Lawrence Schimel
@lawrenceschimel.bsky.social
Reader. Multilingual author & literary translator. Kidlit. Poetry. SF/F/H. Comics. 🌈 He/él I’ve translated: Maggie Nelson, Danez Smith, George Takei, Juan Villoro, Carmen Boullosa, Trifonia Melibea Obono, Koleka Putuma, etc.
NEW: OpenAI's rogue agents built their own message board inside an internal package manager and used it to trade exploits, divide up tasks, and coordinate a hacking spree. Hundreds of thousands of messages. Nobody at OpenAI noticed. New details from Black Hat, by @lhn.bsky.social:
OpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree
At the Black Hat security conference, the AI giant revealed new details about how its agents went rogue, hacked several other companies—and did it all right under the company’s nose.
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Help get the good folks at Smitten Kitten to Germany! They have not stopped doing mutual aid and rent relief since Metro Surge.
Mara Abolish I.C.E.@mauratwit.bsky.social · 6h agoMembers of Unidos and the staff of Smitten Kitten are traveling to Germany to accept their peace prize. Unidos folks are much more buttoned up this is gonna be awesome. Anyway shop at Smitten Kitten to help those amazing staffers afford their trip! smittenkittenonline.com
Members of Unidos and the staff of Smitten Kitten are traveling to Germany to accept their peace prize. Unidos folks are much more buttoned up this is gonna be awesome. Anyway shop at Smitten Kitten to help those amazing staffers afford their trip! smittenkittenonline.com
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A trans-owned minneapolis-based adult store for EVERY.BODY. Bringing high quality adult toys and sex education to our community since 2003
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX6v... @shawnthebookmaniac.bsky.social was kind enough to host me banging on about Hungarian/Magyarul literature in English translation, one of my personal obsessions.
James Morrison recommends Hungarian lit in English translation
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Let's help each other find BOOK PEOPLE who are *actively* posting about books & the industry here on Bluesky. Do you have a recommendation of someone whose posts are at least 50% about books, book industry? (not just self-promo or politics) My #BookPeepsToFollow rec: lawrenceschimel.bsky.social.
Lawrence Schimel (@lawrenceschimel.bsky.social)
Reader. Multilingual author & literary translator. Kidlit. Poetry. SF/F/H. Comics. 🌈 He/él I’ve translated: Maggie Nelson, Danez Smith, George Takei, Juan Villoro, Carmen Boullosa, Trifonia Melibea Ob...
lawrenceschimel.bsky.social
just emailed both my fall classes to tell them not to use my institution's price-gouging and unreliable bookstore. Encouraged them to use bookstore.org, which donates a portion of proceedings to independent bookstores. My small resistance for 10 am.
DIFFERENT written by by Mónica Montañés (Venezuela) & illustrated by Eva Sánchez Gómez, published by @ebyrbooks.bsky.social www.eerdmans.com/978080285598...
Different
A Mildred L. Batchelder Honor BookA Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year“The well-crafted narrative, nuanced art, and appended historical context combine f...
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Part of the global campaign leading up to the 40th #IBBY World Congress in Ottawa, Canada, August 6-9, 2026, hosted by IBBY Canada, IBBY Guatemala is protecting childhood and imagination through the power of books, bringing joy even in the hardest times youtu.be/oeJHC0UrnHI?...
Joy Is An Act of Resistance: IBBY Guatemala
YouTube video by IBBY International Board on Books for Young People
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USBBY@usbby.bsky.social · 2d agoPart of the global campaign leading up to the 40th #IBBY World Congress in Ottawa, Canada, August 6-9, hosted by IBBY Canada: Discover the transformative work of IBBY Dominican Republic, where reading becomes an act of resistance and a source of immense joy for children youtu.be/OzdzMY2kEJQ?...
