Month: September 2026

I Just Don’t See Us Having Free-And-Fair Elections This Fall

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Welp, this is it, folks. For various obvious reasons, we’re not going to have free-and-fair elections this fall. What I expect will happen is the whole thing will be a clusterfuck and that will be enough for MAGA to win the midterms.

What happens after that will be interesting and potentially catastrophic.

MAGA will scream at the top of their lungs that the elections — because they “won” were free-and-fair — while non-MAGA sane people will scream that we are no longer a democracy and we need to “Stop The Steal.”

All of this is happening in the context of the Singularity rushing towards us. So, it could be that the Singularity will happen just as MAGA finally consolidating it’s complete control over the country.

I’m trying to focus on my novel, but it’s difficult. If I could, I would not look at social media at all and be a Man in a High Castle. But that’s proving to be a lot more difficult than I imagined.

‘Sept 1st’

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I have been working on the outline for a new novel for some time now. The novel is pretty good, if I do say so myself. I have been leaning heavily into AI at this point in the development process.

It goes without saying, of course, that I won’t be using AI to actually write any of the text of the novel.

Anyway, I need to stop drifting towards my goal. I need to focus. I have only a limited amount of time on the planet before my inevitable demise. But this specific novel idea is distracting enough that I don’t mind that I will wake up and be in my mid-50s before the novel is ready to query.

One issue I have to contend with is, is my writing natively bad? Is all of this moot because no matter what, I suck? Only time will tell with that, I suppose.