Victor Wolf
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Victor Wolf
@vectorwolf.bsky.social
· Oct 1
READER BEWARE 2025 by Reader Beware
READER BEWARE 5: DEATH OF THE EDITORS
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I got a story in here! It's about fingers. Go check it out, then read the other ones!
Agree so much. Seriously pursuing writing at all is downstream from reading a lot. The more I read the more I want to write, then I write and want to read more. An extremely not-vicious cycle that in no way leads to AI use. Can't imagine sticking a shitty computer middle man in there. AI corrupts.
Look, this person doesn't understand what process is and how keeping it writer-based supports style and narrative, period. Thus, several things she suggests harmless if AI-driven are actually harmful. Also, the fallacy that AI is inevitable belies evidence of a bubble 1/2 file770.com/erin-underwo...
Erin Underwood: Open Letter to the Science Fiction Writers Association and Community
Hi Friends, Erin Underwood After writing the letter below, I thought rather than sending it to SFWA only, I’d share it with Mike at File 770 along with a note that read: “Am I crazy? Will this blow…
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December 30, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Agree so much. Seriously pursuing writing at all is downstream from reading a lot. The more I read the more I want to write, then I write and want to read more. An extremely not-vicious cycle that in no way leads to AI use. Can't imagine sticking a shitty computer middle man in there. AI corrupts.
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Primary everyone. Yes, even your favorites if they're on the wrong side of this
There’s a funny Politico story showing that the latest polling on AI shows 80-20 in favor of heavy regulations, an absolute slam dunk platform, but Dems are worried about not winning back mask-off tech CEO donors
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
December 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Primary everyone. Yes, even your favorites if they're on the wrong side of this
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painting of ET getting pelted with pinecones i did a few years ago
December 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
painting of ET getting pelted with pinecones i did a few years ago
Writing a piece about the disinformation in America as it relates to my local community fighting the data center they want to install here, and it's made me think of a Tim Rogers quote (Action Button Reviews on Youtube):
"To speak to today, to speak to right now, confounds us and makes us sick."
"To speak to today, to speak to right now, confounds us and makes us sick."
December 28, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Writing a piece about the disinformation in America as it relates to my local community fighting the data center they want to install here, and it's made me think of a Tim Rogers quote (Action Button Reviews on Youtube):
"To speak to today, to speak to right now, confounds us and makes us sick."
"To speak to today, to speak to right now, confounds us and makes us sick."
I wrote roughly 400 pages of fiction this year and read the most I ever have in my life and I still can't fucking spell disappeared correctly the first time I type it.
December 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I wrote roughly 400 pages of fiction this year and read the most I ever have in my life and I still can't fucking spell disappeared correctly the first time I type it.
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When I write I am always fretting about my very frequent use of parentheticals and "[statement], but..." sentence structure. Just a result of the way I think/write or a bad habit I need to break? It's particularly egregious when I attempt non-fiction.
December 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
When I write I am always fretting about my very frequent use of parentheticals and "[statement], but..." sentence structure. Just a result of the way I think/write or a bad habit I need to break? It's particularly egregious when I attempt non-fiction.
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Any Democrat who thinks it's appropriate to "find common ground" with the Republicans on issues like high school sports teams is negotiating with a political party that does not believe trans people should exist. This policy will kill people, so maybe stop wringing your hands about volleyball.
"Men are men. Men can never become women. Women are women. Women can never become men."
December 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Any Democrat who thinks it's appropriate to "find common ground" with the Republicans on issues like high school sports teams is negotiating with a political party that does not believe trans people should exist. This policy will kill people, so maybe stop wringing your hands about volleyball.
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Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
The data center they're trying to build near me is being proposed by an unnamed, third-party developer who signed an NDA (likely in violation of Oklahoma open meetings law) with the mayor and city council, and it DOESN'T HAVE A PLANNED USE. Madness. Thankfully the community is pissed and organized.
December 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The data center they're trying to build near me is being proposed by an unnamed, third-party developer who signed an NDA (likely in violation of Oklahoma open meetings law) with the mayor and city council, and it DOESN'T HAVE A PLANNED USE. Madness. Thankfully the community is pissed and organized.
