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AI Can Write. But Can It Be a Writer?
Generative AI can produce beautiful sentences, compelling scenes and even entire manuscripts. But as writers hand more of the act of writing to machines, what happens to the writer?

Samo Rensly
1 day ago8 min read


The Nevada Town Hoover Dam Drowned Is Going Viral Again — Here’s the True Story of St. Thomas
Long before Lake Mead became one of America’s most recognizable reservoirs, homes, farms and businesses stood where desert now surrounds the remains of a forgotten Nevada town. Nearly 90 years after its final resident left, the strange story of St. Thomas is capturing attention all over again.

Samo Rensly
1 day ago7 min read


Jacob Green Announces Second Novel Before the Chips Fell—And It Looks Like He’s Taking Readers Straight Into Reno’s Casino Underworld
Jacob Green’s second novel, Before the Chips Fell, arrives December 2026. A new teaser references “the great Reno heist” and a mysterious group called the Green Felt, hinting at a casino crime story blending historical fiction, conspiracy and the same world as The Railrunner.

Samo Rensly
2 days ago13 min read


My Son Walked Out of School Today. Here’s What It Taught Me About Being a Dad.
Today my son walked out of school. In Reno. He’s in middle school, and today there was a student walkout in protest of ICE. Whether you agree with that or not isn’t really the point of this post—but I’ll be honest, it made me stop and think more than I expected it to. Last night, he came to me nervous. Not about getting in trouble, not about missing class, but about what it meant. He told me he had never seen a protest in real life before. He didn’t know if it would be peacef

Jacob Green
Jan 303 min read
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