Matt Ruff
Author of Lovecraft Country, Fool on the Hill, Bad Monkeys, and various other novels.
https://www.bymattruff.com
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- Ceci n'est pas une food replicator.
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- Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers:
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- Interesting Freddy deBoer piece on LLM hallucinations: open.substack.com/pub/freddied...
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- From Old English to Modern American English in One Monologue: youtu.be/842OX2_vCic?...
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- Peter Weller starred in a PSA about this four decades ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y46...
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- Does "used LLMs at any point during the writing process" necessarily refer to having the LLM write prose for you? Because these days, technically, I'm using an LLM every time I Google something.
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- Reposted by Matt Ruffcan't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
- It's my capybaraversary. Met these guys a year ago today in the Nordelta suburb of Buenos Aires:
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- Trying to read this with an open mind, but it doesn't bode well that Yudkowsky needed three years to figure out that intelligent beings are hard to control.
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- New Hell House LLC installment just dropped on Shudder.
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- I really liked A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE but had a feeling a lot of viewers would be unhappy about the ending and boy was that right.
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- A reminder if you’re in Chicago: tonight at 6:30 I’ll be at the U. of Chicago Divinity School with Tananarive Due and Juan Martinez for a panel on Horror Writing and Religion, hosted by @americanwritersmuseum.org as part of their “American Prophets” series.
- Tomorrow night!
- Join us this Friday, Oct. 10 at 6:30 p.m. at the University of Chicago as we talk horror writing and religion with @bymattruff.bsky.social, author of LOVECRAFT COUNTRY, alongside Tananarive Due and Juan Martinez. Free to students! Register here: bit.ly/46EnYIF
- Reposted by Matt RuffJoin us this Friday, Oct. 10 at 6:30 p.m. at the University of Chicago as we talk horror writing and religion with @bymattruff.bsky.social, author of LOVECRAFT COUNTRY, alongside Tananarive Due and Juan Martinez. Free to students! Register here: bit.ly/46EnYIF
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- Well I don't have time to vote in all of them.
- Finished watching Alien: Earth and really enjoyed it. I'd describe it as the rare example of an idiot plot that (mostly) works, and at some point when I've got time I'll try to unpack that in an essay.
- When you've been watching Alien: Earth and find yourself staring at the sourdough containment.
- I'll be at the University of Chicago on Friday, Oct. 10 as part of the @americanwritersmuseum.org American Prophets series, talking about "Horror Writing & Religion" with Tananarive Due and Juan Martinez. Details/tickets here: tinyurl.com/bdh6zhtd
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- My good friend @nisishawl.bsky.social, the author of Everfair and Kinning, is having a fundraiser for a book she literally dreamed into existence. You can check out the details here: www.gofundme.com/f/help-nisi-...
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- I am 60 years old today. bymattruff.com/2025/09/08/60/
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- My sourdough baguette game needs work, but it tastes great.
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- RIP to the NEA Creative Writing Fellowships. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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- My man Teddy, hiding in the tall grass.
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- Hugo Awards livestream starts in two hours. I'll be watching from home and rooting, as always, for Les Misérables. #Worldcon www.youtube.com/watch?v=py7M...
- Today at #Worldcon I'll be on the “Your Novel Became a Movie/Show. How did it go?” panel at 1:30 PM, signing books at the Book Bin booth in the dealer's room from 3-4 PM, and wandering about aimlessly at other times.
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- Did two horror panels at #Worldcon, now wandering through what's left of Pacific Place Mall, which would be a good setting for an early Cronenberg film.
