Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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August's horror shopping list is live! feat. new books from @claymcleod.bsky.social @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social @okokno.bsky.social @apthayer.bsky.social @shanehawk.com @kaileepedersen.bsky.social @adamcesare.bsky.social @chuckwendig.bsky.social & more! readjumpscares.com/2026/08/04/a...

All the New Horror Books Coming in August 2026

August 2026’s new horror books, featuring titles from Donyae Coles, Jennifer McMahon, Chuck Wendig, Kailee Pederson, Clay McLeod Chapman, Jonathan Janz, and more!

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The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.

Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica

The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.

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“What are you working on next?” is the question everyone asks. Here’s the answer! open.substack.com/pub/hilaryda...

Sharing Some Big News

Say hello to VERA

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friends, please: don’t use transreads dot org they claim to support trans authors, but take our entire texts, post them for free, fundraise off it, and have the gall to claim it’s about preservation they are literally taking money from trans creators and make it harder for us to keep creating

This is exactly it -- if you make a kid use generative "A.i." or an LLM, you're telling them they're not good enough. That their own minds and ideas and experiences and abilities are not enough. That's a terrible, thoughtless, cruel thing to do. Shame on Kaepernick and everyone involved in Lumi.

DEAN WON!!!@deansnuggles.bsky.social · 3w ago

my daughter (11) spends hours every week drawing comics. her art (and storytelling) has improved exponentially in the last year! I can't imagine how harmful it will be to tell kids their art isn't good enough, they need to use a theft-engine instead. we'd lose a whole generation of artists!

Urgent freelance art commission! My previous arrangement has fallen through, so I need someone who can look at this sad lil' placeholder kaiju and whip up a proper, looming, nicely lit and atmospherically appropriate monster I can place into this same composition. Feel free to reply here- THREAD 🧵

Paperwork became more real today, signature soon, announcement soon! I'll go into this more when able, but my weird career is living proof that if you just stay in the game with an open mind & heart, cool things may return to you. Check out source material for a cool thing in the meantime:

Leanna Renee Hieber@leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 4w ago

A lovely thing in the works now has paperwork attached! I'll say more when able, but in the meantime, you can check out the source material for a neat thing! STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL: Gothic, Dark Academia, Hot-for-Teacher, Jane Eyre + Ghostbusters, Fantasy Romance: us.macmillan.com/books/978076...

The Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding Awards voting is still open until August 8th at 12 pm Pacific! Don't forget to submit your ballots if you're an Attending, Virtual, or WSFS member. If you don't have a membership yet, you can sign up through our site now: lacon.org/register

Apparently someone is impersonating me in an attempt to scam writers. Please be careful out there! Official Hachette emails end in hbgusa dot com.

AI fraud nearly derailed our next anthology. Today we’re talking about what went down, the things we missed, and publishing the report we wish we’d had when it happened. Read all about it on our new blog, and download the full report:

Honey, We Bought an AI Story — Bona Books

The Queer Torments of the AI-sphere

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Holy moly - thrilled to see UNNAMED BONES on this list. And the way they talked about it? Didn't expect @bloody-disgusting.com to make me tear up this morning! Thank you. 🖤 bloody-disgusting.com/books/395839...

Vampires, Grave Robbers, and Crows: 10 Horror Books We Can’t Wait to Read in July

We’re in the thick of summer reading season, and that means loads of fresh genre books to take to the beach or cozy up with by the pool. July’s top horror books bring everything from a new spin on Dra...

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Toni Morrison said, “Art does not cleanse you and make you morally superior... even when it has a very strong political content. The artist himself is not made any better. I still have to try to be the best person I can be.” Art, scholarship, or activism––there’s the work and then there’s the work.

OK sure, great, but I don't that helps much. He's 80 years old, woefully out of shape, and probably doesn't even know the rules.

A team trained by Master Splinter would never fold like this

ali alkhatib@ali-alkhatib.com · last mo.

never gonna read USMNT and not think 🎶 US Mutant Ninja Turtles 🎶

Hey, Romancelandia editors/experts who do conference teaching/speaking: Do you always get a discount on reg? I'm not a keynote-level speaker so I do expect to pay, but a conf. booked me to teach 3 workshops & didn't provide a discount code. I've asked 2x for more info; no response. Thoughts?

Imagine the joy of receiving a full-color Locus Magazine in your mailbox each month—a treasure trove of reviews, interviews, and book news. Collect this month's issue and future editions here: subscribers.locusmag...

Also, they are cute as the dickens and waaaay cuter than Charles Dickens.

Jeremy C. Shipp@jeremycshipp.bsky.social · last mo.

Hey Bluesky, could you help me signal boost my Big Cartel shop? A sale or two would be a massive help. Jeremy Creatures are designed and hand-sewed by me, and they take many hours to create. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com

Excited to share that my adult debut is coming summer 2028. DEATH NO. 114 is something new from me but my hope is it's full of heart and weirdness and recognizably mine-just with more nastiness and violence and swears. I'll yell about it more soon but happy to have the announcement out in the world.

DEAL ANNOUNCEMENT TIME!! 📣💕 Can’t wait for the world to open the pages on Chloe’s story! From the uber talented, belly-laugh and tear-jerk inducing debut author @vickielan.bsky.social, acquired and edited by the awesome @ardyce.bsky.social and published by @unionsqandco.bsky.social!

Incredibly proud to work with @adamcesare.bsky.social on getting this classic, along with Video Night, out into the wider world.

FANGORIA@fangoria.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Check out the cover for CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD author Adam Cesare's new novella ZERO LIVES REMAINING, hitting shelves this fall.

‘Reflections’ Mark Rothko ( Latvia ) 1903

Flying down to Chattanooga and Lora Senf is gonna ride with me. Such a fan. Diving into UNNAMED BONES, which hits shelves this July, from Union Square & Co. Thank you @ardyce.bsky.social @lorasenf.bsky.social

A meditation, once again, on commas. And why not.

The Pause That Refreshes

[a comma divertissement]

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Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2mo ago

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

this is honestly an excellent celebratory and motivational speech from Mamdani at the Knicks parade. i'm ready to run through a wall, and i'm not even a Knicks fan

OMG this book hits every Gothic trope I know. (All compliments, obviously.)

Leanna Renee Hieber@leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Pre-Order RAVENFIELD HALL, I promise, the cover will only make you want to pre-order it twice, so just go ahead... www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/leann...

#BookSky! I rarely link to the 'zon but I promised our publicity department that I'd let everyone know about the Prime Day deal going on through next week for AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC, our Stoker-nominated, bestselling non-fiction examining ghosts via Gothic literature! www.amazon.com/Americas-Mos...

On deadline until next week so I'm scarce, but I'd love for you to add RAVENFIELD HALL (2/16/27, Hachette) to your to-read lists across various sites! While the beautiful cover isn't released yet, some sites do have it up for pre-order! Du Maurier-esque Gothic Historical YA Romance + Ghost Ships 👻

Here's your *new week reminder* that I have oodles of fiction for <$4 (novellas, novelettes, and short stories going back decades - most of it $1.99) for sale on Kindle (please don't yell at me, just trying to get by over here): www.cheriepriest.com/cheap-kindle...