Oded
@taliesinlives.bsky.social
Author of 10+ books where the gods are dying and the AI is lying. Currently exploring the intersection of ancient history, deepfake dystopias, and the data science of love. Author website: odedlevitte.com
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Oded
@taliesinlives.bsky.social
· Dec 16
"Tuesday is the week’s structural load-bearing wall; it is too far from the optimism of Monday to offer energy, and too far from the release of Friday to offer hope."
Some say a great light has gone out of the world today. I prefer to think it has embedded itself in millions of hearts and lives.
Rest in peace, Songmistress Dolly Parton.
Rest in peace, Songmistress Dolly Parton.
August 26, 2026 at 4:55 AM
Some say a great light has gone out of the world today. I prefer to think it has embedded itself in millions of hearts and lives.
Rest in peace, Songmistress Dolly Parton.
Rest in peace, Songmistress Dolly Parton.
The FTC just put out a proposal requiring companies to disclose when they're using your personal data (location, browsing history, spending habits) to set you a personalized price - quietly charging different people different amounts based on what an algorithm thinks they'll tolerate.
August 21, 2026 at 4:54 AM
The FTC just put out a proposal requiring companies to disclose when they're using your personal data (location, browsing history, spending habits) to set you a personalized price - quietly charging different people different amounts based on what an algorithm thinks they'll tolerate.
Lake Mead and Lake Powell - the two biggest reservoirs in the country - just hit their lowest combined level since before Powell existed, in 1957. A researcher studying the collapse described it as a bank account: the income dropped for decades and nobody adjusted the spending.
August 19, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Lake Mead and Lake Powell - the two biggest reservoirs in the country - just hit their lowest combined level since before Powell existed, in 1957. A researcher studying the collapse described it as a bank account: the income dropped for decades and nobody adjusted the spending.
Giving away 100 Kindle copies of my novel Brunhild's Passover Eve on Goodreads.
A Jewish community isolated on a Baltic island for 3,000 years - no rabbi, no Torah scroll, just the shape of the prayers and the direction they always faced.
A Jewish community isolated on a Baltic island for 3,000 years - no rabbi, no Torah scroll, just the shape of the prayers and the direction they always faced.
Book giveaway for Brunhild's Passover Eve: A Novel by Oded Levitte Aug 13-Sep 04, 2026
100 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Aug 13-Sep 04, 2026. A Jewish community hidden for 3,000 years, and the visitors who finally find them. Th...
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August 11, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Giving away 100 Kindle copies of my novel Brunhild's Passover Eve on Goodreads.
A Jewish community isolated on a Baltic island for 3,000 years - no rabbi, no Torah scroll, just the shape of the prayers and the direction they always faced.
A Jewish community isolated on a Baltic island for 3,000 years - no rabbi, no Torah scroll, just the shape of the prayers and the direction they always faced.
Writing Ben's shift today - he flags a journalist's messages, then his brother texts about dinner and he catches himself doing the same math on that too. Didn't plan the line "when did I start thinking of everyone as data points," it just came out of the scene.
August 4, 2026 at 5:15 AM
Writing Ben's shift today - he flags a journalist's messages, then his brother texts about dinner and he catches himself doing the same math on that too. Didn't plan the line "when did I start thinking of everyone as data points," it just came out of the scene.
The opening pages of my book put a woman in a Cox's Bazar evacuation center, watching water that won't go back out. This week, real floods hit that same district - over five million people affected. I don't love being right about the wrong things.
July 22, 2026 at 4:46 AM
The opening pages of my book put a woman in a Cox's Bazar evacuation center, watching water that won't go back out. This week, real floods hit that same district - over five million people affected. I don't love being right about the wrong things.
Went back to the opening of The In-Between this morning. Eran watches two strangers at a cafe - a man leaning in, a woman's feet already pointed toward the door. "The face is a performance. The body is a draft. The feet are the edit they haven't made yet." Still my favorite line in that book.
July 21, 2026 at 5:55 AM
Went back to the opening of The In-Between this morning. Eran watches two strangers at a cafe - a man leaning in, a woman's feet already pointed toward the door. "The face is a performance. The body is a draft. The feet are the edit they haven't made yet." Still my favorite line in that book.
Pulling LYDIA EVER AFTER back out tonight. There's a clock in it that runs five minutes slow - Lydia keeps it that way on purpose, says it gives them extra time. Joe thinks she's just being sentimental about it. By the end he's the one who understands what those five minutes are actually for.
July 20, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Pulling LYDIA EVER AFTER back out tonight. There's a clock in it that runs five minutes slow - Lydia keeps it that way on purpose, says it gives them extra time. Joe thinks she's just being sentimental about it. By the end he's the one who understands what those five minutes are actually for.
