Dr. Thomas D. Lee
@thomasdlee.bsky.social
Sunday Times bestselling author (he/him) Visiting Lecturer at City St George's University London Repped by Harry Illingworth at @dhhlitagency Linktree: https://t.co/psdOEXpR3h
The pope taking a heroic stance against machine intelligence makes a lot of sense when you consider that machine intelligence has a lot in common with classical demonology. A convenient sycophantic servant can be summoned at will to help you with minor tasks, but it comes at a cost to your soul.
The only revolting people here are the credulous execs who think it's a good idea to use a kleptomatic bullshit generator to market our books. www.wired.com/story/book-p...
Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting
Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.
wired.com
I was meant to be at the Lire en Poche festival in Gradignan this weekend but I've had to pull out for health reasons (I seem to have caught the nasty vomiting bug that's been going around). Apologies to any French readers who were looking forward to getting their books signed!
I run a D&D game set in 1918, in which the dastardly Hun are summoning dragons to try and win the war. One of my players, my friend Hugh, plays a trench-raiding barbarian with a wild boar painted on the side of his Sopwith Camel. My mother - a quilting extraordinaire - made him this amazing quilt!
@zebra1011.bsky.social · 5d agoQuilt no. 180 - my son asked me to make this for his friend’s birthday - he’s into WWI, dragons, wild boar and his family tartan! Quite the combination 🤭
So many of the world's worst industries keep threatening us with a good time www.bbc.com/news/article...
Equinor may stop investing in UK if oil and gas fields do not get go-ahead
The boss of the Norwegian state company says further investment in the UK could be at risk if Rosebank and Jackdaw are not approved.
bbc.com
I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart
I'm absolutely delighted to announce that @headlinebooks.bsky.social have acquired my new book A TRAITOR'S CALL in a two-book deal! Jamie Tulloch and the Legends team return in May 2027, tackling a threat much closer to home... cc @dhhlitagency.bsky.social @harryillingworth.bsky.social
I'm an author with historically bad mental health. In the past four years my MH has improved dramatically due to meds and therapy and having great friends. I still fall into the trap sometimes of thinking that I can ignore self-care as long as the writing's going well. I'm here to say DON'T DO THAT.
Bury my Heart (Galehaut Laid to Rest) "And Lancelot himself lay his companion to rest inside the tomb. After he had laid Galehaut down, he kissed him three times on the mouth in such agony that his heart nearly leapt out of his chest." Lancelot Part IV (Lancelot-Grail /Vulgate Cycle) #Arthuriana
I just read a third or possibly fourth news article where the reality of an 'AI has discovered something marvellous!' story turns out to be GenAI somehow accessed material it had no permissions for, which was the outcome of an expert's years of work, and presented it without attribution. GenAI lies.
I'm beyond proud of my good pal @padswa.bsky.social. He's one of the writers I most admire, because of his determination to pick himself up and keep writing brilliant fiction even after setbacks and rejections. I'm sure DRAGONFLY's going to be a huge success. www.thebookseller.com/rights/harpe...
HarperVoyager snaps up Paddy Dobson’s 'claustrophobic' sci-fi horror debut
HarperVoyager has acquired Dragonfly, a debut sci-fi horror by Paddy Dobson, scheduled for publication in early 2028.
thebookseller.com
does one REALLY need to know where mommy goes when she covers her face? i don't believe so. that information will, in the long run, be as useless as the provenance of the airplane that lands in my mouth every mealtime
Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social · 2w agoEzra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
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Tristan: checking to see if Isolde is watching before stabbing the boar Agravain: lying on the floor having a smoke Percival: in dog form, usefully flanking the boar Kay: about to throw a giant rock at the boar Palamedes: leaning on his shield, despairing as to the whole situation
Duncan Mackay@theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 4w agoWe’re going on a boar hunt, We’re going to catch a big one. Villa Romana Del Casale, Sicily. #MosaicMonday
Oh do fuck off. I'm going to start communicating by passing secret notes to people, literally old school. I should not have to spend every moment outside my home being observed and recorded by CCTV, pervert glasses, influencers desperate for love, and now Apple Watches. I have a right to privacy
Pop Crave@popcrave.com · last mo.Apple announces 'Live Rewind' for the new Apple Watch, letting users pull up the last 15 seconds of nearby conversation.
I don't have any new trek art to celebrate so, I think reposting this OG trios will suffice. Happy Star Trek day! LLAP🖖
Rad | 🇮🇩 | Commissions OPEN@cigaradd.bsky.social · 7mo agoThree Stooges #StarTrek #StarTrekTOS
I've been doing a lot of drawing recently, and my heart goes out to illustrators everywhere. It has become insanely difficult to find decent reference images on search engines without being drowned in uncanny valley AI slop.
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
Tess is Surviving the Horrors@mothmother.com · last mo.RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
There are no "Ai authors" or "Ai Artists". There is only the AI, doing everything for you and doing it badly, which is therefore not art.
Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures@michellefranklin.bsky.social · last mo.
My heart goes out to the millions of people struggling to remember how to write "Thanks! Sounds great!" in an email.
The Independent@the-independent.com · last mo.ChatGPT down: OpenAI chatbot not working in major outage
The battle to keep global heating from passing the agreed 1.5-degree threshold has been lost. This should be an era when human ingenuity works to save the planet from catastrophe. Instead the tech broligarchy is busy embarking upon ludicrous AI data centre “infrastructure” fuelled by coal and gas.
Battle to halt global heating at 1.5 degrees is lost - UN
Focus must now switch to limiting extent of overshoot, says United Nations' climate report
irishtimes.com
I want to know how many times somebody said 'should we trying looking for higher energy recoils?' before the person in charge of the project moodily said 'FINE, but we won't find anythi-'
Michael Greshko@michaelgreshko.bsky.social · last mo.BREAKING: The world's most sensitive dark matter detector has announced it has spotted something it can't easily explain: a single event that's tantalizingly consistent with a type of theorized dark matter particle. Very early days yet, but pretty wild. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
It says it all about the ethical values of the combatants in the Ukraine war that Ukraine is striking oil refineries while Russia is attacking libraries and publishers.
Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: Some men on a boat drink a lot of port whilst looking for a bigger boat. One of the men is more interested in beetles.
Neill Cameron@neillcameron.bsky.social · last mo.Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: Humphrey Bogart reluctantly gets involved in the admin regarding an associate’s immigration issues.
