Chris Farnell
@thebrainofchris.bsky.social
I've written the Crew Handbook for Star Trek Lower Decks, the Prospectus for Life is Strange's Caledon University, the joke book for Doctor Who and the continuing misadventures of the deadly starship Fermi.
https://chrisfarnell.com
https://chrisfarnell.com
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“The Fermi is the fastest ship, and the deadliest weapon in the universe. We only need it to be one of those things.”
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My homepage: chrisfarnell.com/fermis-progr...
Paperback: www.amazon.co.uk/Fermis-Progr...
Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08QG5BLFD
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Maybe, just fucking MAYBE, part of the problem is that we somehow think we can use the "hardline immigration policy" and "centre left" to refer to the same party?
The Danish party that inspired Labour’s hardline immigration policy is on course to lose Copenhagen for the first time in more than a hundred years.
Among the reasons cited: fatigue and frustration with its hardline immigration policy.
Among the reasons cited: fatigue and frustration with its hardline immigration policy.
Centre-left tipped to lose Copenhagen for first time in electoral history
Political rivals say PM’s divisive politics have encouraged voters to ditch the Social Democrats for the far right
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Maybe, just fucking MAYBE, part of the problem is that we somehow think we can use the "hardline immigration policy" and "centre left" to refer to the same party?
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authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
I think I just wrote my favourite line that I should almost definitely cut before this reaches the final draft.
November 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I think I just wrote my favourite line that I should almost definitely cut before this reaches the final draft.
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ChatGPT is down. Freelancers are still loading pretty reliably.
November 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
ChatGPT is down. Freelancers are still loading pretty reliably.
The BBC clearly has no idea how hard it is to find babysitting when you're trying to flee a war zone.
BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation"
As opposed to doing what with their children??
As opposed to doing what with their children??
November 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The BBC clearly has no idea how hard it is to find babysitting when you're trying to flee a war zone.
Puts a cross through the box on my card between "US HHS Endorses the Four Humours Model" and "Maverick But Oddly Well-Paid Scientist Argues Trans People Shouldn't Be Given Antibiotics".
Okay who had “phrenology makes a comeback” on their 2025 bingo card?
I mean, there’s no way this nonsense could possibly used by malcontents for nefarious purposes steeped in racism and misogyny, right? Right?
I mean, there’s no way this nonsense could possibly used by malcontents for nefarious purposes steeped in racism and misogyny, right? Right?
Researchers are now saying that AI can find correlations between facial characteristics and success on the job.
The Economist says that corporations would have a “strong incentive” to deploy this technology when looking at applicants.
The Economist says that corporations would have a “strong incentive” to deploy this technology when looking at applicants.
November 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Puts a cross through the box on my card between "US HHS Endorses the Four Humours Model" and "Maverick But Oddly Well-Paid Scientist Argues Trans People Shouldn't Be Given Antibiotics".
You've managed to read through all that stuff about the importance of supply chain maintenance? Wow, you must be ready for the real hardcore military shit.
Let's talk about taking care of your troops' emotional wellbeing.
Let's talk about taking care of your troops' emotional wellbeing.
WHAT ANNOYING GUYS THINK SUN TZU'S ART OF WAR SAYS: show everyone in every single situation you're the big dog, literally bark in your bosses face to assert dominance
ACTUAL SUN TZU: no but seriously you do have to feed your army
ACTUAL SUN TZU: no but seriously you do have to feed your army
November 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
You've managed to read through all that stuff about the importance of supply chain maintenance? Wow, you must be ready for the real hardcore military shit.
Let's talk about taking care of your troops' emotional wellbeing.
Let's talk about taking care of your troops' emotional wellbeing.
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My youngest son was just named to Audible's top ten list for F&SF 2025 :-)
This is a super fun book, and Barrie Kreinik did an incredible job with the narration. If you haven't yet, you really ought to give it a listen.
This is a super fun book, and Barrie Kreinik did an incredible job with the narration. If you haven't yet, you really ought to give it a listen.
November 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
My youngest son was just named to Audible's top ten list for F&SF 2025 :-)
This is a super fun book, and Barrie Kreinik did an incredible job with the narration. If you haven't yet, you really ought to give it a listen.
