Very pleased to be on the Aurora @csffa.bsky.social finalist ballot with three works -- ONE MESSAGE REMAINS for related work, HUNTED TO EXTINCTION in short story, and THE FIRST THOUSAND TREES for novella! Thank you to all the nominators and organizers! 😍
www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...
Also if you read Polish, the translation just came out! Photo from the Empik bookstore in Kraków by @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social
Anyway, our public libraries deserve more support. Let's fight to ensure they receive what they need to pay library workers fairly, to do the necessary capital repairs/upgrades, and to afford lots of books and other resources, and to offer programming.
Good night everyone. #NationalLibraryWeek
Thr South Korean president criticized Israel, Israel got super mad about the mention of the Holocaust, and not the far worse reference. The president compared them to imperial Japan, which is like the worst thing a Korean can call anyone or anything www.theverge.com/policy/91358...
Ironically, this is a good description of model collapse, which makes the described argument yet another example (c.f. "stochastic parrot" &c.) of clankwank that willfully projects the failures of their technology inward as diminishments of the human.
WISCON 48 Guests of Honor! Darcie Little Badger and Premee Mohamed! wiscon.net; WisCon logo pictures of Darcie Little Badger and Premee Mohamed
A little birdy told us that Premee Mohamed and Darcie Little Badger are going to be speaking at a feminist science fiction and fantasy convention...The bird is us! WisCon is the convention. Memorial Day Weekend, May 21-25 2026. Online. Exciting! @littlebadger.bsky.social @premeemohamed.com
#WisCon
NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty.
"People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
the most evil guy in the country wants to feed everything you've ever done into a machine that replicates you so he can eliminate you, and some people still walk around saying "well, there ARE some uses for this technology"
Anyway yes, reminder that if you pre-order WICKHILLS you get a) a novel and b) a bunch of mildly silly asides in it (all written entirely by me, ahem ahem) including police reports, bulletin board summaries, a soup recipe, and excerpts from a DIFFERENT novel
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Oh damn. Whoa. Thanks to the folks who enjoyed UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES (collection), "Uncertain Sons" (novelette), and "In My Country" (short story). And thanks again to @undertow.bsky.social and @clarkesworldmagazine.com. Congrats to the finalists. An honor to be in your company.
Eyyy! Thank you so so much to all the readers and voters -- ONE MESSAGE REMAINS is in some AMAZING company with collections this year! (Including my exceedingly brilliant agent-sibling @thomasha.bsky.social !)
Cops are a system where we feed taxpayer money to white supremacists and get civil rights violations
We should be taking notes.
"Magataotao" on Twitter writes: "I am Catholic. This👇is not my Pope." Attached is a video of the Pope saying that we should search for peace and reject war. A community note under their tweet says: "You are not a Catholic if you do not accept the Pope, but rather a schismatic. Canon 751: “Schism is the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff,” ie. the Pope. https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib3-cann747-755_en.html"
first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note
If in 2026, you are STILL saying 'why didn't X survivor/victim of sexual assault go to the cops or prosecutors?' then you cannot be trusted to drive a car or live by yourself because you are ignorant.
100% concurr with KC. I'll add that not a single voter currently knows what Democrats will do should they win the House or Senate. Not one thing and we're halfway into April. Not a single thing outlined. Nothing for voters to rally FOR.
The fact that someone with the power to do so threatened to bring down the Vatican and i am unhappy about this is just, one of the crazier things in recent history
Israel called today's operations in Lebanon ETERNAL DARKNESS and we are still being told that this fascist nation can be reasoned with.
This is just a fact: either Israel is stopped or expect the war to continue and expand. Those are the options.
bookmaxxing, novel-pilled
An opposition party would not be on vacation right now. They would have coordinated message to the public about the fact that a President in cognitive decline is threatening more war crimes. They would be BLASTING the message on all available platforms.
WHY ISN'T YOUR PARTY DOING THIS ON BLAST THOUGH?????? STOP BEING A FUCKING COMMENTATOR. YOU HAVE POWER. USE IT.
Also NEWS! I am teaching an updated and improved, also I would say cyclopean and batrachian, perhaps cthonic, version of my MODERN COSMIC HORROR WRITING class for @carlbrandon.bsky.social ! May 16-17!
This is a deep dive with text analysis, examples, a reading/resource list, and exercises!
The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender.
Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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!
I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine.
BTS music video for 2.0 showing them doing a hallway fight in the style of oldboy
hehe bts really did do an oldboy hallway fight
never talk to cops or chatbots
it's easy to not use AI to write. The closest I come is when I search for history shit and the AI response comes up first, but I know enough about history that I've personally noticed SO much misinformation in those AI results that there's no use case for it anyhow.
David Lynch "FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE!"
Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️⚧️❤️
