Steven D. Brewer 🏳️‍⚧️1d ago
A new #introduction as I make a major life change. After 30 years as a faculty member at #UMassAmherst, I am becoming emeritus this fall. I look forward to having more time to write speculative fiction & devote to service. I'm the author of several books of science fiction & fantasy. I serve as Secretary of @SFWA, as creator of @wss366, & on the program committee of the Straw Dog Writers Guild. I also speak #Esperanto & have won awards for my poetry, stories, & essays. https://stevendbrewer.com/
Steven D. BREWER - Author of LGBTQIA+ speculative fiction and poetry in English and Esperanto. Teacher of scientific writing. Lover of natural history. SFWA Secretary. (he/him)

Author of LGBTQIA+ speculative fiction and poetry in English and Esperanto. Teacher of scientific writing. Lover of natural history. SFWA Secretary. (he/him)

Steven D. BREWER - Author of LGBTQIA+ speculative fiction and poetry in English and Esperanto. Teacher of scientific writing. Lover of natural history. SFWA Secretary. (he/him)
Cagan Mert IslekApr 27
I was doing my #UMass #UMassAmherst #IT setup and... what's that? #P2P doesn't invented for #piracy, and, as a CS person, I cannot just uninstall #torrent clients, #IPFS, #Blockchain and other P2P systems because they can be abused. It's like banning #AI because @[email protected]'s #Mythos exist.
Show threadSteven D. Brewer 🏳️‍⚧️Apr 24
@Impossible_PhD Check #UMassAmherst.
Steven D. Brewer 🏳️‍⚧️Mar 21
All of the faculty in my department at #UMassAmherst got some of the sycophantic AI-generated phishing spam. I've been seeing this stuff for so long, I didn't think much about it. But for most of the faculty it's something new. Ugh.
Steven D. Brewer 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 29
The #UMassAmherst campus has delayed opening until 11am this morning, presumably due to ice accumulation overnight. Not that it would matter for me, as I work remotely and, further, it's my period of non-responsibility. I'll just have to see how non-responsible I can be this morning. #WesternMass
Show threadSteven D. Brewer 🏳️‍⚧️Nov 10, 2025
Around 230 students were affected and #UMassAmherst is also raising money to support them: https://minutefund.uma-foundation.org/project/20457
Student Care & Emergency Response Fund

UMass Amherst Foundation, Student Care & Emergency Response Fund - Make a Gift today!

UMass Amherst Foundation
Ethan ZuckermanOct 8, 2025
Just caught an amazing talk by amac - Alex MacGillivray - at UMass Amherst on regulating the actual harms of AI, not just science fiction fantasies: https://ethanzuckerman.com/2025/10/08/amac-at-umass-how-do-we-regulate-ai/ #umass #umassamherst
amac at UMass: How do we regulate AI? - Ethan Zuckerman

One of the most experienced tech policy makers - Alex MacGillivray - offers advice on regulating the real problems of AI.

Ethan Zuckerman
Steven D. Brewer 🏳️‍⚧️Oct 5, 2025
The Town of #Amherst on Sunday mornings is littered with trash and garbage when #UMassAmherst is in session. It's a challenge to walk a boxer dog with chicken bones scattered everywhere. Forrest would not be amused. #WesternMass
Ethan ZuckermanSep 24, 2025
My #UMassAmherst colleagues Jen Lundquist and Kathy Forde ran a great workshop - "Reclaim the Narrative" at UMass last week on helping university staff and faculty tell stories about the importance of the work we do for our students and for society as a whole. They're founding a new organization - Stand Together for Higher Ed - which is organizing a national webinar on reclaiming the narrative on October 29. For more on the org and the webinar - https://www.standtogetherhighered.org/
Stand Together

Stand Together
Show threadStacesCases2 🇨🇦 📎Aug 10, 2025
Americans are OVERWHELMINGLY skeptical of Trump‘s handling of information related to the #JeffreyEpstein case. In a new #UMassAmherst national poll, 70 percent of respondents said Trump is not handling the #Epstein case well, while only 18 percent said he is www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Poll Shows Widespread Disappro...
Poll Shows Widespread Disapproval and Suspicion of Trump’s Handling of Epstein Files

Seventy percent of respondents in a new UMass Amherst poll said Trump is not handling the Epstein case well.

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