A book about a five-year window owes readers an update before the five years are up. The 2nd edition of How to Save the World in 5 Years adds an afterword: what's happened since publication - climate finance wins, the Sahel's worsening reality, and the real people who never waited for permission.
July 17, 2026 at 4:27 AM
A book about a five-year window owes readers an update before the five years are up. The 2nd edition of How to Save the World in 5 Years adds an afterword: what's happened since publication - climate finance wins, the Sahel's worsening reality, and the real people who never waited for permission.
THE IN-BETWEEN is out - a novella about a man who's spent his life reading other people's relationships for a living and never his own.
July 15, 2026 at 5:16 AM
THE IN-BETWEEN is out - a novella about a man who's spent his life reading other people's relationships for a living and never his own.
The Strait of Hormuz is in the news again, and I keep circling DURING, AFTER - my novel set forty years after a Middle East conflict ends, not in reckoning but in exhaustion. Its heart is a classroom where students get official language that "said nothing false and explained nothing true."
July 14, 2026 at 7:24 PM
The Strait of Hormuz is in the news again, and I keep circling DURING, AFTER - my novel set forty years after a Middle East conflict ends, not in reckoning but in exhaustion. Its heart is a classroom where students get official language that "said nothing false and explained nothing true."
A line from Brunhild's Passover Eve I still think about: an island that's kept the same rhythm for three thousand years, one morning where the rhythm quietly starts to break. "The grammar carried a new word."
Six words doing the whole book's work.
Six words doing the whole book's work.
July 14, 2026 at 8:43 AM
A line from Brunhild's Passover Eve I still think about: an island that's kept the same rhythm for three thousand years, one morning where the rhythm quietly starts to break. "The grammar carried a new word."
Six words doing the whole book's work.
Six words doing the whole book's work.
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A statement warning that A.I. could transform the economy faster than previous technologies was signed by a group of economists and researchers, including 15 Nobel laureates and the chief economists of two of the leading A.I. labs, Open AI and Anthropic.
Nearly 200 Economists and Tech Leaders Warn of A.I. Threats
A letter calls for policymakers to do more to understand and respond to potential disruptions from artificial intelligence.
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July 13, 2026 at 3:30 PM
A statement warning that A.I. could transform the economy faster than previous technologies was signed by a group of economists and researchers, including 15 Nobel laureates and the chief economists of two of the leading A.I. labs, Open AI and Anthropic.
He lost his job in October. By January he was seeing couples. He had no credentials, no training, no license. He had a dog named Dina and nineteen years of paying attention.
The In-Between - August 1.
#TheInBetween #LiteraryFiction
The In-Between - August 1.
#TheInBetween #LiteraryFiction
July 13, 2026 at 5:03 AM
He lost his job in October. By January he was seeing couples. He had no credentials, no training, no license. He had a dog named Dina and nineteen years of paying attention.
The In-Between - August 1.
#TheInBetween #LiteraryFiction
The In-Between - August 1.
#TheInBetween #LiteraryFiction
A girl shows a photographer the wooden wall her people have prayed toward for three millennia. "We have a wall too," she says. "But it's made of wood."
Brunhild's Passover Eve - FREE on Kindle today and tomorrow.
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Brunhild's Passover Eve - FREE on Kindle today and tomorrow.
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Brunhild's Passover Eve: A Novel
Brunhild's Passover Eve: A Novel - Kindle edition by Levitte, Oded. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Brunhild's Passover Eve: A Novel.
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July 6, 2026 at 4:16 PM
A girl shows a photographer the wooden wall her people have prayed toward for three millennia. "We have a wall too," she says. "But it's made of wood."
Brunhild's Passover Eve - FREE on Kindle today and tomorrow.
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#literaryfiction #bookstwt
Brunhild's Passover Eve - FREE on Kindle today and tomorrow.
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For 48 hours, FREE on Kindle: a Jewish community that vanished onto a Baltic island 3,000 years ago. No rabbi. No Torah scroll. They faced east anyway, every year, and called the prophet home.
Brunhild's Passover Eve. July 6-7 only.
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Brunhild's Passover Eve. July 6-7 only.
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#FreeKindleBook #JewishFiction
Brunhild's Passover Eve: A Novel
Brunhild's Passover Eve: A Novel - Kindle edition by Levitte, Oded. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Brunhild's Passover Eve: A Novel.
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July 5, 2026 at 1:32 PM
For 48 hours, FREE on Kindle: a Jewish community that vanished onto a Baltic island 3,000 years ago. No rabbi. No Torah scroll. They faced east anyway, every year, and called the prophet home.
Brunhild's Passover Eve. July 6-7 only.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0H5G5SX6H
#FreeKindleBook #JewishFiction
Brunhild's Passover Eve. July 6-7 only.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0H5G5SX6H
#FreeKindleBook #JewishFiction
A boy who talks to ducks for twenty minutes at a time. Parents who don't know if that's wonder or warning. A woman who offers him the answer they can't. Oswiu, The Second - free on Kindle through July 5.
