The Adventure Continues, April 28th!
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The Adventure Continues, April 28th!
addercop.space/blog/redoubt...
#scifi #sci-fi #addercop #books #novels #spaceopera #booksky
It depends on the reference frame that you're asking about time dilation in. For *you*, you'll just experience normal time, though distances seem to contract. Outside observers will disagree on the amount of time they perceive you taking to move based on their own inertial reference frames.
Fun thing: Someone actually tracked down the tornado used as box/poster art for the movie: youtu.be/1liKKWLhpZY
Apparently it struck Miami, Texas in the 90s. Almost wasn't recorded because most storm chasers were having a BBQ that day.
New video up:
The Chase, Part 2
youtu.be/6DrJ7VegfiU
#scifi #videos #addercop
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
#Indieauthor #writingcommunity #writersky #authorsky #amwriting
Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.
The one thing I miss about the netbook era is small-ish devices with a keyboard. I'd love an eight inch (tops) laptop to do my writing on.
With that said, part of my my commute doesn't bother me despite the length. Sitting on a train going through a city listening to Synthwave and writing? Yes.
Some thoughts on thermals, or how the Addercop manage waste heat.
addercop.space/blog/heat/
#sci-fi #worldbuilding #addercop
Some thoughts on shields
addercop.space/blog/shields/
#scifi #sci-fi #worldbuilding #addercop
Your stuff has always seemed cooler than my stuff. You should let it see the light of day.
"Graphic with 'Anthropic' logo on left, circuit-like design. Right text reads: 'Authors: You May Be Part of This Class Action Lawsuit. Anthropic AI Lawsuit Explained.' Modern, tech-themed design."
A federal court ruled that ANTHROPIC illegally copied MILLIONS of books to train its AI.
All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work.
For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...
Worldcon is over and I had a blast.
Perhaps one day I'll be lucky enough to attend another one. Here's hoping they come to Seattle again within the next few decades.
New blog post is up with some of the combat mechanics and fleet composition of the Addercop fleet.
addercop.space/blog/fleet/
#sci-fi #worldbuilding
I also sometimes do YouTube videos (rendering takes forever, though, it's infrequent). But I did try my hand at some basic ship combat a few months ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwQD...
addercop.space/blog/phoenix...
I have since done a couple more pieces on this.
Cool modern thing that wasn't possible in the past: Sitting in a panel and getting book recommendations and I'm able to go to my library website and place holds on ebooks during the panel.
Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be. The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with. The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization. In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.
re: generative AI
I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.
And now, you can use it, too.
Just had a fun day at #WorldCon. Looking forward to seeing how tomorrow goes.
A plush Jean-Luc Picard next to a 5-pack of lightbulbs showing only four bulbs in the illustration
oh no
Aspiring writers, here is some advice:
* Unlearn the "You must always have a punchline or be quipping one liners" you learned from the MCU. This is one of the ways works talk down to you - because they think you have a 5 second attention span and tune out if there's no joke.
Technically since you're not using it to have a fire it's cool (relatively speaking), not hot.
Group photo of Sesame Street workers holding their firsts high with graphics showing the logo of their new union and the winning vote tally, 55-19
Sesame Street is officially UNION! Workers at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, have voted 55-19 to join @opeiulocal153.bsky.social
Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”
It's consuming creative content which counts as book research.
While I'm on the general subject of "AI," let me just say that it's a real dickheaded maneuver to tell an actual artist that their work "looks like AI." Their work doesn't look like "AI" because they're aping what "AI" does; it looks like "AI" because the "AI" company fucking stole from them.
New Material? In this economy?
Cylindrical ship with dozens of hatches and four glowing blue rings
This is the battleship by itself. As the largest military assets, battleships rely on their shuttle bays for logistics transfers - either by docking to stations large enough to accommodate them, or via underway replenishment by shuttles and other smaller ships.
#scifi #worldbuilding #blender #gimp
Cruisers are also the largest military ships easily accommodated at many space stations; and as such they're the largest to have side mounted airlocks for cargo and crew transfer.
They have significantly fewer missile tubes than battleships, sporting only sixteen forward facing ones (in comparison to the dozens a battleship can provide in a broadside), but sport a decent battery of anti-ship graysers (gamma ray lasers) and optical point defense lasers.
