Lincoln Michel
@thelincoln.bsky.social
Author and professor type person.
SF noir novel! 🤖🕵️♂️🧬 http://tinyurl.com/5f6nxu24
Newsletter: http://countercraft.substack.com
SF noir novel! 🤖🕵️♂️🧬 http://tinyurl.com/5f6nxu24
Newsletter: http://countercraft.substack.com
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Lincoln Michel
@thelincoln.bsky.social
· Oct 31
Happy Halloween, everyone. And, uh, some spooky personal news:
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Screw the haters
December 8, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Screw the haters
Excited to drive into this (thanks to @sambett.bsky.social for the rec)
December 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Excited to drive into this (thanks to @sambett.bsky.social for the rec)
"Are they more opportunistic than libertarian?" What could this sentence even mean. Might as well ask "Are they more water than wet?"
I would say this because I edited it but @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social's piece on tech bros founding their own for-profit cities really is unmissable reading www.ft.com/content/b127...
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?
www.ft.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
"Are they more opportunistic than libertarian?" What could this sentence even mean. Might as well ask "Are they more water than wet?"
Two dumb imperialists saying "exactly" at each other
This is so perfect. No one have any doubts at this point about what Elon Musk really represents.
December 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Two dumb imperialists saying "exactly" at each other
It was very naive how many STEM people thought Republicans would stop at the humanities
Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
December 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
It was very naive how many STEM people thought Republicans would stop at the humanities
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Just remembered a bit from @thelincoln.bsky.social 's Metallic Realms where there's an ADHD&D group that never manages to finish a quest and it just sounds like every other DnD group I know.
December 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Just remembered a bit from @thelincoln.bsky.social 's Metallic Realms where there's an ADHD&D group that never manages to finish a quest and it just sounds like every other DnD group I know.
Crazy that 71 billion of that was spent making legs
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the ‘Metaverse’ has cost Meta more than $77B
The company now plans to cut spending on it and shift focus to AI wearables instead
(via WSJ)
The company now plans to cut spending on it and shift focus to AI wearables instead
(via WSJ)
December 7, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Crazy that 71 billion of that was spent making legs
Had a very nice holiday party night last night chatting about Japanese novellas and “piece of shit narrator” novels (a sometimes overlapping category)
December 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Had a very nice holiday party night last night chatting about Japanese novellas and “piece of shit narrator” novels (a sometimes overlapping category)
Hopefully AI slop destroys the whole internet (except, I dunno, wikipedia and the wayback machine) but praying it at least ruins all the video platforms like TikTok and Reels. It's all slop all the time already on those, it seems.
December 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Hopefully AI slop destroys the whole internet (except, I dunno, wikipedia and the wayback machine) but praying it at least ruins all the video platforms like TikTok and Reels. It's all slop all the time already on those, it seems.
TFW you bleed red pepper flakes
He had salt and pepper hair. And oregano eyebrows. His lips were basil leaves. His entire head was a jar of Italian seasoning
December 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
TFW you bleed red pepper flakes
Looks like hands groping a globe on Epstein island.
Like hands above the ocean tides holding onto to a shipwreck.
December 5, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Looks like hands groping a globe on Epstein island.
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Thank you so much! 🙏🚀👾✍️🌌
More info on METALLIC REALMS here for the curious: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Metall...
More info on METALLIC REALMS here for the curious: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Metall...
December 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Thank you so much! 🙏🚀👾✍️🌌
More info on METALLIC REALMS here for the curious: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Metall...
More info on METALLIC REALMS here for the curious: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Metall...
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Okay but listen, it’s TIME
Why did Variety make it look like Warren is saying "I'm going to become the Joker!"?
December 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Okay but listen, it’s TIME
Why did Variety make it look like Warren is saying "I'm going to become the Joker!"?
December 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Why did Variety make it look like Warren is saying "I'm going to become the Joker!"?
FIFA gave out the first annual war crimes prize I see
December 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
FIFA gave out the first annual war crimes prize I see
Thank you so much! 🙏🚀👾✍️🌌
More info on METALLIC REALMS here for the curious: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Metall...
More info on METALLIC REALMS here for the curious: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Metall...
December 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Thank you so much! 🙏🚀👾✍️🌌
More info on METALLIC REALMS here for the curious: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Metall...
More info on METALLIC REALMS here for the curious: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Metall...
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A fun, thoughtful piece from Lincoln.
Wrote about the new @mcsweeneys.net, @benjaminpercy.bsky.social's The End Times, and the book as art project countercraft.substack.com/p/books-as-a...
