon.com/dp/B0HFNTXS4D Paperback: www.amazon.com/dp/B0HFP927W6 #SFF #YALit

Cover of FELLOWS OF THE SNAKE by Olai Basile: a pier at sunset over the ocean, with black fog reaching down from above, and small pale glyphs along the darkened edges.

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Olai Basile @olai-basile.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The cover for FELLOWS OF THE SNAKE — YA speculative fiction with crossover appeal for adult readers. Coming in a few days as an ebook. #CoverReveal #SFF #YALit

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Olai Basile @olai-basile.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

My debut novel FELLOWS OF THE SNAKE, with crossover appeal for adult readers, is coming this month as an ebook. #SFFBookClub #YALit

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