Daily Journal 2/16/26

My youngest boy is in Florida with classmates, and his mom is in Cincinnati for work, so I am dog-sitting. Like me, the dog (Parker) is old now. Unlike me, he gets to send most of his days and nights sleeping, and occasionally he wakes up and eats something delicious, and then goes back to sleep.

I envy the dog.

Parker finishing up a morning Beggin Strip before going back to sleep.

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Expect radio silence from me this week, except for here and on Patreon. Heavy focus is on The Shining prequel “Forty Miles West of Sidewinder, Right Next Door to Hell”. I want to have it finished and turned in by this coming Friday night.

The programming schedule for AuthorCon VI will also get a few tweaks, as always happens. I’ll let you know when they are live.

Speaking of which, there are still a few pitch meetings still available, and a few seats for the agent seminar and website building seminar available, as well. To purchase those, click here.

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Former U.S. President (and Brian Keene reader) Obama stated that “aliens are real” over the weekend, but given the way the news cycle works in 2026, 50% of the populace missed it, 25% thought it was AI, and 25% immediately turned it into a claim of “fake news” and blamed either the Right or the Left depending on which sports team they’ve chosen.

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Speaking of AI, Anthropic’s Claude was used by the Pentagon for the military operation that captured Maduro, despite Anthropic’s insistence that Claude not be used for such things. Apparently, it was done in conjunction with Palantir.