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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

a'yup. I am certain the backlash is coming but I don't feel like I have any idea what form it will take. And I refuse to ask ChatGPT to find out...

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have a confession: I am pretty much addicted to watching Gen-Z react to Dire Straits on YouTube. This is, obviously, my age talking - but here's the thing. If we let AI take over all creative endeavors, there will never be another Mark Knopfler. I mean, there won't anyway, but you get the point.

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is very context-light today, but from Second Carpathians. Reactor in lieu of meltdown. Make of it what you will! #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Herecic turned away from the ancient server room, its racks and blinking lights. “And that’s all you do, Per? Maintain a thousand-year-old server farm?”
“Yes, but I’m just a neophyte,” Per said. “This is where we all begin our work. The church has other concerns as well.”
“Such as?”
“Commercial Operations. There’s a fully modern computer center in another part of the church. We provide planetary state updates, which pays for all this, as I understand it.“
Herecic grunted. “I wonder how your people got that assignment.”
“We were the low bidder on the project.”
“Ah.” Herecic looked satisfied, like it was the first thing Per had said that made sense, which might have been true.
“Seen enough?”
“Yes.” Herecic shivered. “Cold in here.”
“Yes, well, a massive stone building like this would have naturally been that way. We use underfloor air conditioning to help the process along.”
“Must take a lot of power.”
“There’s a modular nuclear reactor in the vaults. It’s why they built the church near a water source, so I’m told. In this case, a river that runs by the cranberry bog outside. Would you like to see it?”
“The bog?”
“The reactor.”

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am pretty sure this reduces down to: take all remaining human activities that cause the release of seratonin in the brain by way of steady application of effort over time, and replace with another dopamine drip instead.

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Shimaira ⛥ @shimaira.com · 19/09/2026

Fuck all the AI slop flooding Amazon. Sigh the petition 💪 www.change.org/p/ban-ai-gen... 📚💙 #BookSky #authors

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

From Second Carpathians. First draft legit on the homestretch now. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is awesome. And, I profoundly hope, inevitable.

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Vibes today. From Second Carpathians. Like of a contractor be like.... #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Expect a lot more cephalopodic posts from me going forward... getting close to starting the next writing project!

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This. Chinua Achebe's takedown of Joseph Conrad comes to mind... Honestly, it's pretty danged instructive for my generation (and presumably those who followed) to revisit our high school "classics" through this lens and see what exactly we were meant to read...

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Yup. This. Writing, like all creative endeavors, is about the journey. The process literally transforms the author, which is why the result can transform the reader. Skipping that step is exactly analogous to driving a marathon, helicoptering to a mountain-top -- pick your metaphor.

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Or refuse to look at the manuscript it's working because it. just. can't...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/11/2025

Some people are very good at writing sex and some people are good at believing that they are good at writing sex, the first is a tremendously impressive skill and the second is what makes for deeply uncomfortable author presentations at science fiction conventions

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

From Second Carpathians. Almost onto the final act. Paso a paso! This is gonna happen... #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Technology-free classrooms... a'yup. Never mind going back to the future; feels like in some (but not all!) very key regards, the trick is figuring out how to go forward to the past...

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

From Second Carpathians. Which I really should be working on right now instead of reading posts about AI on Bluesky... #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Paul Dixon @pauldixon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This. I profoundly hope students writing long-hand is part of the coming backlash.

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Frances Hardinge @franceshardinge.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Apologies to those who know this already. If you're an aspiring author who submits a manuscript to what looks like a traditional publisher, and they write back saying that they adore your book but want you to pay £3k or so for an 'editing service'... Please don't sign with them.

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