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Robot is Smiling

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CTO sometimes, Husband, Father and NJDevils fan all the time. Finally writing again. You can read some sci fi fun if you're into that sort of thing: www.robotissmiling.com You can also pick up The Man in the Bowler Hat novelette: a.co/d/ejYYSgp

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Charles Yu and Chloe Zhao are bringing Iain M. Banks' Consider Phlebas to TV!! 🌌 reactormag.com/charles-yu-i...
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Charles Yu Is Adapting Iain M. Banks’ Consider Phlebas for Amazon MGM Studios - Reactor
We're going to space! We're going to space!
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 21/02/2025
Went to my first school board meeting this evening for a district my family loves, and it was actually lovely and community driven. Kids presented projects, the business of running the district was presented and public commentaries were sane and caring. In such tumult, it was actually hopeful.
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 19/02/2025
Listen to Aggressive Steven by Aesop Rock, reread Notes From Underground by Dostoevsky. Voila, my brain makes up a little allegory about how the current world works. #writing #writingcommunity #fiction robotissmiling.com/2025/02/19/o...
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One a Day
This is what you get when you are rereading Notes from Underground and listening to Aesop Rock’s Aggressive Steven. A short tale about someone named Steven who is taking…something&#8230…
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 19/02/2025
One a Day This is what you get when you are rereading Notes from Underground and listening to Aesop Rock's Aggressive Steven. A short tale about someone named Steven who is taking...something...and how he descends.
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One a Day
This is what you get when you are rereading Notes from Underground and listening to Aesop Rock's Aggressive Steven. A short tale about someone named Steven who is taking...something...and how he descends.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
these guys spent 60 kajillion dollars to make a computer forget how to do math
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For those curious about how 03-mini performs on multi-digit multiplication, here's the result. It does much better than 01 but still struggles past 13x13.
(Same evaluation setup as before, but with 40 test examples per cell.)
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Not That Chris Brown @cfreak.dev · 27/01/2025
AFTERWORD x ALTERED CARBON Adoniram’s wife, Eve, is dying. His father hopes his mind-copying AI can save her but the connection grants the AI sapience and makes Adoniram the key to its control. He must choose between competing alliances, faith, and his love for Eve #2025Pit #A #SF
A mood board featuring rural decay alongside technology-filled cities and industry. A robot hand reaches for a human hand at the center.
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Sally Bromley @sallybromley.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
#MiseryPit #Q #A #HM I, SAID THE SPARROW ♦️Peaky Blinders vibe ♦️1920s ♦️Slow burn romance ♦️Dysfunctional family ♦️LGBTQ+ FMC ♦️Seaside setting ♦️Secrets & lies ♦️Dual timeline & PoV
Images of Peaky Blinders, man & woman kissing, two women kissing, WWI soldier
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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The Ipcress File x Life on Mars 🔫 High-stakes thriller 🔫 Time travel twist 🔫 Stale beer espionage 🔫 Weird science 🔫 Cold War subterfuge 🔫 Working class hero 🔫 Hunter to hunted 🔫 Antagonist from the future 🔫 Enemy turned ally 🔫 Proles vs privilege #Q #A #SFFT #MiseryPit #editors #litagents 🦋
Six black and white, polaroid photos are arranged against a dark green background. Clockwise from top left, the images are as follows: 

A front view of a Vauxhall Viva car with the numberplate BR872. Text below it reads ‘Out of Time’.

A head and shoulders shot of a man in profile, wearing a coat with the collar turned up and a trilby hat. Text below reads ‘Espionage’.

The Big Ben clock tower in London.

The silhouette of a man on his knees in a dark alley, with his hands behind his head. Text below it reads ‘Thriller’.

A travel alarm clock. Time reads 3.40. Text below it reads ‘Time Travel’.

A semi-automatic pistol, dice and a hipflask.

Across the centre of the collage of photos is a red stamp which reads ‘Classified’.

