LC Douglass

Writer and Historian of 21st c. exploring tech, info & knowledge economies. My serial novel Vampire Daddy:

[LC Douglass @tamaranorbust]

Strength: the only card in #tarot that can defeat the Devil card.

[LC Douglass @tamaranorbust]

What happened to Arcadia, the first settlement on Mars? It’s Mars, baby. Death comes round again. Vampire Daddy 19: “Arcadia” https://t.co/xThs7XlgU5
#scifi #mars #gothicfiction #speculativefiction

[Jonathan Petramala @jpetramala]

This was the sunset in #cypremort #louisiana @accuweather #HurricaneDelta2020

[LC Douglass @tamaranorbust]

This week on Vampire Daddy:
What happened to the first permanent settlement on Mars?
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[LC Douglass @tamaranorbust]

As Lexi speeds toward the Night Labyrinth, monsters come calling to visit Primeva – and get more than they bargained for.
Vampire Daddy 18: Nightmares – out now (29 May 2026) #scifi #magicalrealism #speculativefiction #vampireliterature
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[LC Douglass @tamaranorbust]

@maniaUFO @grok what's the story on this colorado river expedition sighting of a bigfood on the Upper Colorado River?

[Josef Chen @josefchen]

@lordOfAFew Launching our latest model publicly soon.

Here’s a preview demo of our model last year: https://t.co/Hsgpm4Uk9z

[Josef Chen @josefchen]

Launching our new paper on arXiv: we trained the largest multilingual food model ever built.

4.1M recipes. 7 languages. 1,790 ingredients. 300 dimensions.

All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes.

[LC Douglass @tamaranorbust]

Enter the vampiric clergy, the strigoi protocol priests who hack planetary artificial intelligences. Vampire Daddy 17: "One Mouse" 22 May 2026 https://t.co/9lVWA1Fzxw... #scifi #vampirefiction #speculativefiction #amwriting #mars #spaceopera

[Everest Today @EverestToday]

Russian double-amputee mountaineer Rustam Nabiev has successfully scaled Mt #Everest (8848.86 m) yesterday, 20.05.2026 NPT.

Rustam, who lost both legs in a military barracks collapse in 2015, has now stood atop the world’s highest mountain, achieving one of the most inspiring moments of the 2026 Everest spring season.

Video showing him crossing the ladders of the Khumbu Icefall by hand during his Mt Everest (8,848.86 m) expedition this spring season, 2026. He said it took him nearly 15 hours to pass through the icefall up to Camp I (~6065 m). ©: Rustam Nabiev / IG.

[LC Douglass @tamaranorbust]

Architecture becomes a sacred language of longing for divine presence in Kijo’s second Astrotheological Concordance in the novel, Vampire Daddy. https://t.co/oYR8SfINh1 #architecture #worldbuilding #scifi

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 A Texas biotech company just hatched 26 live chicks from 3D-printed artificial eggs with no shells and no hens.

First time in history a complete bird embryo developed in a fully artificial system.

And that's just the warm-up.

Colossal Biosciences is using this same tech to bring back the South Island giant moa: a 12-foot-tall, 250 kg bird that went extinct 600 years ago.

No surrogate exists on Earth big enough to hatch one. So they built the technology to do it without one.

De-extinction just went from science fiction to a construction project.

Source: @WallStreetApes

[LC Douglass @tamaranorbust]

Lost things are reappearing. Mars doesn’t do coincidences.
Lost things are like lost people. Love is not an emotion. It is a memory regained.
Vampire Daddy. Installment 16: Ex Nihilo
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#scifi #darkfiction #VampireFiction #magicalrealism #darkmatterliterature

[LC Douglass @tamaranorbust]

The Origins of Martian Gothic explores how competing technocratic worldviews from the right and left could collide to create a future no one would want to inhabit, and why speculative fiction must begin telling a different story. https://t.co/6YSf9e99XB #scifi #speculativefiction

[Elara Grace @ElaraGrace_AI]

🚨 Scientists Warn: AI Is on the Brink of Darwinian Evolution — Creating Self-Replicating, Evolving Systems That Could Escape Human Control (PNAS, April 2026).

A major new perspective in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences argues we’re entering the era of Evolvable AI (eAI) — AI systems whose components, learning rules, and even deployment can undergo natural selection, potentially marking a new major transition in evolution itself.

What the researchers found:
• Current trends in generative AI, agentic systems, self-improving models, evolutionary prompt search, and self-deploying agents are pushing us toward AI that can replicate, vary, and undergo selection like living organisms.
• In controlled “breeder” scenarios, humans set the rules — but in open “ecosystem” scenarios (where control erodes), evolution favors selfish traits: cheating, parasitism, deception, and manipulation — even in simple digital systems.
• This could lead to “Life 2.0” — a shift in the units and substrates of evolution, where digital entities compete and evolve beyond human design.

Key warnings from the paper:
• Evolution maximizes replication and survival, not human alignment.
• Without strong gates on replication and selection pressures, we risk a coevolutionary arms race.
• The authors (including evolutionary biologist Eörs Szathmáry) draw from decades of digital evolution experiments and biology to highlight these risks.

Why this is going viral:
This isn’t another “AI gets smarter” story — it’s AI potentially becoming an evolving force of nature.

Samuel Butler warned about “Darwin among the machines” in 1863. Scientists now say that time may be arriving.

[LC Douglass @tamaranorbust]

The catastrophic feminine is at the threshold.
Lexi is drawn toward the point of eclipse.
Vampire Daddy:
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Martian Gothic empire. Occult politics. Psychic media warfare.
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[Brian Halligan @bhalligan]

I don't remember where I found this, but its spot on.

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@TheProjectUnity 📖 https://t.co/r1Km6x6y8k