#speculative — Public Fediverse posts
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#speculative : based on conjecture rather than knowledge
- French: spéculatif
- German: spekulativ
- Italian: speculativo
- Portuguese: especulativo
- Spanish: especulativo
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Word of The Hour's Annual Survey @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/form
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CW: potential film spoilers
I propose a film class, or maybe just an evening watching a triple feature together with discussion:
- Moon (2009)
- The Prestige (2006)
- Elizabeth Harvest (2018)I’m open to suggestions on the viewing order.
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🚗💥 Oh, look! #Uber has decided that #merging #code should be as chaotic as their surge pricing. Now with 'speculative merging', because who needs certainty when you can have pure, adrenaline-fueled guessing games? 🏎️🎲
https://github.com/uber/submitqueue/ #Speculative #Chaos #SurgePricing #Adrenaline #HackerNews #ngated -
Uber SubmitQueue: a high-performance speculative merge queue
https://github.com/uber/submitqueue/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138084
#HackerNews #Uber #SubmitQueue #high-performance #merge #queue #speculative #merge #queue #Uber #technology #software #development
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@da_667 the latest major ai breach where the gymkana based ai broke loose and hacked hugging face was the most costly breach in history (when coupled with china stepping up excellent open source pressure) #speculative value lost #financial system saved by china #ALE
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Pleased to receive the electronic form of my contributor copy of the 2026 Dwarf Stars #anthology yesterday. My poem, "raging storm", which was originally published in Star*Line 48.4, appears in it. The print copy will soon follow.
All poets whose poems were selected for the anthology are finalists in the Dwarf Star #award, which recognises the best #speculative #poem published in 2025. The winner will be announced in October. Two other poems of mine were finalists in 2021 & 2023, respectively.
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The concept of Speculative Repair addresses societal wounds through a framework that merges historical analysis with counterfactual reasoning to envision alternative futures. It prompts critical questions about past choices, policy failures, and the impact of leadership. This methodology aims to foster transformative discussions for national development, emphasizing education and community engagement.
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CW: OK boomer
@Heterokromia
I’m a boomer. I’m not tired of #LLMs. What I am tired of is the pitches and platforming of #SnakeOil merchants and the #ChatBot tech those #Grifters like to call #AI. That, and the gullibility of executives and politicians championing #GenAISlop because they are drunk on the #KoolAid served up to make them believe that #TextRegurgitator machines will pay big dividends.That’s what I’m tired of seeing/hearing.
How that particular slice of the AI tech revolution got to this is testament to the ingenuity of those sob #TechBros using smoke and mirrors and duping the #speculative #FinancialMarkets.Hunker down for a stupefying #GenAIBubble busrt folks, ‘cause it’s coming.
#CoryDoctorow saw all this coming a long while ago and has been a clear voice in the brouhaha we are living through…
@pluralistic
#Antifa #noMoreBillionaires #Trillionaires are anti-social aberrations best erradicated. -
I just watched "The Monolith Monsters" from 1957, courtesy of the Internet Archive. It was good, clean fun, and I wouldn't mind watching it again sometime. If you're looking for something to watch (for free!), give this one a try.
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Every generation experiences technologies that fundamentally reshape society. From steam engines to smartphones and artificial intelligence, humanity continues to balance wonder, fear, and adaptation.
Read full article at: https://lewinoverinkpublishing.ca/blog.php?article=how-technologies-take-over
#In100Years #technology #futureoftech #futurethinking #essayseries #speculativefutures #speculative #futuretech #thoughtexperiment #futurist #futurism #ArtificialIntelligence
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Are you looking for a transportive, stand-alone #fantasy novel about found family, selkies and #witches set in a #speculative #Scotland riddled with fey traps, with a #neurodivergent, orphan MC and non-human characters--a time-slip spanning from the #Viking age to a post apocalyptic future and back again? I wrote a the book for you!
Less than 28 hours to reserve your limited edition, signed and numbered hardback copy of Widdershins.
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luma.com/19l5xgr9 "In an era defined by #democratic backsliding, #climate crisis, #disinformation, fear-mongering, and the normalization of cruelty, #speculative #climate #fiction plays an active and necessary role in countering #narratives that divide." #booksky #literature #solarpunk #hopepunk
Radical Possibility: How Clima... -
"In an era defined by #democratic backsliding, #climate crisis, #disinformation, fear-mongering, and the normalization of cruelty, #speculative #climate #fiction plays an active and necessary role in countering #narratives that divide. Where #authoritarianism thrives on inevitability, fear, and historical amnesia, climate fiction can insist on adaptability, memory, and possibility."
