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Michael Pogach

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Author. Reader. Professor. Lego addict. SLIP, the acclaimed Gothic thriller, is out now. michaelpogach.com

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Michael Pogach @michaelpogach.bsky.social · Aug 19

I've been waiting a long time for one of these with my name on it.
LFG!
Thank you @books4kimberly.bsky.social
Cant wait to get to work with @diversionbooks.bsky.social and @evanphail.bsky.social

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Michael Pogach @michaelpogach.bsky.social · 21d

My current favorite first world absurdity is receiving a text message asking me to reply "yes" to confirm a medical appointment. I text "yes" 2.7 seconds later, and then promptly receive a text that states:
"You've reached us outside our normal business hours"

Michael Pogach @michaelpogach.bsky.social · 28d

Ten years ago on this day my first novel was published.
Since then, 4 others have been made real. And the Viking book coming out next year will be number 6.
(yeah yeah, 6 7; whatever)

Pssst...any of you got a million friends you can convince to buy my books?

Michael Pogach @michaelpogach.bsky.social · Aug 29

Fun fact:
HR training videos that stop playing when you change tabs are the real reason the Roman Empire collapsed

Michael Pogach @michaelpogach.bsky.social · Aug 19

I've been waiting a long time for one of these with my name on it.
LFG!
Thank you @books4kimberly.bsky.social
Cant wait to get to work with @diversionbooks.bsky.social and @evanphail.bsky.social

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Michael Pogach @michaelpogach.bsky.social · Aug 17

Michael Pogach @michaelpogach.bsky.social · Jul 28

Watching Sandman season 2. My 10 yo daughter comes into the room and sees Robespierre and says:
"That's looks like George Washington but with a significant glow down."

Michael Pogach @michaelpogach.bsky.social · Jul 24

Well shit, that surprised the crap outta me.
Maybe it'll shock the hell outta you too, dear readers.
##amwriting

Michael Pogach @michaelpogach.bsky.social · Jun 20

Typo of the moment:
Instead of blow up something, how about "blup something"

Today's Playlist highlight: Alice in Chains
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Alice In Chains - Bleed The Freak (Official HD Video)

YouTube video by AliceInChainsVEVO

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Michael Pogach @michaelpogach.bsky.social · Jun 16

Two chapters written today. Over 53k total word count in the 4 months I've been working on this book. Fastest pace I've ever had. Some Primus crashed my playlist as I was finishing up Chapter 24.
youtu.be/LBQ2305fLeA?...

Primus - Jerry Was A Race Car Driver (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by PrimusVEVO

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Michael Pogach @michaelpogach.bsky.social · Jun 9

Michael Pogach @michaelpogach.bsky.social · Jun 7

And then you open a doc from a year ago for a 10k word set of sample chapters of a book you never thought you'd write.

And it's good.
Like, GOOD!

Maybe I'm only 40-50% imposter after all.

Michael Pogach @michaelpogach.bsky.social · May 30

Just passed 40k word count on WIP.
Big time revelation fallout going on.
Chapter 20 is next.
This morning's Playlist includes some Dio

Michael Pogach @michaelpogach.bsky.social · May 20

Wanna know why I keep making Angry-Mike face whenever someone brings up incorporating AI into education?
Cuz it steals shit from artists and it fucks the environment. And this too.

Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social · May 20

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

Michael Pogach @michaelpogach.bsky.social · May 13

We tilled. We dug. We planted.
We wanted a rain garden.
We got ducks.

Michael Pogach @michaelpogach.bsky.social · May 8

My new favorite papal fun fact...
From Wiki regarding the previous Pope named Leo in the 19th century:
Pope Leo XIII "was a drinker of the cocaine-infused wine tonic Vin Mariani, a precursor drink to Coca-Cola."

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · May 7

yes, ChatGPT is in schools; there are K-12 school districts and DOEs entering into AI contracts, too. so rather than panicking over the death of academia as a foregone conclusion—particularly when LLMs are frequently wrong—why don't we talk about the climate costs of AI?

my latest @teenvogue.com

ChatGPT Is Everywhere — Why Aren't We Talking About Its Environmental Costs?

One estimate found that a single ChatGPT search uses 10 times the energy of a normal Google search.

www.teenvogue.com

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Michael Pogach @michaelpogach.bsky.social · May 7

Every teacher right now trying to decide if they should give the grade to the student or to the chatbot

a man with curly hair and a beard is smiling and asking jefe what is a plethora ?

ALT: a man with curly hair and a beard is smiling and asking jefe what is a plethora ?

media.tenor.com

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · May 5

If as President you answer “I don’t know” when asked if you’ll follow the Constitution, you have violated your oath of office and should be removed.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · Apr 29

Out of the dark forest mist, it rises — THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS is now on bookstore shelves! I hope you’ll check it out, spread the word, leave a review somewhere, let it whisper to you, do its dark bidding, give yourself over to it entirely, your bones become balusters, you know, normal stuff

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · Apr 22

My first apartment in 1994 was $350/month. Adjusting for inflation, that apartment should now rent for $744/month.

It actually rents for $1500. Greed and inflation are hurting the kids, not their Starbucks lattes.

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Michael Pogach @michaelpogach.bsky.social · Apr 17

Ask not what your country will do to you.
Ask what you would have done for Anne Frank

Michael Pogach @michaelpogach.bsky.social · Apr 17

Well, it's that time of the semester where some students stop attending class, except now I have to wonder if it's because they've been disappeared by this erratic Orwellian nightmare of an administration for the heinous crimes of simply existing or speaking their truths.

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Liana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · Apr 9

500 words a day is a decent novel length in under 6 months.

250 words a day is a decent novel length in a year.

That's a page or less.

Write what you can.

#LianaEdits #AmWriting #SkyWriters

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · Mar 21

The thing about so-called generative artificial intelligence is, the intelligence isn't artificial. It's real. It's OURS. The techbros stole our intelligence (our data, our thoughts, our stories, our art) and used the software to regurgitate it and spackle it together into digital particleboard.

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Michael Pogach @michaelpogach.bsky.social · Mar 10

Man, Musk either got his ass whooped way too much as a kid, or not nearly enough.
I'm betting it's the latter.