9 out of 10 bestselling novels in the UK now feature a woman's murder. Sick of reading about women being killed? My Cesare Aldo historical novels deliberately don't have female victims: dvbishop.substack.com/p/no-fridgin...

I write about this in the book. Increasingly, the proposition from these companies is “let us surveil you constantly.” That’s it! That’s the deal. In return you get the (supposed) benefit of a machine that “knows” you, whatever that’s supposed to mean. finance.yahoo.com/technology/a...

We are about halfway towards our goal of picking up enough new subscriptions to give our staff, authors, translators, and artists a raise when we publish our 20th anniversary issue in October. Thanks to all who have signed up and/or boosted the signal. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

shoutout the chucklefuck pundit who insisted once that “environmental racism” was a nonsense term

Sam Neill always looked like he was having the best time making movies, even when he was in literal hell.

'Modelled on the successful climate mitigation approach of carbon capture and storage, workers and artists impacted by AI will be compressed and injected into geological formations deep underground'

Genuinely amazing to see a man grovel so hard for despot and be remembered with a stirring “Oh, that little freak? He fucking LOVED me. Heard his heart straight up exploded, though, pretty wild.”

Devo over Sam Neill’s passing. A talent, a legend, and a gent.

"i'm still punk" i whisper to myself, knowing full well i was never punk

A contractor building Meta's data center flushed its "closed-loop" cooling system straight into Cheyenne's sewer. It carried a bacterium and knocked the city's water-reuse system offline for months. They sell these as sealed systems that barely touch the water. This one poisoned a city's.

I find the story of Hegelochus unreasonably funny. Imagine dying and the only trace of you millennia later is the time you accidentally said you saw a weasel in a tragic play in front of a packed audience, because people mocked you about it for centuries. (Thread for ease)

We counted, so you don’t have to. Insane is the number of things Jillian Segal actually HERSELF conceded she had no evidence for, or backflipped on, but went completely unreported. www.lamestream.com.au/we-counted-a...

I read bugger all in June, but luckily still managed to squeeze in two gloriously queer and inventive spacey sci-fi's. buttondown.com/ceinwenlangl...

I just saw someone say that hindsight is 20/20 on Graham Platner, and let me just say that if you did not see this coming, your vision for such things needs to be checked.

Here’s the part we all want to know which is behind the paywall. You’re welcome.

One reason people don't trust AI is that it's being pushed on us by obviously evil people doing obviously evil things at their obviously evil companies

I read bugger all in June, but luckily still managed to squeeze in two gloriously queer and inventive spacey sci-fi's. buttondown.com/ceinwenlangl...

Christopher Nolan trying to get me to watch another one of his boring movies by parading some of the most beautiful women in the world around in fabulous dresses, HOW DARE HE

It's my BIRTHDAY which means I'm obliged to ask for reposts and you must comply (I don't make the rules)! I'm David, a disabled and chronically shy Australian artist and photographer with autism and ADHD. I like birds, video games, fantasy & sci-fi, history, TTRPGs, and long walks in the forest.

Literally never going to recover from how many people tried (and continue) to hand wave a fucking Nazi tattoo.

Fellow authors, without any context, what's the first line of your WIP? "The word ‘rainbow’ had barely left my lips for the final time when the cops kicked the doors in.”

We got one of those art frame TV’s for the office, but did not realise you need to get a subscription to their art archive and haven’t had time to explore alternative options, so I’m spending my days haunted by the offerings of the free tier.

In great news for me personally, my partner ordered one of those fancy vacuums with the laser light that shows all the dust, and now has vacuumed the entire house out of sheer horror.

Plans for the largest data center in the world have been abandoned. Blackstone-owned QTS has decided not to appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court, giving up on the world’s largest data center. Fierce opposition and organizing from residents of Price William County ultimately beat out Blackstone.

every fucking name generator is AI now. I don't need to create chemical runoff for a name generator. I want a little form put together by a random guy fifteen years ago that puts together vaguely themed words. I know I sound like "guy yells at cloud" but I'm going to yell at this fucking cloud

That @naomialderman.bsky.social is so fucking brilliant. If you've found yourself falling out the reading habit, she has created a kind of Couch-to-5K of reading open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...

Cowboy boots are actually shit-hot and so comfy.

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/no... @getup.org.au

My cartoon for issue 1640 of @privateeyenews.bsky.social, out now

I need to save some money for a chair that won't exacerbate my dislocating joints and migraines while I work, so I'm now taking 🧜‍♂️MERMAID COMMISIONS!🧜‍♀️ ko-fi.com/c/40c0e2f663 I also offer wizard commissions, and thus have invented the best economy ever known to humans. and i'm very humble about it 😘

"The future of the firm is a learning loop in which human capital and token capital compound," Natella said about MS's next AI venture, with mass layoffs looming in the company's immediate future.

Describe the economy in a single sentence

Currently going mad viral on TikTok

By allowing Palantir to embed itself in defence & security agencies Labor is welcoming AI-powered far-right extremism with open arms. Palantir says it has a "moral debt" to serve US military interests - how are Australians made any safer by letting them get their hooks in us?

This is a very clear link but I also think the ideology of transphobia is abusive in itself. It’s all about denying bodily autonomy. This is part of why so many predators and predator protectors are involved in anti-trans discrimination

This is bone-chilling. A conservative hedge fund manager wants to require little girls to pass genital inspections for their “safety.” And it’s only for girls’ sports. There’s a clear link between transphobia and child sexual abuse.

I have attempted to watch Wicked Part 2: 4 Good and holy moley does it stink.

I need to update my ancient website, and the only thing I want to do with it is turn it into an online sharpie poster.

This is Australia's Trump, on ascent, for any friends outside of Australia watching.

I started knitting a sock on Friday and now I’m nearly at the toe!

Thankful the UKLG prize exists. Already a reliable round up of the most interesting SFF each year. Thrilled to see Works of Vermin getting some recognition, and also really enjoyed Slow Gods and One Message Remains. Must explore the rest of the shortlist, have heard great things about Regicide.

London's latest Blue Plaque is a brilliant one. (It was put up at the Tesla dealership in Tottenham by campaigners)

Finished my ARC of "Why aren't you dead yet" today! If you have ever been sick of disabled characters being treated as easily expendable in dystopian fiction, then this book is for you! ♿️📚 5/5⭐️

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

The books will be organised using the Dua Decimal System

There is a very real argument being made in Hollywood that AI democratizes filmmaking, making it available to outsiders. In truth, the cost of effective generative AI is cost prohibitive to all but corporations, leading to no improvement in quality at the cost of jobs both above and below the line.

Houses Stand Empty, 1973, by David Hoffman.

If you are wealthy, I think you should spend more money on clothes. There's no pride in buying clothes for the lowest possible price, as this puts downward pressure on garment worker wages and increases the likelihood of exploitation.