I made the mistake of watching an old normiecore viral video on YouTube and now the algo is serving up dozens of 1-min, 20M-view, 15yr-old Facebook-quality drivel videos. I'm choosing "Not Interested" again and again. Maybe the algo will take the hint.

Good Lord. Their faces. Why do women do this to themselves? Will the younger generation of movie stars have the sense to just grow old? Probably not.

"Sense"? Pshaw.

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Are you quoting something? If it's your line, well done!

As a young writer, I never wrote any fanfic. It never really occurred to me to do so. I do come from a much older generation than most, but Star Trek and Magnus Robot Fighter were available to me and, still, nah. Interesting how I skipped that. Even more interesting, when I finally did write "fanfic" I was in my 50s, and I am in no way ashamed of those stories, which are two of my best. (They are "The Impossible Footprint" and "Motive of Man," derivatives of the Hak Iri stories by Nictzin Dyalhis.) Back in the '80s I did write a story quite in response to "Neuromancer" and it included my take on Case, but that was mostly satire, and again I stand by the work ("The Courtship of Jay and Elusivebeth.") So anyhow, fanfic was never a phase for me. P.S. The mentioned stories are in my "Stellar Stories."

Actually, this is even closer to an ideal. In other words: The arrangement is just a neat idea. That's kind of what I meant but didn't quite express: I wish I could know it wasn't agitprop. With you, I would know! 😄

Well. Voyager really wasn't Voyager. They reverted to normal starship life within a few episodes. And it was lame. But I get your point.

Make this man Pope.

While it may be true that some (most?) of the alien sexual variations in old SF were the barely disguised fetishes of the writers, I think it is a great shame that we can no longer take some bizarre sexual arrangement among aliens as simply a commentary on normal human society and sexuality. Now it is all blatant play-acting and affirmations of deviancy. These days I cringe at inter-species sex even when it's missionary male-female, because I know the freaks are getting off on it somehow and reveling in the "representation."

My Kickstarter has funded but it hasn't ended. Three days remain. You can still get your copies of some awesome fiction! Watch the video, then click the link!

I saw a post from a guy who claims that the new Mass Effect was going to be great. This is such cope. We know who was working at BioWare. Mark my words, even the Geth would have had top scars.

This is funny, but is it true? One thing I've noticed with Grok is that it has no memory of even its sessions with me. Do other LLMs know their own histories? Are they building something other than token trees? Can they remember?

I've got a story in the upcoming Silence & Starsong. In addition to themes it also has robots. 😉 I'm happy you'll get to read it!