Read our blog to get an overview of the Anthropic settlement. There’s an FAQ for authors, too. We hope you find it helpful. authorsguild.org/news/what-au...

NEW: Anthropic has reached a preliminary settlement in a class action lawsuit brought by a group of prominent authors, marking a major turn in of the most significant ongoing AI copyright lawsuits in history.

A federal court ruled that ANTHROPIC illegally copied MILLIONS of books to train its AI. All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work. For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...

Please write your own stories — and especially write your own obituary before AI does it for you. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Become unslopperable.

And one final thought: Ozzy going out after giving an emotional final performance that raised a ton of money for charity is more spiritually uplifting and did more genuine good than anything any televangelist and religious grifter who railed against him ever did combined.

Today, the AAUP released a new report, "Artificial Intelligence & Academic Professions." The report calls for policies that prioritize economic security, faculty working & student learning conditions as AI tech accelerates. www.aaup.org/news/new-rep... 🧵1/9

Academic Librarians take note: This year is the first time that more U.S. college students will learn entirely online compared to being fully in-person. 📚 www.npr.org/2025/07/11/n...

Loved this @sciam.bsky.social conversation with @marthawells.com by @clarakm.bsky.social — Martha’s voice and perspective really come through, on everything from LLM scams to corporate personhood and the wondrous personal discoveries one’s work can yield: www.scientificamerican.com/article/were...

I have just signed on to the Human Artistry Campaign's fundamental principles on the use of AI in the creative arts. Join me if you agree. And if you don't, who do you think you are fooling and what have you become as a human being, anyway? www.humanartistrycampaign.com

For victims, survivors, and the millions of Americans who live in fear, our government is not upholding its end of the deal. It's failing to protect our safety. This Independence Day, I urge elected officials to set us free from gun violence.

Yes, that's what happens to those tech-bro's...

“If someone tells me: ‘You can’t do it this way. This is no good.’ I’m going to do it that way times 1,000.” I enjoyed listening to this fantastic conversation about the Kubrickian mind with @dharlanwilson.bsky.social. open.spotify.com/episode/5kUB...

28 Years Later — very good zombie vibes but I wanted so much more of some things (the gang at end, the alphas) and a whole lot less of others (the tired familial tropes and the overwritten talks and the lack of plot coherency). The sequel will be better if we don’t have to wait 28 Centuries.

If you are looking for the earlybird #StokerCon registration for #PITTSBURGH in 2026, then try this: www.eventbrite.com/e/stokercon-... @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social Join ussss......... #bramstoker #horror #writing #convention

(I'm discovering that most of the fascinating people I met at Stokercon are on Bluesky!)

Just a quick note to everyone I met at #StokerCon, from new friends to old pals to idols who graced me with a handshake or wink as I walked by. Home now and will post more later. You are all amazing, and I can't wait to see so many of you again here in PITTSBURGH. (Get your early bird tix asap!).

Some of the events I’ll be a part of at #stokercon this week! Come join in the fun. I’ll also be at the mass signing and Stoker banquet. And often at the Seton Hill table in the dealer’s room.

Everyone should get on board the Arnzen train of thought.

We just gave our official support to the campaign to create a poetry category for the the Hugo Awards. They're looking for public feedback and help from poets. Read more about the campaign here: www.poetryhugo.com

New episode of my podcast, "6 minutes and 66 seconds" has just dropped. And it remains only 6m66s long. Pls subscribe, share, sacrifice a goat, etc. 6m66s.com/ep-10-brain-...

the cat walks on my keyboard Writes a poem probably better than mine #gogyohka #haiku #poetry #poem

“We’re seeing a growing movement within civil society, that has to be maintained, & and has to be maintained for years. The damage that the Trump administration is doing is absolutely beyond the pale & has never, never been equaled in American life with regard to higher education.” — Ellen Schrecker

Yup. "that’s a fiction that’s been dangled before the investors of the world, so they’ll invest billions"

Support us. Read our stories. Learn our history. Refuse to let us be erased. I'm determined to bring #ANHPI #AANHPI stories out from the margins, to bring awareness of our diasporic history. SILK & SINEW is part of that mission. www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... Here are just a few other titles...

The return of "The Uncanny and The Abject" class -- live only at Horror U / StokerCon 2025 in Stamford, CT! Must register separately. Totally worthwhile for new writers to bundle. I'm also reading, doing panels & the banquet. #SHUWPF will have a table in dealer's room! gorelets.com/blog/arnzen-...