Books as Art Projects
On books you want to hold in your hand or slip in your pocket
countercraft.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
A fun, thoughtful piece from Lincoln.
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I was set to list my favorite books of 2025 a week ago, but @thelincoln.bsky.social came in under the wire with Metallic Realms. A Trekkie's book like Redshirts or Galaxy Quest: you have to love Star Trek to really enjoy how goofy and lampoonable it is. Wild on talent and fandom.
December 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I was set to list my favorite books of 2025 a week ago, but @thelincoln.bsky.social came in under the wire with Metallic Realms. A Trekkie's book like Redshirts or Galaxy Quest: you have to love Star Trek to really enjoy how goofy and lampoonable it is. Wild on talent and fandom.
Wrote about the new @mcsweeneys.net, @benjaminpercy.bsky.social's The End Times, and the book as art project countercraft.substack.com/p/books-as-a...
Books as Art Projects
On books you want to hold in your hand or slip in your pocket
countercraft.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Wrote about the new @mcsweeneys.net, @benjaminpercy.bsky.social's The End Times, and the book as art project countercraft.substack.com/p/books-as-a...
You can probably buy poop data on the dark web with bitcoin. Cyberpunk just can't keep up.
NEW: Your "end-to-end encrypted" poop pictures taken by this $599 (+ subscription) smart toilet camera are actually not end-to-end encrypted.
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techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/e...
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techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/e...
‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted | TechCrunch
Kohler, the makers of a smart toilet camera, can access customers' data stored on its servers, and can use customers’ bowl pictures to train AI.
techcrunch.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:01 AM
You can probably buy poop data on the dark web with bitcoin. Cyberpunk just can't keep up.
Oh well, at least our entire economy is resting on this succeeding wildly and will come crashing down if it doesn't.
“we estimate employment-weighted share of Americans using AI at work has fallen by a percentage point & now sits at 11%. Adoption has fallen sharply at the largest businesses, those employing +250 people. 3 yrs into the genAI wave, demand looks surprisingly flimsy” www.economist.com/finance-and-...
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
www.economist.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Oh well, at least our entire economy is resting on this succeeding wildly and will come crashing down if it doesn't.
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Thanks so much to author @thelincoln.bsky.social for stopping by the shop last week to sign copies of his new novel, Metallic Realms, one of the featured novels on our Holiday List. Stop by the shop to purchase your signed copy!
#signedbytheauthor #shoplocal #charlottesville
#signedbytheauthor #shoplocal #charlottesville
December 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Thanks so much to author @thelincoln.bsky.social for stopping by the shop last week to sign copies of his new novel, Metallic Realms, one of the featured novels on our Holiday List. Stop by the shop to purchase your signed copy!
#signedbytheauthor #shoplocal #charlottesville
#signedbytheauthor #shoplocal #charlottesville
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Did someone* try to assassinate Zelensky with drones targeting his flight to Dublin? Because flying four large drones into the expected flight path (the plane was early) looks like an assassination attempt.
*Yes, obviously Russia is the likely suspect, but not literally the only possibility.
*Yes, obviously Russia is the likely suspect, but not literally the only possibility.
Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Did someone* try to assassinate Zelensky with drones targeting his flight to Dublin? Because flying four large drones into the expected flight path (the plane was early) looks like an assassination attempt.
*Yes, obviously Russia is the likely suspect, but not literally the only possibility.
*Yes, obviously Russia is the likely suspect, but not literally the only possibility.
TBH I'm a little baffled at how Nuzzi apparently hasn't thought up a single talking point, explanation, or excuse for the central question of her ethical breech.
She acts like it never even occurred to her that people would question her about the results of her actions.
She acts like it never even occurred to her that people would question her about the results of her actions.
@timmiller.bsky.social: "He's being nominated to HHS Secretary…You had information that you could have shared…and you didn't share anything about him. Why? Did you still love him?"
Olivia Nuzzi: "I don't know how to responsibly handle this on camera." lnk.thebulwark.com/4ozkaz8?utm_...
Olivia Nuzzi: "I don't know how to responsibly handle this on camera." lnk.thebulwark.com/4ozkaz8?utm_...
December 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
TBH I'm a little baffled at how Nuzzi apparently hasn't thought up a single talking point, explanation, or excuse for the central question of her ethical breech.
She acts like it never even occurred to her that people would question her about the results of her actions.
She acts like it never even occurred to her that people would question her about the results of her actions.