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young dog howls…
Author: Carl Bettis
Carl Bettis is a writer and software engineer. His work has been published in many places, including The Slapdash Hackery Factory, Thorny Locust, Crooked Roads, The Same, and tiny frights. Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/caracabe.bsky.social. Mastodon: https://zirk.us/@caracabe. Pronouns: he/him.
Current reading grumpiness
Currently reading: What If We Get Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures, by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson. The core of the book is a collection of interviews, including one with Mustafa Suleyman on the topic of AI. (Suleyman at one time was Google’s VP of AI product management and AI policy.) I’m more skeptical of Suleyman’s…
Books read, 2025
In 2025 I read 68 books (that I logged), theoretically totaling 17,352 pages.
Anatomy of Melancholy (digital art)
License: CC-BY-SA 4.0
Raised by books
What book from childhood shaped your art?
2026 reading in preview
Social reading apps tempt me to put off tackling slower works…
Home schooled (poem)
Our puritan home / housed a ghost…
After We’re Done (poem)
The sky will be strangely blank / without cross-hatched contrails…
Sweet Night (poem)
Skin tossed onto the chair / spine tucked under the bed…
Immortality (poem)
No grass will grow on my grave…