Reminder: even if you're sure it's a legit transaction, DON'T pay for a publishing- or marketing-related service w/ wire transfer, bank apps like Zelle, or the peer-to-peer option w/ platforms like Cash App. Scammers love these because they are hard or impossible to reverse. 1/3

The way these "AI checkers" work is very, very simple. It feeds part of the text into an LLM. If the LLM predicts, correctly, the missing text, it scores that as proof the LLM produced the text. And LLM's literally stole *every fucking book and forum post ever fucking written* to train on.

An interesting warning for writers: There have been ads, making their rounds on social media, advertising writing contests with large prizes. Beware-- some of these contests are tricks to get you to submit files that will then be used to train AI models (LLMs). READ THE FINE PRINT!

In 1990 I lost my father to suicide, and this June I'm completing 3,307 push-ups in 24 days to raise awareness and funds for mental health in Australia. It's open for anyone to join and it's for a good cause, so feel free to join me! www.thepushupchallenge.com.au/fundraisers/...

It’s really frightening.

Trademark extortion scheme alert! 2nd example I've seen of identical email, tho sent out w/ different names/addresses/company names. Goal is to scare writers into responding so they can be pressed to pay big $$$ to "preserve their rights". Needless to say, this is not how trademark or copyright work

Spotted on Tumblr…

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

If you're thinking about using gen-AI to "write" books, this 🧵 is for you. I’m a highly experienced editor who’s been in the biz a long time. Recently I’ve had manuscripts come to me where the author has used gen-AI – not for writing, I’ve been assured, but for “structuring” or "organising"

The Academy has banned AI from ever winning an Oscar. • Only roles “demonstrably performed by humans with their consent” can be nominated for acting Oscars • Screenplays “must be human-authored” to qualify for a nomination

AI psychosis is just “I really think the stripper likes me” for guys who don’t leave their house

This kind of mixed use urban planning is illegal in America

OR JUST WRITE THE THING YOURSELF FOR FUCK'S SAKE IT WILL TAKE LESS TIME THAN WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IS mashable.com/article/sinc...

I have a book on submission right now, pray for me

can't stop thinking about this guy bragging about how he's outsourced forming a bond with his son like it's a Life Hack. you can't come up with a helicopter story good enough for a six year old? this shit makes people so fucking lazy and simultaneously teaches them how to justify it to themselves

The Knock-on Effect NSW Cup ANZAC Day game Wests Magpies vs Raiders. Great to catch up with some friends I haven't seen for a while!

Just FYI there’s an account on here called @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social (with over 200k followers) that is posting a bunch of AI slop (including a “Saturn polar hexagon” with 8 sides) and claiming it’s NASA imagery. If you see anything posted by them, it’s likely fake.

OMG Look at what NASA just dropped! Your initials in landsat! science.nasa.gov/specials/you...

You can't fix it if it isn't written.

You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.

The use of “hallucinate” is a stroke of true evil genius in the AI world. In ANY other context we’d just call them errors & the fail rate would be crystal clear. Instead, “hallucinate” implies genuine sentience & the *absence* of real error. Aw, this software isn’t shit! Boo’s just dreaming!

We should institute reverse hunger games where the richest people in the world fight to the death every year, and all the assets of the dead get spread evenly amongst the rest of the world population.

Did Chuck Norris get Isekai'd?

Death is inevitable. Laundry is inevitable. One of the blueberries being ungodly tart is inevitable. Ai is not. We can say no to it. We don’t want it. It is not here to stay if we don’t support it

Time for our own Butlerian Jihad against AI.

In case you're wondering what kind of prose an 18,000 word per day regime produces, here's an excerpt from "Earth, the Marauder", one of Burks's science fiction novelettes, set "deep within the gnome-infested tunnels of the moon".

Why These Contract Clauses Are Scary: writerbeware.blog/2025/12/19/w... @victoriastrauss.com #wkb5e

There’s nothing more obnoxious than when people celebrate being an asshole or “just saying what everyone’s thinking” Yeah, dude, most people have edgy thoughts, and learn to keep them inside. It’s called control. What you’re doing is like being really proud of constantly shitting yourself.

Farmer's Market in Fuchsia is my new pattern design, inspired by the vibrant energy of local markets and some of my favourite produce.

Recently found out that DuckDuckGo has a dedicated No AI search page. It automatically turns off AI-generated answers and filters out known AI-generated images. No more having to change the settings manually. noai.duckduckgo.com

Here's some more: Geneve Flynn Pamela Jeffs Lauren Elise Daniels Pauline Yates Alannah Pearson Grace Chan Elaine Cuyegkeng Nikky Lee Jacqui Greaves Tracie McBride Cassie Hart Darcy Coates

Women In Horror Month! Here's an ANZ list of women horror writers you absolutely should read. Kaaron Warren Angela Slatter Kirstyn McDermott Joanne Anderton J S Breukelaar Lisa L Hannett Kyla Lee Ward A J Spedding Margo Lanagan Lee Murray Claire Fitzpatrick Chris Mason Cat Sparks Kathleen Jennings

It has been raining and/or overcast for weeks, and these little guys have popped up.

Happy Friday. Don’t skip school.

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Book: "Holy elf tits!" No. Just no.

So loads of people are sharing an obvious ai "glow up" of an actual photo. I never share ai stuff even to dunk, but in this case I'm sharing a comparison to show the problem. We have to stand against this slop at every level or it becomes normalised. They want us to stop caring. See alt text.

Very funny, and uncomfortably close to the truth. #Enshittification vimeo.com/1168468796

I'm moving to Iceland.

this is why the whole “oh, suffering creates great art” thing is bullshit you know what’s conducive to art? a roof over your head and food on the table you know what isn’t? stressing out over where the fuck the rent money is going to come from

genAI is dying repost to make it die faster

Miss 9 just dropped her violin down the stairs, and it sounded exactly like a cartoon version of a violin falling down stairs. Violin is dented but ok, just need to reattach the chin rest.

There’s going to be Covid style shortages of cars, TVs and even washing machines and fridges, then job losses because assembly lines can’t source solid state memory, just so the stupidest person you know can state with 100% confidence a chatbot confirmed dinosaurs coexisted with humans.

Apparently Predator Badlands is actually ok, can anyone confirm?

I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage. This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country. #CommitToALivingWage