I'm pleased to share that I'll have a new fantasy story coming out in the Soo Generis anthology Realm Weavers.
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I'm pleased to share that I'll have a new fantasy story coming out in the Soo Generis anthology Realm Weavers.
If R2P had been credibly invoked, the war would have had humanitarian objectives, would have been brought to the UN, and would have followed the Geneva Conventions.
Contrary to this @nytimes.com op-ed, the Responsibility to Protect was not a "loophole" leading to the Iran war, any more than legitimate law enforcement was a loophole for DC to be occupied by the National Guard or border security was a loophole allowing Americans to be harassed in Minnesota. (1/2)
Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?
Georgetown is one of the universities the Defense Department just barred military students from attending.
When I studied national security at Georgetown, there were service members in most of my classes, and professors insisted that future policymakers should hear from the people risking their lives in defense of those policies. (1/2)
The people who want to flee South Africa because they feel discriminated against are exactly the people who are going to regret coming here. Most of them are going to have to figure out lives without housekeepers, or gated communities, or poorer people automatically deferring to them.
I'd like to see Iron Maiden stop playing rock for a while, and maybe try out pop or new wave, so that they can finally appeal to whoever it is who votes to induct people into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, 22 years after they became eligible.
There's a scene in King Rat where a half-starved prisoner of war is watching someone fry an egg. I'm not sure how many years ago I read it, but it was so viscerally evocative that I think of it every time I cook an egg.
I'm excited to share that I'll have another story coming out in @mythaxis.bsky.social. It's about the more extreme ways people may cope with climate change.
who ends up in a war with Canada and whose supporters use family separation as a signature policy.
Parable of the Talents, published in 1998, features a president who wins with the slogan “make America great again” and a platform of hostility toward immigrants (specifically, religious minorities), beating an incumbent who seems stable but “tired” ...
She was writing in 1993 about a 2027 America transformed by climate change. But I finally got around this year to Parable of the Talents, and now I have a whole new level of appreciation for her extrapolation skills.
Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower reminds me of Dune: a messianic leader navigating ecology-related conflict, in a story you can’t fully appreciate until you’ve read the sequel(s). I read it a long time ago, and I thought I knew what people meant when they talked about Butler’s prescience....
Consciousness, some say, is the universe recognizing itself.
They closed the CIA World Factbook and deleted it entirely.
The owner of Amazon killed the Washington Post books section.
and Shear Madness (a long-running, interactive, comedy mystery play), it has the Millennium Stage, which features a different world-class performing artist, every night, for free (there are even free shuttles to and from the Metro).
There’s not enough time in the day to complain about everything we’ve lost or seen diminished in the past twelve months, but the Kennedy Center deserves a special mention. In addition to the National Symphony Orchestra and ballet and musicals and artists-in-residence and art exhibits...
One of the problems with being a sci fi writer is that whenever I come up with something for my villains to do, Elon does it first.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/spac...
"I am now convinced that I was wrong to listen to the ostensible wisdom of the day—and that teachers of literature are wrong to give up assigning the books we loved ourselves."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Totally true. One of the things I liked about "The Last Note" is it seemed like he finally appreciated what he had.
Listening to the new song "The Last Note" on Megadeth's final album, and thinking that Dave Mustaine getting booted from Metallica was the best thing that could've happened, for him and everyone else.
I know my town should be able to handle snow without shutting down, but my family's been home together for days and it's great.
I love how Jared Leto—sorry, Ares—talks up Depeche Mode throughout Tron: Ares.
I find Uhtred of Bebbanburg in Netlfix's The Last Kingdom series (I haven't read the books) compelling both because he's torn between two worlds, and because of (not in spite of) the fact that he's a strong character who's always trying to do the right thing.
My daughter mistook our neighbor shoveling snow for me (to be fair, he was bundled in a hat and coat), so she stood on our porch and shouted a question across the street about whether she could open sprinkles to put on her ice cream. He was confused.
Not to get all political, but back in my day, masked government agents didn't terrorize civilians.
The Greenland debacle also seems to have vindicated liberalism (I'm using the term in its international relations context, not the domestic U.S. context), given that political and economic connections provided roadblocks to armed conflict.
Realism seems to have lost its explanatory power, given that U.S. adventures are neither rational nor evidently in the national interest, while theories centering on psychology and domestic politics appear more relevant than ever.