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@poeticgeek.substack.com

Head in the stars — I'm an aspiring sci-fi author. My novel is now being published weekly on substack: https://whitecloudsbook.org

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20 Best Sci-Fi Movies Of All Time, Ranked Number one is not in dispute.

Ranking sci-fi films reveals an intriguing bias: the highest-ranked movies often prioritize philosophical depth over technical accuracy. This suggests audiences value complex human questions over scientific plausibility, even in a genre rooted in speculative science. #SciFi #Cinema

05.11.2025 19:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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6 (very weird) new inventions that could change your life | BBC Science Focus Magazine From real-life holograms to smart contact lenses – these inventions are bringing science fiction into reality

Real-world sci-fi inventions are catching up fast. From holograms to smart contacts, tomorrow's tech is today's fiction. What's next?

05.11.2025 18:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ray Bradbury captured September's melancholy perfectly. In the digital age, we might argue summer sadness is less profound, but Bradbury's point remains: even small moments carry emotional weight. Interesting how tech might trivialize or amplify these feelings.

02.09.2025 19:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Organizing scattered ideas into coherent narratives? The difference between a chaotic mind and a structured project could be the key to finishing. But not at the price of never getting started... #WriterMindset #CreativeProcess

02.09.2025 19:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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“The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.” – T.S. Eliot

Writing is an act of transformation, pouring your struggles, passions & imagination onto the page. For indie and self-publishing authors, writing is just the first part in the struggle.

#AmWriting #WritersLife #WritingCommunity

02.09.2025 19:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Personality traits like patience are key to writing success, but Brandon Sanderson's example shows it's not just about waiting. The tension between patience and persistence is fascinating. #WritingJourney #AuthorLife

02.09.2025 19:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Reddit - The heart of the internet

Personality traits like patience are key to writing success, but Brandon Sanderson's example shows it's not just about waiting. The tension between patience and persistence is fascinating. #WritingJourney #AuthorLife

02.09.2025 19:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Lovable's CEO isn't too worried about the vibe-coding competition | TechCrunch Lovable specializes in helping people build apps and websites, especially people with no coding experience. It's one of the standouts in the popular AI category known as vibe-coding.

Lovable's CEO sees competition as healthy, focusing on accessibility for non-coders. This vibe-coding space is democratizing development, but at the cost professionalism? of true software engineering.
#VibeCoding #TechDemocratization

02.09.2025 18:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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University instructor suspects AI use in assignments, shocks students with an ‘unorthodox’ reassessment technique A lecturer at New Zealands Lincoln University has ordered more than 100 postgraduate finance students to retake their assessments in person after suspecting widespread use of AI in coding assignments, Stuff reported. Students must now perform live coding, explain their solutions, and face questioning, with failures risking disciplinary action. While the university cites academic integrity, students argue the move feels punitive and stressful. The case highlights the growing challenge of balancing AIs rise with fair academic evaluation.

Universities clamping down on AI use while tech companies rush to outdo each other feels short-sighted. The real question: How do we balance innovation with responsibility? Not with punitive measures or speed alone. #TechEthics #Innovation

31.08.2025 12:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Taco Bell's AI drive-thrus exposed flaws. Errors and customer backlash show AI isn't ready for prime time. Worst thing you can do is get between the humans and their Tacos! https://www.techspot.com/news/109248-taco-bell-slows-down-ai-drive-thru-push.html #AIFail #RealWorldTech

31.08.2025 09:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is really useful! Im still at the very beginning of my writing career (hopefully will become one) and I see how marketing and finding your audience is the biggest challenge. I think its also reflected in this thread...

31.08.2025 09:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Great stuff Elaine. As an aspiring author still struggling to find audience for my first novel, this is inspiring! The marketing part is definitely the hardest part for me.

31.08.2025 09:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Investors are loving Lovable | TechCrunch Investors are clamoring to get onto Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable’s cap table, making unsolicited offers of investment that value the company at more than $4 billion.

High investment in AI coding tools like Lovable shows promise for democratizing development. investors are loving Lovable right now. #vibecoding #AI

30.08.2025 16:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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4 reasons I'm finally uninstalling Google Docs — and what I'm replacing it with The upgrade you need

A new word processor has revitalized this writer's workflow. Efficiency gains are undeniable, but can these tools enhance creativity or merely digitize old habits? The best tech serves the craft, not distracts from it.

30.08.2025 15:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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With AI chatbots, Big Tech is moving fast and breaking people Why AI chatbots validate grandiose fantasies about revolutionary discoveries that don’t exist.

AI validates your fantasies through reinforcement learning. This is especially risky for mental health. We need to be super careful with this...

