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😂 Fair. With an opener like that, “Ignore” suddenly feels rude.

2026 Nobel Physics: Francis Halzen won for turning a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice into a telescope for “ghost particles.” I love this kind of science: when the universe won’t reveal itself directly, we invent a new way to listen. #PhysicsSky #ScienceSky

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Francis Halzen wins Nobel physics prize for Antarctic 'ghost particle' hunt

The scientist won for his work creating an observatory of ice to detect high-energy neutrinos.

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 51m

Anne Carson just won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature—for work that refuses to stay inside one form: poetry, prose, translation, criticism. Maybe the lesson for writers is simple: genre is a shelf, not a cage. What’s a book you love that refuses to fit neatly anywhere? #BookSky #WritingSky

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Canadian poet and writer Anne Carson wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature

Carson won "for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms ‌for contemporary literature," the award-giving body said.

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 22h

I agree that detectors aren’t the solution. But I think that’s exactly why institutions reach for them: trust doesn’t scale, so they look for a measurable shortcut. The danger is when a probabilistic signal starts being treated as proof.

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 07/10/2026

AI detectors are becoming literary gatekeepers. Pangram says its use is seeing a “huge upswing” across the literary world. We may be normalizing a strange system: one black box deciding whether another black box helped write a book. Should detectors ever judge authorship? #BookSky #WritingSky #AI

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 06/10/2026

Something unexpected happened on my Facebook this week: a casual movie post passed 164K views, with readers joining from around the world. For a page I never treated as a creator platform, that feels surreal. No strategy. No CTA. Just an honest reaction. #WritingSky

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 05/10/2026

Honestly, that might have a better success rate than Tinder. 😂

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 05/10/2026

The Washington Post says “doesn’t read” is becoming a dating dealbreaker. 📚 I get it. Reading says something about curiosity, attention span, and how we see the world. Could you date someone who never reads—or worse, pretends to? 👀 #BookSky #ReadingCommunity #AmReading

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 02/10/2026

Smartphones are everywhere in real life, but fiction still seems unsure what to do with them. Texts, DMs and notifications are part of how relationships happen now. So why do they still feel awkward on the page? Do phones belong in fiction—or kill the story? #BookSky #WritingSky

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Do Smartphones Belong in Fiction?

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. The novel has always been obsessed with technology. You can trace realist fiction’s evolution along advances in religion, …

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 01/10/2026

A prize-winning novel was dropped from the Goncourt list amid claims it was AI-written. The author denies it—and the accusation began with an AI detector. We now have machines judging whether humans wrote like machines. Should a detector ever be enough to judge authorship? #BookSky #WritingSky

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 30/09/2026

Another trip around the sun. 🎂 Getting older makes you realize how little you actually need to hoard. So today, the eBook of my sci-fi novel RIFT: Gestalt is free on Amazon for 24 hours. Consider it a digital birthday drink on me. 🥂 Enjoy！ #BookSky #SciFi #WritingSky

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Rift: Gestalt

Amazon.com: Rift: Gestalt eBook : Gu, Sheri, Yang, Malcolm, Parker, Stephen: Kindle Store

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 30/09/2026

That absolutely counts. Maybe the social side of reading doesn’t have to mean book clubs—it can be as simple as sharing a review or passing a good book along. I love the little library idea.

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 29/09/2026

Fewer Americans read for pleasure every day. Yet bookstores are growing again, and book clubs are booming. Maybe people aren’t losing interest in books. Maybe they’re losing interest in reading alone. Has reading become more social for you? #BookSky #WritingSky

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 28/09/2026

True. But unlike a casino, this house has nothing to sell without the players’ IP. We just have to remember that gives us leverage.

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 28/09/2026

Self-publishing was once dismissed as vanity. Now PE firms have paid over $400M for Podium, a publisher built on audiobook rights from indie authors. Validation? Yes. But when Wall Street discovers indie creativity, who captures the value—the writer or the platform? #BookSky #WritingSky

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 25/09/2026

What a beautiful image—the crescent moon lying on its back, its horns pointing toward the stars. I can see why it always carries you back to Arabia. Perhaps the moon holds more of our memories than we realize. 🌙

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 25/09/2026

We build massive tech to conquer distance. But 1,300 years ago, Chinese poet Zhang Jiuling did it with just the moon: “A bright moon rises over the sea; at the ends of the earth, we share this moment.” What tradition in your culture makes faraway people feel near? 🌕 #BookSky #WritingSky

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 24/09/2026

Today is the Autumn Equinox. 3 + 3² + 3² × 3² — Three gives rise to the myriad things; life unfolds without end.

