Michael Strode
@michaelstrode.bsky.social
Writer, horror filmmaker, croquet vendetta initiator. Avid cook, gamer, teller of dad jokes. Debut novel Spit and Touch Iron coming Spring, 2027. Rep @ajvanbelle.bsky.social. #AuthorsGuild michaelstrode.com No genAI, ever.
TIL about SheildFont and couldn't be happier. Looks like promising tech for authors in the fight against AI. shieldfont.org #writesky #indieauthors
ShieldFont
Publish for humans, not for crawlers. A web font that swaps the words in your HTML, so readers see your writing and AI training gets a stale copy.
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So grateful as a writer for the guidance offered by @victoriastrauss.com and @janefriedman.com. We are lucky to have them advocating for the community and sharing their hard-won experience.
Great panel with inspiring authors. Picked up What Happened to Those Girls, YA thriller pitched as Pretty Little Liars meets The Blair Witch Project. Looks fun! @carlyngreenwald.bsky.social
Alert from @authorsguild.org - please sign: authorsguild.org/news/austral... #amwriting (fyi, agent friends @casahasegawa.bsky.social @karlydizon.bsky.social @esckeyes.bsky.social @literarylesliez.bsky.social @mirandapaul.bsky.social )
Australia May Legalize AI Training on Your Books. Sign a Statement Opposing It.
The Australian government has announced that it is planning to introduce legislation that would change copyright law to allow AI companies to use authors’ work, without a license, to build their model...
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As always, a thoughtful take on AI policy.
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · last wk.Over on Whatever today I go over @subvert.fm's "AI" policy and tell you why I think it's a really good version of such a policy, and why other organizations looking to create such a policy of their own would be well served to give it a look: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/10/18/w...
Full update from our team. We STILL do not have admin access to the account.
Ezra Levin ❌👑@ezralevin.bsky.social · last wk.Update: without explanation, and after being suspended for more than an hour during peak mobilization time, Zuckerberg's Instagram restored the No Kings account but we still lack admin access. More to come. Rest assured we will not stop organizing against this regime and its collaborators.
Nobody hates free speech more than the fascist tech oligarchs who claimed to care about it more than anyone. What an absolute joke. P.S. they also hate democracy. As we hand them control of the country. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...
Happy book birthday to THE CITY OF FACTORIES by @naomieselojor.bsky.social! Grab your copy of this Africanfuturist steampunk novella wherever books are sold. Available in paperback, ebook, and audio formats. Thank you to our @netgalley.bsky.social reviewers for sharing their thoughts! #BookSky
I'm looking to make art! Anyone need a pretty cover for one of your upcoming books/Anthologies/chapbooks/etc? I love working with indie authors and also with presses. Here are a few Science Fiction examples I've worked up recently. Either DM me here or contact me through addi.studio And please RT!
I had in-depth discussions with my publisher about not using AI in any part of the process. Proud of @ruadanbooks.bsky.social for bucking this concerning trend.
Adam Morgan@adamm0rgan.bsky.social · 3w agoFor @wired.com, I spoke with workers about the quiet push to experiment with AI tools from book publishing executives at the Big Five. www.wired.com/story/book-p...
WB did worse under his tenure, failed to meet the goals he set when he acquired it, and has been sold for scrap. And yet he'll have been paid over a billion dollars for his work there. Something is fundamentally broken in our society.
DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 3w agoDavid Zaslav will receive a $606M payout from the Warner Bros/Paramount merger. (Source: variety.com/2026/tv/news...)
The Skydance takeover was unnecessary, and like the WBD merger before it, it benefits only a tiny number of people. It will upend the lives of thousands while contributing to the downfall of one of America's most prominent industries, all so one billionaire can try to make a bit more.
The A.V. Club@avclub.com · 3w agoFollowing the final approval of the Warner Bros.-Paramount merger, CEO David Ellison promises "difficult decisions that affect our workforce." tinyurl.com/5n7jnxe4 That's all, folks—Skydance immediately hints at massive layoffs
Gen AI is harming publishing, but Pangram is not the way. andibartz.substack.com/p/i-am-genui...
I am genuinely terrified about this shift in the publishing industry
Pangram is ruining authors' lives, and our window to do something about it is closing.
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LA is HOT. But does it have to be this hot? Did you know shade from a single tree can drop temps by 20° or more? Yet working-class neighborhoods like South LA, East LA, and the Valley get the least tree coverage and bear the brunt of extreme heat. Let's finally cool things down for everyone.
In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.
Meta's new AI agent blatantly ignores users permissions
In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.
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I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last mo.Paramount has reportedly reached a settlement with California and other states suing to block its proposed acquisition of Warner Bros
"Mass piracy for training purposes is not fair use under copyright law." Got 'em.
The Authors Guild@authorsguild.org · last mo.The Authors Guild is grateful the Court has unsealed some of the most important filings in our case against OpenAI and Microsoft. (1/7)
This is about one thing and one thing alone. Steering our research dollars for cancer, heart disease, and new infectious diseases to Trump’s political allies and friends.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · last mo.Breaking News: Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would help cement President Trump’s ability to control billions of dollars in scientific grants funded by the National Institutes of Health.
holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway
Jason Kint@kint.bsky.social · last mo.Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
These are bad people.
Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · last mo.NEW: Brown Brothers Media is the most successful media company you've never heard of. For years, its success was fueled by AI, fake writers, and fake reporting. When we started asking questions, BBM started mass-deleting content. Somehow, what came next was even worse. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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YOU MUST READ THIS by journalist and author Sarah Kendzior‼️🤬😱👇
Looks like OpenAI may have stolen another mathematicians work.