I wanna devise a virus
To bring dire straights to your environment
Crush the corporations with a mild touch
Crash the whole computer system and revert you to papyrus
-Deltron3030
To bring dire straights to your environment
Crush the corporations with a mild touch
Crash the whole computer system and revert you to papyrus
-Deltron3030
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I wanna devise a virus
To bring dire straights to your environment
Crush the corporations with a mild touch
Crash the whole computer system and revert you to papyrus
-Deltron3030
To bring dire straights to your environment
Crush the corporations with a mild touch
Crash the whole computer system and revert you to papyrus
-Deltron3030
Finally watched The Descent after 20 years of people telling me it was good/scary. It was both! Ending was amazing
December 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Finally watched The Descent after 20 years of people telling me it was good/scary. It was both! Ending was amazing
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the electoral left needs to lean in heavy on anti ai and anti data center policy
December 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
the electoral left needs to lean in heavy on anti ai and anti data center policy
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My favorite writing thing I did this year beside publish my book was get back into short story writing, including writing this one and getting published at a dream pub. If you haven’t read it, I’ll say that i think it’s a very good end of year kind of story to read
"Your Life in Parties" by Amber Sparks
"...your retirement party, the one they threw for you at the atrocious Italian restaurant. Surprise!, they all yell, which is so awkward because this isn’t a surprise party...."
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
My favorite writing thing I did this year beside publish my book was get back into short story writing, including writing this one and getting published at a dream pub. If you haven’t read it, I’ll say that i think it’s a very good end of year kind of story to read
When OpenAI says 800 million users... That's gotta be counting people using it on accident in all the various places it's been shoved into, right? I have to believe there aren't that many people globally just prompting the piece of shit on purpose.
December 6, 2025 at 10:58 PM
When OpenAI says 800 million users... That's gotta be counting people using it on accident in all the various places it's been shoved into, right? I have to believe there aren't that many people globally just prompting the piece of shit on purpose.
"I write large suicide notes and place them so he can read them easily," from Mark Strand's "The Tunnel. Also the ending of it:
"I feel I’m being watched
and sometimes I hear
a man’s voice,
but nothing is done
and I have been waiting for days."
"I feel I’m being watched
and sometimes I hear
a man’s voice,
but nothing is done
and I have been waiting for days."
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"I write large suicide notes and place them so he can read them easily," from Mark Strand's "The Tunnel. Also the ending of it:
"I feel I’m being watched
and sometimes I hear
a man’s voice,
but nothing is done
and I have been waiting for days."
"I feel I’m being watched
and sometimes I hear
a man’s voice,
but nothing is done
and I have been waiting for days."
Are there any search engines without AI? i switched to Ecosia years ago when I learned they actually do some real reforestation work (always had assumed it was just PR). Now they're pushing AI search like everyone else. Duck duck go?
December 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Are there any search engines without AI? i switched to Ecosia years ago when I learned they actually do some real reforestation work (always had assumed it was just PR). Now they're pushing AI search like everyone else. Duck duck go?
Just saw that heinous clip of the FDA lady both-sidesing vaccines... Folding Ideas's In Search of Flat Earth remains the most important documentary film made this century. We have to get the conspiracy addled people out of power, man.
December 6, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Just saw that heinous clip of the FDA lady both-sidesing vaccines... Folding Ideas's In Search of Flat Earth remains the most important documentary film made this century. We have to get the conspiracy addled people out of power, man.
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The attacks on trans rights, which are basic human rights, are a terrible injustice and an attack on truth and fact as well. Everyone should be deeply alarmed and it should be disqualifying for a politician to support such discrimination.
December 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The attacks on trans rights, which are basic human rights, are a terrible injustice and an attack on truth and fact as well. Everyone should be deeply alarmed and it should be disqualifying for a politician to support such discrimination.
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What if we razed every Data Center to the ground and salted the earth where they stood
December 1, 2025 at 3:40 AM
What if we razed every Data Center to the ground and salted the earth where they stood
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my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI
Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother
November 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM
my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI
I don't self promote my music very much but check this out if you dig ambient stuff! I took everything off spotify due to all the evil so this latest release has barely been heard by anyone. Name your price!
Cumulus: Volume 2, by Vector Wolf
7 track album
vectorwolfmusic.bandcamp.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I don't self promote my music very much but check this out if you dig ambient stuff! I took everything off spotify due to all the evil so this latest release has barely been heard by anyone. Name your price!
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🚨 🚨 NEW @anniejowrites.bsky.social ON SHORT STORY, LONG DAY! 🚨 🚨
“A Love Story Told in Nine Lives” by Anna Vangala Jones
“This is the one in which they meet, fall in love, and get married. They will grow old together.”
ashortstorylong.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
🚨 🚨 NEW @anniejowrites.bsky.social ON SHORT STORY, LONG DAY! 🚨 🚨
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Everything may be bad, but hot dang there's a new Strongbad email today.
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Everything may be bad, but hot dang there's a new Strongbad email today.
Feel sick with dread because I found out last night they're trying to put an AI data center a few miles north of my house. Company bought 900 acres of land zoned for agriculture and they're just trying to get it rezoned for lighting and industrial. Emailed everyone in the city council
November 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Feel sick with dread because I found out last night they're trying to put an AI data center a few miles north of my house. Company bought 900 acres of land zoned for agriculture and they're just trying to get it rezoned for lighting and industrial. Emailed everyone in the city council