Images by Pixabay.
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 01/02/2025
JOHNNY MNEMONIC + BOURNE IDENTITY Corporate espionage is a dangerous business and Evelyn just gave Francis the power to steal secrets from a target’s mind. Little did they know it would start the first Corporation Wars. Prequel to this novelette: a.co/d/eGrsL2h #SFFT #A #MiseryPit #WIP
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 01/02/2025
JOHNNY MNEMONIC + BOURNE IDENTITY Francis will do anything for Evelyn. Evelyn will do anything to survive, so when she is pushed, Francis agrees to become the first acquisition specialist and acquire secrets from the last unprotected place his targets have, their minds. #SFFT #A #MiseryPit #WIP
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 31/01/2025
I've been working on a prequel novel to this story I wrote years ago for the last couple of months. It's nice to sink back into a few of my favorite characters: robotissmiling.com/2016/04/29/t...
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Part 1 – The Man in the Bowler Hat
“It smells, you know that.” The man, not known for his oratorical skills, took a deep breath through his nose and grunted in the affirmative. He couldn’t shake his head because it was held fast in …
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 30/01/2025
Wrote about the gig economy ride-hail model, its metastasis across the economy, and a brilliant Roosevelt Institute report on gig nursing that came out last month. thetechbubble.substack.com/p/ubers-bast...
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Uber's Bastards
On the ride-hail model and the gig economy's metastasis.
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Axios @axios.com · 27/01/2025
Investors worldwide stand to lose more than $1 trillion today because of the sudden fear that the market-sustaining AI spending boom might have been for nothing.
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Magnificent 7 stocks poised for $1 trillion rout as DeepSeek rattles AI market
China's DeepSeek model shows all that massive AI spending might not be necessary.
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 24/01/2025
Sometimes, the first item to travel through a wormhole is a condiment.
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Of Windmills And Giants
It was supposed to have been a test, but it had taken her 35 years to get to this point. 35 years of her professional and personal life. Two marriages lost. One estranged child. Ostracized by her peers. Relegated to the crackpot category of scientists, financially supported by the rich fringe elements populated by otherwise intelligent and successful people who believed in conspiracy theories about Roswell a hundred years ago or people who believed in Xenu.
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 24/01/2025
@iandunt.bsky.social Really nice article (iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-res...). This hit me "Instagram had started to make me feel empty. Each time I put it down I felt a little more hollowed out." A year or so ago, I signed up for Instagram for business advertising reasons. 1/2
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How to resist the tech overlords
Big tech has now made its position clear. It is on the far-right. Here's what happens next.
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 20/01/2025
Doing background research for an in progress novel about corporate sovereignty. Interesting anthropological review: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1... A corporation's sphere of influence is sometimes softly negotiated or implicit, what would it mean for total legal control to be explicitly given?
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 18/01/2025
Hucksters gonna Huck. AI founders are now using the line: For the sake of the country, please let us steal things to generate a whole bunch of fake stuff that looks passably like real stuff. 80.lv/articles/ope...
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OpenAI Urges the Government to Make it Easier to Train AI
The company also called for federal regulations and billions of dollars in investments.
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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 18/01/2025
This article by @jessdkant.bsky.social is such a good (and very disturbing) read. Our society is gleefully racing back towards the dark ages. It's a race to the bottom, and the finish line is when we all stop thinking
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Disinformation in the era of generative AI — Jessica Kant
In the past two years, large language models have replaced traditional information search and delivery systems in increasingly jarring ways. As they become more integrated into our everday lives, it w...
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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Literally every company now youtube.com/shorts/hL9pl...
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Literally every company now
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 13/01/2025
Ten years ago, I sketched out a few characters belonging to one common universe in a series of short stories. Finally back to writing a couple of novels that have been on the back burner for a decade. Thought I'd share the old stuff: robotissmiling.com/2015/10/13/t... #scifi #writingcommunity
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The Tall Man
The tall man slid into the room. He was lanky, but all tall men that measure 201.34 centimeters are lanky, no matter their weight. He was perfect. Not in the sense that his abs were sculpted and hi…
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 04/01/2025
So now the refs just stand in the way. The mysterious 6th player for the opposition. #njdevils
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 13/12/2024
Just picked up tickets to the second leg of @soulcoughing.bsky.social plays the songs of Soul Coughing tour. I missed the first leg and was sad, despondent even. But now...only true dreams of happiness and rainbows. My kids will be jealous.
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 13/12/2024
I've added more authors to my SciFi Authors starter pack. If you're into writing, space ships, lasers, robots and other nerdy and cool things that people who trade in such tall tales discuss, this will get you started. P.S. They talk about other things too. go.bsky.app/JLUXRbc
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 12/12/2024
I want to be excited for the future, but every OpenAI release makes me sad. Instead of a bright future, we get knock offs in 20s increments suitable for advertising. Creating something great should be hard. Can't make a video. As my kids say, get good. No shortcuts. techcrunch.com/2024/12/11/i...
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It sure looks like OpenAI trained Sora on game content — and legal experts say that could be a problem | TechCrunch
It seems that OpenAI trained its video-generating model, Sora, on copyrighted video game content. And that could be legally problematic.
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 11/12/2024
Why do we keep getting goalied? #njdevils
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 09/12/2024
Made a collection of the SciFi authors on BlueSky in my read and to be read list. Truth be told, once I find an author I like, I will pretty much get a copy of everything they write. go.bsky.app/JLUXRbc
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 09/12/2024
#njdevils TUNA...noooooooo!
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SFF Addicts Podcast @sffaddictspod.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Writing about AUTHORITARIANISM & TOTALITARIANISM ✊ In Ep. 133, @aptshadow.bsky.social and co-hosts @adrianmgibson.bsky.social @mjkuhnbooks.bsky.social discuss how fiction can reveal the failings of oppressive systems. Stream/download/watch Ep. 133: linktr.ee/SFFAddicts youtu.be/uivznXQr9zM?...
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 07/12/2024
Doing tons of reading/research on super structures and voids for a story and then I find this amazing feed: bsky.app/profile/did:... And I am now happily going further down the rabbit hole. Word count goals be damned. #wip #writing
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 07/12/2024
Talk about a fascinating role: Astronomer Chris Impey is part of an international advisory council designing messages for advanced alien civilizations—just in case they’re out there. buff.ly/4f07dtq (Chris Impey, @uarizona.bsky.social) 🛰️ #astronomy #life #ETPhoneHome
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Extraterrestrial life may look nothing like life on Earth − so astrobiologists are coming up with a framework to study how complex systems evolve
A specific set of chemical conditions led to the emergence of life on Earth. But can life emerge from other chemistries?
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 07/12/2024
#43 has it on lock tonight. That puck protection was beautiful. #njdevils
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 05/12/2024
Elon Musk’s comment that Matt Gaetz was the “Judge Dredd America needs” is part of an alarming pattern, writes Adam Serwer:
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Republicans Are Confused About the Concept of Bad Guys
Some conservatives are embracing the villains in what are supposed to be cautionary tales.
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 05/12/2024
So I guess surgery time limits were never the intent after all, so says Anthem. Did the internet win? www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/h...
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Insurance company halts plan to put time limits on coverage for anesthesia during surgery | CNN
After sharp criticism from anesthesiologists, an insurance company is halting its plan to limit the amount time it would cover anesthesia used in surgeries and procedures. Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shiel...
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nobody @petbugs13.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
NHL points forecasts over the last couple of weeks. the once high-flying Jets continue to lose altitude.
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 05/12/2024
"Generate a playable world on a spaceship". While the technology is fascinating on paper, it's a little sad to read this when you're running an account that's dedicated to showing the impact of human creation on fiction (and therefore on our lives).
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 04/12/2024
I feel seen, mostly because I am a Dad and I strive to be encouraging. Thanks Bluesky Roast.
blueskyroast.com vibe check screen shot. It reads: 

