John Chu
@johnchu.bsky.social
The writer who won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. Not the movie director. (He/him/his) Mastodon: @[email protected]
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John Chu
@johnchu.bsky.social
· May 6
My novel, The Subtle Art of Folding Space, has a cover!
Read about repairing physics, unreasonable parental expectations, and great Taiwanese food! Out on April 7, 2026. Pre-order now: t.co/0nz8JuNhwf
Art credits: Jacket art by Weston Wei, Jacket Design by Katie Klimowicz.
Read about repairing physics, unreasonable parental expectations, and great Taiwanese food! Out on April 7, 2026. Pre-order now: t.co/0nz8JuNhwf
Art credits: Jacket art by Weston Wei, Jacket Design by Katie Klimowicz.
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Also stunningly accurate. This is exactly what he said.
December 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Also stunningly accurate. This is exactly what he said.
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Today is the first time in 37 years that the US government will not mark World AIDS Day on December 1st.
Their insult and their bigotry can’t stop us from remembering.
Their insult and their bigotry can’t stop us from remembering.
December 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Today is the first time in 37 years that the US government will not mark World AIDS Day on December 1st.
Their insult and their bigotry can’t stop us from remembering.
Their insult and their bigotry can’t stop us from remembering.
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Genuinely spellbound by the anecdotes in @lilashroff.bsky.social's new article, such as: "one tech worker in her 20s, who asked to remain anonymous out of embarrassment ... asked Claude whether she should call 911 when her fire alarm kept going off." Google-everything culture on steroids.
The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI
Rise of the LLeMmings
www.theatlantic.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Genuinely spellbound by the anecdotes in @lilashroff.bsky.social's new article, such as: "one tech worker in her 20s, who asked to remain anonymous out of embarrassment ... asked Claude whether she should call 911 when her fire alarm kept going off." Google-everything culture on steroids.
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“I can’t recall any other example of a federal policy that provoked quite so much litigation in such a short period of time—or in which so many judges from across the geographical and ideological spectrum so overwhelmingly rejected the executive branch’s new interpretation of the relevant statutes.”
195. The Immigration Detention Flood
The Trump administration's attempt to quietly—but massively—expand who can be detained pending their removal has been met with overwhelming pushback from a remarkably large number of district courts.
www.stevevladeck.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
“I can’t recall any other example of a federal policy that provoked quite so much litigation in such a short period of time—or in which so many judges from across the geographical and ideological spectrum so overwhelmingly rejected the executive branch’s new interpretation of the relevant statutes.”
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The long term Thanksgiving break meant my brain finally recovered enough from work that I could read The Nameless Land as I've been desperately wanting to do since it came out. Another brilliant book from Kate Elliot, and I'm thinking duologies are a real sweet spot for fantasy novels.
December 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The long term Thanksgiving break meant my brain finally recovered enough from work that I could read The Nameless Land as I've been desperately wanting to do since it came out. Another brilliant book from Kate Elliot, and I'm thinking duologies are a real sweet spot for fantasy novels.
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(I would also like @rianjohnson.bsky.social to know that a woman sitting across from us on the subway home was carrying fresh new copies of every Christie novel on the list, and started reading one immediately.)
December 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
(I would also like @rianjohnson.bsky.social to know that a woman sitting across from us on the subway home was carrying fresh new copies of every Christie novel on the list, and started reading one immediately.)
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I just want @rianjohnson.bsky.social to know that this sleety Sunday afternoon screening of #wakeupdeadman was SOLD OUT IN TORONTO, and with good reason.
November 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I just want @rianjohnson.bsky.social to know that this sleety Sunday afternoon screening of #wakeupdeadman was SOLD OUT IN TORONTO, and with good reason.
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WE WILL RISE AGAIN, an anthology of speculative fiction, essays, & interviews about activism co-edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social & yours truly, comes out TOMORROW which means today is the last day you can show the love by pre-ordering! www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
We Will Rise Again
From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...
www.simonandschuster.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
WE WILL RISE AGAIN, an anthology of speculative fiction, essays, & interviews about activism co-edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social & yours truly, comes out TOMORROW which means today is the last day you can show the love by pre-ordering! www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
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Happy December! If you're in the US, you can snap up my cozy-spooky gothic rom-com novella A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience for just 99c, today only: www.amazon.com/Marriage-Und...
