Nothing hurts while I am sword-fighting or teaching sword-fighting, which is great until I stop.

And I’d made her cry. Good job, Murderbot.

just shaking the internet to see if anything falls out, but i'm looking for an agent for my books, backlist and/or new stuff. backlist is queer dragon riders, completed series, and nebula-winning MG fantasy. new stuff is contemporary fantasy. two novellas and a trilogy. must be queer/queer-friendly

Time to bring back this meme I made a while back. If being against generative AI in the arts is gatekeeping, then I guess I’m a proud gatekeeper.

Fantastic evergreen thread.

Marie Bilodeau@mariebilodeau.bsky.social · 17h ago

I am not active enough on social media to keep up, but here's me trying to catch up: - Gen AI sucks, and no you can't sell your Gen AI stuff at Can*Con (see our policies) - I love all the people-made art you've shared. Yes, yours, too 1/?

I could play it back to listen in on the whole conversation but I could also punch myself in the head with a sampling drill and I was not going to do that, either.

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It's a good thing I wear so many hats, because right now I am throwing them in a lot of rings.

As I received this news today here in British Columbia, the wildfire smoke blankets the sky, our eyes are burning and our kid is complaining of a sore throat from it. And we’re the lucky ones. 🧵 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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I'm just gonna say: it somewhat baffles me that people who are understandably skeptical of opaque LLMs as legitimate sources of information will suddenly go full on "the computer KNOWS" when they are using opaque tools to "detect" AI. The computer does not know.

Susanna Kearsley@susannakearsley.bsky.social · 2d ago

❤️ Gillian Green, publisher at Tor Bramble, told The Bookseller: “HM Wolfe has confirmed that Daggermouth was written entirely without AI. We stand behind our author, and we do not recognise third-party AI detection tools as a fair or reliable measure of authenticity when used on their own.”

I started playing D&D between this post and the previous one. My brother's first basic set had the "in Search of the Unknown" adventure, but came with chits instead of dice. Not long after, I got this set, and my brother bought a set of low-impact dice. I think my first dice came with Gamma World.

Esoteric Collector@vcreedsabretooth.bsky.social · 2w ago

Dungeons&Dragons became so popular it achieved national attention. No longer selling thousands of D&D units they were selling tens of thousands. Unfortunately this obliterated supply of Hong Kong TSR dice as the manufacturer couldn't keep up. The desperate solution was resorting back to card chits

"Why can't you just appreciate how revolutionary the job-taking, environment-degrading, information-shredding, technology-hoarding, economy-swamping machine is?" My brother in Christ, there may indeed be a revolution in part because of "AI," but it might not be the one you wanted.

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

JFC.

ian.fenrisgames@fenrisgames.com · 3d ago

ffs

I mostly read ebooks, and these days a lot are audiobooks, but sometimes I want to go and buy the physical book and cut it into pieces (literally) to see what makes it tick. (complimentary)

Was looking in the fridge for sauerkraut and for no reason at all my brain said "Powerkraut" and if there was never a golden age supervillain named that it's a huge missed opportunity.

Your periodic reminder that the list of underlying health issues generally used for these statements includes things like ADHD and allergies and effectively dismiss the majority of people's lives as acceptable losses.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

If anything, you can't get writers to shut up about craft...

Antony Johnston@antonyjohnston.bsky.social · 3d ago

Seeing complaints online that authors 'gatekeep' information…! Absolute nonsense. There is no industry or craft in the world which is so comprehensively written about, studied, and discussed as fiction writing, and every author I know welcomes new writers who are serious about giving it a go.

If you are a famous influencer and your ad-libbed lines make people think your script was AI-generated, you might be correct in thinking you have an unhealthy relationship with your chatbot.

The stream by my house is roaring like it's spring thaw.

if there's a cat in your house you gotta go bother 'em. hurry

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I know this isn't exactly new, but when and why did people start holding their phones horizontally by their mouths instead of by their ear? Is there some advantage to this that I'm not seeing?

Ha there just seems to be a steady stream of articles with genAI "thought leaders" saying "if people don't pay for our product then we will not have money to produce the product" as if this is some profound statement.

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 7mo ago

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns

Okay, let it

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 7mo ago

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns

The pure racism of these publications accusing Black authors of using AI. Now The Atlantic is coming after Daggermouth, claiming H.M. Wolfe used AI, after putting it through a ‘scanner’ to ‘check’. This is the third trad published author of colour to be accused. This is some racist BULLSHIT.

This is why you dont try to compromise or concede anything to these horrors

JK Rowling centre says Amnesty apology does not solve ‘reputational damage’ — The Independent

Beira’s Place was among organisations labelled ‘anti-rights’ in a briefing document.

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