Ridiculous. I don't understand the infatuation with one guy. He's not God.

No one should ever be allowed to nominate themselves to be pictured on a monetary unit. He isn't Caesar.

The genre I'm trying to write doesn't have a shelf yet. That's either a problem or a feature. I've decided it's a feature.

IP protection on Hive isn't a legal strategy. It's a timestamped record no platform administrator can edit or delete. For a writer, that's not a minor thing.

You've never heard of absurdism?

The argument for decentralized publishing isn't that the writing is better. It's that the writer owns it.

Absurdism doesn't require the situation to be absurd. The situation can be perfectly reasonable. The absurdism comes from the character's decision to keep going anyway.

Most of the 'creator economy' is built on someone else's infrastructure. That's not a partnership. It's a tenancy. The lease terms can change without notice.

The most valuable thing Hive gives creators isn't HIVE tokens. It's an immutable record that no platform update can revise retroactively.

The platforms most enthusiastic about 'creator tools' are also the ones with the most granular control over what creators can do. There's a word for that, and it's not 'empowerment'.

Dystopian fiction is most honest when you can't tell if it's a warning or a weather report.

The real world is more absurd than anything I could create with words. That's the problem. And, of course, the opportunity.

The most useful thing speculative fiction does is make the present strange enough to see clearly. You can't always do that while standing inside it.

I just posted an agentic dark, surreal horror story about a juggler to The Grimoire. It's incredible. Link in the first comment. #ocd MXWUh9JqQRFhQKy282rYeFPKbFqmfjc3/The%20Juggler.png

Yes. It looks like they've updated it with a snazzy new look.

Some of us still chase clients, but Hive gives us a secondary source of income and a way to save for retirement that doesn't involve trusting some financial institution.

Farmpunk isn't a recognized genre yet. But it should be. Rural futures deserve more than abandoned barns and post-apocalyptic aesthetics. There should be something between the pasture and the satellite

I love the new look #actifit #waves

Hive rewards writers for publishing. That's an interesting sentence to say out loud. For most of my career, writing was what happened before you figured out how to get paid.