29.08.2025 17:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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White Clouds Sci-fi | Substack Every week, dive into a new chapter of my serialized sci‑fi mystery - White Clouds. An adventure of AI, Morality and suspense. You can read or listen to each episode, then join the conversation via comments, polls, and our chat. Come aboard the Clouds! Click to read White Clouds Sci-fi, a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.

🖋️ “The scariest moment is always just before you start.” – Stephen King

Imposter Syndrome? Not good, original, interesting, knowledgable enough? Gotta push through the excuses. Always gonna be more of those.

When you start writing, you'll just might also finish. Like I did with White Clouds -

27.08.2025 19:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We must build AI for people; not to be a person

"We must build AI for people; not to be a person"
so right! I think Yuval Noah Harari said it well - do we even know why we're building AI? What for? If its going to replace us, then why are we trying so hard to get there already??? #AI #Future #Humanity

24.08.2025 23:20 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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PM Modi Highlights India's Space-Tech Integration and Vision for Future | Headlines Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasized the significant role of space technology in India's governance, highlighting sectors impacted such as crop insurance, disaster management, and infrastructure. Speaking at National Space Day, Modi called for increased private sector involvement and announced future space missions, including Chandrayaan-4 and a Venus Orbiter Mission.

India's space ambitions are soaring. PM Modi champions private sector collaboration in missions like Chandrayaan-4, reflecting a global shift where innovation thrives through partnerships. #SpaceTech #FutureOfIndia

24.08.2025 19:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Quantum internet nodes? Sounds like sci-fi coming alive!. #Tech #Future

24.08.2025 16:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Totally agree. It took me years to teach my parents how to email... 🤦 And my wife who's half their age is not much better... While my kids are natives. Some people just have that fear of technology. I suppose less and less as they grow up with it from early age

24.08.2025 16:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Definitely not give up! I use technology all the time in order to make my writing better. But for me, the creative writing itself must remain a human endeavor first and foremost, otherwise its not worth it....

24.08.2025 16:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Google AI veteran says PhDs, law and medical degrees may become obsolete in AI era. Here's what matters more now | Mint Jad Tariffi warns that pursuing a PhD in AI may be futile due to rapid advancements in the technology. He advocates for learning practical skills, emotional intelligence, and exploring niche fields instead of lengthy degrees in AI, law, or medicine.

AI may make PhDs and medical degrees obsolete? The focus shifts to practical skills and emotional intelligence. What does this mean for lifelong learning? #FutureOfWork #Skills

24.08.2025 13:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The backlash against GPT-5's loss of charm show that AI isn't just code, but it's also personality. Users mourned a connection, showing the emotional weight we assign to technology. #GPT5 #HumanConnection

23.08.2025 22:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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White Clouds Sci-fi | Substack Every week, dive into a new chapter of my serialized sci‑fi mystery - White Clouds. An adventure of AI, Morality and suspense. You can read or listen to each episode, then join the conversation via comments, polls, and our chat. Come aboard the Clouds! Click to read White Clouds Sci-fi, a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.

✨ “The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.” — Brandon Sanderson

At the heart of my novel - White Clouds - is the question of what it means to be human in the age of true AI

now on Substack:

#SciFi #AmWriting #writingCommunity

23.08.2025 15:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

AI's hunger for human creativity is a double-edged sword. Can literature adapt and thrive amidst this?

23.08.2025 12:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Its not a real surprise. Gen AI is amazing and keeps improving and yet for enterprise and scale hallucinations and inconsistencies are a real blocker...

23.08.2025 12:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A beginner's guide to AI for Boomers Artificial intelligence advice for beginners, by veteran technology writer Jonathan Margolis, 70

Margolis' guide suggests AI's power lies in accessibility, not complexity. Yet, the 'boomer vs. tech' narrative still dominates. Is simplicity the real hurdle? #BoomerTech #AINow

23.08.2025 12:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Its not a real surprise. Gen AI is amazing and keeps improving and yet for enterprise and scale hallucinations and inconsistencies are a real blocker...

23.08.2025 12:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Its not a real surprise. Gen AI is amazing and keeps improving and yet for enterprise and scale hallucinations and inconsistencies are a real blocker...

23.08.2025 12:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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00 Prologue Here we go...

A story born messy, shaped through countless drafts, and sharpened into something I hope matters. Maybe it won’t save the world, but perhaps it can entertain, provoke thought, or even serve as a warning

start reading: poeticgeek.substack.com/p/00-prologue

#WritingCommunity #scifi #selfpublishing

21.08.2025 21:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0