Annalee Newitz
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bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd latest books: Automatic Noodle, Stories Are Weapons bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc. pod: www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com pronouns: they/them all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com .. more

Annalee Newitz is an American journalist, editor, and author of both fiction and nonfiction. From 1999 to 2008, Newitz wrote a syndicated weekly column called Techsploitation, and from 2000 to 2004 was the culture editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. In 2004, Newitz became a policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. With Charlie Jane Anders, they also co-founded Other magazine, a periodical that ran from 2002 to 2007. From 2008 to 2015, Newitz was editor-in-chief of Gawker-owned media venture io9, and subsequently its direct descendant Gizmodo, Gawker's design and technology blog. They have written for the periodicals Popular Science, Film Quarterly and Wired. As of 2019, Newitz is a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times. .. more

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Holy crap -- Automatic Noodle is an instant USA Today and Indie bestseller! Thank you so much, humans and robots, for reading this li'l book and making it soar. Now go eat something! Or get your noodle swag at automaticnoodle.website
The words "An instant USA Today and Indie bestseller" arch over a picture of my novella "Automatic Noodle," with a picture of a robot hand holding biang biang noodles in chopsticks, done in rainbow colors. There is a faint flower pattern in the background of the picture.

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Bay Area friends! Food! Trauma! Healing! All that and more with me, @soleilho and Lee Lai, tomorrow night, 6pm at Mrs Dalloways! Free! It's all part of @litquake.org!! litquake2025.sched.com/event/28S9x/...

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Tron is such an 80s thing, it's hard to make relevant for the 21st century. It's all about arcade games and mainframes, and software that was written primarily by a single coder. The actual story of Tron is silly AF, which is one of its main joys.

But it should never have been revived.

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That does sound confusing

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I guarantee that Angela is living her best life, somewhere in Portland, running some kind of indie shop.

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I didn't see that! It's always weird to re-watch shows or re-read books and discover that you now really understand the adult perspectives that seemed kind of marginal or boring previously.

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haha yes it was Morbius and every other awful character you can imagine

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I know! It instantly teleports me to teenagerhood

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Angela became a CIA weirdo and Ricki went to space, so it's not like everybody turned out badly.

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Would just like to say that I was always Team Brian on "My So-Called Life" and now that Jordan is grown up I rest my case.

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The cover will be me in a straw hat pirate crew t-shirt

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ikr??? I thought that was such a weird framing. I don't think nuclear bomb weirdos entered into the 17th century imagination

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Waiting for a reboot of The Omen where Thiel fights Yudkowsky, hopefully with breath weapons and maybe like lasers that shoot out of their fingers www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
“In the 17th, 18th century, the Antichrist would have been a Dr. Strangelove, a scientist who did all this sort of evil crazy science,” Thiel said in his Sept. 15 opening talk, according to the recordings. “In the 21st century, the Antichrist is a Luddite who wants to stop all science. It’s someone like Greta or Eliezer,” he said, referring to Thunberg and Eliezer Yudkowsky, a prominent critic of the tech industry’s approach to AI.

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It was a good song
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Just got reminded that I wrote a song many years ago called "I Am So Smart"

The first line was, "I got a PhD in being me"

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I like how every protest quickly develops a weird and delightful meme about itself.

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charliejane.bsky.social
Just got reminded that I wrote a song many years ago called "I Am So Smart"

The first line was, "I got a PhD in being me"

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Vote for the iconic New Scientist podcast for Signal Listener's Choice awards! I write a monthly column for @newscientist.com and they are a bunch of lovely nerds who want to make you smarter and teach you a few dad jokes along the way.
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Vote for us! We are up for BEST SCIENCE PODCAST at the Signal Listener's Choice awards, please vote for THE WORLD, THE UNIVERSE AND US here: vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...

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I can't wait for @litquake.org, the SF Bay Area's iconic festival for people who love to read and write. Check out @coyotemedia.org's guide to what's happening -- I hope to see you there!!!

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omfg you are so right 😭

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A bittersweet series about what we have lost, but also what we could regain if we lived in a country that supported basic research again.
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Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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