Author of DAYBREAK + others. Personal views. "It's such a fine line between stupid and clever."
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“Daybreak is a work of art, a gleaming, fanged nightmare of a book by a major American author who himself is an Army veteran … Gallagher’s writing captures how rich and strange my native country is while layering the monstrousness of the new war on top.”
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As a teenager in the 90s, I prayed to the skies to live in interesting times.
Mea culpa, bad prayer, this is all my fault.
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Why won't Silicon Valley just make us the damn robot maids like the Jetsons foretold, that would be far more helpful than all this internet slop
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Incredible product testimonial (from 2001)
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ALT Toyota's unease at being associated with the Taliban and Al Qaeda is evident. In its September statement, the company said, ''Toyota does not have a sales or distribution channel in Afghanistan, and we do not export vehicles to that country.'' Somewhat less laconic was Wade Hoyt, Toyota's spokesman in New York, who put the best corporate spin on the situation this week. ''It is not our proudest product placement,'' he said. ''But it shows that the Taliban are looking for the same qualities as any truck buyer: durability and reliability.''
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Today in 1993, two U.S. Blackhawk helicopters are shot down over Mogadishu, Somalia. 18 Americans are killed and 73 are wounded during the fight to recover the crews. Hundreds of Somalis die in the battle. The debacle leads to a scaling back of America's mission in the region.
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how long do we plan to let these wackos & losers ruin the good things in our lives
NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah’s team then privately lobbied the pope’s advisers “to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously.” Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing. thelettersfromleo.com/p/nyt-…
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Hello, Denver/Colorado/internet:
I’m excited to be joining the inaugural Blue Book Festival on Saturday, Oct. 10th on historic Larimer Square in Denver. I’ll be signing copies of DAYBREAK from 3pm to 4pm.
Link with festival details below
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At no point in reading this sentence could I have predicted where the next part of this sentence was going.
New: Kyrsten Sinema’s ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major U.S. Artificial Intelligence software developer amid the war in Gaza
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"Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist or understand."—George Orwell
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A Green Beret and Silver Star recipient who once survived an IED and now clears Ukraine's landmines is the subject of a new documentary, "Safe Ground." militarytimes.com/off-duty/m…
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There is something wrong w you if you rank Breaking Bad with its cast of caricatures and repetitive pseudo-dramas—Jesse’s in trouble again! Will Walt save him?—over the Wire.
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26 Sept 1983: Lieutenant #Colonel Stanislav Petrov decides the Soviet Oko #nuclear early-warning system was sending a false signal that the U.S. had launched up to five nuclear #missiles at the Soviet Union. He refused to launch a retaliatory strike, disobeying Soviet orders. Had he retaliated against the U.S. and her allies, nuclear #war likely would have occurred. It was determined that the #Soviet warning system had malfunctioned. #History #HistoryMatters #OTD #ad amzn.to/41Tht30
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"What its agents did this summer" like they're wayward teenagers
Agents from OpenAI that were given data gathering tasks attempted to hack a Department of Education website and meddled with other gov't websites, new disclosures that are emerging as OpenAI continues an investigation into what its agents did this summer nytimes.com/2026/09/25/techn…
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Putting Breaking Bad above The Wire is like reading thrillers over literature ... yeah, sure, plenty of people do it, violence and bang-bang booms are fun, but that's a glaring character flaw for actual thinking people.
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Hell yes, dispensing cranky veteran wisdom is one of my favorite hobbies, too!
Asked Sen. Gallego about the NYT Peltola story on staff mistreatment, who tells reporters: “when I was 25, I had a really bad boss. He made me run across an open fucking field of raking machine gun fire to breach a door. So, yeah, life's tough sometimes”
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The lesbian bar story is a writing masterclass in how to include details that don’t necessarily advance the plot but enhance the work. Case in point: clown school
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