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Oswiu, The Second
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July 4, 2026 at 4:12 AM
A boy who talks to ducks for twenty minutes at a time. Parents who don't know if that's wonder or warning. A woman who offers him the answer they can't. Oswiu, The Second - free on Kindle through July 5.
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Two days.
On July 5, Brunhild's Passover Eve comes to Kindle.
On July 5, Brunhild's Passover Eve comes to Kindle.
July 3, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Two days.
On July 5, Brunhild's Passover Eve comes to Kindle.
On July 5, Brunhild's Passover Eve comes to Kindle.
June 30, 2026 at 8:05 PM
The question that started this novel:
What would a Jewish community look like if it had been completely isolated for three thousand years? Not persecuted. Not assimilated. Just - separate. Practicing in silence on a cold island, preserving what it could, losing what it couldn't.
What would a Jewish community look like if it had been completely isolated for three thousand years? Not persecuted. Not assimilated. Just - separate. Practicing in silence on a cold island, preserving what it could, losing what it couldn't.
June 27, 2026 at 3:23 PM
The question that started this novel:
What would a Jewish community look like if it had been completely isolated for three thousand years? Not persecuted. Not assimilated. Just - separate. Practicing in silence on a cold island, preserving what it could, losing what it couldn't.
What would a Jewish community look like if it had been completely isolated for three thousand years? Not persecuted. Not assimilated. Just - separate. Practicing in silence on a cold island, preserving what it could, losing what it couldn't.
The massive wave of AI-generated GTA 6 early-access scams works because they target a core feature of human psychology: our vulnerability to pattern-matching.
When polished AI visuals create scarcity, our predictive minds override our suspicion.
When polished AI visuals create scarcity, our predictive minds override our suspicion.
June 25, 2026 at 9:47 AM
The massive wave of AI-generated GTA 6 early-access scams works because they target a core feature of human psychology: our vulnerability to pattern-matching.
When polished AI visuals create scarcity, our predictive minds override our suspicion.
When polished AI visuals create scarcity, our predictive minds override our suspicion.
7 Prime Ministers. 10 years. Same country. Same problems. Same pattern.
Humans are prediction machines that refuse to read their own output.
That's why you're scared of AI. It doesn't have that problem.
The Next Recognition.
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Humans are prediction machines that refuse to read their own output.
That's why you're scared of AI. It doesn't have that problem.
The Next Recognition.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FP4Q6B2S
The Next Recognition: A Mirror, At Last
The Next Recognition: A Mirror, At Last [Levitte, Oded] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Next Recognition: A Mirror, At Last
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June 22, 2026 at 4:31 PM
7 Prime Ministers. 10 years. Same country. Same problems. Same pattern.
Humans are prediction machines that refuse to read their own output.
That's why you're scared of AI. It doesn't have that problem.
The Next Recognition.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FP4Q6B2S
Humans are prediction machines that refuse to read their own output.
That's why you're scared of AI. It doesn't have that problem.
The Next Recognition.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FP4Q6B2S
On the island of Eriksö, nine hundred people speak a language that exists nowhere else on earth.
June 20, 2026 at 5:22 PM
On the island of Eriksö, nine hundred people speak a language that exists nowhere else on earth.
This is a seder plate.
Salt herring instead of shank bone. Seaweed instead of parsley. Barley flatbread with juniper instead of matzah. Lingonberry and horseradish instead of charoset.
Salt herring instead of shank bone. Seaweed instead of parsley. Barley flatbread with juniper instead of matzah. Lingonberry and horseradish instead of charoset.
June 16, 2026 at 4:02 AM
This is a seder plate.
Salt herring instead of shank bone. Seaweed instead of parsley. Barley flatbread with juniper instead of matzah. Lingonberry and horseradish instead of charoset.
Salt herring instead of shank bone. Seaweed instead of parsley. Barley flatbread with juniper instead of matzah. Lingonberry and horseradish instead of charoset.
Sixty years of marriage. A dementia diagnosis. And an absolutely terrible AI romance novel that somehow becomes the key to everything.
"Lydia Ever After" asks the question no love story prepares you for: when the day comes that she doesn't remember your name - will you still choose her?
"Lydia Ever After" asks the question no love story prepares you for: when the day comes that she doesn't remember your name - will you still choose her?
April 27, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Sixty years of marriage. A dementia diagnosis. And an absolutely terrible AI romance novel that somehow becomes the key to everything.
"Lydia Ever After" asks the question no love story prepares you for: when the day comes that she doesn't remember your name - will you still choose her?
"Lydia Ever After" asks the question no love story prepares you for: when the day comes that she doesn't remember your name - will you still choose her?