New blog entry: an AI walks into a writers room: antipope.org/charlie/blog-s
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Charlie Stross
@cstross
SF author.
LEAVING TWITTER SOON; FOLLOW ME TO MASTODON: wandering.shop/@cstross
Blog: see URL. (Inactive on twitter.)
Email: charlie.stross (at) gmail.
antipope.org/charlie/blog-s…Joined October 2011
Charlie Stross’s Tweets
William and Kate didn't bring any food to their foodbank photo-op, but they did bring a publicity entourage that included a reporter, a videographer, and at least *nine* photographers.
#PRfakery #NotMyPrinceOfWales #MannequinKate
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So switched off the external Twitter client API, expecting those of us who relied on it to shut up and swallow his ads, algorithm-dictated feed, and nazi propaganda.
Fuck that, I'm outa here. (Monthly pings only from now on, to keep the a/c alive.)
Bye.
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Rishi Sunak latest: "on course to beat 2025 target for downsizing the homeless!"
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Why are you still reading me on Twitter?!?
These days I'm over on the Elephant-Shaped Thing: @cstross@wandering.shop — follow me there instead for 99.9% fewer fucken Musk-enabled Nazis!
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Here, have a short story along these lines! Unexpected failure modes ahoy …
antipope.org/charlie/blog-s
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New guest blog entry: Make Up a Guy (by qntm): antipope.org/charlie/blog-s
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A new episode of the (Don’t Panic) podcast – discusses The Laundry Files, Corporations as AIs, politics, & more
#ScienceFiction #SFF
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If you were taking a social media break over the holidays and didn't catch it - we have a new episode with out now. An episode with will be out later this month.
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New blog entry: introducing new guest blogger, qntm: antipope.org/charlie/blog-s
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In this live episode, Alan interviews one and only . They discuss the Laundry Files, Corporations as AIs, politics, and much more.
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It's Christmas Eve, so let me share my one-and-only Christmas Eve short story with you (shortlisted for a Hugo, too): Here's OVERTIME:
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Today is Friday, so it's time to log in briefly to tweet:
FUCK with a rancid, decomposing gherkin!
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The word 'British' is actually just a shorthand that people use for the word 'English', Rishi Sunak has suggested
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Would you support a General strike to force a General Election.
RT for bigger sample please.
Your opinion your vote all count.
- Yes87.2%
- No9.9%
- don't know2.9%
18,871 votesFinal results
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Just checking in to say: Elon Musk is an anti-competitive bawbag.
(I'd call him a cunt but I happen to think cunts are nice.)
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PS: Elon Musk is a dim-witted bawbag whose commitment to free speech is a self-serving and hypocritical lie. (And I wouldn't cross the road to piss on him if he was on fire.)
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I'm not here any more!
Follow me on Mastodon: @cstross@wandering.shop
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FYI RT the below? Subscribe? Thank u!
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I see @elonmusk is fulminating about the “woke virus”. As a citizen of Scotland—“the world’s most woke country” (says neo-fascist Gavin McInnes)—I feel truly seen… My fully research-linked version of Saturday’s @scotnational column, on my E2 Substack patkane.substack.com/p/pk-in-the-na
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You all are aware that MERS has a 30% cfr, right? And that recombination is a thing, yes?
And that #WorldCup2022 is an ongoing #MERS/#SARS2 petri dish, yes?
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pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33605109/
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MERS and the various SARS are clinically indistinguishable, especially in the early stages.
No reason why co-infection could not occur.
Due to widespread SARS I expect any MERS outbreak to be detected very late, unless we test for it specifically.
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Want to know where the arsehole in chief is flying? Follow this account:
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Apparently I'm a robot.
This is a >200-word excerpt from my own book, which the GPT-2 output detector rates as "98.72% fake."
I've changed my mind - the GPT-2 detector is not usable.
#ImHereLive #ImNotARobot
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“Movie poster for a Dreamworks film where Shrek teams up with Doctor Who”
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LOLWUT TERRIFIED NAOW
CAN HAZ HORRORBURGER
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Lord help me, I asked Stable Diffusion to make me some LOLcats
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DoNotPay is building a chrome extension where you can specify something like “negotiate my Comcast bill down,” and it will use the Comcast online chat to lower your bill with GPT-3.
Over time, Comcast will also use LLMs. So robots will just be negotiating with each other!
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This is it! The moment has arrived where we decide whether to allow to stay on Twitter. The people decide. Retweet after vote please. No loonies
- Yes! I want Elon Gone90.6%
- No. One last chance9.4%
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this is spectacular
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New blog entry: WTF: antipope.org/charlie/blog-s
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Coming soon we have some book reviews for 's The Emergent, The Cursed Titans by 's Polis, and Test Drive: A Novel by . Then we'll have the last of my Worldcon interviews with and
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I love the smell of 's butthurt in the morning!
And in case it's not getting enough traction, here's a hilarious legal nastygram he's probably fuming over atm (see the alt-text for an OCR transcript—be aware, minor typos).
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Twitter has already lost in court to an Irish employee
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I love the smell of 's butthurt in the morning!
And in case it's not getting enough traction, here's a hilarious legal nastygram he's probably fuming over atm (see the alt-text for an OCR transcript—be aware, minor typos).
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It's publication day for QUANTUM OF NIGHTMARES by 🎉
We're delighted that this nightmarish vision of a Britain where magic has gone mainstream is OUT NOW!! 💚
UK: fal.cn/3u4Pk
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Is Elon Musk still on twitter?
Yes?
Right, I'm fucking off back to Mastodon again.
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This year’s Thanksgiving book haul:
‘s After Dark and ‘s Quantum of Nightmares & Escape from Yokai Land
Thanks !
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COVID-19 vaccination associated with 15% reduction in stillbirths in pregnant women
rcog.org.uk/news/covid-19-
(A disease of the microvasculature will obviously affect the placenta. What's not mentioned in the abstract: the miscarriage rate before/during COVID. I expect it's up.)
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