lolol GUYS, LOUISA MAY ALCOTT WANTS TO TURN MY BOOK INTO A MOVIE

My grandmother's favourite flower. The family assembled from across England twice a year in a field where they grew, and we tried to pursuade her that she was not exempt from the rule not to pick them because she was special. Loving woman but she had her moments.

Presumable it's beyond human ability to reevaluate if the condition actually does, sustainably, improve?

or, all of bluesky could block @attie.ai right now lol

Discarding books is a standard part of collection development and management in libraries. 📚

Free public parking is bad

Heavens, a religious minority is exerting domination in a public space!!!

Have Bluesky said anything about scraping our content?

Did you ever in all your puff see such a perfect perisher?

h/t @hierath77.bsky.social

‘Soon publishers won’t stand a chance’: literary world in struggle to detect AI-written books

This falls into "security idea makes you less secure" The hassle makes people write their passwords down

Jonathan Freedland puts clearly the core point about antisemitic hatred: "that’s the move that keeps happening, when people said to be outraged by Israel’s conduct decide the address for their wrath should be the Jews of their own neighbourhood" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The guy who invents the test disagrees with this use of it. (See also, the guy who invented the lie detection spent much of his life explaining it really didn't work very well)

Happy feel randomly tired and out of sorts week Well, three days for me.

A real win for people who were told “if you don’t adapt you’ll be left in the dust, this is the future, and you’re an idiot for thinking it’s a passing fad” honestly

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

Rules to curb trans people's rights to participate in anything opens up everyone's manner, clothing, physical appearance to intrusive scrutiny and potential challenge. A worked example. History also shows allowing erasure of rights for one group soon sees others targeted. This is not a 'them' issue.

Allegations of “family voting” was *the* top story on the BBC news summary the morning after the by-election. It was specifically alleged or implied by spokespeople from every major political party. It was directly reported by the political editor of Sky and the political editor is the Spectator.

His Ketamine-addle brain has these waking dreams…😂

This is a lovely idea and I hope they’re successful, but at the end of the article they still suggest she paid her rent through sex work, of which there’s absolutely no evidence. Some myths die hard. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

..."there is no genre in SFF that is more awesome than fantasy mystery..." Look at the storybundle. Which happens not to include The Crooked Medium's Guide to Murder and its forthcoming sequel... which is also worthy of your consideration #books #writing #spooky #fantasy #murder #mystery #queer

Have you watched Deadloch yet? WATCH DEADLOCH. Just finished s2 on amazon last night and SO MANY incredible lines. SO MANY. And I found it genuinely moving. It reminds me of Our Flag Means Death. That "heartfelt but hilarious and surreal" space in story. Tho more crocs, less scurvy.

Don't just read this, start THINKING… SFF’s Big Fat Problem reactormag.com/sffs-big-fat...

I don't describe The Crooked Medium's Guide to Murder as cosy, despite cosy elements. No diss to anyone. I don't write books which are about the intellectual problem, they're about the people, while figuring out the problem. I tend to use the word warm about my writing.

Tremendous. We remember a couple of elections back lobbying the Greens not to support gutting copyright,

The main impact of this ban is certain cis women will suddenly find an innate quirk of internal chemistry blocks them from competing. Trans women just don't make it through to the Olympic finals.

#SFFChat Q4: Where does *your* work fall on the light/dark spectrum? I look at the dark and difficult side of life but my work celebrates love, friendship, and decency and tries to leave people with hope. There's often humour. I have abandoned work which went too dark #writing #books #amwriting

"Don't threaten me with a good time", techbro style.

Yes, the fact that they commissioned a simulation to plan response and then shelved it, was the first moral injury in the litany of their failures

Absolutely shocking. We can let the mismanagement if the pandemic and the harm it caused drift into memory, so many of us were insulated by our isolation, a vague memory of loneliness. NHS staff took such a burden for government incompetence

Oh joy the company I am looking at does not provide its ridiculous AI tools to the cheapest plan! Yeay!

Everything you need to know about British media is that the right is more unpopular with 18-24 yo than at any time since 18 year olds got the vote. And this is reported as them moving to the right. See also 18-24 year old men are the 2nd most progressive demographic after women of that age

I can’t stop thinking about this framing when it comes to climate. And I don’t mean “doom” as in “I feel badly about this situation,” but as in “it’s too late.” Someone responded to my post about the impact of climate activism yesterday calling it hopium. Two people who follow me liked it.

The IOC has announced a trans and intersex athlete ban requiring an invasive SRY genetic test for female athletes. In the 20+ years trans women were eligible, only one ever competed and none ever medaled. This is solving for a problem that doesn't exist. www.nbcnews.com/sports/olymp...

And now Sora is being shut down by the biggest BS merchants of all, OpenAI "We'll have faster than light travel by Tuesday, bow before us." Na!" Did you see the study saying AI didn't improve spotting cancer compared with humans?

Well I thought this was the thing it was supposed to actually be good at

Anyone who chooses not to be domiciled in the UK for tax should be banned from standing for office or donating more than say, 3k to a political party

Crispin "smokin' a" Blunt

I think with the level of venom with which AI proponents have treated artists, writers, musicians, whole creative industries, they deserve at the very least to have that venom met in kind, and I hope it stings. I'm only sorry it hasn't happened sooner. Party's over, enjoy the hangover.

I agree 100% with Steven Vickers that authors will be falsely accused of using AI in the coming years. In particular, authors like myself whose works were stolen to train AI systems are at risk. When we write in our own unique styles, AI trained on us will quite likely flag us as using AI.

Open AI withdrawing from AI video...

This is the really big news here imo, its not just the sora app thats gone but chatgpt wont be doing videos either. This is a massive hit to openAI. Hopefully this hit causes internal bleeding that kills them as painfully as possible.

Fascinating new study about men’s friendships. There’s a lot of evidence here that the “male loneliness crisis” is actually a white, wealthy man problem. Other men are building friendships with similar depth to women’s friendships.

Re: my last reposts “Do not put money in the pocket of a woman who has sworn publicly to use it to disenfranchise vulnerable populations” is the smallest ask imaginable. It’s not oxygen, it’s not food. It’s television. You can do without. There are thousands of other shows for you to watch.

Rapid unscheduled disassembly nuclear reactor style

Wind & solar are currently producing 65% of Britain's electricity. Meanwhile, renewables now offer 30,000 more UK jobs than oil and gas. Meanwhile, we're in a climate emergency. Meanwhile, we're in a fossil fuel supply crisis. Meanwhile, the Tories and Reform want to scrap Net Zero. grid.iamkate.com

Oh, my.