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Robot is Smiling

@robotissmiling.com
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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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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 16/03/2025
The world they inhabit, for sure. This novel, though, was an extension/precursor of a rather tight short story. It probably just needed to stay there.
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 16/03/2025
Thanks. My gut tells me that it's the former rather than the latter, but walking away from something with that many months of writing is a hard pill to swallow.
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 16/03/2025
How do you know if a book has the right legs? I’ve recently put a book into "cold storage” and switched to a book that flows more. I love the characters and plot in both stories, but one is much more laborious to write. I can’t tell if that’s because it’s got issues or it’s just a harder subject.
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 16/03/2025
Definitely Weaponised Archaeologists. I need to know if they have been given tools of destruction or if they are themselves the tools of destruction. Regardless, I need to know to what end.
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 06/03/2025
Congrats
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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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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 13/02/2025
It was a great episode and the very thorough breakdown of how it fits into this moment in society was extremely well done. We’re big hockey fans here and the amount of betting ads makes us sour. Feels like a hijacking of something I’ve loved for over 40 years. No one needs to know the line, ever.
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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
Yuntian Deng
@yuntiandeng•7h
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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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 08/02/2025
Nooooooooooo
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 07/02/2025
My wife might not like it, but I think it's time to introduce them to this glittering masterpiece as well. Thanks for the idea. They've taken kindly to everything else I've introduced them to, so we shall see.
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 07/02/2025
Aww, man. Amazing game. I like their Into the Breach game as well, but FTL will always be the gold standard.
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 04/02/2025
A Magnum Opus if ever there was one.
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 02/02/2025
I can't even get my family to watch anymore, since it's a 50/50 chance it'll be sad. Let alone buying tickets to a game.
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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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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 30/01/2025
Shhhh
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 29/01/2025
Once the news came out about Deepseek, my first thought was that it will be a great next episode.
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 29/01/2025
Holy geez. I had no idea and now I must find it.
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 28/01/2025
Sign in Italian and English that says to beware of the pickpockets. A green blocky figure has a bag that a red blocky figure reaches into. The red figures reaching arm looks abnormally long.
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 27/01/2025
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a man with a bandage on his forehead says yarp !
Alt: a man with a bandage on his forehead says yarp ! From the movie Hot Fuzz
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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 · 25/01/2025
Ticket to Ride is a fan favorite here as well. I'd also recommend Azul.
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 25/01/2025
Safisfactory...and then lots of Board Games. Dominion for the win.
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 25/01/2025
One of my daughter's earliest memories is waking me up at 5:30 in the morning so I could teach her to play minecraft. She was 6. She is 14 now and we still talk about the Cansion (cave-mansion) we built. It was one of the first ways of connecting and we cherish it. Glad to see others had the same.
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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
That's just nice.
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 24/01/2025
We closed the business and I no longer needed to advertise on Meta. When I finally deleted the account after one to many soul rending scroll sessions, I felt light again. Normal. Thanks for the story. I felt seen. 3/3
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 24/01/2025
Spoiler alert: advertising on Meta works just as well as lighting your hard-earned on fire. Anyway, I got sucked into Instagram scrolling (which I had avoided for 46 years of life, and every time I'd stop, I felt a pervasive hollowness as well. I felt used, dirty even. 2/3
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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 · 24/01/2025
I usually measure my level of compulsion. I step away when something isn't working and if I can't get it out of my head or I keep going back to review it again and again, I keep working through the trough. If, however, I can let it go after a few days, I'll walk away from it.
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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
I've had more than a few conversations with AI startup companies asking them about how they make sure their software is accurate, and it's usually a bunch of hand waving and shrugs. A whole industry built on VC money being fed into other VC backed AI companies.
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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
YouTube video by Eleanor Morton
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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 · 12/01/2025
High art, I say. High art!
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 10/01/2025
This is now my favorite stat.
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 07/01/2025
It's bots all the way down, I'm afraid. And those bots follow anyone with the keyword "Married" or "Husband" I'm guessing. Our bios have been weaponized.
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a seamless pattern of blue robots with the word robot on the front of them
Alt: a seamless pattern of blue robots with the word robot on the front of them
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Robot is Smiling @robotissmiling.com · 07/01/2025
The amount of only-fans follow backs makes me want to weep. Then I hope it's AI slop and then I regret that hope too.
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