An opposition party would not be on vacation right now. They would have coordinated message to the public about the fact that a President in cognitive decline is threatening more war crimes. They would be BLASTING the message on all available platforms.

WHY ISN'T YOUR PARTY DOING THIS ON BLAST THOUGH?????? STOP BEING A FUCKING COMMENTATOR. YOU HAVE POWER. USE IT.

Also NEWS! I am teaching an updated and improved, also I would say cyclopean and batrachian, perhaps cthonic, version of my MODERN COSMIC HORROR WRITING class for @carlbrandon.bsky.social ! May 16-17! This is a deep dive with text analysis, examples, a reading/resource list, and exercises!

The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

idk guys when i see a lot of similar headlines insisting that editors & authors are all already embracing AI, i don't assume these things are true. i assume there are a lot of very rich people with an unpopular product pushing a particular narrative in my industry!

I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine.

hehe bts really did do an oldboy hallway fight

never talk to cops or chatbots it's easy to not use AI to write. The closest I come is when I search for history shit and the AI response comes up first, but I know enough about history that I've personally noticed SO much misinformation in those AI results that there's no use case for it anyhow.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

Writers-- scrutinize all incoming requests, offers, etc. People are even getting bogus PEN festival appearance offers that seem legit. Someone is still sending emails pretending to be me and my agent offering editing services. This is the new normal.

Ben Gvir's equivalent in US politics would be literally if the leader of the Aryan Nations splinter group The Order were elected to Congress and given a cabinet position instead of dying in a shootout with the FBI. It's difficult to explain how much of a supremacist extremist Ben Gvir is.

israel really said so to be clear this death sentence stuff only applies to palestinians right out in the open like buddy that is not a law that's state-sanctioned homicide

Israel’s holocaust of Palestinians reached a horrific new low today. No different than trains heading to gas chambers. Shame on everyone silent about this.

I was added to this labeler under "AI Hater" and I scream-laughed.

So when someone offers a breezy “glass half full” take on a prolonged Hormuz closure, what they’re really saying is: the people who can’t afford to bid for fuel can just go without. That’s not optimism. That’s moral detachment. The unlucky 7 Billion have names and families.

REMINDER you have to preorder my upcoming weird city magical spy thriller novel because PREORDERS ARE LOVE everybody says so GET WICKHILLED us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

This is an explicit rejection of the Status Quo which has stood for nearly 300 years and Israel agreed to abide by in 1949 If Israel can’t/wont do this they are actively provoking religious conflict with the Christians (specifically Catholics here) www.reuters.com/world/middle...

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

the violin is simply too small to play

I’ve been a journalist for 27 years. I’ve reported major stories about mass surveillance, torture, war, the military-industrial complex, police black sites, etc. But this is the most important story I’ve ever had the horror/honor to work on. For it is a story about the current phase of a genocide.

How a Covid mRNA vaccine can extend healthspan, delay age-related organ deterioration and promote resilience to systemic inflammation, via inducing p16-high immune cells, independent of its benefit vs the virus. www.cell.com/immunity/abs...

Sometimes you just want to see something uplifting and moving and not the crushing hellscape so...this. Dafydd Iwan being brought to tears by a stadium full of people singing Yma o Hyd back to him. (Note: I am not even the least bit Welsh, but Cymru Rydd)

You know those scenes of a TV show that always bring you peace and calm? Yeah.

Supporting the new Harry Potter series means putting money in JK Rowling’s pockets which she then uses to harm trans people. There is no ethical consumption of her shitty writing.

With the HP trailer dropping tomorrow, here's the whole deal: If you watch the show, hell even just the trailer, I will think less of you. I will dislike you. I will think you don't care about trans people. That's it. It's been years. There's no wiggle room. No qualifiers. You care or you don't.

if you watch or support this you're a bad person btw. i'm not arguing with you about it either

And this is a real editing problem. These are books that read like drafts and someone needed to say, OK, clarify this, explain that, work on these arcs, make this plot strand hold together, cut this rambling. Because *everyone* needs that in their drafts.

I see some folks designating themselves as a human writer. I get it, but, for me, gently, it feels as if ceding the high position on the battlefield. I am a human writer, but I'm not likely to add "human writer" to my profile or my social media names. Instead, generative AI can go fuck itself.

we'll be two decades into the hunger games and yall will be writing substacks like "Don't be Distracted by the Quarter Quell"

Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their truth-telling to sentimental platitude.

Note to writers: No, your agent does not deserve to get a commission on your Anthropic copyright settlement payout. No, your publisher should not charge an administrative fee for filing claims on your behalf (and why would you want them to? It's easy to do yourself).

Honestly, much better to be a little rough around the edges and full of life than technically okay but dead on the page.

the media is now telling people to work from home to save on gasoline, immediately after their years-long crusade to tell us why returning to office is best for everyone. this isn't a gotcha, it's an example of how contradicting demands allow the ruling class to blame us no matter what we do

So much love and solidarity to Ana Murguia, Debra Rojas, Dolores Huerta, and every other survivor. Chavez was just a man; women like them, then and now, are the true heroes of the farmworkers’ movement.

this week's post is about the embarrassing legacy of the Irish-Americans, whiteness, why I don't particularly care about St. Patrick's Day, and why it was cool when Irish Americans used to get drunk, crossdress, and kill landlords. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/fenian-bas...

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

Hey! "Uncertain Sons" (novelette) and "In My Country" (short story) are Nebula finalists. All thanks to @undertow.bsky.social and @clarkesworldmagazine.com respectively. These would not be there without them. Thanks as well to readers who enjoyed these stories. And congrats to all the finalists!

If US democracy was functional, this would have led to an immediate impeachment and removal from office.

Our job is to make it hard for them to isolate out individuals and small groups that they can demonize. Our job is to support the people in these edge cases. Because every bit of pushback they receive makes it harder for them to move onto the next people they'd like to target.

Murdering random Jews in response to Israeli state violence is violent antisemitism. It shouldn't be necessary to state that. And yet

YAY I CAN FINALLY SAY IT ahahahaha I namedropped @alasdairstuart.com in the announcement too like "IT WAS ESPECIALLY HARD NOT TO TELL ALASDAIR OH MY GOD"

Emerging from hiatus to do a belated cover drop here too. FIND ME WHERE IT ENDS is my next novella and the very first book that I've written that contains no gore. Not a drop. (Maybe someone getting bitten by a protective doggo BUT)

oh no the thing that has happened to every single world power in every single major conflict since the advent of modern artillery is happening again

Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?

look, Taika, matua, I know this is a lot to ask, but you gotta come get your evil half. I don't know whether you need to reconcile with him to reabsorb him or kill him with a sword or whatever but this has gone too far.