At first you're like, why does this have a wiki page Then you find out it might be the best wiki page ever

In short we don't like "AI" because we can see a fucking used car salesman coming a mile away and yet you keep insisting there are five lights. We're not all stupid and we're not all gullible, and we won't blindly accept an obvious scam. You fucking ruined every product you've touched you assholes

If you want to give/get signed books by me for the holidays, you can place an online order with Hyperbole Bookstore (a family-owned indie) in College Station, TX hyperbolebookstore.com and ask for signature via their email contact for the Murderbot books, Witch King, Queen Demon, anything in print.

I’ve spent a lot of the last three years investigating the rise of anti-trans politics. Often, it came back to the controversy over trans women athletes. So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/

The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.

This is a lovely use of data and visualisation and a wake up call for those who still seem to think Twitter isn't a pernicious platform with questionable motives.

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

The Predator’s heat vision is actually pretty shit or it would be able to see Arnold’s exhaled breath. In this essay I will

Zohran picked 「卓蘭」("excellent orchid") for his first name and「夸梅」("brilliant plum") for his middle name. The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.

Let’s talk about AI art. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

Important: there is a pub in Holborn where a cat wears a ruff. His name is The General

what an efficient reminder that "free speech" only ever applies to a really specific type of guy

"sorry 🥺🥺 im just not smart enough to write without AI 🥺🥺🥺" is not an argument any writer can take seriously bc, unfortunately, we have met us

The thing about all this Itch had no choice handwringing is that it reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of how corporate culture works. Visa and Mastercard have caved to Collective Shout because they believe the reputational threat is a real risk. They need to be shown the alternative is worse.

You don’t have to like, approve of, or engage with porn and nsfw work to see how right wing extremists are using fear and stigma around smut to ban queer people from public life, define “good” sex as only between married people for procreation, and otherwise further force white supremacy on everyone

Creating an imprint solely for male authors will not magically get men reading literary fiction again. You're locking the barn door after the horse is long gone. Your enemy is not women; your enemy is decades of educational decline and the profound cultural dominance of visual media.

gently: it's fine if you don't love explicit sex scenes in fiction but it would be cool if you could talk about it without sounding indistinguishable from moms for liberty

bisexual wooper doodle 🩷💜💙

I've already reposted a few bits from this, but seriously, read the whole thread. AI doesn't save work; it either increases it, or abdicates it entirely because you no longer give a shit about truth, fairness, and accuracy.

I just got sent the final design for Vol. 1 of the Lady Trent deluxe edition omnibus, and it is SO PRETTY, Y'ALL 🤩 The campaign will be launching soon! www.kickstarter.com/projects/wra...

While it doesn’t feel like doing much in the face of everything, I can help uplift trans voices. Trans authors, I’ll be offering free 15 min calls to demystify the publishing industry and answer any questions. My email is on the Ki website! (NOTE: this is not a platform to pitch for rep)

Behold the majestic floof of this canary-shouldered thorn moth and let your Monday be that little bit more bearable. This majestic moth eats birches and alders; to help look after it please look after local trees & report any damage to your council. Thank you from the Moth Promotional Board ✨🦋✨

@oliviaatwater.com Your book has made it to Malaysia! I just saw it at a bookstore. Forgot to snap a picture unfortunately.

We're all struggling right now. Collectively, our mental health isn't exactly great. But separate your catharsis and self-soothing from your *advocacy.* Think about what you're putting out into the public sphere, and be deliberate about venting/soothing in private. Not where we all can see it.

Specifically it's not good at being right, it's good at sounding right and that is incredibly dangerous! As someone with a decade of professional copy editing experience, you miss the mistakes that seem reasonable not the obvious errors and that's one thing that makes AI such a terrible prospect

Godzilla ゴジラ 1954, dir. Ishirō Honda, sfx. Eiji Tsuburaya A giant monster's sudden appearance triggers fears of nuclear apocalypse in post-war Japan.