#romancelandia
#romancelandia
December 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Happy December! If you're in the US, you can snap up my cozy-spooky gothic rom-com novella A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience for just 99c, today only: www.amazon.com/Marriage-Und...
#romancelandia
#romancelandia
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Visa canceled at the border, a Hopkins grad student has been stuck in Canada for months
Visa canceled at the border, a Hopkins grad student has been stuck in Canada for months
Ehsan Rajabi said the university declined to advocate for him.
buff.ly
December 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Visa canceled at the border, a Hopkins grad student has been stuck in Canada for months
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Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
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Government actors who refuse to be bound by the rule of law are not morally entitled to its protection.
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
December 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Government actors who refuse to be bound by the rule of law are not morally entitled to its protection.
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I'm shocked the govt is still trying to deport Georgetown scholar Dr. Suri. ICE abducted him and spirited him to multiple facilities, always in chains. He wasn't allowed to speak with a lawyer for one week! A judge finally ordered him let go after two months. Dr. Suri studies PEACE.
Please help.
Please help.
URGENT FUNDRAISER: please give to Dr. Badar Khan Suri's defense fund today, and share everywhere that folks might give.
gofund.me/f13e5c9b8
gofund.me/f13e5c9b8
Donate to Stand with Dr. Badar Khan Suri Against Unjust Deportation, organized by MAPHEZE SALEH
Dear friends, colleagues, and all who stand for justice,
T… MAPHEZE SALEH needs your support for Stand with Dr. Badar Khan Suri Against Unjust Deportation
gofund.me
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I'm shocked the govt is still trying to deport Georgetown scholar Dr. Suri. ICE abducted him and spirited him to multiple facilities, always in chains. He wasn't allowed to speak with a lawyer for one week! A judge finally ordered him let go after two months. Dr. Suri studies PEACE.
Please help.
Please help.
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Being a manager has made me such a killjoy about video game romances. My family/friends will be trying to make normal decisions about romance options and I'll be cringing at the end of the sofa going "noooo they're your subordinate that's messed up don't do it!"
December 1, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Being a manager has made me such a killjoy about video game romances. My family/friends will be trying to make normal decisions about romance options and I'll be cringing at the end of the sofa going "noooo they're your subordinate that's messed up don't do it!"
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A+ headline work from the AP apnews.com/article/dona...
December 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
A+ headline work from the AP apnews.com/article/dona...
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reading at airport gate and deffo recommend this essay
Indian speculative fiction evolved through Bengali "kalpavigyan" and post-Independence "scientifiction." Today, as this piece shows, Indian SF is finding its voice anew—bridging caste, gender, and global imagination with universal storytelling.
By @gautambhatia88.bsky.social
By @gautambhatia88.bsky.social
The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction.
Before Asimov, there was Rokeya.
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December 1, 2025 at 1:48 AM
reading at airport gate and deffo recommend this essay
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To this point: All of my news reporting, any big features work, etc, is free. I think it’s important that my work is accessible to people, regardless of whether they can pay. 💖
I'm broke as fuck, but if you can swing a paid sub, I'd appreciate it because just the free stuff is some of the best reporting I've found on what's actually going on in law world...which, no matter where you are on the "gov't should exist at all" spectrum, is really really good info to have
Seriously, subscribe to Law Dork. I can't do everything the big publications can do, but at least I'll never do this.
(And, this weekend, you can get a paid subscription for 15% off for a year: $51 for the year or $5.10 a month!) www.lawdork.com/blackfriday
(And, this weekend, you can get a paid subscription for 15% off for a year: $51 for the year or $5.10 a month!) www.lawdork.com/blackfriday
December 1, 2025 at 1:48 AM
To this point: All of my news reporting, any big features work, etc, is free. I think it’s important that my work is accessible to people, regardless of whether they can pay. 💖
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i named my fists Rodgers and Hammerstein cuz theyre always in my own little corner
I named my fists Gilbert and Sullivan because they are slaves to duty
December 1, 2025 at 12:46 AM
i named my fists Rodgers and Hammerstein cuz theyre always in my own little corner
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This.