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Mind of My Mind "Mary is a treacherous experiment. Her creator, an immortal named Doro, has molded the human race for generations" Sale: $18.99 to $2.99 by Octavia E. Butler 4.6/5 (1,572 Reviews) #octaviabutler #scifi #speculative #black #womensfiction #patternist #booksky #books #mustread
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#speculative : given to speculation
- French: spéculatif
- German: spekulativ
- Italian: speculativo
- Portuguese: especulativo
- Spanish: especulativo
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Try Christian's word chain building game @ https://wordwallgame.com
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Ok y'all...weirdness ahead.
Thinkers for as long as we have thunk, have considered that we live in a dream state. Plato, Zhuangzi, Descartes had their caves and butterflies and demons, but philosopher Nick Bostrom updated it to the computer age, suggesting that *waves hands around* all of this is computer simulation.
Here's where I leave the known, and don my tinfoil propeller beanie.
You know how LLM companies have devoured all the available ram and compute power they can lay their hands on, right? And they're sucking power down like midsized cities for each data center.
And the timeline started getting weirder and weirder the more data centers that went online.
Y'all, I posit that LLM is destroying the universe. It's using all the compute and power that should be fueling the normal functions of the simulation.
I'm just sayin, what if we turned them all off for a few months, just to see if normal happened?
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Children of Time "A refreshingly new take on post-dystopia civilizations, with the smartest evolutionary worldbuilding you'll ever read" Sale: $19.99 to $2.99 by Adrian Tchaikovsky Rating: 4.5/5 (49,284 Reviews) #SciFi #Space #Evolution #Spiders #Terraforming #Speculative #Fiction #BookSky
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🥃🤧 "Fever" | surreal short prose ✍️
new text on the blog: https://jackiebranc.com/fever-surreal-short-prose/
#Surrealism #ShortProse #WeirdFiction #LiteraryFiction #Speculative
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Speculative Speculative Decoding (SSD)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03251
#HackerNews #Speculative #Speculative #Decoding #SSD #AI #Research #MachineLearning #Arxiv
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Televisions began as spinning metal disks in the 1920s. Today they’re thinner than ever and sharper than reality.
But will television actually change in the next 100 years — or simply adapt, integrate into our walls, and quietly endure?New article in my In 100 Years series:
http://lewinoverinkpublishing.ca/blog.php?article=will-television-survive-the-next-century#In100Years #FutureOfTV #Technology #Futurism #TV #speculative
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You win the lottery and buy a climb that never ends. If the view keeps going and the ache stays the same was the problem ever view? https://inkican.com/emergency-reality-shelter-science-fiction-short-stories/foreverest-scifi-short-story-free-sample/ #scifi #speculative #author
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Sky Full of Elephants: A Novel “Your value is decided on all the things you are willing to accept about yourself. And what you won’t.” Sale: $18.00 to $2.99 by Cebo Campbell Rating: 4.4/5 (1,327 Reviews) #Book #Fiction #Dystopia #Black #Books #Literature #Speculative #Identity #MustRead #BookSky
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Comic Crusaders Podcast #653 - Osy Ikhile/We Who Remain
In this high-energy episode of the Comic Crusaders Podcast, Al Mega sits...
https://comiccrusaders.com/podcast/comic-crusaders-podcast-653-osy-ikhile-we-who-remain/
#Osy Ikhile #We Who Remain #Shadow Crown Comics #indie comics #sci-fi comics #mythic sci-fi #comic book interviews #Comic Crusaders Podcast #creator owned comics #world building #legacy storytelling #speculative fiction #comics Kickstarter #graphic novels #pop culture interviews -
Sometimes you publish a story to your site, and then just forget to tell anyone about it for... a month?
Anyways, a bit of a stranger piece for yours truly. Lemme know what you think. ~10m read
"That spring, the wind ceased to speak.
"It was not an easy tongue. Stand in copses of young trees, sway to match their branches. Wait on sea bluffs, watch the patterns of waves and spray, let the drum of blown sand sting your skin...
"Windspeakers, even then, do not hear its words. But welcome them from the cold, warm their cold cheeks, wet their chapped lips, and often they speak.
"And what they speak is always true."
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On the Calculation of Volume: Shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize “That’s how little the activities of one person matter on the 18th of November” Sale: $15.95 to $1.99 by Solvej Balle Rating: 4.0/5 (1,455 Reviews) #Fiction #Literature #Time #Speculative #Books #WomenAuthors #Novel #BookSky
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A new genre-bending mystery, out now! A detective who can see people’s emotions as vivid soul gardens faces his hardest case yet — proving his childhood friend isn’t a killer. Set in small town Minnesota.
Kindle https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0FV8W4884
Nook https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/that-murder-feeling-neve-maslakovic/1148492285?ean=2940184534183
Kobo (also in Kobo Plus) https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/that-murder-feeling
Apple https://books.apple.com/us/book/that-murder-feeling-a-soul-garden-mystery/id6753827856
Google https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=E-uOEQAAQBAJ
