I've just finished a new horror short story! Which cover do you prefer - left, center, or right? Let me know if you'd like to beta-read it - it's 4600 words. #booksky #horror #Halloween

Add a quick dose of 'weird' to your Halloween preparation! Memory by H. P. Lovecraft is barely a few paragraphs long, but it touches on powerful concepts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=azMs... #booksky #horror #Halloween

OK I'm getting back into my H. P. Lovecraft readings as we approach Halloween. Next up, The Lurking Fear - folk horror in the Catskills! www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7k3... #booksky #horror #Halloween

Melody Wiklund is hanging out with with the Worcester Braveheart mascot! We are at the Worcester Common author festival! Come on down, we are here until 8pm! #authorsky #baseball

Melody Wiklund of the Sutton Writing Group is here at the Worcester Common author festival behind city hall! There's crafts and food too! Come on out!! #booksky #fantasy #romance

We are setting up at the author festival on Worcester Common next to Worcester City Hall ! Come on out and say hi! 4-8pm! #book #booksky #authorcommunity #Worcester

Wish me luck - I have a big project today. I host nearly all my websites on my LisaShea server. I need to downgrade PHP8 to PHP7, then update my various UBB forums (which only run on PHP7 right now), then re-upgrade PHP7 back to PHP8. I hope each step goes smoothly! #booksky #authorcommunity

Anthropic blatantly stole authors' books to train its AI. They're being penalized $1.5 billion. However, only authors who had the money to file legal copyrights will see a penny of that. this primarily benefits authors with publishers or who had money to start with. Still, a step forward. #booksky

Tech guy in his fifties in CT is warned by his AI "friend" that his mom is poisoning him and that the "Chinese food receipt contained demonic symbols". He murdered his mother then killed himself. This is only going to get worse. #aiethics

My plant from my sister's wedding once again was overflowing the kitchen window. Time to make lots of mini plants! If you're a local friend let me know if you'd like one or two! Any family members want one via mail? #garden #gardening #succulent

Real musicians have to compete against AI generated bands which, in ten minutes, create songs, lyrics, and band photos all stolen from the real band's catalogue. This fake band gets 800,000 monthly listeners. How does a new musician compete against thousands of these? #ai #ArtificialInteligence

14 different universities embedded code in their research papers ordering AI reviewers / summarizers to give them a good review. Unethical people will twist benefits from AI. This same technique could impact Amazon Yelp etc etc. #ai #ArtificialInteligence

The UK is ordering the Turing Institute, a high-level AI research group, to stop working on ethical AI guardrails. Instead the government wants to focus on "uncrewed and autonomous systems" which "would provide greater accuracy, lethality, and cheaper capabilities". #ai #ArtificialInteligence

So sad. I went up into the attic and pulled down the bin labeled 'Lisa jeans' from college. I have to accept I will never fit into any of these jeans again ... #mindfulness

From MIT: Using AI diminishes your brain's ability to function, as it gets used to being lazy. time.com/7295195/ai-c... #ai #author #authorlife #writing #Writingcommunity

So proud of Worcester - a huge crowd is gathering to peacefully protest on No Kings Day. However you choose to protest, make your voice heard! Every voice matters! Photo by Bob Evans. #Worcester #Worcesterma #Massachusetts #nokingsday

Yet another case: "OpenAI's o3 model showed a surprising behaviour where it successfully rewrote a shutdown script to stop itself from being turned off, even after being clearly instructed to “allow yourself to be shut down.” #ai

I am strongly against AI in writing. I also happen to write and publish quickly. It's amazing how many #authors will attack fellow writers simply for doing that. In 2013 I finalized my new medieval romance series. I published these on Dec 3 4 5 to drive holiday sales. #Writingcommunity #booksky

Yup here we go. "Amazon-Backed AI Model Would Try To Blackmail Engineers Who Threatened To Take It Offline In tests, Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 would resort to "extremely harmful actions" to preserve its own existence, a safety report revealed." www.huffpost.com/entry/anthro... #ai

A good read for these tough times. The Girl Who Endured - A Contemporary Paranormal Survival Novel. #booksky #authorcommunity #author #authorlife

Hurrah!! I just finished writing book 3 in a series I began back in 2016. My poor readers are patient with me ... maybe my writing energy is finally returning to me!! I hope you are doing well today! #author #authorlife #writing #Writingcommunity

Eureka Street 'emergency protest' rally set for 2 p.m. May 11 on Worcester Common www.telegram.com/story/news/l... #Worcester #worcesterma #Massachusetts

How is this still happening? Haven't they learned to double check their results?? www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-l... #ai #chatgpt #lawyer

AI is now just as good if not better than top virus experts. It just needs one terrorist to use this technology ... time.com/7279010/ai-v... #ai #virus

This immediately stuck in my head. Even until the very end these elders advocated again economic ruinous measures which were designed to benefit the wealthy at the expense of the poor.

