Author Archive: Sarah Hoyt

AH! BUT WE WERE MADE FOR TIMES LIKE THIS. ALL OF US WHO STAND UP:  At a time when submission is called “virtue” and fear “prudence,” Sydney Sweeney’s simple frankness serves as an act of insurrection.

For the times, they are achanging.

THE DAYS OF MICROSOFT — THE DAYS OF ALL THE GIANTS — ARE PASSING: I’m going to connect two dots that have been active conversation topics on X recently. One is Microsoft corporate blather about Windows turning into an “agentic” OS stuffed with AI; the other is increasing hype around the Steam Machine from Valve. Reaction to the Microsoft trial balloon has been, to put it mildly, negative. People hear AI from Microsoft and think “Oh great – superintelligence to spam me with yet more ads and spyware.” (Think Clippy with vampire fangs.) Slightly more sophisticated users worry about prompt injection. As they should.

It’s like watching the dinosaurs die after the asteroid, with no idea what hit them.

Oh, yeah, and a link for the X-communicated.

 

JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING IS WRONG, IT DOESN’T MEAN THE SCREAMING ISN’T A PSYOPS:   The Economics of Chaos.

FOR I’M ALL AT SEA (WITHOUT A PADDLE):  An Humble Bleg!

I’D COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN THESE SELF-LOBOTOMIZING SPECIMENS UNTIL I STUMBLED ON THIS TODAY — AGAIN:  Thousands of Authors Pledge to Boycott Israeli Cultural Institutions.

Most of them are people you never heard of. Most of them are succès d’estime at best and academic darlings at worst. But, I regret to say there are some well-selling science fiction authors in the lot. Including a few I thought had more sense. Ah well.

THE BBC DEFINITELY ISN’T CRICKET, CHAPS:  BBC-ed.