There shouldn't be any synonyms for unique.

Most writers hate AI, not because it is bad at writing, but because it is good—or at least good enough. It is the average and sub-par writers who most vociferously hate AI, while great writers feel no threat from AI at all.

Millennials who think AI is a fad sound like the Boomers in the 90s who thought the internet was a fad.

Dan Simmons was a true poet.

The latest post from Time Zone Weird is being delayed as my Substack account was suspended because they mistook my parody of a phishing scam for an actual phishing scam.

I don’t go on tirades and protest against people who write crappy fiction—I just ignore it, not for me. If you don’t like AI art, that’s how you should treat it.

"Beware of Phishing Scams" - a short horror fiction story from Time Zone Weird: timezoneweird.substack.com/p/beware-of-ph…

New blog post on minimalist footwear: "Have You Been Shoe-Pilled?" tzbarry.com/2026/04/10/hav…

I call bullshit on Joe Rogan's bullshit detector if Bob Lazar doesn't set his off.

Happy Tax Day from Time Zone Weird! timezoneweird.substack.com/p/irs-ai-defun…

There is a false binary where people think human-created work is Art, and anything AI creates is slop. But humans are perfectly capable of creating slop all by themselves, and AI can be used to create artistically valuable content.

People who used an LLM once three years ago have more severe "AI psychosis" than those who use LLMs every day.

"Never listen to a damned thing anybody tells you. Find your own way.... Be the writer you are called to be. And to hell with everyone else." livingdark.net/p/be-the-write…

If humans use AI to create artistically valuable works, then more power to them. If you don’t think AI can be used to create works of artistic value, then you have nothing to worry about (except an exponentially expanding deluge of slop, which is more annoying than threatening).

My thoughts on Borges echo Borges on Joyce which echoed Lope de Vega on Gongora: "Be what it may, I will always esteem and adore the divine genius of this Gentleman, taking from him what I understand with humility and admiring with veneration what I am unable to understand."

The best human writers are far better than AI and always will be, but great human writers are few and far between.

Plato’s worries about the invention of writing were almost exactly the same as people’s worries about AI writing today—yet those people do not think the invention of writing itself was a mistake.