I think part of the reason the reaction to people arguing *for* GenAI use is so aggressive is that not a single one of these arguments bothers to meaningfully engage with the ethical problems these technologies present. And those ethical problems are monumental. They're not minor.

I forget how many years since @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social introduced me to this technique of flash cooling hot wort in a big pile of snow

I'm surprised and thrilled to find my novelette "A Random Walk Through the Goblin Library" (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 443) on the Locus Recommended Reading List. Many, many thanks for the great input from @deuceofgearsmusic.bsky.social and @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social. locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

I signed the contract so I am utterly thrilled to announce I have sold a novelette to @bcsmagazine.bsky.social 🥳 my second appearance there, this time with a messed up unicorn time loop story! 🦄⏳ Big shout out to @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social for the INCREDIBLE notes & edits to make this one sing!

Cheers, all. @mcflycahill90.bsky.social @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social @matthewkressel.net @sarahpinsker.bsky.social

If you're one of the countless writers who want to learn from award-winning editor/publisher @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social , Scott is offering an Odyssey webinar, which is first-come, first-served registration. Register before we run out of spots! www.odysseyworkshop.org/odyssey-onli... #amwriting

Liberal application of sugar is the answer. Then they taste like sugar-coated styrofoam!

I'd forgotten, from my youth, how much Weetabix taste like styrofoam. (Ain't enough milk in the world, to...)

Clearing my parts stash--put this together for a friend's nephew and all I had to buy was the rubber feet.

There are so many reasons to say no to generative-AI that have absolutely nothing to do with the quality of its output, even you’ve somehow convinced yourself that its quality isn’t unacceptably low.

Do your openings draw in readers? @Scott_H_Andrews , editor-in-chief/publisher of the award-winning fantasy magazine Beneath Ceaseless Skies will teach a live webinar on 4/12. Two-hour lecture followed by one-hour Q&A. Register before we run out of spots! www.odysseyworkshop.org/odyssey-onli...

Enjoying National Cat Day:

I'm extremely grateful for patient editors like @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social — I have almost (!!!!) finished edits for an R&R and yes it has taken me months; this is due to my brain, and you know, the world being on fire etc. But srsly, Scott's comments are consistently solid and so, so helpful. <3

Scrolling through @michaelventrella.bsky.social's Capclave photos, I stumbled on this one of the crowd on the patio late Saturday night eating my donuts and drinking @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social's stout, and it made me quite happy. I'm feel so privileged to have all you wonderful people in my life!

Tech bros running the billion-dollar companies cramming genAI down our throats forget their positions could also be outsourced to AI. In honor of this fact, @apexmag.bsky.social and I present my humorous story "How to Install Generative AI on a Zombie CEO." 1/ www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts. Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

New cursed magic item: Skull Lyre www.metmuseum.org/perspectives...

Visited the ancient Roman walls of Lugo, Spain, yesterday. Built over 1700 yeas ago to defend the then Roman town from various European tribes, the walls are in amazing shape. Loved walking where people have lived for so many centuries.

The 2025 volume of BASFF once again features some great stories! Full disclosure: For the past 6 years or so, I've been @johnjosephadams.com's assistant editor for these annual anthologies. Do check out the full list of Notable Stories too: tinyurl.com/3rswhjes #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #BookSky

Enjoying the solstice heat...

I'm also nominating @shereereneethomas.bsky.social for editing F&SF and @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social for running Mo Con. And Glen Cook for lifetime achievement (The Black Company started the whole grimdark mercenary epic F thing, in 1984).

Pls DON'T nominate me for World Fantasy Award (Special Award Non-Professional). I'm honored to be 9x finalist & 2019 winner! I've recused from nominations. Consider other editors & people who deserve it too. (I'm nominating Jeanne Cavelos for 25+ yrs teaching & running @odysseyworkshop.bsky.social.)

Reminds me of the time we had to create a counter-program item because a convention decided it was time to feature "the good things." Had to dedicate the first question on ours to correcting things they said. (Among them, correcting a false statement about my guidelines & AI.)

Deadline for World Fantasy Award nominations is June 1st. If you're a member of WFC 2023, 2024, or 2025, you received a ballot in March via email. If voting, Northern Nights is eligible in Best Antho category, and all the stories from it and issues 8 & 9 of Weird Horror are eligible in Short Story.

I don't get why cons for readers & writers give air to genAI; platforming its 'benefits' or 'showing both sides'. That's mainstream chat; not discussion for creatives & attendees come to see them. Treat genAI like the environmentally destructive inaccurate plagiarism machine we creatives know it is.

New podcast episode! Produced and introduced by audio editor Aaron Kling, @andrewkozma.net reads his story "Exit Here" from Reckoning 3, in which a team of scientists pour their hearts (literally) into detoxifying a poisoned lake: reckoning.press/podcast-epis...

1/4 Well look at that. Open Ai and Google outright reject “Opt-Out” models, hell they even reject basic transparency requirements. AI companies demand they get everything, including our Intellectual Property, for free, and without anyone ever being able to tell the companies no.

Happy to once again be a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Editor, Short Form. Congratulations to all my fellow finalists and thank you to everyone that nominated me!

More dreaded marketing. We really do count on our readers though. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Update: The TERRIBLE 10-Year Ban on State AI Regulations advanced House Committee. What does this mean? It means we BLAST the HELL out of their phones! Call your House Members AND Senators today! Called a few days ago? Call again! Tell them NO on 10-year State AI Regulation Ban! (Info in thread)

UNEXPECTED NEWS.

What we have here is a well-paced and entertaining fantasy novel which moves briskly from one compelling set piece to the next. This is such a rare quality that it doesn't need any ideas, so it's cool that it has some anyway.

The eternal question: has the quality of my writing dramatically improved, or am I just reading it in Garamond?

Cheers, @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social and Mo Con!

And when you can really work as a team with an editor, when it's not just a tangential but a lasting set of shared goals, that's really special. @scott-h-andrews.bsky.social isn't the only one on that list for me, but he's high on it, and I sure am glad he is. Thanks, Scott.

(Galileo) Galileo, (Galileo) Galileo!

How basic, how boring, how courageless and vapid. This is the most unsexy, unconvincing statement ever put out. It's fucking cool to care, to try to learn something new. From Shakespeare to a 4 year old writing their name for the first time yelling: I did it! That I did it demolishes this garbage.

Mills Wins Compton Crook Award locusmag.com/2025/04...