@aahabershaw
Science Fiction/Fantasy author and English professor; shorts in Analog, F&SF, BCS, and elsewhere. Author of The Saga of the Redeemed and If Wishes Were Retail and also Faceless Galaxy; website aahabershaw.com Repped by @awfulagent.bsky.social He/Him
age-old photoshop of colombian grammy winning singer songwriter and dancer and legendary recording artist shakira wearing kaneda ( of the manga AKIRA )'s jacket, motorcycle goggles and brandishing his laser rifle
one of the all time photoshops i think, AI could never
it is time once again that i remind you that all the villainous patsies who are instrumental in Palpatine's rise to power are named after republicans because george lucas is not a subtle man
The shoe thing is low on the "important global matters" scale, but HIGH on the "I'll take things a deranged Roman emperor would do for $500, Alex" chart.
leaders like trump are why sun tzu had to write a bunch of advice like "don't write your enemy a letter detailing what tactics you really don't want them to do"
Earlier I implied that I escorted yo' momma through the Strait of Hormuz. I apologize for the misinformation. Yo' momma's too fat for such a narrow passageway and whatnot.
I think Trump is cooked—and it’s helpful for us to say so, repeatedly and often.
Authoritarians use fear to compel obedience. Once people start thinking about what they’ll do once he’s gone, they’re much less likely to obey his commands.
Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.
in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy
Sharing to read later. Seems interesting.
If you find something that looks like my writing in Claude, here's a good reason: it's on the legal record that Anthropic stole every fucking book I've ever written. That's not the AI's writing. It's mine.
The NYT knows this, by the way. This is pro-AI propaganda and they fucking know it.
This quiz determines whether you read more than one book per year.
Tech guys who only read self help books struggling to understand Shii'ism and glorious martyrdom
The inference costs are in addition to costs from training the models. Anthropic last month expected its costs for training its AI models for 2025 to be roughly $4.1 billion, up roughly 5% from its summer projections. OpenAI, meanwhile, expected to spend $9.4 billion on compute for training its Al models last year.
Reports had previously said Anthropic made $4.5bn in 2025 on $2.79bn of inference and $4.1bn of training.
This would mean it made $500m total in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026 so far combined.
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youtu.be/c06hIXPxvwk
I don't have a foolproof plan here. I just have the certainty that fascism has never lasted very long without collapsing on its own contradictions, being defeated in war, or being propped up from the outside (and no one's propping up the US). The ending's been written; we're just not there yet.
If someone breaks the law and nobody enforces it because of the offender’s power, then the law does not apply to the powerful, and the law, subordinated to power, is revealed as illegitimate in its helplessness and/or corruption.
I'd say I was a Cassandra, but almost anyone with a 105 IQ knew this was coming.
Take this anecdote and swallow it whole. Your psyche needs it.
Ah, spring in Boston! A magical time when majestic snow mountains recede, revealing a new landscape of candy wrappers, nips, dog poop, and funyun bags.
one of my favorite moments of TNG is when Picard is immediately unable to contain his horse autism
This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.
Scene from MASH: Hawkeye: War isn't hell. War is War, Hell is hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse. Fr. Mulchahy: How do you figure that, Hawkeye? Hawkeye: Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell? Fr. Mulchahy: Sinners, I believe. Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them - little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.
We are in the middle of a cold civil war, so yeah, that tracks.
Heh
ppl think of Hitchcock as this director guy but he was doing Presents, he had a mystery magazine, he had a tie in book series about 3 kids who solve crimes from a caravan in a junkyard and do pyramid scheme marketing then for some reason expose the crimes to Alfred Hitchcock, man was hustling 24/7
Rep. Dan Crenshaw says culture of misinformation fueled his primary loss: "The truth didn't matter" The fourth-term congressman, who lost decisively to state Rep. Steve Toth, said baseless attacks about his alleged insider trading and gun stances fueled the upset. BY GABBY BIRENBAUM MARCH 6, 2026, 4:25 P.M. CENTRAL REPUBLISH SHARE
"Fire hurts," complains arsonist
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"but kids are dirty and loud and annoying!"
I'm sorry, are you of the impression that YOU aren't dirty and loud and annoying? And yet YOU are twenty-five fucking years older than kids, so what's YOUR EXCUSE?
Look, you don't have to want kids.
You don't have to *like* kids.
But you HAVE to be nice to kids. This is a basic requirement of any decent person.
I maintain that "relatability" is one of the worst things to happen to creative writing and it must be combated