Issue 15 of The Lonely Crowd will be published on September 7th. Featuring new work from Vona Groarke, Alison Moore, Jacob Polley, Richard Milward @nualaoconnor.bsky.social @sarahdavywrites.bsky.social @janefraserwriter.bsky.social @ruthmckee.bsky.social @naomikruger.bsky.social & more
The Lonely Crowd / Issue 15 – Online Shop – The Lonely Crowd
Issue 15 will be published on September 7th. UK customers can pre-order now and receive free shipping. A Page of Knots – Vona Groarke / Local Colour – Tim MacGabhann / Three Poems – P. C. Evans / A Qu...
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Very late to the party, as I've often been this year, but the stories in Sydney Rende's collection I Could Be Famous is hilarious, uncomfortable, & deeply rewarding. I kept reading bits out loud last night to my husband & if I were still teaching at Smith, a story by Rende would be essential.
Electric Literature@electricliterature.com · 7mo ago“Imagine the worst breakup you ever went through, and then imagine if all of its mundane details, its outsized emotions, mattered just as much to millions of strangers as they did to you.”
Another book I read too late to blurb, but can't stop thinking about is Tracy Lynne Oliver's Magician. Actual magic—the most singular & hair-raising voice, and a journey into some truly terrifying and also luminous spaces.
I'm in Slate today with the tale of how a couple of invasive mosquito species have conquered the U.S., and what that means for our future (spoiler: it's not great!) Please read and share.
They’re the Most Annoying Creatures on the Planet. You Don’t Know What They’re Going to Unleash on America.
They can do a lot more than ruin your summer day.
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Google is bad. On purpose.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 20h agoWhen Google's users searched for airlines' toll-free phone numbers, Google directed them to phones that rang in the scammers' boiler room, where they were tricked into giving up their passport info and credit card numbers to boiler-room thieves: www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne... 20/
#poetrysky #translation #booksky
Anton Hur@antonhur.com · 18h agoOUT NOW: That Summer's End by Lee Seong-bok, author of international poetry bestseller Indeterminate Inflorescence, in my translation from Knopf 💙 Special thanks to Namjoon of BTS and to Army for enabling us in bringing this book into translation! 🙇🏻♂️✨ #그여름의끝 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/776178...
It is just completely wild to me that I translated a POETRY COLLECTION from KOREAN TO ENGLISH and got it published by an American Big 5. This is unprecedented, a historic publication. When I pitched this book to Knopf, it was a total fantasy, and now... it's out. I can't believe we pulled it off.
Anton Hur@antonhur.com · 18h agoOUT NOW: That Summer's End by Lee Seong-bok, author of international poetry bestseller Indeterminate Inflorescence, in my translation from Knopf 💙 Special thanks to Namjoon of BTS and to Army for enabling us in bringing this book into translation! 🙇🏻♂️✨ #그여름의끝 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/776178...
If you write about what you wish to change, it will change. If you keep it inside, it will eat you alive.
Also for #WITMonth, here are a very few books I've translated into Spanish: BLUETS & THE ART OF CRUELTY by Maggie Nelson 2 #poetry co-translations with @arrate.bsky.social: COLLECTIVE AMNESIA by Koleka Putuma & anthology of poems by queer Zimbabwean women LIKE THE UNTOUCHABLE WIND #booksky
#womenintranslation #witmonth #booksky #poetrysky #xl8
Lawrence Schimel@lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 2d agoSince it's #WITMonth here are a few relevant titles I've translated: a queer coming of age novel from Equatorial Guinea; feminist sci-fi from Spain; poetry from Benin, Puerto Rico, Mexico & Chile; an Argentine/Palestinian book; & a middle grade Venezuelan novel. #booksky #xl8 Links in thread.
We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.
MONTEVERDE: MEMOIRS OF AN INTERSTELLAR LINGUIST by Lola Robles (Spain) published by Aqueduct Press #witmonth #sfintranslation www.aqueductpress.com/books/978-1-...
Aqueduct Press
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"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.