Yes!!!!

I'm SO tired of tech companies replacing perfectly good features with AI. Everyone's implementing AI to say they're implementing AI without actually fixing any problems or even identifying the problems they want to fix. I want my features simple and useful! I want the AI bubble to burst!

Google Search has fully replaced its built-in dictionary/thesaurus feature with AI, using sources like Reddit. Reddit is great, but Google used to pull definitions from Oxford! This was one of Google's most useful features for me as a writer/editor, and now it's useless & untrustworthy.

THE FRONTMAN made it into the #PosterPitAwards 🥹 I'm honored to be included. Relive all your favorites and see the ones you missed at the supersurvey link in the post below! (my golden rockstar and I are on page 5 if you feel so inclined)

The blond frontman of a 1980s hair band stands in front of a mic, identity obscured by the words “a novel” written over his eyes in cursive, to advertise Victoria Lurie’s THE FRONTMAN, a book where a young woman pretends to be her rockstar twin brother on his tour so he can go to rehab without his fans or label knowing. When rehab doesn’t work, she must choose: save her brother and ruin both their lives, or keep lying to save his legacy. Original photo courtesy of Witch via The Guardian.

SHE’S THE MAN x DAISY JONES & THE SIX

Lolly Markham is lying to the nation, finishing her twin brother’s 1983 tour while he's secretly in rehab. When rehab fails, Lolly must choose: save her brother or save his legacy, even if the truth ruins both their lives.

#Q #upmarket #A #NA #Posterpit

Who should shoulder the cost of college? The government. The answer is "the government."

Not to think piece about this, but I think this says a lot on how some creatives are able to do work because their partner/family is able to support their lifestyle.

This says a lot of how little our society values some creative work, not a jab at Rama Duwaji.

There should be something where you get money just for being alive on account of you need it to live

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

days like today i get incandescent with rage all over again that he wasn't in cuffs and an orange jumpsuit and perp walked on jan 21st, 2021

How the world's largest wildlife crossing became the target of right-wing hate Southern California's landmark $114 million wildlife crossing is almost complete.

This is a marvelous project and we need thousands more all over the country. www.sfgate.com/la/article/c...

First Page Contest #10:  Young Adult Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Horror -- Judged by Agent Keir Alekseii of Azantian Literary FREE CONTEST FOR WRITERS! Welcome to a  First Page Contest . Contest #10 is for writers of Young Adult Fiction in the areas of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and speculative . If you write in...

Writers of Young Adult Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Horror! I'm submitting the first page of my novel to @writingdaywksp.bsky.social's free contest, and you can, too :) tinyurl.com/wdwcon10

The contest is judged by Agent Keir Alekseii of Azantian Literary — winners get an agent critique of their work!

Books should take forever to write. They should torture you your entire life and the things you could have said slightly better should haunt you forever. This is what art is for, transferring the discomfort of being human into something relatable to the other humans

DEL TORO, on A.I:

“.. the value of art is not how much it costs or how little effort it requires. It’s how much would you risk to be in its presence.”

@realgdt.bsky.social

Bluesky friends, I'm still on the hunt for work! If you need a copy editor, editor, fact checker, proofreader, writer, critic... really any editorial coverage, I could be your gal. I'd love to chat!

DM me or email rebeccaclong at gmail <3

This is the kind of stuff our government should be doing!

The Frontman is a 100k upmarket fiction story about a 1980s rockstar whose twin sister has to step in and pretend to be him on tour while he battles a heroin addiction.

#amquerying She's the Man meets Daisy Jones & The Six in THE FRONTMAN (100k, upmarket fiction). Found family and addiction struggles swirl around twins on the cusp of 1980s rock stardom.

What's worth more: a legacy or a life?

MusicDrama.net a new way to explore an old art form

I quit my job and I'm co-writing a graphic novel about astronomy, but life is short, so I'm also launching a web site about opera.

Here I'll gradually be posting introductory guides to different operas, aimed at "regular people" who are curious and fun.

If that's you, check out MusicDrama.net!

Jack O’Connell you will always be famous

Overall, a weird Oscars, right?

There's no doubt that Disney was on a hot streak in the 90s with their animated movies. The game adaptations were pretty dang good too (even if they were a bit on the difficult side). Another memorable one is Disney's Hercules for Playstation 1. #retrogaming #retrogame #ps1

Ryan from The OC going hard on how crypto is a scam is the wildest silver lining in this timeline

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

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Evidence Grows That Google's AI Overviews Have Eviscerated the Media Industry Google's AI overviews have eviscerated the media landscape, with some top publications losing up to 97 percent of their web traffic.

Welp. The internet had a nice run.

Some outlets have lost over 90% of their traffic since the "AI" summaries rolled out.

"...the four worst-hit publications [now] get less monthly web traffic combined than the r/ChatGPT subreddit gets on its own."

NEW POEMS BY ME!!!!

big thanks to @bulbregion.bsky.social for including this batch and another to come soon

Whatever You Think of "Wuthering Heights," We Need More Filmmakers Like Emerald Fennell A look at the career of Emerald Fennell, and the responses to her three films to date.

"Not everything she tries works, but every choice is made with the kind of full-throated commitment to her vision that too many filmmakers lack." yes @lacymb.bsky.social on Emerald Fennell

Important note: I got a Letterboxd account in 2022 and didn't back-fill movies I'd seen before then!

Show me your @letterboxd.social five stars! Here are mine (so far):

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.