Connie Willis's *The Road to Roswell*, published in 2023, is a light-hearted, delightfully clever sci-fi comedy that never takes itself too seriously. In contrast to some of her other work, this is a simple plot, with just enough Willisy twists to keep me interested. A little absurd and whimsical, the characters are real and believable, even though surrounded by the seemingly impossible.
The pragmatic Francie is
…Clippy is now reborn as an AI chat interface. Don't tell me this is not Just Plain Wrong.
"Clippy let's you run a variety of large language models (LLMs) locally on your computer while sticking with a user interface of the 1990s."
—Felix Rieseberg, CLippy @ Github
Back in the day, I was writing the outline for a new training course in the then-new
…Texas House Bill number 4814—better known as the Forbidding Unlawful Representation of Roleplaying in Education (or F.U.R.R.I.E.S.)1 Act—was proposed by Stan Gerdes, and would attempt to suppress the expression of furries in schools. It does this by editing the Texas education code to:
"prohibit any non-human behavior by a student, including presenting himself or herself, on days other than exempt days, as anything
…Back again, and ready to wreak some havoc, welcome the deathborgs! And some death-fairies, death-hobbits, and death-ships. Maybe some nice borgs too. All sorts are invited!
All science fictional stories, poems, essays, and predictions are accepted. In the spirit of providing an inclusive environment, fairies, ghosts, mages, and gods are also welcome. Reviews and explanations of science-fictional concepts will be accepted, but factual science writeups are suspect, and will probably
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