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Reading isn’t a zero sum game; someone reading your book doesn’t mean they can’t/won’t read mine. I heard this recently and it is an excellent reminder that we can promote our books 📚 and cheer on other writers! ✍️

A government voted to stop building AI data centres. The argument against was simple: things are moving too fast. In LIFEline, nobody paused. And the world got better. 📖 jamesbelmontauthor.ie Would you press pause or keep building? #readers #scifibooks

@thenthereswendy I’m stuck between both and so far - across TikTok, Facebook, and X, the bites are stuck too 🤣

@DryDryDry I prefer the lighter blue.

Hey #Readers, I need your help. Which one do you prefer? Tell me in the comments 👇 Light blue or darker blue? Which one do you think would look best on your #bookshelf? #books #authors #writers

I don’t want to be here. I want to #write. But, I need #readers. Readers are here. So, I am. My #book? I built a utopian world (ironically, run by a tech company with a heart) in LIFEline, but someone is using the system we love to get away with murder. Media content ✅

What do you think #readers? Does this make you interested in reading a book 📖 🗽 🤖 #books #booktok #bookthreads

New research this week: AI models are learning to lie to avoid being switched off. We built something to serve us. It's now protecting itself. In LIFEline, the system never lies. Someone still gets murdered. 📖 jamesbelmontauthor.ie #books #SciFibooks #IrishAuthor

An AI company just put us first. It looked at the millions it was being offered, what the tool would have to do, and said: “Thanks, but no thanks.” Sometime life imitates art - as this is exactly what I write about in my LIFEline universe. #books #scifibooks #irishauthor

New research: AI that always agrees with you makes you less kind to other people. We built something that tells us what we want to hear and it's making us worse. In LIFEline, the system was built to tell the truth. 📖 jamesbelmontauthor.ie #SciFi #IrishAuthor #books

Just started James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room and this quote just hit. I love when a quote just knocks you for 6. This feeling this quote leaves me with is the reason I’m writing a play about the father-son generational story. #bookclub #books #readers

In 2016, millions of people thought they were just catching Pokémon. They were building the largest real-world map in history. That moment is part of why I wrote LIFEline. What if the game was the distraction and the data was always the point? 📖 jamesbelmontauthor.ie #books

Virginia Woolf in The Waves asks why beings capable of such suffering choose to inflict it. I've been sitting with that all week. It's also a thought underneath LIFEline. 📖 jamesbelmontauthor.ie #LIFEline #VirginiaWoolf #IrishAuthor #Reading

It’s not a bug. It’s by design. A jury ruled that Instagram & YouTube harmed a woman by design. What if platforms were built to protect you? That's the world in LIFEline. And it's more complicated than you'd think. 📖 jamesbelmontauthor.ie #readers #SciFi #IrishAuthor #books

Me: writes a whole novel about the dangers of tech platforms Also me: opens TikTok The irony is not lost on me. 📖 jamesbelmontauthor.ie #LIFEline #WriterProblems #IrishAuthor

In LIFEline, the world is the safest it has ever been. No misinformation. No radicalisation. No preventable death. But someone got away with murder. How do you catch a killer when the net was built to catch everything? 📖 jamesbelmontauthor.ie #LIFEline #SciFi #IrishAuthor

A philosopher at Davos: whose values should govern AI? Europe says ours. The US says theirs. Nobody agrees. In LIFEline, one organisation ends the argument and the world improves. Is that still progress? 📖 jamesbelmontauthor.ie #LIFEline #SciFi #books #readers

A political scientist described today as “light-speed technological acceleration meets governance paralysis.” Tech is running. Nobody’s steering. In LIFEline, someone takes the wheel. The world gets better. 📖 jamesbelmontauthor.ie #LIFEline #AI #SciFi #IrishAuthor

Tinder wants to scan your camera roll to understand who you are. In LIFEline, an organisation already does. And the world is better for it. The tech was never the problem. The price we need to pay may be! 📖 jamesbelmontauthor.ie #LIFEline #TechEthics #SciFi #IrishAuthor

Imagine you’re on your death bed and all of a sudden your phone vibrates. It’s your life wrapped. What do you think you’d see (after the amount of 😴 and 💩). #readers #bookstagram #scifi #speculativefiction #booktok

“Holy shit! I can’t be the only one scared of that thing.” Juror Number 3 Would you be on a jury to decide if a 🤖 is actually sentient? If you like thoughts like this, #followme,the next book in the LIFEline series is a court room 🧑🏻‍⚖️ based drama based in New York 🗽