Josh Sutphin

Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work Corporate employees said Amazon’s race to roll out AI is leading to surveillance, slop and ‘more work for everyone’.

We truly live in the dumbest timeline.
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Tomorrow, #Albuquerque! Hope to see you there!

Secure Communication, Buried In A News App Cryptography is a funny thing. Supposedly, if you do the right kind of maths to a message, you can send it off to somebody else, and as long as they’re the only one that knows a secret little…

My love for @theguardian.com has been steadily growing over the past year, and this just accelerated it into overdrive: hackaday.com/2026/03/09/s...

#journalism #privacy #cryptography

Improving Your Covers with Graphic Design Theory - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association by Misha Grifka Wander. With these simple design principles, independent authors can create compelling ebook covers using grids, color theory, balanced typography, and negative space to convey genre…

This is one of the better primers on graphic design for book covers that I’ve seen.

I started playing Pokémon Scarlet (yes yes I know I’m late) and I uh… I kind of love it?

I’ve always bounced off Pokémon games before (except for PoGo, for a while anyway) but something about this one is clicking.

This is a *lovely* photo

PSA:

A scammer is using the email account 'arkadymartine0@gmail.com' to impersonate me.

That is not my email account, and I am not sending messages from it. Please delete all such messages if you receive them.

Ah, but it's so painfully true 😭

This part made me swoon:

E.U. FOLKS! READ AND SIGN:

1/4 page ad in Locus Mag. March edition. Accelerated Growth Environment by Lauren C. Teffeau is highlighted.

Forthcoming Titles in Locus Mag. March edition. Accelerated Growth Environment by Lauren C. Teffeau is highlighted.

Today I was able to saw our first print ad for Accelerated Growth Environment by @teffeau.bsky.social in @locusmag.bsky.social ‘s March edition. It’s also in Forthcoming titles. It’s available now! Each little bit of progress makes this dream a little more real.

#smallpress #novella #indiepress

Jay Graber Steps Down as Bluesky CEO - We Distribute Jay Graber is most widely known as the CEO of Bluesky PBC. In a surprising announcement, she is stepping down from the role to serve as Chief Innovation Officer.

Huh. Wild.

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Not getting in the way is often a very important way of encouraging and helping someone. I think it's true to say that almost everyone grows up through being left to themselves. "I'll leave you be, but I love you." That's both simple, and hard.

Shigesato Itoi copywriter/CEO, Hobonichi Co., Ltd. "Today's Darling"

My Hobonichi Techo day planner has quotes on each spread, and sometimes they’re super on point.

The Disease of Comparison The inescapable plague for readers, editors, and writers

I found this piece on comparison quite insightful for both writers and editors alike.

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#writingcommunity #writing #editing

Since switching from Android to iPhone (a change unfortunately forced by circumstance) the most frustrating thing has been the frequency with which I tap a control and it does its little “pressed” animation but then has no actual function until I try again. YOU KNOW I TAPPED IT. WTF.

Phil Ochs’ Sharp, Satirical Protest Songs Still Resonate Today Fifty years after his death, the protest singer’s music is more relevant than ever.

Oh look, a pitch-perfect articulation of my whole creative outlook these days:

“Even though reason later softens that rage, it is essential that rage is recorded, for how else can future generations understand the revulsion that swept the country?”

Photo of five figurines being held. The figurines are creatures inspired by eels, sharks, rays, cuttlefish, and anglerfish

Photo of five figurines on a blanket. The figurines are creatures inspired by eels, sharks, rays, cuttlefish, and anglerfish

The Ocean Guys drop will go live in my shop tomorrow (Sunday March 8) at 2pm PST! Each of these figurines is releasing with limited edition colors, after this batch they won’t be reproduced.

Shop here: www.hannahcomstock.com

Promo graphic for the book launch of Accelerated Growth Environment at Books on the Bosque on March 12, 2026 at 5:30 in Albuquerque NM

Albuquerque! This Thursday, March 12, I'll be at @booksonthebosque.bsky.social to celebrate the launch of Accelerated Growth Environment!

I'll be signing books & answering all your burning questions about the writing life & brighter futures to come for all of us www.eventbrite.com/e/accelerate...

Scientific paper published in PubMed. Heading: Object personification in autism: This paper will be very sad if you don't read it. Authors: Rebekah C White et all. Autism, 2018 May. For those curious, here's the original paper: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10053878/1/Personification%20in%20autism_final%20accepted.pdf

Nobel Prize For Titles. Right away.

Gas prices at $7/gal and reinstituting the draft is about the only think I can think of that will unite this fucked up America.

We keep yelling about death and sadism, forgetting that there's a substantial number of people here who not only don't care, but who actively wanted to build this world.

Thank you! At an event last night I said "If the word hope doesn't work for you try, 'Never fucking surrender.'" The word hope seems too sunny to a lot of people, but the heart of it as I'm interested in it is: we make the future in the present, if we show up, and that never surrender part.

Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here

This happened. The print interview was edited in ways that feel very jumpy, but I got to say some things. Like: Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war. Too many people still expect it to look like war. [and then there's a crazy jump-cut w/out transition.]

Oh hell yeah, this is so my jam

The No World Order Meir Kahane, Netanyahu, Trump, and the war beyond Iran.

“One cannot understand the Iran War without understanding the Kahanists. But I rarely see analysts mention them. Maybe they did, and it was behind a paywall. If a war crime is subscription-only, does it make a sound? Is that sound a stifled scream?”

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CLIMATE CRISIS ECOLOGICAL SUPERSTRUCTURE SABOTAGE SAPPHIC RELATIONSHIP LOVABLE ROBOT SIDEKICK FAMILY SECRETS ACCELERATED GROWTH ENVIRONMENT by Lauren C. Teffeau Available now in ebook and paperback. For information and ordering options, visit shirakipress.com/age

We chose to publish ACCELERATED GROWTH ENVIRONMENT for a whole bunch of reasons, not the least of which is it's a damn good book. Grab your copy at shirakipress.com/age or look for it at your favorite book retailer!

#SmallPress #ScienceFiction #solarpunk #booksky

tech CEO in 2026: My computer has anxiety.
venture capitalist in 2026: Here, have 200 billion more dollars.

child in 2006: My NeoPet is angry at me.
mom in 2006: No it isn't sweetie, go to bed.
mom to dad in 2006: We have an idiot boy. Our boy is a little idiot person. It's too late to fix him.

I think the biggest damage to the art community was the obsolescence of gallery sites (y!, deviantart, etc) and the rise of scroll-by social media, like twitter and even tumblr. Art is not ''content'', you shouldnt need to post art every day (or every month!) to be relevant. This mindset sucks.

'The Offering' by Lithuanian artist MK Ciurlionis (1875-1911) who was considered a pioneer of abstract art in Europe. His subject matter was often enigmatic & esoteric with a suggestion of art nouveau & has lost none of its curious appeal with the passing of time.

We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.

Seems like the media should at least express some curiosity about this.

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