FROM CAROLINE FURLONG:  Theophany.

#CommissionEarned

Ten years ago the Savients took over Niban, forcing the independent inhabitants into poverty and despair. Bass White saw the careless cruelty of the Savients kill his mother and his father. When a resistance cell is discovered in his city bloc, the Savients seek to make everyone pay.

With his wife Amie, Bass races into the caverns to escape the Savients’ brutal enforcers: the Atrasai. The couple barely make it to the limits of known territory outside their underground city, however, before the Atrasai catch up with them. It would take a miracle to save them…

…or a combat medic robot.

Join Bass and Amie in this sci-fi story of healing, hope, and wonder. After a decade of fear and pain, even a little light can bring out the best in man and machine. But will the best be enough to heal?

REMEMBER THE GOOD THINGS:  Artemis II Mission Begins Return Trip to Earth.

IF TRUTH WERE THEIR CONCERN THEY WOULDN’T BE CLIMATE ALARMISTS:  EPA’s Lee Zeldin Speaks Truth to the Climate Alarmists.

PFUI. WARS ARE EASY TO END; WHAT’S DIFFICULT IS ENDING THEM WELL:  This Dem Rep Laid Out His Plan to End the Iran War. There’s One Big Problem.

THE MORE YOU TIGHTEN YOUR GRIP…  Russia Cracks Down On VPNs, Brings Down Banks.

THEY THINK POLITICS IS A GAME. THEY’RE FOR THEIR TEAM:  The left would complain if he hanged them with a new rope.

INSTRUCTION YOU CAN USE:  Situational Awareness, part 2. How do I develop it?

IT’S CALIFORNIA. FUNNELING MONEY TO SCAMMERS IS THE POINT:  The obscure California program that loses billions every year to scammers.

IT’S FRAUD ALL THE WAY DOWN:  Inside Gavin Newsom’s empire of fraud.

NO IDEA SO STUPID AND DETACHED FROM REALITY THAT SOME IDIOT DOESN’T TRY TO KEEP IT GOING:  Taking up the Population Bomb Cause.

The fact it objectively hurts humanity won’t stop them either. Look at Communists!

PRETTY MUCH:  Inequality = Civilization. Inspired by Scheidel’s The Great Leveler and Escape from Rome.

ANOTHER ILLUSION SHATTERED:  In spite of how I may present at times, I don’t have all the answers.

ONE OF MY BLOG READERS AND FRIENDS HAD TO GET SOMETHING OFF HIS CHEST:  Never Leave a Fallen Comrade, or Yet Another Reason America is the Greatest Country in the World. -A Rant by Padre0875.

THIS MIGHT BE… NO WAIT, THIS IS THE BEST REVIEW I’VE EVER GOT. ALSO THE MOST EPIC:  Review: Sarah Hoyt’s No Man’s Land develops rich tapestry blending SF/fantasy tropes to imagine “first contact” with vast cultural, political and gender differences
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No, seriously! The! Most! Epic!

IT OCCURS TO ME: I should explain why today’s shift ends with the 4 am post.
I’m okay. it’s just I’m doing a series of shots to dis-sensitize from allergies, among them household dust, cats, feathers and polen (and others. so many others) and today it kicked me into a very bad reaction, which led to my being given a lot of antihistamine which is making me profoundly sleepy. I was hoping to hold on till I did the whole thing, but I can’t. I’m going to bed.

WELL, THIS EXPLAINS WHAT BASS WAS DOING IN NIGERIA:  Shocking fraud racket uncovered in California — with tentacles stretching to Nigeria.

LISTEN!  What A Time To Be Alive!

UM… DO WE EVEN KNOW?  OpenAI is being run like a wartime industrial project. $121 billion of compute burn before real profit means the objective is not clean business economics. The objective is dominance. Own the best models. Own the best developer habits. Own the enterprise workflows. Own the user dependence. Own the default intelligence layer people build on. Profit can come later once the dependency is locked in.

X-cancel.

FREEDOM IS ALWAYS BETTER: And if you think Twitter is garbage, have you seen other, still controlled by the left social media?  Thank You, Garbage Dump.

AND SPEAKING OF THOSE CRISIS:  Advice for foreign leaders trying to deal with Donald Trump.

FUNNY, IT MATCHES THE UN’S. I WONDER WHAT THE CRISIS HAVE IN COMMON:  NATO’s sudden-onset existential crisis.

IT ALWAYS IS:  Situational Awareness. It’s a little more complicated than that.

UP FOR PRE-ORDER, THE SEQUEL TO WITCHFINDER, (BUT ALSO A STAND ALONE) FROM SARAH A. HOYT:  Witch’s Daughter (Empires of Magic Book 2).

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.

REMINISCENCES:  Memories of Easter in Greece.

GOOD:  Maine Supreme Court Shoots Down Dems’ ‘Unconstitutional’ Ranked-Choice Voting Scheme.