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Liam Hogan

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Award winning #Shortstory #Writer #SciFi 📚: A Short History of the Future, Northodox Press #Fantasy 📚: Happy Ending Not Guaranteed, Arachne Press Oxford Physics, Codexian. Everything, Ever ✍️: http://happyendingnotguaranteed.blogspot.co.uk

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Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · Mar 17

A Short History of the Future: 42 modern twists on retro themes from time travel to multiverses, via aliens, pocket spaceships, teleportation mishaps, dinosaurs, and space pirates! #ScienceFiction #ShortStories

www.northodox.co.uk/product-page...
@northodoxpress.bsky.social

Read it? Review it!

Book cover, A Short History of the Future. Two passengers wait in a spaceport on seats with Tel-A TV screens, one a woman in bubble helmet, the other a robot in a coat.

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Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 13m

"92% of all buildings in Gaza City damaged or destroyed."

Maybe the IDF simply ran out of targets?

But SURE it was all about the hostages, and SURE its not a genocide, and SURE it's only 65,000 deaths, and there aren't many, many more beneath the rubble.

Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 15m

Starmer proclaims an end to killing and shelling.
Well, 50% right isn't bad.

"Gaza's Civil Defence tells the BBC that seven people have been killed by Israeli forces today in two separate incidents - in eastern Gaza and to the east of Khan Younis"

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Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 22m

We may only come second in the G7 growth predictions, but at least we're clear winners in inflation...
(All of which is dependent on AI bubble not bursting, which it will, sooner or later. Because it very much IS a bubble, supported by dubious claims of productivity, and "inevitability")

Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 51m

I'm assuming that it's only Stephen Yaxley-Lennon thuggish alter ego that claims to be a man of the people? (If indeed he claims to be that. Frankly I can't be arsed googling the odious toad.)

Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 53m

Nice to have friends willing to lend you a silver Bentley Bentaygo for your trip to Benidorm.
And to have a multi-billionaire willing to "pick up the legal bill" for not complying with Channel Tunnel police counter-terrorism demands.

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Lucy Andrew @lucyvandrew.bsky.social · 5h

Good News! A Very Vexing Murder, my cosy crime retelling of Jane Austen’s Emma, is in the @waterstones.bsky.social 25% off pre-order deal! Order from
the Waterstones website between 14th and 17th October with the code OCTOBER25. Order here: www.waterstones.com/book/a-very-...

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Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 3h

Appalingly awful though it is, is anyone at all really surprised that what happens when you incentivise an agency by how many foreign looking people they can mistreat, and don't have any government oversight or legal recourse worth two cents, is actually happening right now with ICE in the US?

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🦈 Liz, shark queen 👑 @thesharkqueen.com · 15h

The Kickstarter:

S.E. Ransdell's Curiouser & Curiouser: Tales from Beyond

Volume 2 of S.E. Ransdell's illustrated erotic horror and dark tales from the other side- of the veil, of sanity, and of revenge.

www.kickstarter.com

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Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 16h

Over a span of 3000 years, the ceasefire in Gaza is the tiniest step back from the brink, and things are still far more precarious, and many more lives have been lost in the interim, than before Oct 7th two years ago. But sure, Mr Trump. You celebrate and demand that Nobel peace prize.

Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 1d

By the way! Love the artwork - whether it is or isn't it looks like the Shrewsbury pedestrian bridge over the railway, which makes it VERY appropriate, especially if the hatted figure is you/MR James! :)

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Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 1d

'Twas great! Always so engaging, with such a simple arrangement.

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Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 2d

Paper Lanterns Journal #16 - online launch for authors and audience who couldn't make it IRL...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=azvm...

Get the issue here:
paperlanternslit.com/product/pape...

Includes my flash, "Sentinel" - a remote research spacestation is caretaken by a robot - until humans arrive!

Paper Lanterns Issue 16 Launch

YouTube video by Paper Lanterns

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Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 2d

Though perhaps "points" is being overly generous. Gesticulates randomly and then forgets what it was he was looking for. Or has that sudden belated thought - did I just say something inappropriate in front of a politican funder?

Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 2d

That potato harvest looks like it should have armed police standing over it, with a "street value" news story... :)

Spectacular work!

Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 2d

This inane and rambling summary is at least as informative and useful as the techbros' version (AI is unavoidable, can solve all problems (including the ones it causes), etc). And the idiot president points to the obvious flaw: how DOES a 65 billion dollar data centre (one of many) recoup its costs?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "AI is based on information. I hope they're right about information. I don't know. You've gotta make a lot of money to-- there's gotta be a lot of information out there, but that seems to be pretty hot. We're leading the world on information on AI."

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Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 2d

"For Remembrance": In the aftermath of a war, a squad of soldiers investigates reports of a psychic. It takes one to know one.
Pre-order @bulletpoints.bsky.social #11 now, to get it on release day! 16 military #Sci-Fi stories!

www.amazon.co.uk/Bullet-Point...

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Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 2d

Okay, you'll probably wander back out with books you didn't expect to buy... but is that REALLY a problem?

Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 2d

It is not too late, on this, #BookshopDay, to wander into your local bookshop (be it chain or otherwise) and order a copy of A Short History of the Future: 42 retro themed #sci-fi short stories, including some award winnners. From @northodoxpress.bsky.social, promoting Northern writers.

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Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 3d

"OpenAI wants to secure $500bn to build a 10-gigawatt complex, under construction in Texas, by the end of this year."

Some idiot is going to claim that OpenAI are going to solve climate change. When they ARE climate change. Half a trillion to microwave the Earth. All to ram AI down our throats.

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Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 3d

"AI" isn't a bubble, because "AI" isn't a business, it's a technique, but ChatGPT etc very much are businesses, except they steal work as an inherent part of their "creative" process, and then set about destroying the actual creatives they rely upon. Very shaky grounds...

Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 3d

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Of course its a bubble. One that's built on such shaky grounds (half trillion company never turned a profit) that LLM AI's are being driven down our throats. As usual, the article conflates AI and LLMs/gen art (the ones that need data centers).

A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Nathan W. Toronto @bulletpoints.bsky.social · 5d

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Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 5d

Dear UK government: Please define "offshore marine protected area"?

Mongabay @mongabay.com · 5d

The U.K. government has rejected calls to fully ban bottom trawling in its offshore marine protected areas, despite evidence that the fishing practice tears up seabed habitats and releases large amounts of carbon.

UK rejects total ban on bottom trawling in offshore marine protected areas

The U.K. government has rejected calls to fully ban bottom trawling in its offshore marine protected areas, despite evidence that the fishing practice tears up seabed habitats and releases large…

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Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 5d

As to using it for art - oh, you poor, wounded soul. Who told you that you COULDN'T do art? Who told you that the best bit of doing art was where you try to pass it off as your own? Or where you create something "in the style of" (the artists it stole from)?

Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social · 5d

AI that works doesn't need to claim it is unstoppable. It will be used BECAUSE it works. It will be used because it saves time, money, is more accurate, or conjures up novel possibilities. Because it solves difficult to solve problems. None of this applies to writing an email.

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