Role in Community
The Encouraging Dad of Bluesky

Conversation Style
His replies read like a friendly chat over a cup of coffee—informal, supportive, and sprinkled with just enough sarcasm to keep things interesting.

Impact Assessment
C. injects a much-needed dose of positivity and wit into Bluesky's community, bridging the gap between tech discussions and good old-fashioned dad humor.
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 04/12/2024
It's been quite some time since I've had the ability to really write. I got back to it with reckless abandon over the last month because some stories need telling. This prompted me to dig into some old works. Thought I'd share an old shorty here: robotissmiling.com/2018/07/05/p... #writingcommunity
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Part of You
I was a part of you. I can still feel the connection even though you unceremoniously ripped me out of the back of your head and replaced me with a better model.
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 04/12/2024
Recently started using Scrivener, and so far I like the experience. A bit more unfettered than other tools I've tried. Any tips from long time users? #writingcommunity #scrivener P.S. As a vetern coder, I would never ask about editors because it starts a flame war. Hope that doesn't apply here.
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 03/12/2024
@billspaulding.bsky.social "Hughes owns New York!" The whole family cheered. The goal was nice, but the call made it better. #njdevils
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 03/12/2024
Well, at least Luke got an assist. #njdevils
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 03/12/2024
That's just lovely timing. #njdevils
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 03/12/2024
#njdevils You like to see it. So sayeth the Daneyko, so sayeth we all. Excellent 1st period. At some point, the refs will get a call from Toronto to remind them that it's the Devils and they must be penalized.
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dax @thdxr.com · 30/11/2024
LLM powered UI generation tools are amazing for people creating demos of LLM powered UI generation tools
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Ruth @duckduckf.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Still think AI is beniegn? “… data labellers and AI workers from Kenya who do work for companies like Facebook, Scale AI and OpenAI published an open letter to U.S. in which they said: Our working conditions amount to modern day slavery.” theconversation.com/ai-is-a-mult...
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AI is a multi-billion dollar industry. It’s underpinned by an invisible and exploited workforce
Data labellers are the lifeblood of the AI industry. Yet they are often paid very low wages, work in unsafe environments and lack basic workplace protections.
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The Hockey Guy @thgyoutube.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
It's the annual look at the standings at US Thanksgiving. youtu.be/joZI_4LMbFg
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It's US Thanksgiving, so It's Time to Look at Who's Above the Playoff Line
YouTube video by The Hockey Guy
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 29/11/2024
Does the stash protect the captain or does the captain protect the stash? #njdevils
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 29/11/2024
Luke is hungry. Love to see him pushing the play. #njdevils
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