Thrilled to join this fabulous roster of Horror University instructors at StokerCon this year! I'll be teaching "Writing the Beautiful Macabre" -- read the full description here: stokercon2025.sched.com/event/23yjJ/...

Hate this a lot. Value human creators, writers, artists, narrators, editors -- everyone in the chain of making a book and putting it out into the world should be a human being. Humans make art for humans. P.S. fuck AI -- eat shit, artbarf robots www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

there once was a lonely old vampire whose dentures were made up of barbwire in order to get drinks he’d clamp on the larynx but made mute all the friends that he'd sired #NationalLimerickDay

Trump fires the director of the Copyright Office, after she issued a report saying genAI companies stealing copyrighted works for trainingbwas *not* fair use. Trump fires the Librarian of Congress. Now DOGE is trying to break into the Copyright Office FFS

Happy Twilight Zone Day, everyone! I thought that was most every day these days, but I guess not. 🙃

Remove a letter, ruin a movie Little omen

What is Asian diaspora folk horror? On understanding the #Asiandiaspora perspective in the #folkhorror subgenre. SILK & SINEW Out TODAY!!! @badhandbooks.bsky.social #badhandbooks #silkandsinewantho #asiandiasporastories

I'll be moderating the "Bump in the Night: Horrifying Fiction" panel at the Greater PGH Book Fest on 5/31! I'm excited to talk to @natcassidy.bsky.social @mlrio.bsky.social & @alexgrecian.bsky.social (hi, guys 👋🏼😁) abt their work & horror fiction 👻 I'll pop a link w/details below. See yinz there!

"April Scours" Here's a fitting #NationalPoetryMonth2025 series finale! Thanks to everyone for the positive feedback, fun comments and shares of these excerpts from #BluebirdGuts all month. I'll post news about that book when I can. More final celebrations to come later on my podcast: 6m66s.com

The iconic DAWN OF THE DEAD location might be facing the wrecking ball. Can horror fans rescue it?

It’s called elevated horror, T. It’s when the dracula is actually that your mom died.

"A Proverb for Vampires" Here's a poem from #BluebirdGuts that calls back to the title piece from my collection, Proverbs for Monsters. Tomorrow's the final post of the series and I will celebrate the end by reading some additional pieces on my podcast, so follow 6 mins and 66 seconds at 6m66s.com

"Cthudude" No one ever said the end times would make sense. Coming up on the end of these early excerpts from Bluebird Guts for #NationalPoetryMonth -- it's been a pleasure to share ! #gorelets #horror #hpl #cosmichorror #cthulhu #craftbeer

"Who Eats Who" A #caturday poem for #WorldPoetryMonth day 26. #bluebirdguts #horrorpoem #whoeatswho #youeatyou #whoeatsyou #aintnobodytoldyou

"In the Pie" From my table to yours -- a little dessert for today's #NationalPoetryMonth post, excerpted from Bluebird Guts. You can read dozens of these on my instagram at www.instagram.com/mikearnzen/ And thanks to all who share! I appreciate it.

"Carving the Waves" Surf's up! Some spoopy beach blanket bingo vibes for #NationalPoetryMonth day 24. #horror #poetry #gothsurfing

"Dolled Up" -- one of my personal favorites from the Bluebird Guts manuscript. The daily #horror #poetry posts continue for the final week of #NationalPoetryMonth2025 ! gorelets.com

"Virgin Snow" Another executioner, another poem for #NationalPoetryMonth from #BluebirdGuts #horrorpoems

New Horror Studies! Get a horror-comedy genre breakdown, the link between folk horror & Victorian anthropology, Lovecraftian lit, bad transplants of ANTIVIRAL and POSSESSOR & MIDNIGHT MASS'S meaningful vampires. @dawnkeetley.bsky.social @theprofrog.bsky.social intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...

"A Reader Like You" Just 9 days left to my posts like this one for #NationalPoetryMonth ... will you make it? ;-) #horror #poetry #reading

Cool to see horror writers featured in the headline story of the flagship journal for the AWP! writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/2025-apr...

"Last Words at the Execution" is today's post in my series for #NationalPoetryMonth They aren't all poems in Bluebird Guts; there are also little Jolts of narrative and prose poetry -- about 100 of them (yup) -- all very short stories and/or situations like this one. #vss #horror