Jon Ficke
jonficke.bsky.social
Jon Ficke
@jonficke.bsky.social
Husband, Writer, Woodworker, SFWA Member.

Stories in Cossmass Infinities, Flame Tree Fiction Amazing Science Fiction, Dread Space (Vols. 1 and 2), and WotF.

https://jonficke.com
homeopathy does have somewhat fewer side effects than both heroin and generative AI though
December 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I mean heroin provides happiness, but the net downsides exceed their benefits so we generally prohibit its use.

Similar reasoning seems to apply here. If the lying affirmation machine sends an appreciable percentage of society int cyberpsychosis, the fact they enjoy themselves shouldn’t justify it
December 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
NB: The state has IMMENSE power to make fighting a criminal charge intolerable. I fully understand why people plea.
December 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
If *every* forfeiture, misdemeanor, and felony defendant forced the state to simply "prove it" with a trial, same deal.
December 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Then Archbishop of Milwaukee, Cardinal Dolan confirmed me in 2005. If I recall correctly, he struck me as a very good preacher.

He also was *not* stingy with the Chrism of Salvation. I smelled like it for days.
December 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Wat
December 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
It’s gonna get weird in normie Catholic Churches the first time they break down a door and raid Mass or like when the priest in Chicago tried to take Communion to the detainees if they pepper ball the Sacrament the potluck crew of normie grandmas are gonna go feral.
December 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
ah dang, I was thinking of the british guy who owned the company and mistook him for the *inventor*.

My mistake.
December 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
the segway inventor had a truly poetic death.
December 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM