Getting ready for #caturday with Infrared and Ultraviolet (thanks to @npub12nla...6dft for the pictures). These cats are cuddle innovators. And they do it all to abolish capitalism! It's incredible.
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Do you dream of lazy Sunday afternoons, full of tasty noodles and robots? Have I got an event for you! Join me and AI expert @Alex Hanna on 8/3 at 3pm to talk about my new book Automatic Noodle! Hosted by Noe Valley Books in San Francisco. Sign up now! It's free!
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'Automatic Noodle' Event With Annalee Newitz
We're living in an era when propaganda is being produced at an astronomical scale. The paperback of "Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind" just came out, and it's more vital than ever. I'll be joining @bschillace.brandyschillace.com for the Peculiar Book Club tomorrow 7/10 to talk about it! Join us at 4pm Pacific/7pm eastern for the livestream, and ask questions! Hope to see you there. https://www.youtube.com/live/zmqVYxUNrhQ
Not a time for fireworks, people. Read the room.
At last I can finally reveal that Automatic Noodle is an Indie Next pick for August! That means indie booksellers chose it as a recommended title, and that means everything to me. It's also a reminder to pre-order this li'l book, which helps me and the booksellers. Pre-order from your local indie bookstore, or via Bookshop.org. You can learn more about the book at a very silly website here: automaticnoodle.website image
Will they destroy us? Will they be our willing slaves? We are asking all the wrong questions about AI and robots. In my latest newsletter, I talk about why I wrote an entire novella about how to ask the right questions about building a new life form.
Robots are obsessed with 1990s web aesthetics
Iā€™m taking a break from my media studies series (you can read the first three installments here, here, and here) to talk about my forthcoming nov...
One day I'm going to be a normal person, but today I spent an hour writing a really hot sex scene between two single-celled organisms who admire each other's commitment to the scientific method. #amwritingscifi
I downloaded a scientific paper of great interest to me. It is of typical length, about 15 pages in the PDF. I opened it in Acrobat, and got this message highlighted at the top of the page next to an AI sparkle icon: "This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary." I cannot put into words how much this enrages me. First, this is not a long document. Have you met documents? Second, and more important, telling someone to not read a thing they want to read??! Fuck you, Adobe. image
Let's celebrate #indiebookstoreday! Two of my favorite local indies here in San Francisco are Noe Valley Books and Green Apple Books. You can get signed copies of my books from both places, right here:
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Annalee Newitz
Green Apple Books
Signed Annalee Newitz
 #books #bookstodon
If you're in Oakland and love gaming and queerness (and who doesn't?), check out this free event on Friday at the MADE (the videogame history museum)!!!
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Queer World Building with Dr. Bo Ruberg
Join Dr. Bo Ruberg, author and professor at UC Irvine, in a discussion of their new book!