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Benjamin C. Kinney @ worldcon @BenCKinney
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Delightful news! My story "Elegy of Carbon" will appear in the anthology "The Internet Is Where The Robots Live Now" this September from @paperdogbooks! Soon you shall all see the epic journey of the Brave Little Mining AI.
This is delightful unto me not only because I want to share one of my favorite stories, but because I of the 4 short stories I've had accepted this year, this is the first one that's actually turned into a sale.
Also, if you attended my reading with @LabyrinthRat at #readercon last month, this is the story I read an excerpt from!
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#NeuroThursday is crawling back to life this week to discuss this article: just what, if anything, is important about the role of dopamine in beliefs? More importantly: is this (or any) new knowledge meaningless or meaningful? neurosciencenews.com/belief-dopamin…
Thanks to @oldscout for the topic inspiration! #NeuroThursday has been paused lately while I write a novel on the cold war between AIs who emulate humankind and AIs who reject that bullshit. But this week I take a break from my break.
If you don't want to read the article, here's a summary: dopamine (one of the brain's chemical messengers) is long-known to be involved in e.g. reward and addiction. The article demonstrated that dopamine systems are also involved in updating beliefs in the human brain.
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Handedness comes in two groups, "right handed" and "not right handed." Most people use their right hands for almost all precision movement, but the other group is a broad spectrum from weakly-right to strongly-left. baen.com/handedness
The way we describe and define handedness creates the effect @CStuartHardwick rightly notices. Culture defines how we talk about it - but the behavior is mostly genetic. The % of righties has remained constant across continents and milennia.
Hand dominance is a more squirrelly thing than most people realize. For example, righties are better at *some* things with their left hand... and *some* of these asymmetries flip in lefties. Take a few minutes on #LeftHandersDay to learn more!
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Quick heads up on the #BlackSpecFic report: the story counts for @escapepodcast @Pseudopod_org and @PodCastle_org are incomplete, and revisions will be forthcoming.
But you should read and learn from the #BlackSpecFic report anyways! The missing data is due to idiosyncrasies of the @EAPodcasts model, and has no impact on any other magazine's numbers.
Long story short, we treat reprints very differently from other magazines. For @escapepodcast specifically, they were ~45% of our 2017 stories, and our editorial process has one unified pipeline for originals + reprints together.
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Today in pulp I take a look at #robots! What do they do? What do they want? And what do they think of Elon Musk?

Let's see...
Karel Čapek famously coined the word 'robot' in his 1920 play "R.U.R."

Fun fact: in 1938 R.U.R. became the first TV science fiction programme ever broadcast by the BBC.
However prototype #robots have been around for decades. Here's one from 1909, although it doesn't work. Or shave.
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1)
 “They say this castle is impregnable,” muttered the thief. “So we’re going to impregnate it.”
The cleric opened his mouth rather wearily to correct the sly little outlander, but then shut it again. What was the use? He was…
#epic fantasy
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 …unlikely to live long enough to learn correct speech, and his outlander manglings of the trade-tongue were occasionally hilarious, and more often mildly amusing. Which is more than many of us manage to be in life.
#epic fantasy
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 “And how,” he asked the thief calmly, “are we going to do that?”
“I’m going to climb this unclimbable wall, then let down a line for all the rest of you. The guards won’t be expecting anyone to manage that, so if we’re…
#epic fantasy
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10. Knowing what you know now….
[Start @ 12:00]

Think Haiti [14:40]
Listen very carefully.
TRUTH.
Surrounded by EVIL.

Re_read drops re: Haiti.
At some point it will not be safe for them to walk down the street.
PURE EVIL.

#Qanon @POTUS #Fight #WWG1WGA
11. Qanon talking to to BM in this post:



Do you remember their names?
We do.
Do you really believe you are still safe?
Protected?
The World is WATCHING.
Q

#QAnon @POTUS #News #Trump #Patriots #Pray #Fight #WWG1WGA
#Conspiracy? #YouDecide
12. Sometimes the TRUTH is right in front of you.

breitbart.com/big-hollywood/…

#QAnon @POTUS #News #Trump #Patriots #Pray #Fight #WWG1WGA
#Conspiracy? #YouDecide
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Student:
1. Tyler Turner: Saw guy with gun, pulled fire alarm, kids ran, heard 3 shots, then 4 more shots, one girl had slight injury to her knee;
2. Mehan _____ was in class, heard fire alarm, teachers told them not to run off, kids heard shots, and took off... more shots
Tyler: Said his friend Zach saw kid "wearing something" and then pulled fire alarm, kids ran to car wash across street.

ABC news at 9:07AM was told to stop talking to kids even though parents were standing there with Tyler giving permission to talk to news
Tyler: Asked if it was definitely a shotgun, stated he wasn't sure, but has no reason to think it was anything other than that. Hasn't heard much since he left the school. 9:07
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.@POTUS & @FLOTUS have just arrived at Andrews Air Force Base and have disembarked Marine One our US Presidential helicopter. @VP @SecondLady arrived shortly before them. #LIVE ⚡️WATCH NOW 🚨H/T @GST_Politics #MAGA #KAG 🇺🇸
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#LIVE NOW: @NAVSURFOR VADM Tom Rowden speaks at #SNA2018
VADM Rowden: We are the preeminent Navy on the face of the Earth. We are the preeminent Surface Navy on the face of the Earth. That is not given, that is earned.
VADM Rowden: #SurForStrategy describes the return to #SeaControl, which is the timeless & universal purpose of the @USNavy. It also highlights the implementation of #DistributedLethality as an operational & organizational principle for achieving & sustaining sea control. #SNA2018
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