This is actually vital. Your plan for surviving a horrifying event can't be "consume every word of every news story, read people despairposting and speculating on your phone for hours, then go tell the group chat you're freaking the fuck out about the bad thing for more hours" or you will McLose It

Now more than ever, you're going to have to be aware of how social media--even your lovingly, personally, manually curated Bluesky feeds--may work the same way. Showing you the world through an aperture pointed only at what's on fire.

The wildfires have impacted everyone in LA, and hundreds of people have lost everything. A group of us LA authors including myself, @evaleigh.bsky.social, @rdotspoon.bsky.social & @cindykehstories.bsky.social are holding an auction to raise for the California Community Fund. tinyurl.com/yc5hpzyb

Huh? If only there were places in the world where you could discover new books and new to you books, talk with people who are enthusiastic about reading & happy to help you celebrate your fandom? Well, that's probably madness.

There is a serious point to be made that when social media platforms wash their hands of any kind of standards or moderation of users, this stuff will only get worse. It's beyond the pale in any circumstances, but the fact it's basically consequence-free can't be right.

We are going to have to rebuild this community one business and one home at a time, and so we are starting with Side Pie. You can donate here to help Kevin rebuild this pillar of our community: gofund.me/3dd6d3d1 12/?

First, the Pasadena Humane Society is completely overwhelmed with displaced and injured animals. They are asking for monetary donations to help with the evacuation relief: pasadenahumane.org/give/donate/ 9/?

as I’m opening to queries in a few days, it’s time for a proper #mswl. I’m primarily looking for YA/adult SFFH and serious trade non-fic in the broad history/sociology/archaeology space. I’m very keen on the literary end of genre, as well as commercial stories that say something about society. 1/?

Having ChatGPT write your class essay is like paying for a personal trainer at a gym and then having a robot lift the weights for you.

This becomes funnier for me because KCH is also an abbreviation for Kuching, an East Malaysian city often called the Cat City due to the similarity in its name with the Malay word for cat. I'm just imagining the phone going "cat! cat! cat!" and it is SENDING me

We are excited to reveal that the next series for our Fantasy Sub will be Rook & Rose by M. A. Carrick! 🥳 A Venetian fantasy trilogy written by an amazing duo of writers!

not understanding the cultural and sociopolitical impact of crushing colonising nations at the sport they introduced us makes you sound clueless to the point of being white noise about how this whole thing works and I don't mean sport

Because some damn fool asked, here's a thread about Baxter. This was taken on the day I brought home Baxter and threw away all hope of an easy life. Look at him. Absolutely irresistible. And that's how they get you, the utter bastards

The Traitor Baru Cormorant (does it count even if I say it's my comfort read unironically)

Leicester City's main sponsor BC.Game has been declared bankrupt in Curaçao, where it held an offshore gambling licence, after money owed to bettors disappeared during a corporate handover. A short thread. tribuna.com/en/news/2024...

My five authors: - Matthew Stover (Acts of Caine, Traitor, Shatterpoint) - Daniel Abraham (Long Price Quartet, Kithamar 1 + 2) - Max Gladstone (Craft Sequence) - Marie Brennan (Memoirs of Lady Trent, Driftwood) - Martha Wells (Murderbot) Seth Dickinson is close (Masquerade + Exordia).

giving grok access to my twitter worked

every one of those op-ed columnists has spent years building up a follower list on twitter, many of whom left, and so they are angry because you owe them your attention ad to help them get paid, your entire existence is to facilitate their need to put in as little effort as possible, know your place

Sorry, I don't care if I'm in an echo chamber. It's fucking Saturday. I don't need to be confronted with endless transphobia and "just asking questions" folks when all I want is to laugh at some stupid jokes while I eat Reese's pancakes and ignore my family.

Oh fuck off Gianni "today I feel like a migrant worker" Infantino

I just saw a US pollster say that they have the greatest electoral system in the world. Man, the world does not stay up with popcorn and alcohol, watching *well run* elections waiting to see if an orange lunatic fuckwit bigot is going to be given control of the nuclear weapons or start a coup.