JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) / Protest 🎶 DJ

JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) / Protest 🎶 DJ

@jst0.bsky.social

@JSto from Twitter: not ready for another go w Jack Dorsey & co, frankly 📚 tinyurl.com/JStoBooks about.me/JSto Astral Fall 🌌 & Impress of the Seventh Surge ☣️ Author Artemis Eternal founder Director, Writer, Producer, Actor Media Studies & SFF & Film & War

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JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) / Protest 🎶 DJ
@jst0.bsky.social

prob. the one & only time I’ll say this in a post of this style, (text-furious essay screenshot? never have I ever) h/t to @dceiver.bsky.social & @volts.wtf for context thread nested below. @gilduran.com mentioned for opening the door If you know what an AAE Wingman is, you were there about.me/JSto

Jason Linkins@dceiver.bsky.social

they are also hastening the ends of all of these businesses because they don’t know what they’re doing

JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) / Protest 🎶 DJ
@jst0.bsky.social

was thinking of switching webhosts & since this story leaked this week I have been looking at which of the recommended hosts patches, puts out some kind of notice to customers, etc. (mine has not informed us even though I emailed them immediately) so that I could switch there. I’ve seen zero do it!

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social

wrote about "Black October," the PHP vulnerability, and the AI-fueled dread and panic I'm seeing among almost all of the cybersecurity experts I've ever known. I think people w/ LLMs are brute forcing software the same way they brute forced social media w/ slop www.404media.co/php2shell-bl...

404media.coAI Is Changing Everything About Hacking. No One Knows What Happens Next'Black October:' The PHP vulnerabilities and a series of other hacks and bugs have cybersecurity experts freaking out and unsure what happens next.
JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) / Protest 🎶 DJ
@jst0.bsky.social

Authors pls look/sign authorsguild.org/news/austral... readers please pass along so creatives see this i.e. Take a second to take the easy stands against fascist tactics before it becomes harder. #books #scifi #writing 🖖

authorsguild.orgAustralia May Legalize AI Training on Your Books. Sign a Statement Opposing It.The Australian government has announced that it is planning to introduce legislation that would change copyright law to allow AI companies to use authors’ work, without a license, to build their model...
JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) / Protest 🎶 DJ
@jst0.bsky.social

Helen Branswell was a crucial touchstone for me from her first wary post to when rising danger became apparent, along with @carlbergstrom.com. Both published generously on Twitter, answered crucial public health questions. They are why I was ready early on and safe www.nytimes.com/2026/10/17/h... 🕊️

nytimes.comA Reporter Who Saw Covid Coming Has DiedHelen Branswell recognized the threat of the pandemic ahead of the vast majority of journalists and even medical experts. She was 69.
JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) / Protest 🎶 DJ
@jst0.bsky.social

wild b/c was a known thing re @nytopinion.nytimes.com if you were a media analyst/expert you couldn’t include any critique of the NYT (so many ppl didn’t submit). We used to reg critique on Twitter. I could red pen NYT’s front page rhetoric history alone for hours Give @jayrosen.bsky.social this mic

Anil Dash@anildash.com

As I have said for years, the NYT is just Facebook. Same ratcheting effect pushing “moderates” right, same delegation of all editorial authority to fascists who game things by falsely claiming they’re being silenced. Same use of text content to support their actual monetization elsewhere.

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JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) / Protest 🎶 DJ
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Isn’t preventing this why we got into the craft? […]I found Liliya Velyka, a 28-year-old book blogger, raking through the smouldering ruins, seeing if anything could be saved. She clutched a soaking copy of a sci-fi novel. "Books are saving us and losing this is like losing our hearts," she says.

bbc.comRussian strikes destroy 12 million books in Ukraine ahead of new school yearUkraine says Russia is deliberately attacking its culture, after strikes on publishers and churches.

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mindflakes
@mindflakes.bsky.social

I don't know what everyone's complaining about. Just go to settings > features > worms, then change the "worms pouring out of my phone" toggle from "yes" to "maybe later"

JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) / Protest 🎶 DJ
@jst0.bsky.social

You’re not going to believe this: we already do this. ex Geoffrey Owens hosts a party on Shakespeare’s bday. Lo! Tomes all around & when people clink their glass with a fork or whatever, two people must read a scene (or one a monologue). Mix of actors & casuals, & SO FUN @emilynussbaum.bsky.social

mindflakes@mindflakes.bsky.social

A karaoke bar but for acting. You and your friends get up on stage to perform movie scenes for strangers. Actually this might be the worst idea I've ever had. I'm putting myself under arrest.

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Dean Obeidallah
@deanobeidallah.bsky.social

Bruce: "Federal troops brought death and terror to the streets of Minneapolis. They picked the wrong city. The power and the solidarity of the people of Minneapolis and of Minnesota was an inspiration to the entire country. Your strength and your commitment told us that this is still America."

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Ann Powers
@annkpowers.bsky.social

This is freaking incredible

Pru Madeley@prum.bsky.social

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) / Protest 🎶 DJ
@jst0.bsky.social

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

Jim Byrkit@jimbyrkit.bsky.social

If anyone is interested in the sequel to COHERENCE, we finally landed on a story worthy of the mission. Unless the actors revolt, we will probably do it just like the first one, where they know their own character details, but don't know what the other actors are going to say or do. Like real life.

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JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) / Protest 🎶 DJ
@jst0.bsky.social

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

wsj.comExclusive | Paramount Skydance Prepares Ellison-Backed Bid for Warner Bros. DiscoveryThe bid will be for the entire company, including its cable networks and movie studio, according to people familiar with the situation.
JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) / Protest 🎶 DJ
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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!

Clive Thompson@clivethompson.bsky.social

Behold a lovely stamp sheet by Chris Ware ... ... where each stamp shows a moment in the day of a postwoman apparently it's the first time anyone has tried to tell a story with a stamp sheet item #1 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free here: buttondown.com/clivethompso...

JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) / Protest 🎶 DJ
@jst0.bsky.social

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

wsj.comExclusive | Paramount Skydance Prepares Ellison-Backed Bid for Warner Bros. DiscoveryThe bid will be for the entire company, including its cable networks and movie studio, according to people familiar with the situation.
JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) / Protest 🎶 DJ
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three months later, here it is bsky.app/profile/knib... “On Friday, the US Copyright Office released a blockbuster report on AI training. On Saturday, the USCO director was unceremoniously fired. Today, two men claiming to…” www.wired.com/story/us-cop... (journalist kate @knibbs.bsky.social

JessicaMae Stover ✘ Author of Astral Fall (scifi) / Protest 🎶 DJ@jst0.bsky.social

I want to warn you, fellow creator, of 3 things. 1 The attack on civil servants/gov by Insurrectionist-#1 & tech CEOs from inside will impact the copyright office and labor rights 2 Nazi Germany is not the ceiling when it comes to evil 3 Art/artists have a key history in anti-fascist movements 🖖