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William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, or Charles (Charlie) Stross never predicted this!

#PizzaSignal #SciFiPizza #PizzaPunk
#Neuromancer #SnowCrash #HaltingState #Rule34
#WilliamGibson #Gibson #NealStephenson #CharlesStross
#SciFi #Distopia #Distopian #Cyberpunk

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5750716-pentagon-pizza-report-hegseth/

William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, or Charles (Charlie) Stross never predicted this!

#PizzaSignal #SciFiPizza #PizzaPunk
#Neuromancer #SnowCrash #HaltingState #Rule34
#WilliamGibson #Gibson #NealStephenson #CharlesStross
#SciFi #Distopia #Distopian #Cyberpunk

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5750716-pentagon-pizza-report-hegseth/

William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, or Charles (Charlie) Stross never predicted this!

#PizzaSignal #SciFiPizza #PizzaPunk
#Neuromancer #SnowCrash #HaltingState #Rule34
#WilliamGibson #Gibson #NealStephenson #CharlesStross
#SciFi #Distopia #Distopian #Cyberpunk

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5750716-pentagon-pizza-report-hegseth/

@welshpixie

This is very cool, and though making or drawing them is not for me, I'm glad these booklets exist!

The curious part of me wants to know if you have the patterns for any of the ones that transport you between alternate timelines 😉

#MerchantPrinces #CharlesStross #CharlieStross #Celtic #CelticKnot #AlternateTimeline

Charles Stross, the author ( @cstross ), posted a new blog entry on why high-level executives at companies are pushing "AI" use so strongly onto their workers, even though empirical studies show negative productivity gains:

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2025/12/barnums-law-of-ceos.html

This may be more or less implied by what he wrote, but I would add that high-level executives aren't as likely to see the "this thing generated an incorrect answer / solution" aspect of "AI" use because being empirically correct is not as important to the things a high-level executive does. It's more important that they make decisions quickly and get things moving rather than making the correct decisions. [1]

Less charitably, top executives can't tell the "AI" is giving wrong answers, because they don't know the right answers.

[1] Of course it would be best for all if they could make the correct decision quickly, but you can't have everything. Where would you keep it?

#AI #LLM #CharlesStross #CharlieStross #executive #CEO #decision #answer #WrongAnswer #wat #GeorgeCarlin

Watching United States of Bedlam turning #Trumpland, while reading #charlesstross #thelaundry #labyrinthindex...

What a century, huh?

Civil servants versus cosmic horrors in The Laundry RPG. Think Brazil meets Cthulhu, but with more paperwork and fewer ducts. Not quite as dystopian as our current government, mind you - at least these lot admit they're watching. Pre-orders open for this bureaucratic nightmare from Cubicle 7 https://l.d20.ninja/2p9cpsxb #RPG #cthulhu #cubicle #theLaundry #hpLovecraft #callOfCthulhu #charlesStross

Taken this day, 2017, a read of @cstross and an al-fresco pint by the beach at the Dalriada, #Portobello https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/34768971844/

Sadly, Dalriada now gone, which is a great shame.

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #books #photography #beer #ale #biere #Dalriada #DalriadaEdinburgh #PortobelloPromenade #beach #BeerGarden #livres #AmReading #bookstodon #CharlesStross

@albinokid #Bookstodon A few of my favorite jump-to-the-top-of-the-tbr-when-they-publish authors:
#JohnScalzi #SeananMcguire #PatrickRothfuss #MaryRobinetteKowal #KevinHearne #ScottLynch #NealStephenson #WilliamGibson #CharlesStross #PatriciaBriggs Oh that's 10 already? Whoops.