Annalee Newitz
@annaleen.bsky.social
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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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Our galaxy is so good
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Tonight's Milky Way taken from Point Reyes, California. The frames were taken about 33 miles, as the pelican flies, from San francisco. Light the curvature of the Earth is weird!
The Milky Way vertically with some orange and yellow tints at the bottom. These are four 60 second exposures edited in Lightroom and Stitched together on my phone comma so there's definitely a better version on my laptop if I ever release it

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It was great to meet you!

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So stoked to be in attendance @litquake.org with @annaleen.bsky.social and @soleilho and Lee Lai at Mrs. Dalloway’s in Berkeley!!
Soleil Ho, Lee Lai, and Annalee Newitz in colorful shirts presenting at great bookstore Mrs. Dalloways in Berkeley

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I get this shit every time I open a paper in acrobat too 😵

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The hosts will provide, but you can BYOT if you have a nice vintage

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SF Bay! This is *tonight*! Don't miss it!
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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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Amazing ... that is definitely a deep cut. :)

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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
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"