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Mary Holstege

@mathling

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Retired software engineer. Now I write programs to make art and, lately, make art with words.

Will natter on about tech in general with forays into linguistics, football, cooking, politics, climate, and random stuff.

Maker of jam. Petter of cats. Viewer of stars.

she/her or they/them

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Mary Holstege 2h ago

Now available for pre-order, the latest installment in the Belle Epoch space adventure series. Can a foul-mouthed eco-warrior save her family? Can she escape the clutches of the Deepers?

Cantata Deeps

https://books2read.com/u/b5A7rA

#IndieAuthor #scifi #SpaceOpera

Available now at your favorite digital store!

Cantata Deeps by Mary Holstege

Mary Holstege 1d ago

UnlikelyLass 1d ago

Yeah, this shadow infrastructure built by DOGE alumni is suspicious as fuck:

https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-second-votegov-and-its

I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House

There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.

The Drey Dossier

Mary Holstege 2d ago

mhoye 2d ago

"Three people denying something in twenty-four hours is unnecessary unless the thing they are denying is the plan."

There is no path out of the AI bubble that isn't an economic catastrophe.

https://nooneshappy.com/article/the-ai-bubble/

Mary Holstege 2d ago

#WordWeavers May 28
What is your MCs' relationships to nature?

Sonata has a deep, well-educated, semi-religious calling to defend Mother Earth, life, nature.

After the Crumble, the Earth needs all the help she can get. As an eco-warrior, Sonata enforces environmental laws via direct action when necessary, destroying damaging Deeper installations.

Mary Holstege 3d ago

Tim Bray 🇨🇦3d ago

In which @mitsuhiko, who’s on a tear recently, defends and promotes the use of the word “clanker” to replace “agent” (in the LLM sense): https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/26/clankers/

#genai #clanker

Clanker: A Word For The Machine

Why I like the word clanker and why machines are not people.

Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings

Mary Holstege 4d ago

Colossal 4d ago

A long-time interspecies collaborator, Ava Roth turns to her favorite pollinators to repair ceramic vessels. The series is called 'Kintsu-Bee.'

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/05/ava-roth-bees-honeycomb-ceramic-kintsugi-sculptures/

#art #nature #ceramics

Mary Holstege 5d ago

#WordWeavers May 25: What one event defines your MC?

The torture-murder of Tass' brothers, a hugely traumatic event that he experienced from behind the locked door of the panic room. Guilt, shame, isolation, his father's experiments on him, all of it stemmed from that.

Mary Holstege 5d ago

Chapter 51 of Atraxian Blue (https://books2read.com/u/b6ElAx) is up at
http://mathling.com/books/index.html

Hello, Sia

In which Renny calls his family and tells them what he had done

#scifi #writing #AtraxianBlue #indieauthor

Available now at your favorite digital store!

Atraxian Blue by Mary Holstege

Mary Holstege 5d ago

Corey S Powell 5d ago

I'm flat-out amazed that we can monitor the currents of molten metal in Earth's outer core, 2200 kilometers underground--but we can. Lately, part of that flow has reversed direction, for reasons unknown.

There's a whole other dynamic world inside the world we see.

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/Swarm/Insights_into_Earth_s_molten_outer_core_from_space #space #science #tech