YOU SHOULD READ THIS:  There’s an old, bad idea that’s been trying to resurrect itself on X in the last couple of days. Which makes it time for me to explain exactly why, in the age of LLMs, open-sourcing your code is an even more important security measure than it was before we had robot friends.

X-cancel.

BAD SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS HAVE A LOT TO ANSWER FOR:  So, ignoring questions about export control policy: AI is not like enriched uranium or not like nuclear weapons, and comparisons to enriched uranium or nuclear weapons are profoundly bad.

X-cancel.

EVERY STATE NEEDS TO DO THIS:  NC to feed voter data to Homeland Security under new noncitizen removal rules.

THAT THING THAT NEVER HAPPENS KEEPS HAPPENING:  Noncitizen charged with voting in Minnesota 2024 election after admitting ‘mistake’ to investigators. The charges come as Republicans push voter ID legislation against Democratic pushback that noncitizen voting is rare.

It’s not rare. And many of them don’t even know they shouldn’t be doing it.

IT’S WHAT THEY HAVE. IT’S WHAT THEY ARE:  It is All Lies and Deception.

ARE SOMETIMES USEFUL, BUT YOU SHOULD DITCH THEM AS SOON AS POSSIBLE:  False Preferences.

HE’S ABSOLUTELY RIGHT:  Two simple tests for bad commentary on the Iran War. And a more subtle test.

ON PRE-ORDER FOR RELEASE ON THE 23rd: FROM SARAH A. HOYT:  Witch’s Daughter.

#CommissionEarned

Some letters come from the living. Some come from the dead. This one comes with a formula that turns a rowboat into a miracle.

Seventeen-year-old Lord Michael Ainsling — youngest brother of the Duke of Darkwater, builder of mechanical marvels, survivor of fairyland — receives a letter from a man sixteen years dead. The inventor Tristram Blakley has not perished; he has been imprisoned by his own genius and begs the one mind in all of Avalon brilliant enough to understand his work to set him free. All Michael has to do is find seven missing brothers first and walk a magical path..

Fifteen-year-old Albinia Blakley has spent her whole life under her mother’s iron thumb — and her mother is a witch. The day Al finally escapes down a rope of knotted sheets, she lands in a world she doesn’t recognize, with no money, no magic kit, and no idea that the stranger who catches her is about to become her greatest ally.

Together, a girl with more secrets than she knows and a boy who builds machines that try to murder him must outwit a sorceress, navigate the treacherous courts of Fairyland, and unravel an enchantment years in the making — before a family is lost for good.

Witch’s Daughter is a gaslamp fantasy brimming with wit, warmth, and wonder, for readers who love their magic wrapped in velvet and their adventures served with morning tea.

WORTH READING:  A very interesting and revealing interview of NASA administrator Jared Issacman

AS THEY SHOULD:   Another Massachusetts City Faces Lawsuit Over Anti-Israel Divestment Resolution.

IT’S TIME TO STOP TOLERATING SHIT ON OUR STREETS:   From Streets to Bedrooms: How Shigella Spreads in America.

The rule sof public hygiene worked. They existed for a reason. Abolishing them has no good reason beyond wanting to destroy what works.

I BLAME ALLOWING TWITS TO WRITE THEIR OWN VOWS:  ‘No-fault’ divorce has made life more painful for parents and children.

THE THINGS YOU CAN’T SAY:  Southport murder report and another dance around the unpalatable truth about asylum seekers.

YEAH. I’M SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED:  Is anyone surprised by this?

BUT THEY ONLY DO IT WHEN THE DEMOCRATS ALLOW:  The Media Patting Its Own Back Begins Anew.

GIVE THANKS FOR THE SECOND AMENDMENT:  Do “combat-trained Islamists in Britain … now outnumber the British Army”?

GOOD:  Israeli strike on Hezbollah more devastating than 2024 pager attack, IDF says.  The strike hit an unusually broad layer of Hezbollah’s middle ranks across Lebanon, a former Mossad official says.

IT’S RIDICULOUS. ASK YOURSELF WHY YOU’RE TRUSTING PEOPLE WHO HATE THE COUNTRY:  How the Left Convinced Americans That AI Data Centers Are the Root of All Evil.

LOTS OF FOOD FOR THOUGHT, BUT PARTICULARLY ABOUT TRUSTING ENEMIES FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC:  T&I, which is nothing like T&A.

NO, THE LEFT IS NOT MORE CREATIVE THAN THE RIGHT:  Creativity, Markets and Blindness.

YES, I DO AIM TO MAKE YOUR TBR LIST EXPLODE: Or at least to give you choices of authors to explore.  Writers who don’t hate you, Extraordinary Promo Post 4

I’M NOT GOING TO SAY I’M GLAD I HAVE BEEN BATTLING EAR INFECTION FROM HECK: But it stopped me from fretting over the final deliberation of the Prometheus people. And it turned out all right.  Silence in the pews!

Of course I’m up against super stick competition, but right now I’m more worried about getting healthy and finishing book two.

SOME WRITERS GET OUT THERE AND MEET PEOPLE!  Okay, I do too, occasionally, but considering I keep catching something, I either need to do a lot more or a lot less of it.  A Day at Folkfest.

WELL, IT’S NOT THEIR GOLDEN AGE:  Trump’s golden age that the media is desperate to tarnish.

IT’S TAKEN HIM LONG ENOUGH – YOU’D THINK HE COULD COME UP WITH BETTER:  Graham Platner Has a New Explanation for His Nazi Tattoo. It’s a Doozy.