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Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Cool but maybe a bit polite? I'm a fan of this, which catches the madness of the original in a very different way:

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Iron Man

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Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We do lawyers, medics, and priests. Although fewer priests these days.

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Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Excellent, congratulations Jenna!

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Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yes! Most academics are pleased anyone is interested, and will happily send you a copy if you ask.

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Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Quiet War and sequels are amazing. You’re right though that they’re not direct sequels, more explorations of other places and times in the same universe.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 26/09/2026

Please sign if you can! OPEN LETTER: PAUSE THE NATIONAL ROLLOUT OF AI-MEDIATED TUTORING IN ENGLAND'S SCHOOLS > Children should not be exposed to a technology whose future, effectiveness, and safety we cannot predict, and for which the evidence is mostly negative.

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OPEN LETTER: PAUSE THE NATIONAL ROLLOUT OF AI-MEDIATED TUTORING IN ENGLAND'S SCHOOLS

OPEN LETTER To the Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP, Prime Minister, and the Rt Hon Lucy Powell MP, Secretary of State for Education The Department for Education has announced plans to develop, what it calls, “...

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Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Same! Saw one on the canal near where I live, wondered if there was something extra in my beer.

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Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think this is right, and kind of inspiring, but maybe add that one of the ways of going more philosophical is to put more effort into describing and justifying the information and methods rather than assuming them?

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Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

(Sorry, should have expanded the list before I posted: she’s already on there.)

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Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Pat Cadigan - Synners is the classic, but everything I’ve read by her is good.

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Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Thank you, this is interesting and informative.

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Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

These are amazing, and I now really want a set…

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Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Not in my idiolect: itch vs idge.

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Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I reacted to John Crowley’s death recently by saying I was going to reread ‘Great Work of Time’. Because I have PDA even with respect to my own plans, I instead reread his early novel Beasts. And my gods, what a novel it is.

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Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Liz, I‘d happily contribute to an effort to stop using Turnitin at Lancaster. Let me know if I can help.

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Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

FFS. The idiocy and contempt here.

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Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Tiger! Tiger! (aka The Stars My Destination)

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Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

'In the towns they would be going to be born in'?

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Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

John Crowley has died, according to Henry Farrell (www.programmablemutter.com/p/john-crowl...). Farrell’s memorial is lovely. Little, Big is marvellous, but if I have to pick one thing by Crowley, it’s the novella ‘Great Work of Time’.

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John Crowley has died

According to various sources, John Crowley has died.

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Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I seem to remember that there a whole bit of Barry Unsworth’s Sacred Hunger where they put on a Tate version of Shakespeare and go on about how much better than the original it is…

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Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Brought to mind because it was good education for this naive, privileged white guy…

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Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Probably you know this, but BoC have a new album out called Inferno. It’s excellent.

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Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

New Mountain Goats album incoming! The singles have been great - try ‘Shallow Grave‘.

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Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Fudging the numbers a bit: spy who later becomes a university lecturer; teacher times two; blacksmith who later becomes a college principal and author of engineering textbooks.

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Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

But why couldn’t some possible AI be conscious? What does ‘artificial’ even mean here? Made out of metal instead of meat? Made instead of born? Why would those make a difference? 2/2

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Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I think part of our problem is that ‘the term AI’ is too loose and general. Actually existing AI Is mostly LLMs, which are very unlikely to be conscious (unless consciousness is much more widespread than we thought). 1/2

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Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

John Book. Less a baseball pitcher than a character from The Dark Tower.

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Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

"Verify your age" 'Smells like teen spirit' when actually a teenager.

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Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Five living writers that I’ve read (at least) five books by each: John Crowley Linda Nagata Adrian Tchaikovsky Paul McAuley Kim Stanley Robinson

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Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

(University of Greater Manchester rather than UoM)

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Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Fellow Authors: without any context, what's the first line of your current work in progress? ‘What am I? What is it for my life to go well for me? Let’s imagine aliens to find out.’

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Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

More vandalism, this time of philosophy at Dundee. I've signed the petition at c.org/Mg2wX8tJSv

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Save the Philosophy Programme at Dundee University

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Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Fair point for that audience. Sorry, that came out grumpier than I meant it to.

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Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Agree that cutting languages is stupid and destructive. But why the focus on the Russell Group, which is a successful PR strategy and nothing more?

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Sam Clark @ssamcclark.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Love those lines on the front leg, which turn what could have been cheesecake into someone human and considerable.

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