Becca Coffindaffer

@beccacoffindaffer.bsky.social

✨Queer dystopian, scifi and fantasy author 🙅‍♂️Professional gen AI hater 🚫Anti book bans, anti TERFs 🔪The Bloody and the Damned 🚀Crownchasers

Idk y'all I think the secret police that violently terrorizes our neighbors and doesn't bother following any laws nor vetting the people they hire for mental health problems and histories of violence, and that recruits with nazi iconography may be bad actually

🧵 Attention, Fellow SFF Artists and Authors -- here is my response to Must Read Magazines, after they presented an Asimov's art contract expecting me to waive all Moral Rights and Copyright to my art. And, I would strongly advise the following to my fellow pros…. 1/

John Picacio’s response to Must Read Magazine’s request for his waiver of all Moral Rights and Copyright of his commissioned art for an ASIMOV’S assignment. Short version — Picacio says a resounding NOPE.

"Get ready to have your heartstrings tugged on and your breath bated." @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social reviews Julian Winters' Find My Way Down to You, a YA novel about grief, Greek mythology, and accepting that your first romance doesn't define your life.

Grief, Love, and Navigating the Afterlife: Find My Way Down to You by Julian Winters - Reactor

Alex Brown reviews a new young adult fantasy novel that will tug on your heartstrings.

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I may have gone off a bit on my latest YouTube video. But IMO, Coral Hart, you don't get to say you don't care how bad AI is for the environment unless you're willing to stand on it and park yourself and your loved ones permanently next to a hyperscale data center. #BookSky #antiai

I may have gone off a bit on my latest YouTube video. but IMO, Coral Hart, you don't get to say you don't care how bad AI is for the environment unless you're willing to stand on it and park yourself ...

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In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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