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@JSto from Twitter: not ready to go another round with Jack Dorsey & co, frankly new features: about.me/JSto Astral Fall 🌌 & Impress of the Seventh Surge ☣️ Author Artemis Eternal founder Director, Writer, Producer, Actor Media Studies & SFF & Film & War
authors must clear any fog they have about full on unions and collective bargaining & take inspo from the WGA and SAG i.e. get up to speed FAST
wish Le Guin had lived to see a day when we sort this out b/c she led in fighting against Google et al during web2. Her archives on that are still avail
For scab behavior? Not new.
You have to be in the union. Union has rules about this. You risk getting booted if you scab. Then you can’t work on union contracts. All publishers/platforms should be contracts
1st step is the Authors Guild needs legislation to collectively bargain. (bill on website)
Aye. have marked & regarded some of the better choices people made, many bts and unknown. It doesn’t always work out though & others will let you down even when you are right on www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJGc... But in many cases you’ll be crushed either way - matter of time - so take the good fight
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you need a scifi rapid-response balm/crucible (major corps. removed from production chain as much as poss.) 📕
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Astral Fall Book 2 coming📙
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now’s the time: help authors get in their face patreon.com/JSto
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If you're running for President and "abolish ICE" isn't in your platform, sit down. If you're running for Congress, same. If you're running for fucking *dogcatcher*, same.
A strange game. The only winning move is not to [login].
This is freaking incredible
I liked this movie. But I do like solid-premise single-location indie #scifi +weird films (The Man From Earth, Circle). It’s actually possible to shoot them($) & they are more like plays in terms of dialogue/character driving discovery/weirdness. Would be v fun on the acting side! Congrats to them
it was a strange time in the industry. Things have gotten, you know, fascist nowadays, so relatively it doesn’t seem like that time is salient, but it was low-key kind of weird then. felt like this track www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaKD...
I will tell everyone and my mom about your book good luck x
was also at the Caprica launch party/premiere/panel at ArcLight (the redemption arc to my BSG misadventure story) — were you there (wouldn’t be surprised if you were)? If so do you recall that it was sponsored by a soon-failed tech product — ZUNE, and if so, do you still have your free bricked ZUNE?
But have you heard the story of winning NBC Universal’s Battlestar Galactica Everywhere Sweepstakes, the most mediocre sweepstakes winning ever? (I won it. And I used to have a popular LA blagh. A potent combo.) jessicastover.com/entry.php?id...
Scifi author: I work to keep congloms out of my publishing chain as much as possible, hire the same top editors that publishers do externally to work on my novels. The only pt I haven’t solved is distro platforms. It has cost me, but anyone who knows my biz story knows why I’m INDIE
about.me/JSto 🖖
WE ARE COOKED. Cannot overstate. Wish I hadn’t spent my early career fighting this — speaking @ FCC, risking pioneering alt indie fundie, avoiding these entities after witnessing first destructive major merger etc etc — it was a waste of time www.wsj.com/business/med...
ty to those who were/are w me
this is cool
My move is still fresh but I actually do miss US stamps — Went out of my way for: Moon Landing (fave), Trek (although wished it were TNG), Le Guin, Coffee! (bought so many of those) and Women’s Suffrage designs
Canada needs to up its game
although… they do have a MuchMusic stamp now!
WE ARE COOKED. Cannot overstate. Wish I hadn’t spent my early career fighting this — speaking @ FCC, risking pioneering alt indie fundie, avoiding these entities after witnessing first destructive major merger etc etc — it was a waste of time www.wsj.com/business/med...
ty to those who were/are w me
Can’t believe after all these years on this beat bts someone didn’t send this to me the hot minute it dropped — let’s read this & then I can probably stop trying to explain this to colleagues & my lovely #scifi readers myself. So glad about that & ty to the author for tackling this needed project 🌌
& give me a shout if you ever want to know what was going on with this on the film/scifi side with funding during the regressive backlash to the Obama era pre-2016/pre-gamergate. I haven’t read the book yet but I figure there’s no way it’s in there since it was insider-y & the players often failed.
I’m late to the party & just put this on my read-soon list: I sincerely hope you nail it inside so that I can stop explaining these issues myself and instead send everyone—everyone!—to your book! Also thank you for this introduction to your analysis 🌌 sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/01/06/e...
… prompting the data to read that your telomeres were longer when in reality telomeres are longer in some cells vs others and more of those cells were present at that time? ty from a curious mil scifi writer/space researcher. 🌌
In terms of the studies about your year in space and the lengthening of your telomeres, do you know if there has been any theorizing/study regarding whether this effect might also might apply to what you experienced, i.e. “the composition of their white blood cells changed” …
Today I was skimming this article www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202... which is mostly useless until at the end there was a section (screengrab!) that caught my attention. …
I listened to Endurance alongside Venki Ramakrishnan’s book on molecular biology and aging, which includes a chapter on discoveries around telemores so far. …
@stationcdrkelly.bsky.social Hi Scott, I have a science question related to your work as captured in Endurance and not enough characters in one @ mssg to ask it, so it will be a small thread (if you’re willing to take a look)...
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