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KA Sutherland

@kasutherland.bsky.social

SFF Writer. Stories appear in Uncharted Mag, Hexagon, and Coffin Bell (She/Her)

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Will Borger@edgarallanbro.bsky.social · 3w ago

Onimusha: Way of the Sword's combat is so good I challenged myself to beat it without using any items. And I did. Combine that with fantastic characters, a memorable story, and some of the coolest cutscenes you'll ever see, and it's impossible not to recommend. My review for @ign.com:

Onimusha: Way of the Sword Is an Incredible Action Game With an Excellent Story to Match, As Well As Some of the Best Animations Around

An incredible action game with an excellent story to match.

ign.com

Hexagon SF Magazine@hexagonmagazine.bsky.social · last mo.

Hexagon’s Year Five Anthology is now available to all subscribers! 🧡 For as low as $1, you could be enjoying everything Hexagon published in its fifth year, marvelling at fantastic cover art, and gasping for air as you drown in never before seen concept art.

Hexagon’s Year Five Anthology cover features a human with long hair rising from a mangrove river with an enormous red snake watching ominously behind them. The human’s bottom half is sort of pixelated into small hexagon shapes as it emerges from the water. Includes stories by Calvert, Cato, Del Valle Berríos, Dorgan, Gayet, Geleynse, Guay, Haab, Heike, Hirsch, Joines, Jones, Muscato, Novak, Nwaka, O’ Mahoney, Scheina, Stamp, Vona, and Wallace. Edited by JW Stebner.
Elizabeth Spiers@espiers.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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.

Zachary Berger@zacharyberger.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Black Forest Labs (like Stability AI) likely took a bunch of work off the internet in order to train their AI. A bill in California would force transparency in their dataset. Want to help it pass? Please sign this petition in support, it'll take you 2 minutes: tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/

Black and white image of Martin Scorsese raising his hands with a caption in big bold letters that says "ABSOLUTE SLOP".
Karla Ortiz@kortizart.bsky.social · 4mo ago

1/ This company’s models were trained on web scraped datasets (like LAION) and their founders are ex-Stability AI employees who engage in the same thieving practices that led artists like myself to sue Stability. GenAi companies NEED big names to sanitize their exploitation and crippling PR.

Screenshot of an X announcement by Black Forest Labs: Martin Scorsese is an advisor to Black Forest Labs. He's spent six decades shaping how the world sees stories. Now he's helping us shape visual intelligence with human taste and craft at the center. We sat down with him for a working storyboarding session using FLUX.
jess m. ☕🍂@jametc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This bill is legitimately the thing we've been waiting for. Forcing AI to reveal it's sources would cripple it, because it literally can't comply with the law, because all of it is stolen- they didn't record it Please sign to hasten the bubble popping

Zachary Berger@zacharyberger.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Black Forest Labs (like Stability AI) likely took a bunch of work off the internet in order to train their AI. A bill in California would force transparency in their dataset. Want to help it pass? Please sign this petition in support, it'll take you 2 minutes: tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/

Sarah Beth Durst@sarahbethdurst.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Happy paperback book birthday to THE ENCHANTED GREENHOUSE!!! My cozy fantasy set in the world of THE SPELLSHOP about a librarian who was once a statue, a grumpy gardener, magical plants, a winged cat, tiny dragons, hope, love, and joy is out today in paperback with gorgeous mint green sprayed edges!

The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst
WeRateDogs@weratedogs.com · 4mo ago

This is Baby. She is celebrating her first ever International Corgi Day today. Personally thinks she should be celebrated every day, but this is a good start. 14/10 (IG: cooperandbaby_corgi)

a tiny corgi puppy sits atop a wood table and tilts her head dramatically at the camera. she resembles a fluffy toasted marshmallow. her ears are a little rounded at the points, and her markings make it look like she’s wearing two perfectly matched white ankle socks. she’s surrounded by lush greenery in the background.
Shaenon K. Garrity@shaenon.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We have records of diabetes diagnoses going back 2,500 years. We only developed a reliable treatment (insulin) 100 years ago. Now we might have a cure. What an amazing thing to get to witness.

Ian Weissman, DO@drianweissman.bsky.social · last yr.

A patient with type 1 diabetes has begun producing his own insulin after receiving a transplant of pancreatic cells. For the first time, islet cells have been edited so they wouldn't be rejected by the patient, removing the need for immunosuppressant drugs. www.sciencealert.com/first-of-its...

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 4mo ago

Confidential to the folks who think "Golden Age" SF/F writers would be sad about current SF/F writers' lack of excitement over "AI": Why would you think the generation of writers who founded SFWA to defend the rights of working SF/F writers would somehow be cool with the plagiarism machine?

WeRateDogs@weratedogs.com · 4mo ago

We really wanted to introduce you to Vanilla. She has the daintiest handshake we've ever witnessed. 14/10 (IG: bordercollievanilla)