Striking Purple and read background, with a gnarled old tree with flashes bursting from the leaves. The artist must have been on some sort of alternative medication, but I have never asked him! Shoreline of Infinity's Event Horizon rides to Dundee with Gavin Cameron (poet) Rafael Torrubia (prose) Erin Farley (storyteller) Ash Alexander (another local poet) and featuring T L Huchu (prose) Hosted by MK Hardy 7.30pm-9pm 23rd April 2026 Stenecki Coffee 18a Exchange St Dundee DD1 3DL Tickets £5/£0 - www.shorelineoflnfinity.com

Thursday night in Dundee! Shoreline of Infinity's Event Horizon for a *GREAT* night of fantastical readings, poetry and storytelling

with
Gavin Cameron
Rafael Torrubia
Erin Farley
Ash Alexander
T L Huchu

Hosted by MK Hardy

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right? and? i could cycle it and get there faster. a marathon is designed to test human athletes. a machine moving faster than a person is irrelevant to literally anything. who cares.

From my new piece concerning the Anthropic settlement:

catvalente.substack.com/p/blood-mone...

RIP Tolkien you would have hated the complete lack of basic reading comprehension which tech bros bring to LotR

They’re literally holding a Strait

One of those real 'this is why I do this job' days, thanks to students in the @uofgfantasy.bsky.social centre and especially to guest speakers Terri Windling and Amal El-Mohtar! Now, on to @thebsls.bsky.social annual conference, always reliably the highlight of my professional year!

Gene Wolfe has a really good account in Castle of the Otter.

Learnt today (thank you @terriwindling.bsky.social) about the way Thor Power Tools inadvertently reshaped American publishing history in 1979 (especially in re genre fiction). Full story: www.sfwa.org/2005/01/05/h....

*New Hardinge klaxon*

UK job cuts hit English and modern languages staff hardest ‘Vicious cycle’ of course closures means system ‘gradually losing breadth and depth of expertise’

'The number of English language and literature academics fell by 8 per cent to 4,680 – among the largest decrease of all disciplines.

And the number employed in modern languages dropped 7 per cent to 4,890. This is 17 per cent below peak levels in 2015-16.' 1/3

Where I agree with Kruse is in the idea that the AI bros would struggle to understand why anyone would want to write... For me, though, enjoyment is only part of that

This is an interesting one. I take Kruse's point but also a lot of the process of writing is *not* fun for many people, and that's okay. Labour doesn't have to be enjoyable for the theft of its results to be wrong

- Should "newly created" be hyphenated? - Yes — "newly-created role" should be hyphenated since it's a compound modifier before a noun. Good catch. - I thought compound modifiers ending in -ly aren't hyphenated? - You're right, I was wrong. Adverbs ending in -ly don't take a hyphen because the -ly already signals that it's modifying the next word. So "newly created role" without the hyphen is correct.

My corporate job has a policy where we have to send them proof that we're using the enterprise AI solution they've forced on us. I just sent in this as my proof for the week.

"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT

there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS

I don't see this said enough: the widespread use of generative AI is not only making our jobs as educators harder logistically, but also emotionally. It is genuinely sad to be suspicious of students when you have spent so much time building a pedagogy based on trust and not being a cop. It sucks.

Exciting! 🎉My latest article is now live in ‘Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research’ @incsa.bsky.social. You can read all about influenza epidemics, alternative healing, and occult periodicals in the late 19C as part of the @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social project: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Composing the email right now! 😅

A picture of Dion Dobrzynski's 'Forest Ecology and Fantasy Fiction' (Bloomsbury, 2026)

Thrilled to get my hands on Dion Dobrzynski's new book about the forests of fantasy fiction - I have felt a real swell of interest in this subject lately and Dion is one of the absolute trailblazers! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/forest-ec...

neither a garrison state nor an apartheid state, just a normal country, a bastion of democracy even, that happens to subject an ethnically distinct population to a different, militarized legal system complete with capital punishment

"Even"

quiet, bitch boy

LAPD officers arrest a protester dressed as the Statue of Liberty outside a federal building during a ‘Kings Day’ protest. (Connor Sheets/Los Angeles Times)

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

"He wanted to invade a European Union country not long ago, Greenland...and now he needs us. Frankly he can go fuck himself."

NEW on Wonkhe: As universities cut optional modules to balance the books, Mack Marshall finds that restricted choice is one of the clearest correlates of disengaged AI use buff.ly/cqRWbMx

I don't "feel" my work has been stolen.
I know it.
This kind of language use by the NYT is part of the problem.
Framing it as some kind of emotional woo woo instead of a clear copyright breach...

Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

Glaswegians we used to have so much class 💔

Art spaces closing, Glasgow becoming an insurance tinderbox replaced with soulless premium student accommodation or long term rubble.

It really feels like the city's soul is being eaten away.

The best episodes are the ones which run both at once! Worf faces a conundrum which could destroy the Klingon empire; meanwhile Geordi is trying to teach Data how to make a soufflé. Stakes EXACTLY EQUAL

Hello from strike day 7 over redundancies at my institution.