This is a super fun book, and Barrie Kreinik did an incredible job with the narration. If you haven't yet, you really ought to give it a listen.
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Folks, I really need some help. For the last 10-15 days, I've been pretty much out of action, which has put me two weeks behind on promoting my Film Stories 500 show in London next week.
I'd be grateful for any help/support in getting the word out.
Thank you.
www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/wor...
I'd be grateful for any help/support in getting the word out.
Thank you.
www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/wor...
Film Stories: The 500th Episode Celebration • Words • Kings Place
Join us for a special evening as we celebrate the 500th episode of the Film Stories with Simon Brew.
www.kingsplace.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Folks, I really need some help. For the last 10-15 days, I've been pretty much out of action, which has put me two weeks behind on promoting my Film Stories 500 show in London next week.
I'd be grateful for any help/support in getting the word out.
Thank you.
www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/wor...
I'd be grateful for any help/support in getting the word out.
Thank you.
www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/wor...
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Final model ready for printing (subject to approval):
November 18, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Final model ready for printing (subject to approval):
Spent most of this weekend finally reading DIE while the 6yo watched her new favourite movie, Labyrinth, on a loop. There is something reassuring in the fact that we basically want the same story no matter how old we are.
November 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Spent most of this weekend finally reading DIE while the 6yo watched her new favourite movie, Labyrinth, on a loop. There is something reassuring in the fact that we basically want the same story no matter how old we are.
Okay, I admit it. It is killing me that nobody knows where I got all of these Bond titles from.
Big news everyone. After Horowitz shat the bed last week, I am now taking over writing the new Bond books.
Bond Heads (that's what they call James Bond fans) can now look forward to exciting adventures like:
No Matter What
We've Got Tonight
Believe Again
If Tomorrow Never Comes
Forever Ain't Enough
Bond Heads (that's what they call James Bond fans) can now look forward to exciting adventures like:
No Matter What
We've Got Tonight
Believe Again
If Tomorrow Never Comes
Forever Ain't Enough
Got trapped in a Wikipedia hole looking at the names of James Bond novels post-Ian Fleming and they are all spectacular, just majestic knock-off names.
For Special Services
Doubleshot
Never Dream of Dying
With a Mind to Kill
Win, Lose or Die
Brokenclaw
Also look at this surprised snake!
For Special Services
Doubleshot
Never Dream of Dying
With a Mind to Kill
Win, Lose or Die
Brokenclaw
Also look at this surprised snake!
November 17, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Okay, I admit it. It is killing me that nobody knows where I got all of these Bond titles from.
If you're going to sell your voice to an AI company it might as well be the voice that everyone thinks they can do 100% authentic impression of after precisely 2.5 pints of beer.
Do NOT license your voice to ElevenLabs.
Their highest-paid actor made $30k last year. Sounds a lot, but that’s from 1.2 bn paid uses - $0.000025 per job. ElevenLabs charge 20 cents per 1,000 words. So they’re making at least 8,000 times what their artists are.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Their highest-paid actor made $30k last year. Sounds a lot, but that’s from 1.2 bn paid uses - $0.000025 per job. ElevenLabs charge 20 cents per 1,000 words. So they’re making at least 8,000 times what their artists are.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine sign voice deal with AI company
The voices of the Oscar-winning actors can now be used to create AI-generated versions in a new deal with ElevenLabs
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
If you're going to sell your voice to an AI company it might as well be the voice that everyone thinks they can do 100% authentic impression of after precisely 2.5 pints of beer.
Fun fact - the internal mechanism for selecting and launching the nuclear bombs is based on the internal workings of a Coca Cola bottle vending machine.
This is historically accurate!
This is historically accurate!
November 16, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Fun fact - the internal mechanism for selecting and launching the nuclear bombs is based on the internal workings of a Coca Cola bottle vending machine.
This is historically accurate!
This is historically accurate!
Big news everyone. After Horowitz shat the bed last week, I am now taking over writing the new Bond books.