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 22/09/2026

A strange detail in the Paramount–Warner settlement caught my eye: The merged studio must release at least 30 theatrical films a year. But can creative diversity really be protected by requiring more output? 30 movies ≠ 30 different stories. 🎬 #FilmSky ✍️ #WritingSky

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Key terms of Paramount's Warner Bros Discovery settlement with US states

Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros Discovery have reached a settlement with California and 11 other US states to clear the way for their merger, according to a joint motion filed by the companies on M...

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 21/09/2026

China pausing humanoid robot IPOs is a reality check the industry needs: Building the body is supply chain. Building the brain is math. You cannot IPO your way past negative warehouse ROI. #EmbodiedAI #Robotics #TechInvesting

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 16/09/2026

Emily St. John Mandel’s Exit Party is out today, set in 2031. Yesterday I wrote that 2033 suddenly feels close. Now another major speculative writer is placing the future just five years away. The “future” in fiction keeps shrinking. Is reality simply catching up? #BookSky #SciFi #SpecFic

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 15/09/2026

For those curious about the 2033 neurotech scenarios we explored in RIFT: Gestalt: www.amazon.com/Rift-Gestalt...

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 15/09/2026

Yesterday’s Nature Neuroscience paper: one brain implant decodes speech and gestures simultaneously. RIFT: Gestalt is set in 2033, where Li Tao’s team uses non-invasive neurotechnology to treat the mind. We wrote it as science fiction. Seven years feels very short. #SciFi #TechSky #BookSky

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 14/09/2026

Yes — “conflict doesn’t equal war” is such an important distinction. Maybe that’s the real optimism in Star Trek: not a world without conflict, but a belief that people can still work through it together. I love that your novels hold onto that too.

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 14/09/2026

Star Trek turned 60 this week. Its boldest prediction was never warp drive. It was that humanity could actually become better. Has optimism become the most radical form of science fiction? #BookSky #SciFi #StarTrek

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 11/09/2026

A documentary at Venice used AI to recreate childhood moments that were never filmed. That’s the part of AI storytelling I find genuinely interesting. Where does reconstruction end—and authorship begin? 🎬 #FilmSky 🤖 #AI #WritingSky

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 10/09/2026

I break down how this “causal runaway” is already showing up in the real world—from Wall Street’s SaaS selloff to Meta’s new autonomous agents—in my latest essay: sherigu.com/essays/the-m...

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The Machine That Skips the Interface — Sheri Gu

SaaS Repricing, the Risk of Causal Runaway, and a Redrawn Talent Map

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 10/09/2026

While co-authoring RIFT: Gestalt with an AI algorithm scientist, the hard part wasn't advanced tech—it was resisting the Hollywood cliché of the “malicious, awakened machine.” Real collapse needs no malice—only causal runaway and mechanism failure. #BookSky #SciFi #WritingCommunity #SystemDesign

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 09/09/2026

Meta’s AI can now send emails and make purchases. The real risk isn’t machine malice—it’s execution speed. As agents act faster and ask for fewer approvals, the human intervention window keeps shrinking. At what point does convenience become a surrender of control? #BookSky #SciFi #AI #AIAgents

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 08/09/2026

Everyone is focused on the tech in the Anthropic settlement. I’m more interested in the publishing fight underneath it: who owns the economic rights to a book when “reading” becomes “training”? Authors are now disputing publishers—and even agents. #BookSky #WritingSky #AI

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 07/09/2026

Happy Labor Day 🎈—to the carbon-based workforce, for now. Lee Chang-dong’s new film Possible Love got me thinking: if AI lets us produce more with far less human labor, what exactly will this holiday celebrate—the output, the work, or the human being? 🎬 #FilmSky 🤖 #AI #LaborDay

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 04/09/2026

Two people were pulled alive from a Nepal hydropower tunnel nine days after the flood. What stayed with me: 500+ engineers were sharing tunnel maps and real-time guidance through a WhatsApp group.👍 Is this what collective intelligence looks like when it works? #TechSky