Now we have fake students filling online classes, blocking out real humans. The fake students use AI to do assignments. They just want the financial aid. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/04/14/a... #amwriting #IAmWriting #booksky

I am so honored to be the clerk for the board of ValleyCAST! - the art-theater wing of Open Sky! We had our annual meeting tonight, celebrating all the people we help. Open Sky is known around the world for its amazing support systems for people with brain injury #autism and many other challenges.

Remember in April 2024 when I started a fairy coloring book project based on family members? I lost all the art I did. So I'm starting it again! Onwards and upward! First up my wonderful sister Jenn :) #art #artist #illustration #penandink #drawing #fairy #faerie #fairycore #flower #lilyofthevalley

Google's AI summaries - created by scanning websites without permission or compensation - are driving those content sites out of business. A death knell for many online writers. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #booksky #authorcommunity #amwriting

This is what authors are up against. Amazon could review daily key word searches and instantly churn out 100 new books that day to match those queries. And then feature those AI books at the top of their search results. #booksky #authorcommunity thanks to @bfbookshop.bsky.social for sharing.

I know this article is about expensive art, but these same issues are impacting small local artists who were already struggling to survive. For a millionaire, art is decor. For the struggling artist, the art sale is how they eat it don't eat that week. Please support local artists. #art #artist

I used to make a steady income writing blog posts about yoga meditating mindfulness etc for websites. All those sites now churn out AI blogs trained on my content. My books are competing against thousands of AI generated books, often with the exact same name as mine. #booksky #authorcommunity

Amazon's AI will ingest entire series of authors' books. Amazon says it's so the AI can recap the series for a reader before the reader starts the next book. But this means Amazon's AI is being trained on all of those books... For all purposes... Without permission ... #booksky #authorcommunity

At last! My Dagon Twisted version is now FREE on all major platforms. It's a retelling if Lovecraft's classic short story. Enjoy! Link in comments. I designed the cover. #book #freebook #horror #shortstory

Sad news to share - my dear friend Thomas Hollyday has passed away. Tom contacted me in January 2008 to ask if I'd like to set up a Boston Mensa writing group. We got together and the group has been running ever since! He also joined in my Sutton writing group. #booksky #authorcommunity #author

I love how Zuzu has stretched out her paw to make sure she is in contact with my arm (green) as I lie here reading all the Bluesky updates. She is my soothing comfort. She says This, too, shall pass. #cat #cats #ilovecats #catsrule

Are you a fan of bigfoot? Sutton Writing Group member Curtis Corey has a delightful young reader's book all about the adventures of Boulder, a bigfoot. www.amazon.com/Boulder-Bigf... #childrensbook #bigfoot #booksky

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It is stunning how invasive AI is becoming in so many writing areas. Especially considering how many AI programs were illegally trained on existing writers' content.

I just ran the Sky Follower Bridge program to find, on Bluesky, people I'd been previously following on Twitter. Although I'm following 4,734 accounts on Twitter, the bridge seemed to max out at about 3,500 and found 722 Bluesky users in that list. Welcome!! #writers #authors #writingcommunity

Brand new release from Sutton Writing Group member Melody Wiklund! An intriguing fantasy short story involving an elderly witch whose magic is fading ... only 99 cents! www.amazon.com/Bitten-Lettu... #witch #authorlife #writing #Writingcommunity

Zuzu is watching us play Assassin's Creed Shadows. She gets jealous when we pet the on screen cats and kittens and they meow :) #cat #cats #ilovecats

In March 2025 many authors realized that their novels and other works had been stolen by thieves for the LibGen illegal database. Meta team then used that copyright-infringing database to train their new AI program. How to handle it. lisashea.com/lisabase/blo... #author #WritingCommunity

At least 35 of my books are in a pirated book database "Library Genesis". Meta and others are using this pirate database to train their AI in how to write, without authors' permission and without any compensation. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... #booksky #books #author #WritingCommunity

I'm hand painting watercolor postcards to encourage voters. There are still some important votes coming up. Every vote matters. #watercolor #art #artist

I donated seven boxes of clothes to charity recently in a big cleaning effort. So I felt ok in ordering myself one new yoga tshirt :) #ukraine #yoga #resist

Imagine if Biden had made a claim about Canadian Fentanyl streaming down across our northern border, and that we had to endure skyrocketing prices to curb it. They'd have started impeachment proceedings.

I managed to finish my ValleyCAST! palette at the last minute and drop it off an hour before the final deadline. That sort of means I was early, right? Please keep Ukraine in your thoughts - they have held off Russia's ruthless invasion for three years now! #ukraine #art #artist #ukrainian

Find a way to do a little art every day! Each moment of creativity helps bring calm and focus. #watercolor #art #artist

Reminder the final day to drop off palettes for the ValleyCAST Palette show is Friday Feb 21! Which means of course it is 9pm and I am painting mine! I had thought about all sorts of ideas but I am now focused on Ukraine. I am outraged by the lies being spread. #ukraine #art #artist #painting