John Chu @john_chu

The writer who won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. Not the movie director. (He/him/his) Mastodon: @[email protected] Bluesky: @johnchu.bsky.social johnchu.net Joined February 2009

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laworldcon @laworldcon

a month ago

We're very happy to say that @john_chu is joining us at #LAconV! He is a microprocessor architect by day, a writer by night. His fiction has appeared in venues including Boston Review, Uncanny, Asimov's Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, and Reactor.

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Paul Semel @paulsemel

3 months ago

Finished reading John Chu's "The Subtle Art Of Folding Space." amzn.to/4en56Dh 📖🦨⚙️ This was very creative and fun and, as I said when I started it, rather Terry Gilliam-ish. Good stuff. #books #reading #ScienceFiction #SciFi #HardScienceFiction #HardSciFi @torbooks

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Caitlin Rivers @cmyeaton

7 months ago

This is troubling for multiple reasons, but a big one is companies won’t invest in R&D and clinical trials if they don’t think they can get a fair regulatory review—which is at the end of a long and extremely expensive process.

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Mike Levin @MikeLevin

7 months ago

This should be a bigger story. A Reagan-appointed judge just ruled Trump’s Energy Secretary illegally ran a secret panel of climate deniers to cook up a biased report and sabotage clean air rules. They didn’t follow the law, didn’t follow the science, and betrayed the public to serve Trump’s agenda. Disgraceful. nytimes.com/2026/01/30/cli…

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Lincoln Michel @TheLincoln

7 months ago

I think it is time to stop pretending that billionaires aligned with the Trump administration are in any way trying to have a free press or accessible information. The point of owning the Post, TikTok, Twitter, etc. is the same as the point of LLMs: controlling information.

Sam Stein @samstein

7 months ago

It is totally dumbfounding that Bezos and co. managed to botch up a news company in THIS news climate.

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P a u l ◉ @SkylineReport

7 months ago

This happened four days before the inauguration. That part matters. He wasn’t president yet. So this can’t be waved away as an “official act.” No immunity dodge. No presidential cover. Just a private citizen taking foreign money right before the policy payoff. That’s not governance. That’s a bribe.

P a u l ◉ @SkylineReport

7 months ago

BREAKING NEWS: Trump Family Took Secret Hundreds of Millions From UAE as U.S. Approved Banned AI Tech New reporting confirms a staggering corruption scandal at the highest level of the U.S. government. Just days before Donald Trump’s 2025 inauguration, a firm backed by Sheikh

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Lizzie Johnson @lizziejohnsonnn

7 months ago

I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated.

Lizzie Johnson @lizziejohnsonnn

8 months ago

Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp. Despite how difficult this job can be, I am proud to be a foreign correspondent at The Washington Post.

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derek guy @dieworkwear

7 months ago

Why are so many people offended by this suggestion? Jeff Atwood and Betsy Burton earned $100M, partly through co-founding the Q&A network Stack Exchange. They're giving away $50M over the next four years to some of the poorest people in rural United States. Why is that bad?

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick

7 months ago

That makes fourteen federal prosecutors who have resigned from the Minnesota office, plus an additional four who resigned from the national DOJ Civil Rights Division office, since the Minneapolis operation began.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

7 months ago

BREAKING Star Tribune: Eight additional federal prosecutors are in the process of leaving the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the situation. The departures follow the mass exit of six veteran prosecutors who left the office last

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Jeet Heer @HeerJeet

7 months ago

This is why the argument that the Epstein files are a "nothingburger" are silly. Lots of very damaging information in there about very powerful people.

Paul Embery @PaulEmbery

7 months ago

Difficult to overstate the gravity of the Mandelson affair. A cabinet minister, during a financial crisis, allegedly leaking highly-confidential and market-sensitive information to a mega-rich financier (and convicted paedophile) who had been personally bankrolling him, while

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ProPublica @propublica

7 months ago

A note from our editors:

ProPublica @propublica

7 months ago

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez. propublica.org/article/alex-p…

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Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar

7 months ago

Unless your Odyssey has Helen of Troy played by a woman who actually hatched from an egg, I don't want to see it.

Charles Murray @charlesmurray

7 months ago

DEI causes me to feel fatigue. "Diversity," "equity," and "inclusion" aren't inherently bad; it's the distortion of the concepts in implementation that fatigues. Christopher Nolan casting a black woman as Helen of Troy in The Odyssey causes me to feel hostility. It is a

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Jackie Wong @rockerskating

7 months ago

Amber Glenn re: change of the Ice House name to Winter House: It's unfortunate that we can't embrace the word "ice" because of these circumstances in my own country; I can't imagine how the people affected by [ICE] are dealing, this is only a minor inconvenience for me in the bigger picture bit.ly/45JzQJH #MilanoCortina2026

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scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy

7 months ago

There is nothing stopping reporters from giving this the level of coverage they did to Hillary's email server or Biden's age, they simply refuse to do it and instead expect some deus ex machina to do it for them.

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Daniel Dale @ddale8

7 months ago

"I won the state three times, but I got no credit for it," the president said today about Minnesota, a state he doesn't get credit for winning three times because he lost it three times.

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John Chu @john_chu

7 months ago

Non-Canadians! Feel free to pre-order The Subtle Art of Folding Space, too! Secret cabals! A wise mentor (or is he?) A sister who keeps trying to assassinate you! us.macmillan.com/books/97812504…

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John Chu @john_chu

7 months ago

Canadians! This week (2/2-2/8) Indigo has a 25% sale on their Most Anticipated Sci-Fi books, which includes The Subtle Art of Folding Space! Bugs in physics! Fraught family relationships! Equivalence reports in the form of egg tarts! indigo.ca/en-ca/the-subt…

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Meagan Duhamel @mhjd_85

7 months ago

This is such a huge problem! He got his Olympic spot last March. And competed ALL SEASON to this program. Why was he only told a week before the Olympics that he can’t use it? What’s happening? This is outrageous and so unfair to the athletes.

In The Loop @InTheLoPodcast

7 months ago

#TomasLlorencGuarinoSabate is one of the skaters affected the additions copyright issues with the Olympic Games. His Short Program (The Minions) is no longer cleared.

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Governor Tim Walz @GovTimWalz

8 months ago

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

CNN @CNN

8 months ago

The Justice Department is investigating Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey over alleged obstruction of law enforcement, a source told CNN. cnn.it/3LR4xFU

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Barry Malone @malonebarry

8 months ago

She gave him her Nobel Prize and he forgot her name the next day. It couldn't be more perfect. Pure comedy. 10/10.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar

8 months ago

Trump: "I had a great meeting by a person who I have a lot of respect for. She has respect obviously for me and our country. And she gave me her Nobel Prize, but I'll tell you what -- I got to know her. I never met her before. And I was very very impressed. This is a fine woman."