Story that keeps happening 1. Scandal breaks out involving someone with obvious bad vibes 2. Colleagues and admirers circle the wagons 3. Another revelation 4. Doubling down intensifies for some reason 5. Damning no-way-back career-wrecking revelation 6. “But how could we have known?”

THIS IS WHY!!!! WE CALL!!! GREAT JOB EVERYONE 🩷 KOSA did pass the house but remember the senate has a conflicting version. Keep calling, it matters!

Free Speech Coalition@fsc.bsky.social · 4h ago

SCREEN Act, which would have required mandatory age-verification for sites (like this) that allow "material harmful to minors" failed to pass out of committee after thousands and thousands of people called their Senators. More work ahead!

Zuck is perfectly fine with CSAM, since Meta makes little effort to stop this shit.

WIRED@wired.com · 3h ago

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week. www.wired.com/story/meta-r...

TIP LINE ALL-STAR: John from Michigan shares advice for surviving the collapse of the police state

Writers: any org that advertises itself as "vital" to your career while boosting everything that prevents you from actually having a career is not an organization you should join. Don't pay to be in a glorified clique.

Girón: people should stop having opinions and also technology is bad except now that it's good and also cancel culture is real and it made a baby and the baby looked at me King: Koontz: Poe: Lovecraft: Barker: Barker: damn thats some mad communication skills Girón: thats why i'm an HWA trustee

Sèphera Girón: so i hear some of you writers don't like ai Girón: well, i'm tired of all you writers not liking ai! Girón: and i'm gonna let you all know it! Girón: i'm mad as hell! Girón: put that in the newspaper! Girón: or better yet Girón: put it in the HWA newsletter!

Professional writer organizations should not send out pro-AI propaganda in the form of tantrum-having "essays" to their members, and I don't think that's controversial.

Regarding The Pro-AI Tantrum In The HWA Newsletter

Today I, and every other HWA member, received the HWA newsletter in our inboxes. In that newsletter was an essay (“essay”) of pro-AI propaganda that made a number of specious points in …

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There are several reasons why I let my professional membership in the org lapse in 2016 and have never renewed it since. But the HWA is the gift that keeps on giving. I feel like Dr. Manhattan on Mars. It's 2016 and the HWA... It's 2022 and the HWA... it's 2026 and the HWA...

This is kinda clueless but, in light of recent shit, I appreciate the transparency? I guess?

There. Are. No. Trans. Women. In. The. WNBA. This whole conversation is a racist trap and long circuitous argument that always comes back to insulting cisgender Black women by calling them not women. In particular it attacks: Brittany Griner, Liz Cambage, and A'Ja Wilson.

Rare credit where it’s due. This is the correct headline.

"slop midwives" is a new fave here.

Delilah S. Dawson@delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 5h ago

Getting real sick of slop midwives pleading for a 'respectful discussion' of AI as relates to the arts. Your use of AI to 'make art' is not respectful. It benefits from stolen art, destroys the planet, and does not make you an artist any more than someone driving 26.2 miles is a marathoner.

People who pose questions like this are telling on themselves when it comes to whether they actually work or have been pretending to work.

Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 12h ago

I have one answer.

This is extremely my shit.

Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · 5h ago

A creature wearing a woman's body becomes a lonely man's girlfriend, but the woman suit and his interest start to rot... "Not Like Other Girls" by @ghoulpus.bsky.social is out now at Reactor! Art by A.W. Sommers Edited by @annvandermeer.bsky.social

Speaking solely for myself, but orgs like HWA do not attract me for a multitude of reasons and chief among them tends to be because their leadership seems less interested in writing/craft/protecting writers while extremely interested in wielding power within writing circles.

Holy shit, this is gorgeous. youtu.be/POneS8h1jyU?...

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So apparently that HWA pro-AI newsletter also uses Indigenous water rights issues as a prop, trivializing the activism by Indigenous peoples to protect our water including specific anti-data centre actions. I guess they figured why not alienate Indigenous horror writers while they’re at it?

I've lived in rural (and urban-ish) North Louisiana going on 15 years. Mostly deep red, pockets of light blue. I've not seen people organize around any issue like the data centers. They won't beat Amazon's and Meta's money in the short term, but they're ripe for mobilization.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6h ago

I’ve been screening our documentary with organizing communities in the South. So far, the organizers mention data centers first at every single event. From racial justice orgs to old school activists who don’t usually think about tech policy. This has legs.

When Republicans win by thin margins (or outright lose the popular vote but win via the Electoral College), they have a mandate to raze society. When progressives win by thin margins, it doesn't really count as a win and it would be really unfair of them to enact their agenda.

Politico@politico.com · 11h ago

Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted

Republican power grabs in Kansas and Missouri are going down in flames with 18-25% of votes reported so far. Missouri's Amendment 4 aimed to make citizen-initiated constitutional amendments practically impossible. Kansas' Amendment 1 was designed to flip the state Supreme Court to ban abortion

Whoever wrote this is fascist af - literally all the tell-tale signs are in their writing.

Holly Lyn Walrath@hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 19h ago

There is a lengthy pro-AI screed in the latest HWA newsletter and it is . . . a mood.

It is 2006. I am 22. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance. It is 2026. I am 42. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance.

Yep. I’m glad I never gave up on my constant saving habit.

Heather Burns@heatherburnstech.bsky.social · yesterday

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

in the Québécois version of King of the Hill (“Henri pis sa gang”), Boomhauer is named Papineau and sounds like this

They got people dying in camps now and they’re happy about it. bsky.app/profile/joho...

Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · yesterday

These guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.

Generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...

A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants

And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue

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Hello Oakland folks, let's chat about book bans and how we can ALL fight against them!

Oakland Public Library@oaklibrary.bsky.social · 22h ago

Tokuda-Hall, author and founding member and former president of Authors Against Book Bans (AABB), will be in conversation about the current and future threats to our freedom to read, what AABB is doing about it, and how you can help. Register ➡️ https://bit.ly/4fFQ4Ji