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John Scalzi’s Tweets
I have to get up early so I'm cutting out of here now. Good night, Twitter. Spice will keep you company until I return.
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We have both kinds of pizza in this house: Chicago deep dish AND DiGiorno!
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Turns out you can make some serious money off of Trump's complete inability to shut his goddamned mouth
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Liberals, the fact that you're "forming groups" when the conservatives never ever ever give up on theirs is a thing you should be thinking about
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Awww, The Internet remembered Krissy and I have an anniversary coming up! Three actually: first date, proposal and wedding, all on adjoining calendar days. Thanks, The Internet!
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600 miles per charge is well past my "range anxiety" barrier. Now let's see if they can actually make good on the claim.
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Hey, folks: In two weeks I will have a short story out, in a collection that also features , , , Rebecca Roanhorse and Veronica Roth. Free for Amazon Prime/Kindle Unlimited folks; $1.99 for everyone else. Details at the link:
whatever.scalzi.com/2023/06/13/com
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For no good reason whatsoever, this classic song is in my brain, and what a classic it is
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Should have been the headline on January 7, 2021, but now is good too
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Hey , if you could stop crashing my Photoshop with every fucking update of your graphics card drivers, that would be great, thanks
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On another note entirely, I've gone ahead and downloaded my entire Twitter archive, for reasons
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If she wants to make Twitter the ‘world’s most accurate real-time information source’ the first thing she needs to do is tell all the little fascists her boss has been engaging in heavy petting with to fuck right off. Good luck with that, Linda!
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(Note this doesn't mean I think "all's fair" here; I do think, however, the LLM folks may have found a large exploitable loophole here, in terms of whose work is directly exploited, and their ability to respond legally to it.)
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Makes sense (strategically, not morally) to train your large language model on a field of work where no one wants to have a fight about copyright and ownership
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The problem with European chocolate is not nearly enough butyric acid
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Not at the moment, but never say never
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Are you working on another Dispatcher story?
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Hey do you like sneak previews because I have a sneak preview for you
If you do not like sneak previews, cool, well done you for being strong in the face of intense social pressure, as a reward here's a chapter of my upcoming book, you deserve it for your strong moral stance
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Inheriting your uncle’s supervillain business is more complicated than you might think, particularly when you discover who’s running the place....
Check out a free excerpt of #StarterVillain by @scalzi here 
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As noted by others, the management of Reddit and Twitter both exist under the delusion that their users need them more than they need their users, who create the content and community the sites need for their business model. I'm all right with people reminding them of this fact.
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Yeah, looks like the servers are joining in.
Any thoughts on the protests? I've been a mod on a fairly big subreddit for ten years or so. It wasn't an easy decision to go dark, but we agreed it was the right thing to do.
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Update: Apparently Reddit is having a totally normal day
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Update: The creator is someone who goes by the name "JohnBeLucky" on Reddit, where it was first posted:
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WHO MADE THIS
(because they are a friggin' genius and I want to applaud them personally and give credit where credit is due, their name is not on it and a Google image search comes up with nothing)
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Yes, but will he serve Malört
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"An ex-president who keeps classified docs in an unsecure bathroom and is on tape breaking the law in a way that legal experts are calling an open-and-shut case is not nearly enough for indictment, says I, a man who is a contrary hand-wringer for pay."
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Don't use "AI" to do your actual job, folks. It's a super bad idea.
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I appreciate the headline writer putting "law and order" in ironic quotes here, as the last GOP president whose administration wasn't heavily pocked with criminal activity was Gerald Ford, and even he let Nixon walk for his crimes
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Good morning, Twitter. Last night I was making space music for goths. Wanna hear it? Sure you do, who DOESN'T like space music for goths? It's at the link (note: it starts off loud, be ready for that):
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A reminder to those of you in the great state of Oklahoma: I and these other fabulous authors will be visiting you at the end of the month at ! Please come see us and all the other delights of the convention. See you there!
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Expand your artistic horizons with our featured artists and writers, @chazkemp, @scalzi, @kevindilmore, and @larrynemecek. Learn from them and purchase their work at #Soonercon31 at Embassy Suites, in Norman OK! Be sure to get your membership at soonercon.com.
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If there are people whose tweets you want to be sure you see, add them to a list and use that instead of the "For You" tweet feed, the algorithm for which is... questionable.
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First tweet I’ve seen from you in ages- you used to be in feed daily. Twitter has definitely changed. And nice pic.
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"Could you send us an author photo that *doesn't* look like you're auditioning to play an ax murderer? Just once? Please?"
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Not a great day for GOPers in trouble with the law
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1. He's guilty as fuck
2. Everybody knows it
3. The GOP and Trump supporters don't care
4. The fact that people still support this dim-witted sociopathic grifter, who would set them all on fire if there was but the slimmest nickel in it, sure is something
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