Bond Heads (that's what they call James Bond fans) can now look forward to exciting adventures like:
No Matter What
We've Got Tonight
Believe Again
If Tomorrow Never Comes
Forever Ain't Enough
Bond Heads (that's what they call James Bond fans) can now look forward to exciting adventures like:
No Matter What
We've Got Tonight
Believe Again
If Tomorrow Never Comes
Forever Ain't Enough
Got trapped in a Wikipedia hole looking at the names of James Bond novels post-Ian Fleming and they are all spectacular, just majestic knock-off names.
For Special Services
Doubleshot
Never Dream of Dying
With a Mind to Kill
Win, Lose or Die
Brokenclaw
Also look at this surprised snake!
For Special Services
Doubleshot
Never Dream of Dying
With a Mind to Kill
Win, Lose or Die
Brokenclaw
Also look at this surprised snake!
November 16, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Big news everyone. After Horowitz shat the bed last week, I am now taking over writing the new Bond books.
Bond Heads (that's what they call James Bond fans) can now look forward to exciting adventures like:
No Matter What
We've Got Tonight
Believe Again
If Tomorrow Never Comes
Forever Ain't Enough
Bond Heads (that's what they call James Bond fans) can now look forward to exciting adventures like:
No Matter What
We've Got Tonight
Believe Again
If Tomorrow Never Comes
Forever Ain't Enough
"She frequently has to make decisions about which way to go, so it's clearly not a Labyrinth."
Decided to start the day ruining my daughter's new favourite movie.
Decided to start the day ruining my daughter's new favourite movie.
November 16, 2025 at 9:09 AM
"She frequently has to make decisions about which way to go, so it's clearly not a Labyrinth."
Decided to start the day ruining my daughter's new favourite movie.
Decided to start the day ruining my daughter's new favourite movie.
*Walking up to a sapphic lifetime Christmas movie*
"So, which one's the red jumper and which one's the green jumper?"
"So, which one's the red jumper and which one's the green jumper?"
🚨SAPPHIC LIFETIME CHRISTMAS MOVIE THIS YEAR🚨
November 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
*Walking up to a sapphic lifetime Christmas movie*
"So, which one's the red jumper and which one's the green jumper?"
"So, which one's the red jumper and which one's the green jumper?"
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But I shot a man in Reno just to see him die and, honestly, it was horrible, very upsetting. I'm never doing that again.
November 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
But I shot a man in Reno just to see him die and, honestly, it was horrible, very upsetting. I'm never doing that again.
Me: I wrote Fermi's Progress as a cautionary tale...
@theycallmejc.bsky.social: This looks like a fun craft project!
@theycallmejc.bsky.social: This looks like a fun craft project!
November 15, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Me: I wrote Fermi's Progress as a cautionary tale...
@theycallmejc.bsky.social: This looks like a fun craft project!
@theycallmejc.bsky.social: This looks like a fun craft project!
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steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
Insulting to the players, insulting to the IP, insulting to the medium, the developers. And the craft itself. Fuck you executives who pushed this garbage.
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
frvr.com/blog/call-of...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI art slop, because your $70 means nothing anymore
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is littered with AI generated artwork which makes the $70 feel like a complete rip-off.
frvr.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back
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This is absolutely the correct way to trigger the AI apocalypse. If I'm going have a killer robot after me, I'd much rather it were a giant mecha-werewolf rather than, say, an Austrian bodybuilder.
November 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
This is absolutely the correct way to trigger the AI apocalypse. If I'm going have a killer robot after me, I'd much rather it were a giant mecha-werewolf rather than, say, an Austrian bodybuilder.
Genetically engineered megalions have now been released into Japanese towns to fight off the out of control robotic super wolves.
November 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Genetically engineered megalions have now been released into Japanese towns to fight off the out of control robotic super wolves.
Oh shit someone killed a Hanar!
Et, pour ma part, j'accueille avec joie le retour de notre Seigneur Cthulhu
www.slate.fr/sciences/med...
www.slate.fr/sciences/med...
Une nouvelle créature marine au venin potentiellement létal est apparue dans les eaux japonaises
Un biologiste de l'Université de Tohoku a identifié une physalie inconnue, baptisée Physalia mikazuki, échouée sur une plage du nord-est du Japon.…
www.slate.fr
November 14, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Oh shit someone killed a Hanar!