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James Stegall

james@mementomori.social

<p>Dad of daughters. Oregonian. U.S. Army Veteran. Science Fiction Novelist. Member of <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/SFWA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SFWA</span></a>, the Eugene <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/Wordos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Wordos</span></a> and <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/transfamilies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>transfamilies</span></a>.
I like digging in the yard, building stuff, riding bikes and reading books. Trying to do good in my bit of the world.</p>

Posts

  • Post #4439727

    Apparently I was already subscribed to Allen Pan&#39;s channel and YouTube just chose not to show it to me. As a former chicken owner, this video is gold. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfsPNZlRA_Y #chickens #dinosaurs #jurassicpark

  • Post #4422798

    &quot;Don&#39;t trade efficiency for your passion to create. And your audience wants honesty.&quot; -- On the Hank Green AI situation, the Colin and Samir Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVT7MbRBiLY #ai #creators

  • Post #4336174

    &quot;They&#39;re Made Out of Weights,&quot; by Max Leiter, (with apologies to Terry Bisson.) If you haven&#39;t read the classic &quot;They&#39;re Made Out of Meat,&quot; it&#39;s linked in the story. https://maxleiter.com/blog/weights #scifi #ai

  • Post #4222950

    JA Westenberg: &quot;If The Three Musketeers were published today, and someone published the 2026 version of a Pamphlet, what would happen? Would a Reddit thread decide that the prose felt too formulaic? Would a YouTube video rack up a million views dissecting the sentence structure? Would Hachette pull it from shelves?&quot; --The AI #writing witchhunt is idiotic https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-ai-writing-witchhunt-is-idiotic

  • Post #3841934

    If I have a child on the back of my bike, and there&amp;#39;s a car parked in the bike lane, how about you slow down and give me five seconds to get around before passing me in the school zone? #springfieldor #bikecommuting #oregon

  • Post #3841933

    Concept art from the future grimmdark Demon Hunters reboot, by a very talented young artist. #kpopdemonhunters, #huntrx

  • Post #3841932

    Tony Millionaire&amp;#39;s Oddball&amp;#39;s Odyssey is beatiful and weird. So many fun puns. Seems to be referencing a lot of comic history and other myth (beyond the Odyssey) that I&amp;#39;ll need to figure out. #amreading #comics

  • Post #3841931

    WTF has &amp;quot;harem&amp;quot; always been a style in women&amp;#39;s sweat pants? I&amp;#39;m shopping for women I care about here. Scratch that, seems bad for anybody. #dystopia #retail

  • Post #3841930

    Spotted at Costco, a t-shirt saying &amp;quot;Lift Hard, Pray Hard, Stay Deadly.&amp;quot; I wonder if a hypocrite human or a sales bot came up with that. #wwjd

  • Post #3841929

    We&amp;#39;ve started watchig #Jeopardy again, which lead to #WheelofFortune. Our 8 yr old loves it, she&amp;#39;s connnecting #Wordle and other word games. Had to explain product promotion though

  • Post #3841928

    Can your machine run a #localllm https://llmfitcheck.com/ #bookmark

  • Post #3841927

    &amp;quot;In these nights, I don&amp;#39;t know how I survive.&amp;quot; Death Cab for Cutie https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=dxm4HlEa8mA #amwriting

  • Post #3841926

    &amp;quot;In the #PacificNorthwest, the land is always the thing. No exertion of human will or industry will take away its precedence. The course of the population&amp;#39;s lives are inexorably linked to the whims of an untamable land.&amp;quot; --Ruby McConnell, Ground Truth

  • Post #3841925

    &amp;quot;This is a place of peace,&amp;quot; Medwyn said, &amp;quot;and therefore not suitable for men, at least, not yet. Until it is, I hold this valley for creatures of the forests and waters...Do you not believe that animals know grief and fear and pain! The world of men is not an easy one for them.&amp;quot; #fantasy #amreading

  • Post #3841924

    A few summer flowers on the walk today #bloomscrolling

  • Post #3841923

    #Cyberpunk Comics, #Manga and #GraphicNovels – SHELLZINE https://shellzine.net/cyberpunk-comics/

  • Post #3841922

    A great talk about orbital data centers that takes the question seriously, proposes cooling and power solutions, and then discusses economics (also a great discussion of the value of the dark side of the moon in future solar system exploration) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo7MEPgWGic #hardsf

  • Post #2319549

    A chronological list of William Faulkner&#39;s novels: Soldiers&#39; Pay (1926) Mosquitoes (1927) Sartoris (1929) The Sound and the Fury (1929) As I Lay Dying (1930) Sanctuary (1931) Light in August (1932) Pylon (1935) Absalom, Absalom! (1936) The Unvanquished (1938) The Wild Palms (1939) – Also published as If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem. The Hamlet (1940) Go Down, Moses (1942) Intruder in the Dust (1948) Requiem for a Nun (1951) A Fable (1954) The Town (1957) The Mansion (1959) The Reivers (1962...

  • Post #2107517

    #PraxisHealth made me click through 3 ads to check in to an appt in the #Phreesia app, and is now hounding me for a feedback survey. The incentive is to never check in online.

  • Post #2107516

    Textures at the Springfield Yarn Collective birthday party. #springfieldor #oregon #yarnies #fiberarts #knitting

  • Post #2107508

    This tree is wearing pants #springfieldor #oregon

  • Post #2107507

    As with the womb, the drive is not to annihilate oneself back to zero, but rather to expand one&amp;#39;s circle of compassion out toward the infinite. In the words of the philosopher Blaise Pascal, the cosmos is a sphere whose boundary is nowhere and whose center is everywhere. --Saucer Wisdom, Rudy Rucker

  • Post #2107506

    I&amp;#39;m working on a little Tamagochi like app for my daughter using a Cheap Yellow Display that will give her the weather report and daily animal facts. #cyd

  • Post #2107505

    &amp;quot;Orizaola sees radiation in a way most people don&amp;#39;t - far from harmful, it is something that life has grown up with, an environmental variable like temperature or water.&amp;quot; --Super Natural, Alex Riley #amreading

  • Post #2107504

    Kids these days are just a thousand times cooler than I could ever hope to be. https://youtube.com/shorts/Wn7N_KwgfQ8 #dancedancedance #prom

  • Post #2107502

    Deleted #reddit again. I can only take so many terrible stories as one post about a recent crime dredges up similar stories for engagement. I&amp;#39;ve watched it happen too many times now. I don&amp;#39;t need any of that in my brain. Whatever their algorithm is, it obviously isn&amp;#39;t prioritizing mental health.

  • Post #2107498

    &amp;quot;Did we possibly just build the first human biocomputer and immediately put it in a simulated hell, playing the same game on loop, forever? Using the same reward mechanisms we use for LLMs?&amp;quot; https://kuber.studio/blog/Reflections/I%27m-Scared-About-Biological-Computing #doom #sciencefiction #biohacking

  • Post #2065147

    Find out home #flock cameras are in your neighborhood: https://www.deflock.org

  • Post #1998821

    Oregon Iris on today&#39;s walk #bloomscrolling #oregon

  • Post #1991839

    &quot;I saw, or seemed to see, variations where I died in the crash. I understood intuitively that if I went &#39;into&#39; any of these, I would be there for only a few moments or minutes at most, and then I would have to come out and face the wheel again almost immediately.&quot; https://www.nderf.org/Experiences/1wilson_fde.html #neardeath