The second strike is important bc AFTER that one, they started leaving survivors (plus, why the fuck can't Whiskey Pete's DOD manage to destroy a boat in uncontested waters the first strike?).
But all these are murder. Murder murder murder murder.
The second strike is important bc AFTER that one, they started leaving survivors (plus, why the fuck can't Whiskey Pete's DOD manage to destroy a boat in uncontested waters the first strike?).
But all these are murder. Murder murder murder murder.
The first strike was also murder. You can’t just up and kill civilians on the high seas and then claim you were at war with them.
Reporter: If there were a second strike that killed wounded people, would that be legal?
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
December 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
This.
The second strike is important bc AFTER that one, they started leaving survivors (plus, why the fuck can't Whiskey Pete's DOD manage to destroy a boat in uncontested waters the first strike?).
But all these are murder. Murder murder murder murder.
The second strike is important bc AFTER that one, they started leaving survivors (plus, why the fuck can't Whiskey Pete's DOD manage to destroy a boat in uncontested waters the first strike?).
But all these are murder. Murder murder murder murder.
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It's funny I don't remember this being the take during the Biden presidency
Snappy take from the Washington Post.
tl;dr: inflation bad.
tl;dr: inflation bad.
November 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
It's funny I don't remember this being the take during the Biden presidency
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Food security is a crisis on reservations across the US, in a classic example of the ways colonialism strip people of independence and solidarity and cultivate forced poverty and deprivation.
SNAP was restored, but many indigenous Americans still struggle with food insecurity
During the government shutdown, disruptions in food aid rippled across reservations. Both residents and tribal officials had to make tough choices, and are still feeling the financial impacts.
www.npr.org
November 30, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Food security is a crisis on reservations across the US, in a classic example of the ways colonialism strip people of independence and solidarity and cultivate forced poverty and deprivation.
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As posted in a few servers and was alerted to this picture earlier today: What they said. DO NOT FILL IT OUT, it is there to fuck with your artist peers and yourself, they (paypal) can and will abuse this and steal your money by banning your account
November 20, 2025 at 2:02 AM
As posted in a few servers and was alerted to this picture earlier today: What they said. DO NOT FILL IT OUT, it is there to fuck with your artist peers and yourself, they (paypal) can and will abuse this and steal your money by banning your account
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Bookshop dot org has free shipping this weekend! Choose your favorite independent bookstore to support with your order.
Here is my latest, with fancy cover (also printed on the inside!) by Galen Dara:
bookshop.org/a/14302/9781... (associate link)
Here is my latest, with fancy cover (also printed on the inside!) by Galen Dara:
bookshop.org/a/14302/9781... (associate link)
Song of Spores
Check out Song of Spores - <p><em>Hugo Award winner Bogi Takács spins a tale of adventure, mystery, and political intrigue in space. Plus sentient fungus!</em></p><p>Three experienced counterintellige...
bookshop.org
November 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Bookshop dot org has free shipping this weekend! Choose your favorite independent bookstore to support with your order.
Here is my latest, with fancy cover (also printed on the inside!) by Galen Dara:
bookshop.org/a/14302/9781... (associate link)
Here is my latest, with fancy cover (also printed on the inside!) by Galen Dara:
bookshop.org/a/14302/9781... (associate link)
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lol "dynamic pricing" if they don't gtfo with these fucking euphemisms for "How can we squeeze the last drop of blood from this stone?"
Yeah, the "dynamic pricing" in big box stores is the same. Depending on who is looking at the tag, time of day, etc. the price for items can literally change from the shelf to the register. 😤 Freaking DISNEY is even going to start using it! deadline.com/2025/11/disn...
Disney Will Bring Dynamic Pricing Similar To Airline Model To Domestic Theme Parks, Says CFO
Disney will bring dynamic pricing similar to the model used by airlines to its domestic theme parks as the company looks to boost incremental revenue.
deadline.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:39 PM
lol "dynamic pricing" if they don't gtfo with these fucking euphemisms for "How can we squeeze the last drop of blood from this stone?"