as someone who did her MA on Aldous Huxley and BMW........

😐

SO FAR this one seems okay but i thought i felt some swelling and also a headache in the upper sinuses so like idk man

i only want a non-mineral sunscreen that i can wear!!

muuuuust i be allergic to all the nice sunscreens? 😫

The Skull & Laurel logo, black on white, with the above text .

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Ginger cat stares closely at capsule on it’s way to splashdown on tv screen

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Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

This researcher created a fictional illness, and fake studies funded by the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and University of the Fellowship of the Ring and the Galactic Triad.

LLMs warned people the illness was real.

go.nature.com/48mAyh9

Anyone want an accountability buddy 🫠

Chemical or mineral? Everyday or heavy duty? I like Blue Lizard but that's because I'm allergic to chemical sunscreens 😔 I try to use that one only on my body and I've got others for my face

now, i Know that novel writing is a marathon and yet i'm always surprised when it takes me forever to get anywhere

(and it should not! i've done this before with a longer project! but my general fatigue has seeped into both creative work and physical work 😞)

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!

How did we end up with a culture of people bragging about being planet-boilingly bad at their jobs

Like do people genuinely not feel shame any more

BRING BACK SHAME

AI & TRADITIONAL PUBLISHING: A SURVEY

I was curious about how people in traditional publishing are feeling about AI. I would love input from authors, editors, agents, booksellers, translators, narrators, designers and more. Thanks for sharing and participating!

this person kind of just seems... miserable

COURT: Supreme Court of British Columbia, Vancouver Registry DATE FILED: May 23, 2025 A proposed class action lawsuit has been filed in Vancouver against Anthropic PBC. The plaintiff alleges that Anthropic PBC violated copyright held by Canadian authors when training its large language models. Specifically, the plaintiff alleges that Anthropic PBC downloaded “Books3” dataset. This dataset contains large amounts of copyrighted works, including books and articles by Canadian authors. The plaintiff alleges that Anthropic PBC used and unlawfully copied and shared these copyrighted works, and did not license or otherwise obtain permission to do so from the copyright holders. If you have any questions about the case or information that you think may assist our investigation, please contact us by clicking on the contact button or calling the number below. Any communication is strictly confidential. Contact: Oliver Pulleyblank Phone: 604.697.2480 ext. 240

Canadian authors, if you aren't eligible for the US Anthropic lawsuit bc you didn't register US copyright, we have our own class action suit! It doesn't rely on registering copyright and you're included in the class by default 🇨🇦

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i think this is maybe a weird manifestation of imposter syndrome but oddly enough, not about my ability to be a writer 🙃

oh no

i've developed anxiety about writing my anxiety novel

"It's just a bad period."

A personal piece about Endometriosis.

The image is a flat-coloured painting featuring a dark skull. The skull is cracked and splitting, and a gilded sword stabs through the skull from head to jaw. Golden thorns pierce through the socket of the eye and the mouth to symbolize the pain being too intense to speak or see. The lines are intricate and gold, and the colours are dark with floral arrangements pushing out of a border.

"It's just a headache."

Migraines are far worse than headaches. They impact vision, feel skull-splittingly painful and make it impossible to function properly. They are debilitating, chronic and can last an awfully long time, even days.

it's always interesting to me how white people will continually dismiss and denigrate the experience of people of other ethnicities, particularly diaspora, by claiming authority and privileging the voices of a few people they know from source countries

the sheer arrogance

It was focused on BNW! Huxley's ideology is actually way less straightforward than he presents in the book (which is actually PRO-eugenics and he reiterated that in BNW Revisited). I spent a lot of time just like 🫠 reading Huxley's essays

Yeah it's honestly a super weird and interesting period. I was mostly focused on Huxley (obv) but I do remember some incriminating lines from Wells' essays. That said, I remember Huxley taking a lot from Wells's World State stuff and Wells disliking his interpretation

Wells miiiiiight not have been satirizing them (full disclosure: I haven't read The Time Machine)

The man came up in my readings for my MA (focused on Aldous Huxley) and he was a big inspiration on Huxley for his anti-democracy thinking

mosslax sleeping in a cave

Bodhisattvas who practice
the Insight that Brings Us to the Other Shore
see no more obstacles in their mind,
and because there
are no more obstacles in their mind,
they can overcome all fear,
destroy all wrong perceptions
and realize Perfect Nirvana

It baffled me how screenwriters seem to know nothing about other kinds of writing like I thought there'd be crossover

I got some writing in 😫👌 trying to draft has been harder than I expected

There are only a few spaces available on this September's Milford workshop! Read more about how it goes here:
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And find a link there to instructions on how YOU could be part of a new critique group meeting at @gladlib.bsky.social in six months' time!

The cadence is just Too French Canadian and it was doubly jarring when listening to the audiobook as the narrator stuck to a continental French accent since it was... Not quite congruent

Has anyone else noticed that Leech takes place in Quebec or like....

i ALSO can't see them. those books continue to boggle my brain

Shaxian Peanut Sauce Noodles (沙县拌面) YouTube video by Chinese Cooking Demystified

i have a variant for you (more SEA style):

get yourself some chewy potato noodles (usually in the frozen/fridge section!)
sauce: peanut butter, soy (light and dark), sriracha, garlic, lime juice

something about the chewy potato noodles... also this version:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvIZ...