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Keith LaFountaine

@keithlafountaine.bsky.social

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Writer from Vermont. Affiliate HWA. Cinephile. Pretty sure one of my cats is an eldritch god. He/Him. www.keithlafountaine.com Rep: @literaryclara.bsky.social

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Keith LaFountaine @keithlafountaine.bsky.social · Nov 10

A 🧵 of my published work in 2024:

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Keith LaFountaine @keithlafountaine.bsky.social · 1d

There is a clear through line from "small usages" of AI to things like AI actors, which some are already trying to introduce and normalize.

The capitalist machine will follow the money, and if there is no public backlash to "small" uses of AI now, there will be none for larger uses down the line.

Keith LaFountaine @keithlafountaine.bsky.social · 1d

But given how small the detail is, I've seen the consensus online formulate to some version of: well, it's just one photo. I saw a similar type of discourse when LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL came out, that we shouldn't negatively judge a film for one small instance of AI usage.

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Keith LaFountaine @keithlafountaine.bsky.social · 1d

Watching VHS Halloween and enjoying it so far, though I noticed what looks like an AI photo in the first short film.

It's a small detail, especially in a very well directed short film (with some great creature and set design) but that makes the usage of AI all the more disappointing.

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Keith LaFountaine @keithlafountaine.bsky.social · 6d

I’d somehow never seen The Monster Squad before, but now that I have, I am a changed man. #FilmSky

Keith LaFountaine @keithlafountaine.bsky.social · 7d

Don’t Fear the Reaper popped up in my playlist for the first time in forever during my drive home, with the sun setting behind the mountains, and now I have some ideas brewing that I need to scribble down.

Keith LaFountaine @keithlafountaine.bsky.social · 7d

As a Yankees fan, I feel your pain. I saw Kahnle starting the 15th I was just like “well, that’s probably game.” 😬 Still haven’t forgotten him loading the bases with nobody out in the World Series last year.

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Keith LaFountaine @keithlafountaine.bsky.social · 8d

Tired: Release the Snyder cut.
Wired: Release the Steinbeck werewolf novel

Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 8d

Your Spooky Season reminder that John Steinbeck has a shunned werewolf novel

www.theguardian.com/books/2021/m...

John Steinbeck’s estate urged to let the world read his shunned werewolf novel

Rejected and hidden away since 1930, an early murder mystery by the Nobel-winning author is ‘an incredible find’

www.theguardian.com

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 14d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Keith LaFountaine @keithlafountaine.bsky.social · 17d

What I read in September. #books #reading

Keith LaFountaine @keithlafountaine.bsky.social · 19d

Wasn’t really planned but this has been a hell of a duo to read at the same time. #amreading

Keith LaFountaine @keithlafountaine.bsky.social · 21d

Walking out of One Battle After Another like:

#FilmSky

Keith LaFountaine @keithlafountaine.bsky.social · 22d

Revisions on this WIP are going super smoothly, I swear 😅

Keith LaFountaine @keithlafountaine.bsky.social · 22d

Couldn’t agree with this more. Not only does our algorithm-focused entertainment model trap us in binge-watching loops, it also prioritizes the safe and the nostalgic over all else - encouraging endless rewatches of Friends or The Office over a new show or an original movie.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 22d

i wrote about the loss of randomness from music-listening and TV-watching
www.patreon.com/posts/139812...

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Keith LaFountaine @keithlafountaine.bsky.social · 26d

Today’s polishing session, brought to you by coffee and Twin Peaks jazz. #amwriting

Keith LaFountaine @keithlafountaine.bsky.social · 27d

Happy birthday to @stephenking.bsky.social!

When I was a teenager I wanted to start reading some of his books. My mom recommended Needful Things, because it wasn’t too scary, but I checked IT out from my library and read it every day for the next 2 weeks. I’ve never looked back.

Keith LaFountaine @keithlafountaine.bsky.social · 28d

How the final polish on my #WIP is going. 😅

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · Sep 17

Fallon being the last man standing is such an indictment of Fallon

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Keith LaFountaine @keithlafountaine.bsky.social · Sep 17

Must-watch material, especially in these fraught times.

Mayor to Mayor: a conversation between Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

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Keith LaFountaine @keithlafountaine.bsky.social · Sep 16

The first time I remember really understanding the depth of Robert Redford’s acting was in ALL IS LOST. Sure, I loved him in ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN and his other classic performances, but this role - so anchored in his silence and his expression - blew me away.

RIP to an immense talent.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · Sep 16

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

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Keith LaFountaine @keithlafountaine.bsky.social · Sep 14

26 years ago today. As you can see, I started with the classics.

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Josh Hanson @doomglossary.bsky.social · Sep 12

Thanks, Gabino.

Preorders are up for my next novel, Calliope Street, a haunted house Gaillo-inspired Orpheus and Euridice freak-out. I'm really proud of it.
www.moonstruck-books.com/shop/p/calli...

Calliope Street by Josh Hanson — Moonstruck Books

A new psychedelic horror novel by author Josh Hanson

www.moonstruck-books.com

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · Sep 10

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

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Keith LaFountaine @keithlafountaine.bsky.social · Sep 8

Query Clara and join the cool kid club (aka her client list)!

Clara Chuiton @literaryclara.bsky.social · Sep 8

I’m reopening to queries today! I’m still looking for adult fiction, queer romance and romcoms, commercial and upmarket SFF and horror, and anything genre-blend-y set on a spaceship. Link to my query form below! #MSWL

querytracker.net/query/ClaraC...

Query Clara Chuiton at The Rights Factory

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Keith LaFountaine @keithlafountaine.bsky.social · Sep 8

Today's #writing music. Determined to finish this second draft.