What if there was a mindful way to steal people’s art, pollute Black neighborhoods, and raise everyone’s electric bill?

This week's Monday snippet comes from Enchanting the Fae Queen, which is out in ebook, paper, and audiobook: stephanieburgis.com/books/enchanting-the-fae-queen #romancelandia

I don’t know how to use chatgpt etc but I imagine it’s going to a website and typing “oh no what groceries do I buy please tell me false god for I am so weak I cannot go on” as your brain atrophies and leaks out of your ears from disuse and the machine is like “buy eggs milk bread and a horse”

It's my birthday on Wednesday, and I'm going to give away a bunch of these ARCs sitting on my desk. Multiple chances for entries, including if you subscribe to my newsletter, so I'm just gonna....slide this link on over.... beccacoffindaffer.beehiiv.com

He would make space for me inside that light if I let him. But soft things die quick down in the dust. @fiercereads.bsky.social #booksky The Bloody and the Damned 4.7.26

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

the kind of story that already reads like a history of this moment

As hard as we are fighting, book bans are having an impact on the books being written and published. To put this another way, a very small number of well-funded people who don't write books, don't teach books, don't work in libraries are trying to decide what books are available for everyone else

Thank you to @authorsabb.bsky.social heroes @beccacoffindaffer.bsky.social and Ed Underhill, we have some slides that can be shared by anyone about this, with particular reps to target. Let's kill this bill in committee.

And using Compass Classroom lists for okaying book choices for classic literature is a big NOPE from me (and probably other school teachers and librarians).

as long as folks are enthusiastically donating to state level trans orgs today, figured I'd reup this list the @them.us team and I put together a few years back: www.them.us/story/orgs-f... (some info may be outdated, but use this as a jumping-off point!)

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org

It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school. They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.

I think about the glue factory. When AI relieves us of our need for your labor we can transform you (horse-like) from a means into an end: glue.

For the first time since @projectsaltbox.bsky.social launched their DHS warehouse acquisition tracker, the number of canceled sales is higher than any of the other warehouse-related figures. We've reached a tipping point, folks. lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/b0...

Tim Walz isn't declaring an eviction moratorium in Minnesota, so many families affected by ICE are at risk of eviction in a few days. Please donate to the rent funds at keepMNhoused.com if you have some scratch.

"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men. This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries." "Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife" abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...

I appreciate this and he hit the nail on the head. youtu.be/FgaqKIxS4Hs?...

final part: my concluding thoughts and response to the argument that using gen AI in our books is "inevitable" #booksky IG: www.instagram.com/p/DVG5u6WjhU... TT: www.tiktok.com/@beccacoffin...

Chicago Pope just keeps putting out bangers

Pope Leo: THERE ARE NO EM DASHES IN THE BIBLE

part 5: buckle up, buttercup, generative AI is kinda shit for society, too, because tech bros sell you on marketing fluff instead of what gen AI *actually* is IG: www.instagram.com/reel/DVEia95... TT: www.tiktok.com/@beccacoffin...

part 4, which is actually the first of two parts discussing the issues with generative AI, and I get to share some really ridiculous hypocrisy I came across IG: www.instagram.com/reel/DU_NdB9... TT: www.tiktok.com/@beccacoffin...

part 3: disclosing generative AI and why people using it for their books don't want to tell you IG: www.instagram.com/reel/DU87A9R... TT: www.tiktok.com/@beccacoffin...

What gets me about this one is how it reveals ICE‘s awareness that the people they’re targeting are *not* scary violent criminals: they’re good neighbors who will risk their safety to help others. You wouldn’t try this tactic unless you knew your justification for arresting this man was bullshit.

part 2: wherein I discuss PlotProse, Hart's AI coaching business, and it's very...interesting offerings #booksky On IG: www.instagram.com/reel/DU6iR9l... On TT: www.tiktok.com/@beccacoffin...

Adults at ICE concentration camps also get punished for talking with people on the outside who can publicize their stories. Based on what I've heard at the Otay Mesa camp in San Diego, they're punished with additional work duties, aren't allowed outside in the yard, and denied phone access.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

it wasn't working well for me on YT, so we're doing it in parts on IG Reels/Tiktok Part 1 of my series: I have lots of thoughts about AI generated books, surprising exactly no one www.tiktok.com/@beccacoffin...

This is extremely Not Good. I know that stolen artefacts are easy targets for museum criticism, but this sort of blatant erasure is much, much worse. It might be slightly easier to sway by public outcry, though, so: cry out.

Our country destroyed the middle class, then told everyone they’re middle class… “Of course I sell my blood. All the middle-classers are selling blood. It’s the coolest. You ain’t cool middle class unless you sell your plasma.”

Haven Watch is the group that meets people who are being released from Whipple (usually because they were illegally detained), often without coats or phones or any way to get home.

I brought home my signed copy of UNTIL THE CLOCK STRIKES MIDNIGHT by @alechiadow.bsky.social and showed it to my 11 /y/o and was like, "I think you'd like this one." Mind you, she NEVER wants to take my recommendations anymore, but did she secretly read it in two sittings? Yes, yes, she did.

no, it simply isnt. People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.

one of my least favorite new publishing "truths" is that books only deserve consistent marketing & publicity if they are already doing well, it's the new "needs experience to get experience" 🤡

Dutch site IDs ICE agents via public data “ICE aren’t actually fearful of their safety…What they’re fearful of is not being invited to baseball games or not being invited to the pub with their friends. Community exclusion – that’s what they’re fearful of” wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents

If you saw the creepy Ring Super Bowl commercial then you know they're manufacturing consent for a surveillance state (that serves ICE) by emotionally blackmailing us with our dogs' safety. This flyer can be printed out and posted all over, or shared online. Get your $ back, fuck ICE.

It's a good thing I really hate gen AI, otherwise all the mishaps trying to film this video would've led me to just call it a wash.

This article immediately labels @emilymbender.bsky.social and I as "curmudgeons" because we don't think that the spicy auto complete has a concept of the self.

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

No, AI written romance novels are not inevitable: aftermath.site/ai-romance-nov...

If you can't read that article, here's a non-paywalled version: finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-...

"AI is not going back in the box--" You apparently haven't seen me pack a suitcase because I can shove ANYTHING in there. Just watch me work.

Haven't been on here as much because I've taken on a part-time job talking shit about gen AI over on Threads to anyone who so much as breathes about it on my feed 👍

a good thread on how insidious these book banners are

Bari Weiss bravely invites us to focus on the real fascism in Minneapolis www.thefp.com/p/mob-rule-c...

HOLY SHIT.

That's funny because I'm seeing community care. I am seeing more and more people coming together to stand up for each other. I'm seeing people who don't have to choosing to put their bodies on the line for strangers. I'm seeing people donating to stop people from being evicted./1

Posting this one for a friend.

ICE OUT OF THE USA