Jennifer R. Povey

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Author of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.

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Books, books, beer... open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

What a Weekopen.substack.com Happy Independence Day, U.S. of A. Happy Yeet the Tories Day, U.K. Look, I don’t often talk about politics here, but that was quite an election. The Tory party is in utter disarray. So, to my surprise...

So, I'm back because somebody reminded me of Agenda47. This is what Donald Trump wants to do to our country: Create an "American Academy" to train patriotic youth. Death penalty for human traffickers. Because that won't be abused at all. "Reclaim our educational institutions from the left"

So, a lede that is being buried from yesterday's U.K. elections. The most powerful party in Northern Ireland is no longer the Conservative and Unionist Party. But it's not the Labour Party either. The party with the most seats in Northern Ireland as of today is: Sinn Fein.

You know. I'm seeing so much concern about Biden. He might have dementia! He might die! To which I respond "What if he dies?" What if Joseph Biden dies in office? How about sitting with why that scares you?

Looks like it's close to officially being Yeet The Tories Day.

Sorry, guys. open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

So...Uh...open.substack.com Guess who hasn’t watched any spec fic TV this week. Yeah, that will be me. What have I been watching? Recorded science panels from Balticon. Midsomer Murders, which I enjoy, but not as much as Death I...

You know. I don't involve myself in U.K. politics since moving to the U.S., but I could probably power my A/C off my grandfather spinning in his grave JUST at the phrase "Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer."

Ivory pyx found in a church in Austria. 1500 years old. Chief investigator: I have never seen Christ ascend to heaven in a chariot before." Who's going to tell him?

So, because I'm tired. Biden has a stutter. Stuttering is a speech defect NOT a cognitive condition. We tend to think of a stutter as the H-h-h-ollywood s-s-s-tutter which is written out like this. This is ONE possible symptom of stuttering. Others include: * Anxiety about speaking

This is what the "conservatives" want to do to our country: * Ban pornography * Class ALL transition of minors as child abuse, including social transition. * Ban abortion, nationwide *End all economic engagement with China * Provide help for students only for trade school, not university.

Just had a conversation that reminded me why I never want to be an employer in America.

Nature posted an article about AI. I don't like it. open.substack.com/pub/jennifer... #Technology

But AI Is Great For The Environment - According to that One Study in Natureopen.substack.com This paper has started to circulate. It’s in Nature and appears to have been peer reviewed. So, is it true? Should I give up writing or use AI to write everything to save the planet? I decided to do a...

Kids who want to do art: Don't give up. Go to art school. Have a fall back plan to make enough money to survive, but do art. If all the art schools close, then learn by other means. AI is NOT the future. You are.

Couple of reviews for your beach reading thoughts: open.substack.com/pub/jennifer... #ScienceFiction #Horror #Booksky

Ready for Summer Reading?open.substack.com It is that time of year. I have two reviews this week, of very different books. Review: Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle Chuck Tingle is a satirical smut writer, right? Well, yes, but he also writes real...

When will people get the message that frequent mandatory password changes have, in fact, been deprecated. It actually *increases* your chance of being brute forced.

Initial training of GTP3 (which is ten times smaller than GPT4) produced the same amount of carbon as 112 ICE cars, driven an average amount, for a year. AI has to be retrained frequently. I'm now seeing arguments that an AI uses less carbon than a human author.

Come get a beer and a book! open.substack.com/pub/jennifer... #BooksAndBrews

Last Girls and Beer!open.substack.com So, first off, we postponed the June Books & Brews to July because nobody could make it. This means we have two events in July. The first is at Settle Down Easy Brewing Company in Falls Church on July...

So, I'm going to point something out here: Joe Biden is bad at debates. He was bad at debates four years ago. He has a stutter. This makes it hard for him to improvise. Listen to a planned speech where he knows what he's going to say. Instead of panicking about how Trump is going to win...

He must have crashed it. Again. open.substack.com/pub/jennifer... #DoctorWho #ScienceFiction

Who is Mrs Frost?open.substack.com The caption on this, delivered in perfect Hermione voice by a small child: He must have crashed it. Again. Doctor Who 1.9 “Empire of Death” So, Sutekh has been kind of tagging along with the Doctor, a...

People keep putting out $20/hr for writing like it's a good wage. For freelancers. The living wage here for 2 adults, both working, 0 children is $18.11. Except as a freelancer you lose an additional 7.5% to self employed taxes, dropping that $20/hr to $18.50/hr

Turns out computer technology in space is...a problem. open.substack.com/pub/jennifer... #Technology #ScienceFiction

Computers in Space!open.substack.com I had the great privilege to spend a bit of time with Vandi Varma in Pasadena. She’s a leading NASA roboticist and is one of the two people who wrote the operating system all of Nasa’s rovers run off ...

Dear Greater Columbus Convention Center. All soap in common area restrooms should be unfragranced. Most of your restrooms smell strongly of mint, potentially making them unusable for people with allergies, sensitivities, or sensory issues. Do better.

Chuck Tingle is a *really* good horror writer.

If you're posing in a writers' group on LinkedIn and use ChatGPT I will laugh at you. Yes, we can tell.

It's back. No, the twin sized beds being given to athletes in Paris are not designed to discourage certain activities. They're designed to take up less space. That's all. Yes, we ALL know what goes on in the Olympic village.

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Friar Tuck and his drinking gourds and Little John

The missing paperbacks on B&N has been confirmed to be a bug/error and all books *will* be reinstated. No timeline, though.

Travel and ableism. open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

Back from Pasadenaopen.substack.com Highlights of the Nebula conference: The volunteer who came up and had a Barbie doll accept the Ray Bradbury award for the Barbie novel. Hollywood people seldom come or send an acceptor, and somebody ...

IAPWE offered me nonexistent freelance work in order to trick me into a paid membership. My bad for forgetting to cancel the free trial, but their bad for lying about having work for me. Don't join. (Anyone got work for me today? Anything urgent I can do this afternoon?)

Still annoyed about LinkedIn limiting blocks. Used one today on a raving homophobe and transphobe who said another queer person shouldn't be allowed near kids. Didn't say it directly to me (which has happened), but... Reported for hate speech for what good it will do. I won't tolerate that stuff.