Lake Corpus Christi stands at just over 9% capacity, and Choke Canyon Reservoir, the city’s other primary source, is below 8% full. A formal Level 1 water emergency, requiring mandatory cuts across all users, could be declared as early as May.
Goodnight from Jamie Bestwick, listening to the click and whir of the Madame Zelda fortune telling machine on Brighthaven Pier as it prints a doom-laden future. Goodnight from Rosalind Trice, slowly coming to realise that not all vampires drink blood. Goodnight from Hookland.
For the US folks, The Luminous Dead ebook is on sale for 1.99!
I was honored to be asked to participate in this venture, and it will be fabulous. I knew instantly which post/essay I wanted to read. Mine isn't dropping until early 2028 but meanwhile every week you'll have a bit of Le Guin to listen to, each time read by a different person.
NOAF published my "6 Books" interview!
I mis-typed. (My bad entirely.) The Westing Game *absolutely* sparked my love for mysteries and sheer wordplay. Go see what other books I talked about!
www.nerds-feather.com/2026/04/6-bo...
“’If you could help us to leave,' 9-year-old Deiver Henao Jimenez asked Ms. Rachel. 'I don't want to be here anymore. Nothing is good here.’” www.expressnews.com/news/border-...
since everyone is in a real space mood, just saying now is a good time to get an AppleTV subscription and binge 4 seasons of For All Mankind while S5 is dropping (2nd ep today!) and you can also watch some of the MANY OTHER amazing shows it feels like no one is talking about. LOL
That would be the most excellent Friday.
The Farwanas have not been able to get food since Khalil's accident. Please keep supporting them so that Noreen can try to get something for their daily needs
chuffed.org/project/khal...
It's a very old design, but it quietly amuses me, and used to be my favourite PJ shirt.
www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1181...
Fundraiser for librarian Luanne James, who stood up to her rightwing library board that demanded she remove kids books with any trace of LBGTQ+ characters or content.
"I will not comply."
They sacked her and cops escorted her out.
She's a hero. This banned author just donated.
A drawing of my tabby cat, Otter, done in rough digital pencil lines over flat areas of gray and cream with white highlights and details in blunt lines. He is sitting in profile to the left with his head turned to look directly at the viewer with his normal cryptic expression. Chunky orange lettering surrounding him above and below reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.
Anime-style girl with blue and purple hair standing in front of a pastel blue sky with pink clouds. Text says “Daily Mutual Aid Housing Needs.”
Rules:
This thread is for housing needs (rent, eviction, hotels, security deposits, moving).
Every one is allowed.
No flashing gifs.
Mark any graphic media-graphic.
Share others in thread.
This is daily because housing is fragile and we’re in a crisis.
I can't speak for other fields, but programming is headed for a future where the Morlocks eventually die off leaving a generation of Eloi who will be fine as long as the Second Law of Thermodynamics is wrong.
"oh so you're a socialist but you think rich people should get free healthcare!?!"
yes. everyone should get free healthcare. EVERYONE. like, this isn't hard.
also celebrities are starting gofundmes and athletes coming out of retirement to get health care! this system sucks for everyone!
I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.
Man I have never been so happy for a random pilot I have never met before
Texans, we really need your help.
OMG, this awful regime wants to drill in CHACO CANYON.
thebookseller ig account saying NEWS: some editors uploading confidential manuscripts to ChatGPT to read quickly, agent claims
the guardian: I wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence – but we are as valuable as ever | Stephen Marche
the walrus bsky account: Authors are using AI. Publishers know it. And now, says publishing consultant Thad McIlroy, authors are being forced to lie about it. One cancelled horror novel didn’t just end a career—it exposed an industry-wide reckoning.
idk guys when i see a lot of similar headlines insisting that editors & authors are all already embracing AI, i don't assume these things are true. i assume there are a lot of very rich people with an unpopular product pushing a particular narrative in my industry!
Since very few people seem to know this, just throwing into the mix that Rupert Murdoch owns HarperCollins lol
This is so completely fucked
Honestly if you’re a Harper author now is a good time to email and say how disgusted you are by the toon animation ai announcement
(Corporations didn’t actually invent space and planets, despite the patents the company had tried to file.)
Btwn the craven decision to publish a book by the VP, the harlequin dash AI bullshit, and now this … just a banner work for HarperCollins being a soul sucking shit show of a company
Arley Sorg interviews me for the April 2026 issue of Clarkesworld!
Find out what inspired The Subtle Art of Folding Space!
clarkesworldmagazine.com/chu_intervie...
A very good thread about journalists and AI, much of which also applies to writers of nonfiction books. We are being told, with increasing frequency and stridency, that we "just don't get" how AI can help us, by people who are manifestly not interested in helping us. Know your enemy. Hold the line.
All of this!
A chatbot is always going to produce a statistically likely sentence. It is always going to tell you what's routine, likely, "normal." It will not help you break out of cliche. It's MADE of things-already-said. It cannot say anything particularly new.