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Dana Berube

@dana-berube.bsky.social

Boston-based SFF writer, artist, Mongolia enthusiast! [she/her] Repped by @benglishhh.bsky.social

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Dana Berube@dana-berube.bsky.social · 12h ago

Not my 36-year-old brother texting me to say "remember when you told me as a kid that if I swallowed the littlest bit of toothpaste, I would die, and I worried about it for years??" Man, younger siblings never let anything go.

Dana Berube@dana-berube.bsky.social · 3d ago

I had a feeling these two would make for an excellent double-feature about humanity’s relationship with animals and nomadism/pastoralism, particularly in a modern (and specifically post-Communist) world, and I was 100% right. Great, mind-expanding reads for this city gal @songsforhorses.com

A Song for the Horses by KG Hutchins and ANIMA by Kaplan Kassabova, the first an academic ethnomusicology book about music, heritage, and animal husbandry in Mongolia, the second a creative nonfiction book about the author living with the last remaining shepherds in rural Bulgaria
Andy Sellars@sellars.bsky.social · 5d ago

Albert Sellars LLP (@kendraserra.bsky.social and I) were honored to represent the folks at @aclu.org, @aclum.bsky.social, @aclumaine.bsky.social, @aclu-nh.bsky.social, @riaclu.bsky.social, and the ACLU of Puerto Rico in an amicus brief in the AAUP v. Rubio case. A quick thread on what we filed!

#00108490465 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (1st Cir., 26-1195) – CourtListener.com

AMICUS CURIAE BRIEF tendered by American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Massachusetts, ACLU of Maine, ACLU of New Hampshire, ACLU of Puerto Rico, ACLU of Rhode Island. [26-1141, 26-1195] (AFS) [Entere...

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Dana Berube@dana-berube.bsky.social · last wk.

I have hit 100,000 words in this novel, but what I am most proud of is how close to the end I got before hitting that mark, because my stuff is always much too long! I'd love to keep it under 120k by the end.

Elizabeth Spiers@espiers.bsky.social · last wk.

As anyone in publishing will tell you, women do not resist reading books by men, but men will often dismiss books by women. This is not a publishing problem or a failure to target men. It's a misogyny problem.

Jason Sanford@jasonsanford.bsky.social · 2w ago

But if you go down the LLM road, you are bound to that path. If the tech bros who own that LLM begin charging thousands of $ a month to use their program, you're facing a major gatekeeper. And yes, once our current AI bubble breaks the subsidized cost of using LLMs is going to skyrocket. 4/

Jason Sanford@jasonsanford.bsky.social · 2w ago

Right now anyone can learn to write or create art. The price of admission is incredibly, super-duper low. Don't have a computer? You can write or draw on paper. Yes, it takes time to learn how to tell good stories or create compelling art, but there is no gatekeeper. 3/

Dana Berube@dana-berube.bsky.social · 2w ago

They have been jackhammering outside my apartment for 3 straight days with such fervor that at this point I can only assume they are digging to China, and I look forward to spelunking down to Beijing for some jianbing and chuanr

Martha Wells@marthawells.com · 2w ago

Because it apparently needs to be said: I have never fucking used the AI/LLM/chatbot/plagiarism machine and I never fucking will. If you use it, I think you're a bad person.

Dana Berube@dana-berube.bsky.social · 2w ago

Lockdown in Hellworld was a very validating read for me. Proof that, yeah, that shit really happened, we all went through that. You wouldn't think you'd need the reminder of what it felt like at the time, but it does help. That shit sucked. Good book though.

Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 2w ago

I don't plug this book as much because people didn't seem to want to read about Covid while it was still peak Covid but maybe some of you all do need a reminder of what it was actually like as it happened. www.orbooks.com/catalog/lock...

There will be a million books written about this period in history but most of them will come when it’s all said and done. Writing about it now at the beginning of the pandemic—and to be clear we are still in the beginning of this in America despite being six months along—feels strange it feels like you’ve just jumped off a cliff into the ocean and as you’re falling someone shouts out How’s the water? and you yell back What? and then you keep falling. I thought for some reason anyway I’d get a lot of this down as it was happening. Not for history because I hate that framing the idea that you hear so often now like “History won’t look favorably on this” usually when it’s someone panicking about Trump’s latest fuck up. It’s just such a strange way of thinking about the world to me. It’s a form of punting responsibility for real problems happening right now to some later date at which point the future moon historians or whatever will arrive and right the wrongs of our present with their scathing appraisal of how terrible Trump was. Not only is it a type of cowardice—“outsourcing this to the future when people will care” as a buddy of mine said—it doesn’t even happen to be true. The history books do not in fact tell us the real unvarnished dirt on what our leaders and so on were up to that’s like the one main thing we know about history books that they’re fucked up and biased and written from the perspective of the victors. On top of that thinking about this particular pandemic in terms of what will be said about it later is just real fucking weird because did we even learn about the Spanish flu in the books we were meant to have read? I certainly don’t remember reading about it in school.