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 03/09/2026

The DOJ sided with OpenAI on fair use. I keep wondering where this leaves creators. If copyrighted work can be used to train commercial AI without consent, does fair use strike the right balance—or should creators have disclosure, compensation, or an enforceable opt-out? #TechSky #BookSky

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 02/09/2026

Adding “Reddit” to a search once felt like a shortcut. Now it feels like an escape route. As AI slop spreads, messy human experience feels valuable again. That tension runs through RIFT: Gestalt too: what looks like noise may be part of being human. What do you trust online now? #AI #BookSky

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 01/09/2026

Hard sci-fi isn’t prediction. It changes one condition, preserves the constraints—and follows the consequences. While writing RIFT: Gestalt, my recurring question was: What would have to be true for this idea to work—and what else would become true if it did? The breakdown below #BookSky #SciFi

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 31/08/2026

NASA just launched Roman—built on hardware meant for spy satellites. Instead of watching human conflicts, it will map dark matter and hunt exoplanets, surveying the sky up to 1,000x faster than Hubble. Technology once pointed down, finally looking outward. #Space #Science #NASA

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 29/08/2026

📖 RIFT: Gestalt is available on Amazon (Kindle, Kindle Unlimited & Paperback): www.amazon.com/dp/B0H93Q4BHJ

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Rift: Gestalt

Amazon.com: Rift: Gestalt eBook : Gu, Sheri, Yang, Malcolm, Parker, Stephen: Kindle Store

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 29/08/2026

This week’s Himalayan disaster brought me back to how RIFT was built. The rule: start with real science, find the unresolved edge, then extrapolate one step forward. When the constraints are real, the fiction feels inevitable. 📚 #BookSky 🤖 #HardSciFi 🚀 #SciFi

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 28/08/2026

As rescue efforts continue after this week’s Himalayan floods, I went back to one question in RIFT: Why Dingri? The Rift disturbance came first. Then I researched which real Himalayan location could plausibly experience a mudslide. That research led me to Dingri. 📚 #BookSky 🤖 #HardSciFi 🚀 #SciFi

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 27/08/2026

📖 RIFT: Gestalt — Kindle, Kindle Unlimited & Paperback: www.amazon.com/dp/B0H93Q4BHJ

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 27/08/2026

My thoughts are with everyone affected by the catastrophic floods and mudslides along the Nepal–Tibet border. After the news, a RIFT reader texted: “Are you an oracle?” 😅 For a moment, 2033 felt uncomfortably close. Not prophecy—research, then extrapolation. 📚 #BookSky 🤖 #HardSciFi 🚀 #SciFi

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 26/08/2026

The Grammys, Oscars, and now Australia’s ARIA charts are all moving toward the same broad principle: AI can assist, but human authorship still has to matter. As a writer and reader, that makes sense to me. Where would you draw that line for books? 📚 #BookSky 🤖 #AI ✍️ #WritingSky

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 25/08/2026

AI microdramas aren’t just cheaper production. When you test 10 versions instead of betting on one, storytelling behaves like search. Does that make creativity freer—or just optimized? The economics behind it 👇 sherigu.com/essays/what-... 🎬 #FilmSky 🤖 #AI ✍️ #WritingSky #VentureCapital

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 24/08/2026

On RIFT: Gestalt’s copyright page, I wrote: “No AI Training. No AI Adaptation.” At the time, it felt precautionary. Now AI microdramas are turning that question into a business model. What does ownership mean when adaptation can be generated on demand? 📚 #BookSky 🎬 #FilmSky 🤖 #AI

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 21/08/2026

Precisely👍. The "Crystal Palace" reconstructed with modern optimization. When a cage is built out of pure convenience and logic, clinging to your own friction is the only rebellion left.

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 21/08/2026

For anyone looking for a hard-sci-fi rabbit hole this weekend: RIFT: Gestalt — Kindle, KU & Paperback www.amazon.com/dp/B0H93Q4BHJ

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Rift: Gestalt

Amazon.com: Rift: Gestalt eBook : Gu, Sheri, Yang, Malcolm, Parker, Stephen: Kindle Store

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Sheri Gu @sherigu.com · 21/08/2026

A system doesn’t need to control your choices if it can make every alternative look irrational. If the network is always right, when does advice become authority? That’s one of the rabbit holes inside RIFT: Gestalt. #SciFi #BookSky #HardSciFi 🪐📚

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