Well that's even more exciting!

A new episode of The Publishing Rodeo is out, and it feels like a tiny bit of light has returned to the world.

!!! Oh yay, new episode and a new makeover for the social page?! So glad you guys are back and excited to listen to this later!

(Also really glad Donyae is safe and her situation has improved. What a nightmare.)

Esquire couldn’t book this actor for an interview so fed previous responses through a couple of thief machines and ‘interviewed’ a digital photocopy. Including asking personal questions about his dad.

People need to be sued and then fired for this.

It was this for me. By the time I left Twitter I'd begun to tense up just visiting it, and I was burned out by being condescending to the folks trying to be nasty to me. When I came here, I fully signed onto the "don't engage, just block" ethos and tried to model a better online version of myself.

I genuinely do not care how large or small this website is or gets. I just care that people I like are here& a lot of you are the kind of weird gremlins I enjoy or at least can tolerate. And so far you’re mostly tolerating me, so thanks. My takes are in fact the hottest ones so you have good taste 🔥

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What a writer thinks ISN’T political is always a huge tell.

Even something as straightforwardly man vs nature as To Build A Fire is about toxic masculinity—“Any man who was a man could travel alone.”

Science fiction, the genre which famously has nothing to say about social issues, the human condition, or much of anything at all.

New York Times Cuts Ties With Book Review Writer Over AI Use | Exclusive The New York Times has cut ties with a freelancer of his reliance on AI.

As I was drafting (another) post about LLM use in literature, this news story popped into my feed. Paywalled but the tl;dr is a freelance book reviewer used LLMs to write a NYT review and the LLMs plagiarized from a Guardian review.

Oop

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I didn't have much of an opinion about Andy Weir before this week, beyond knowing I wanted to read his books at some point, but I sure have seen enough in the past few days to have a not-great opinion now.

This @sffaddictspod.bsky.social writing masterclass on MEMORY & TIME with @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social goes DEEP! Don’t miss it when it airs on March 31.

Want your funny fantasy mixed up with your cozy mystery? Allow me to assist with the next book in my "funny as hell" "Tune in Tomorrow" universe!

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Less than 45 hrs to go in the WERE-2 #kickstarter featuring stories about shifters OTHER THAN wolves, and less than $100 away from the next stretch goal, a free ebook of @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social's "The Black Tentacle." Don't let this #antho escape! www.kickstarter.com/projects/znb...

In case there are From heads following me (my husband and son are HUGE fans btw-- I like it but I'm kind of a scary fare wimp) -- anyway! -- From, starring the exceptional Harold Perrineau, returns on MGM+ April 19.

Hello Lunchtime Crowd the galaxy is at war in today’s review

Sure. How much do you think you should pay me to use my name? It's really important to think about attribution and think about impersonation, and so on. As an expert, you have a trade you make on the internet. The idea is that when you put content out there, myself included, you hope people use it. You want to refer to other people's content. You want people to link to you. You really, really hope they attribute you when they do. When somebody uses your content, should they attribute you? Of course. And to attribute you, you have to use your name. There's a different line which is, should people be able to impersonate you? And I think that is a very different standard. And we saw the lawsuit. Respectfully, we believe the claims are without merit. The idea that the feature is impersonation is quite a big stretch. Every mention was very clearly, "This is inspired not only by this person, but also inspired by a specific work from this specific person, with a clear attributed link to get back to them." It's far from that test lof impersonation].

Here’s my interview with Shishir Mehotra, the CEO behind Grammarly’s “expert review” feature which attributed writing advice to people - including me lol - without permission. Or, as you will hear us talk about a lot, compensation. www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...

This is your reminder that if you are a class member and have NOT yet filed a claim in Anthropic v. Bartz, the AI copyright lawsuit, you have 9 days to do so.

Shy Girl, AI In Writing, And A New Perniciousness I wanna talk about Cameron’s The Terminator and Carpenter’s The Thing, but first, let’s get it out of the way — If you know anything at all about me in this Current Era, it …

Went ahead and talked about AI in writing and publishing (aka, that Shy Girl shit), and the perhaps unseen perniciousness of how AI can utterly fuck up the fidelity of our information environment --

Please soothe your soul with this footage of an enraged muppet being treated at the wild muppet center.

Resident Evil Requiem is a video game about a woman named Grace who's having a very bad time and a man named Leon who's having a very good time

Wolfskin is (finally!) dropping in one week, concluding the Common Saga!

Personally, I'm really excited. 😁

An anthology you DO NOT want to miss! Featuring some of the incredible authors we've been so privileged to publish over this past decade! Please share this post with fans and readers of Black SFF. Guaranteed you will help someone find their next favorite storyteller in these pages!

Locus Is a Longstanding Bright Spot in Our Community - Reactor Let’s show up and support them the way they support us.

"Locus is authentic in a sea of commercial opportunism."

@fondalee.bsky.social writes about @locusmag.bsky.social's impact on SFF writers and readers across its fifty-eight years. And right now, the magazine needs our help:

The La La Land poster, edited so that the title is Project Hail Mary, and the stars are Ryan Gosling and Rocky. Ryan Gosling, dressed in white is dancing with his arms outstretched next to a rock-like alien creature with five arms, this all against a twilight-coloured Los Angeles skyline, like in the original La La Land poster.

This image was posted by the official Project Hail Mary account on Facebook, and all I have to say is that their marketing people deserve a raise.

Now I want the movie tie-in version of the novel to feature this as the cover.

Why make something beautiful and unique when it could just look exactly like what you've already seen and are comfortable with? (Even though, let's be real, it does not look as good as you think.)

This is the take. When I saw the Nvidia AI filter, my first thought was "those devs made games like RE9 look the way they do on purpose..."

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