A reminder that this User Voice is up asking Twitch to make all AI features opt-out by default, and give us the chance to say no. VOTE and leave a comment. twitch.uservoice.com/forums/92338...
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Gregory A. Wilson
Профиль VivelySpeculative fiction author, college professor, musician, podcaster, game master, TwitchTV host. https://www.gregoryawilson.com https://www.twitch.tv/arvaneleron https://www.patreon.com/ArvanEleron https://www.speculatesf.com/ @gengms.bsky.social
Reminding my American friends to check to make sure they're registered to vote way before November. Even if you think you are - doublecheck just to make sure you don't fall pray to shennanigans.
Very interesting graf near bottom of latest NYT story on MAGA efforts to bend universities to its will, as if they were GOP Senators or the SCOTUS Six. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u... Reminder number five zillion: Except for GOP Senators thinking of a lobbying future, appeasement never pays off.
We survived GenCon Writers Symposium 2026, y’all (and that’s saying something considering the occasional tornado). I was so busy running around I barely got to enjoy it. Luckily, my interns and friends made sure to slow me down to experience what we were curating.
As we come ever closer to the end of the Hugo Awards voting period, a reminder: no matter which work you believe deserves to win the Best Poem category, just casting your vote sends a strong message for the value of the category.
Brandon O’BrienHugo Awards voting is still open until August 8th! Whether you're already deep in the voter packet or haven't even glanced at the nominees yet, please read and vote for the works in the Best Poem category and support speculative poetry as a core element of genre! www.lacon.org/hugofinalists/
Everyone at #GenCon is taking shelter due to a tornado warning. Massive rains falling on the roof. I'm in a closet with a bunch of wonderful people from the Writers Symposium.
Tornado Warning and Water pouring from the roof at Gen Con! 😱😱😱 Please everyone stay safe ❤️🔥
My @laworldcon.bsky.social schedule is now live! guide.lacon.org/people/7bc62... But I am also the Area Head for Photography so you will also be seeing me running around with my team with a camera.
If pocket calculators regularly and randomly gave you incorrect answers to your queries like ChatGPT does, we would have left the technology behind, not insisted that 2+2=5 is HERE TO STAY, BABY.
Uncle Fuzzzy 🦆Funny, that’s what we thought about pocket calculators in 1974
This is the exact right messaging. And it is, also critically, vastly different than the messaging of the opposition. It feels like you get an actual choice in the future you're voting for, not different flavors of the status quo.
Dr. Lucky Tran"Helping working people to afford lives of joy” This is absolutely why Mamdani is succeeding in New York and is so beloved.
The full episode of Session 6 is at www. youtube.com/watch?v=QLXuzeOs4Bs on @gregoryawilson.com (Arvan Eleron)'s channel. Enjoy!
I am heartened by the growing bipartisan concern about Flock cameras. I have no illusions that Congress is going to do anything about this issue anytime soon, but this is a sign that our movement is shifting tectonic plates and radically changing public opinion and political will. Keep going.
I'm excited to announce my schedule for the Gen Con Writers' Symposium, which I've been in for many years and which has some of the best writing advice in the business! I'll also be signing in the Autographing area at the back of the Exhibit Hall on Thursday at 11 a.m. Please stop by and say hello!
FWIW, Meta was fully aware of how these glasses would primarily be used. The glasses were designed to erase consent, and that is why they exist. Anything that they do that suggests they want to ameliorate this use is an attempt to win the PR battle and manipulate public opinion.
We're doing intros now for our characters in The 13th Icon D&D campaign run by @princejvstin.com at twitch.tv/arvaneleron ! I'm playing a dragonborn druid, @mightymur.bsky.social is playing a Goliath barbarian, and @kathleen.loadingreadyrun.com is playing Galabas, an adorably dopey human barbarian!
Good. Ban the pervert glasses from every event for decent people.
Hypervisible“The vast majority of the talent and agents at our events felt that these were a violation of their privacy and were damaging and spoiling the interactions at the tables. Several expressed concerns that they might not continue to attend in-person events if they were being recorded in secret.”
Blue Bottle Games, as a policy, does not use generative AI. It's something we've discussed as a team, weighing the pros and cons, and ultimately, we decided it was not for us. Recently, while chatting with a colleague, she mentioned it was useful hearing our reasoning. So: Sharing time! 1/12
Haaaaave you read this yet? It was a lot of fun to write.
Ali TrottaDarlings!! Today, I am over at The Big Idea ( @scalzi.com ), talking about poetry and storytelling — who gets a voice and how powerful that voice is! whatever.scalzi.com/2026/07/21/t...
Flaose AKA @dafeallen.bsky.social is LIVE with the continuation of his Final Fantasy quest! Game #01/09 which is FINAL FANTASY (NES '90)! Do drop by and let's hang out! #RetroGaming #FinalFantasy #RetroAchievements 🔴LIVE at www.twitch.tv/Flaose/