The heatwave broke and it's a nice day for a walk in the woods.
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Scalzi (scalzi@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 05:10:34 JST Scalzi
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Scalzi (scalzi@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 07:31:39 JST Scalzi
(Also Spoiler: We'll just make more)
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Scalzi (scalzi@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 03:17:20 JST Scalzi
So, hey, over on Whatever today I have something important to say about "AI" art and my book covers, and why moving forward it'll be an actual contract point that my book covers have to be human-created.
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2024/06/21/a-note-on-ai-art-and-my-book-covers/
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Scalzi (scalzi@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 00:26:00 JST Scalzi
PRO WRITER TIP: If your book wins an award in translation, be sure to publicly and enthusiastically thank your translator. Why? The folks giving the award did not read your words directly, they read the words of the translator. That translation must have been pretty good for the award to have been given.
Which is why now I am thanking Masayuki Uchida, the translator for the Japanese version of The Kaiju Preservation Society, which won a Seiun Award (Japanese SF award) today. Thank you, sir!
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Scalzi (scalzi@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 22:19:24 JST Scalzi
I like presidents who aren't felons
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Scalzi (scalzi@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-May-2024 08:07:46 JST Scalzi
Iceland is photogenic.
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Scalzi (scalzi@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 01:14:07 JST Scalzi
Shit's about to go down
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Scalzi (scalzi@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 06:29:14 JST Scalzi
Happy Mother's Day to one of the few people in the world who can pull off looking good in High-Vis Orange
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Scalzi (scalzi@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 01:33:30 JST Scalzi
Me, super enthused to be 55 today.
(Spoiler: I am actually having a pretty good day)
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Scalzi (scalzi@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 21:32:55 JST Scalzi
Over at Uncanny Magazine, I have an essay about the aesthetics of spectacle, relating to the Dune films of 1984 and the 2020s: How spectacle in each film was treated and why, and what makes the look and feel between the eras so very different.
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Scalzi (scalzi@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Apr-2024 20:03:15 JST Scalzi
Perhaps the Most American Headline of All Time, from Reason Magazine
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Scalzi (scalzi@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Mar-2024 03:21:30 JST Scalzi
A very excellent set of new books and ARCs have come to the Scalzi Compound in the last couple of weeks. What here looks like a sure bet to you?
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Scalzi (scalzi@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 06:51:58 JST Scalzi
I'm quoted in this news article about Vernor Vinge's passing. He was a lovely person, and will be missed.
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Scalzi (scalzi@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2024 01:08:08 JST Scalzi
The Internet, it's a hell of a town, Mastodon is up and Meta is down
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/5/24091207/meta-outage-facebook-instagram-threads-down-signed-out
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Scalzi (scalzi@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 02:42:44 JST Scalzi
Written by people who don't have the OCD-like need to declutter the chaos that lurks beneath the surface of their mobile devices
https://gizmodo.com/stop-closing-your-iphone-s-background-apps-1851264816
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Scalzi (scalzi@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 09:47:50 JST Scalzi
Me answering a phone call on my smart watch:
Seconds 0 - 10: I can have a phone call on my watch! Which is on my wrist! This is amazing! I am living in the future for sure!
Seconds 10 - : Holding my arm in this position is super uncomfortable and I look like a huge dork! Who ever thought this was a good idea?
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Scalzi (scalzi@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 02:48:18 JST Scalzi
Okay, now I've read the Barkley/Sanford report on the fracas involving the 2023 Hugo Awards and the decision to remove eligible finalists from the ballot. My opinion: the 2023 Hugo administrators perpetrated a fraud and the Hugo Award is in a very bad moment. What happens next determines its future. I have a piece over on my site going into my thoughts in some detail:
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2024/02/15/the-2023-hugo-fraud-and-where-we-go-from-here/
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Scalzi (scalzi@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 22:30:15 JST Scalzi
Look, this is not an especially deep thought, but: Isn't it nice to have a moon?
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Scalzi (scalzi@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 09:19:42 JST Scalzi
I went ahead and paid extra because I have the extra scratch not be accosted by ads, but I'm extremely pissed I have to pay extra now for something I didn't have to pay extra for before.
https://gizmodo.com/amazon-prime-video-ads-start-today-1851202232
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Scalzi (scalzi@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 07:31:08 JST Scalzi
To be fair, not yet as bad as searching on Amazon
https://gizmodo.com/google-search-results-are-getting-worse-study-finds-1851172943
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