M N Connors

Only a tad late, but I'm always keeping it loony anyway.

Ok… so the cat is out of the bag and I can FINALLY start talking about this. I just confirmed with Tim I can say that I did a lot of concept art, like this baby Spinosaurus, for the new docuseries #SurvivingEarth coming out in 2026! So excited for you guys to see this!

“I used AI to write my novel.” Okay, but Treebeard spent 248 years naming a hill. Not everything quick is worth keeping.

The Restorer of the World Aurelian was an Emperor who only ruled 5 years but managed to put back together a fractured Roman world in that time. He faced entrenched rebels in East and West, but in the end paraded his enemies Zenobia and Tetricus through the streets of Rome 🧵🧵

Regarding the exciting teases of the ancient Rakata in Canon Star Wars storytelling, as far as civilizations to model them on, why not draw from Persia? Rakatan Immortal has a wonderful ring to it. Satrap planets, etc. @jonfavs @dave_filoni @starwars

One does not simply become a master of karate. First, you must accidentally walk into a spider web.

Chiding NPR pedanthority voice: "In a dog whistle for the darker corners of the internet in America, journalist @mtaibbi - while on a victory lap with estranged from the mainstream author @walterkirn on their @AmericaWeek podcast of conspiracy diatribe now reinforced from above…

Elvis (Rock and Roll) won the Cold War, one might argue. He seduced the world and he inspired our side. AI Elvis won't win so much as a snowball fight. Incentivizing human creativity is a national security issue. I'm not kidding either.

I know for most people this doesn't need to be said, but the gulf between those of us born in Brooklyn (particularly South Brooklyn) and Brooklyn transplant / Manhattan-lite culture is as striking a sociological divide as comparing, for instance, West Texas to Austin.

Chaos is not simply disorder; it is order without predictability Benoît B. Mandelbrot

Plenty coming to mind.

“If leadership depends purely on seniority you are defeated before you start. You give a good leader very little and he will succeed; you give mediocrity a great deal and they will fail.” - George C. Marshall

Today in American History: July 23rd, 1885 18th President and Union General Ulysses S. Grant passes away (1822-1885) Everyone knows how Grant revolutionized warfare, but how much do you know about his Presidency and life after the Civil War? Let's explore

Headcanon- The West Wing and Mass Effect take place in the same universe, and the Illusive Man is the process of some nth iteration of cloning President Bartlett, who becomes increasingly jaded and aggressive by generation.

The wisdom of the legend of St George: - The dragon wants children - The men who are too scared to fight make a deal with it - Their cowardice means the sacrifice of their children to the dragon - This continues until someone brave comes along and puts an end to it

The FBI investigating itself will never stop being funny lmao

The CCP understands national dominance in the era of globalization, and they aggressively pursue it. The US does not. apple.news/AM-Eyv7XxS0a4Y…

Maybe clearing out all the bullshit is a result of the realization that if we train the AIs on propaganda and illusion they will spiral down into info-insanity and we will lose whatever security and prosperity edge we're trying to gain with them.

It's very appropriate that an adaptation of Foundation is airing right now. Regardless of your thoughts on the adaptation, or even the premise of Asimov's series of novels and its central psychohistory, it's the kind of narrative programming - and make no mistake, there's a…