I am tired of proving I’m not a robot on websites by clicking on Captcha — with AI fakery so rampant, it actually should be the other way around!

Posted my Jaws 50th bookends on Insta! www.instagram.com/p/DcoB90nkV0...

Mike Arnzen on Instagram: "I tried making Jaws bookends last year for the #jaws50 anniversary, from a set of ready made wooden shark heads I had thrifted long ago and was wasting away in my storage. ...

11 likes, 2 comments - mikearnzen on August 29, 2026: "I tried making Jaws bookends last year for the #jaws50 anniversary, from a set of ready made wooden shark heads I had thrifted long ago and was ...

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Yes. Not just English majors. HORROR writing English majors! The combo is powerful! Thanks for this coverage, Sigma Tau Delta! english.org/wordy-by-nat...

Writers Are Winning Right Now: What Movies like Obsession and Backrooms Mean for English Majors - Sigma Tau Delta

Anybody with access to the internet or their local movie theater has likely noticed something interesting recently—or at least I certainly have. Among major franchise...

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Why does AI food art always look like that hyper-detailed gross out Tom Bunk art from Mad Magazine

Robert Komaniecki@komaniecki.bsky.social · 3w ago

How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right

The forgotten key word in the Horror Writers Association, it turns out, is not Horror, nor Writer, but ASSOCIATION. The majority of our horror writing community clearly does not wish to be associated with AI slop or right wing extremism. Please hold a General Meeting @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social

Currently available for sale on our website: Play Dead by @mikearnzen.bsky.social. It's new, $15.95, and horror. carpelibrumbaltimore.com/products/pla...

Play Dead, by Michael Arnzen

Johnny had been to the top. Young and slick, he knew how to play the high roller, dress the part, and make his opponents sweat. He'd ridden into Vegas on a winning streak a mile wide. But Vegas took e...

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I just backed Abandoned: Asylum, a horror anthology on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/902... Tip of the hat to @rdspress.bsky.social

Abandoned: Asylum, a horror anthology

An anthology of horror stories edited by Bram Stoker Award-winning editor James Chambers

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Horror and dark fantasy authors convene in Pittsburgh for the 10th anniversary of StokerCon...

StokerCon sinks its teeth into Pittsburgh

Horror and dark fantasy authors convene in Pittsburgh for the 10th anniversary of StokerCon.

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Looking forward to seeing everyone at StokerCon in Pittsburgh this weekend. I’m teaching a class and sitting on two or three panels and am helping run the dealers room (where you’ll likely find me). Kudos to the award nominees!

We're running a sale on the website. Get 25% off your order with promo code Molly at checkout. One of the books we have in stock is Play Dead by @mikearnzen.bsky.social. carpelibrumbaltimore.com/products/pla...

Play Dead, by Michael Arnzen

Johnny had been to the top. Young and slick, he knew how to play the high roller, dress the part, and make his opponents sweat. He'd ridden into Vegas on a winning streak a mile wide. But Vegas took e...

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Naomi Reads a Poem features "Alarm Fatigue Hell" by Michael A. Arnzen! @mikearnzen.bsky.social angrygablepress.com/2026/01/06/a...

“Alarm Fatigue Hell” by Michael A. Arnzen

Katabatic Circus Volume 2

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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

violet allen@blipstress.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.

Looking for a quick CHILL? Spooky link here www.pancyfancer.com/beyond-undea...

Read our blog to get an overview of the Anthropic settlement. There’s an FAQ for authors, too. We hope you find it helpful. authorsguild.org/news/what-au...

NEW: Anthropic has reached a preliminary settlement in a class action lawsuit brought by a group of prominent authors, marking a major turn in of the most significant ongoing AI copyright lawsuits in history.

Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought By Book Authors

Anthropic faced the prospect of more than $1 trillion in damages, a sum that could have threatened the company’s survival if the case went to trial.

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A federal court ruled that ANTHROPIC illegally copied MILLIONS of books to train its AI. All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work. For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...

Please write your own stories — and especially write your own obituary before AI does it for you. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die

Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?

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Become unslopperable.

And one final thought: Ozzy going out after giving an emotional final performance that raised a ton of money for charity is more spiritually uplifting and did more genuine good than anything any televangelist and religious grifter who railed against him ever did combined.

Today, the AAUP released a new report, "Artificial Intelligence & Academic Professions." The report calls for policies that prioritize economic security, faculty working & student learning conditions as AI tech accelerates. www.aaup.org/news/new-rep... 🧵1/9

New Report Calls for Faculty Control in AI Decisions

Today, the AAUP released a new report, Artificial Intelligence and the Academic Professions, sharing survey findings and calling for the establishment of policies in colleges and universities that pri...

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Academic Librarians take note: This year is the first time that more U.S. college students will learn entirely online compared to being fully in-person. 📚 www.npr.org/2025/07/11/n...

ONLINE COLLEGE ENROLLMENT

This year is the first time that more U.S. college students will learn entirely online compared to being fully in-person. And research shows most online programs cost as much or more than in-person.Th...

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Loved this @sciam.bsky.social conversation with @marthawells.com by @clarakm.bsky.social — Martha’s voice and perspective really come through, on everything from LLM scams to corporate personhood and the wondrous personal discoveries one’s work can yield: www.scientificamerican.com/article/were...

We’re Light-Years Away from True Artificial Intelligence, Says Murderbot Author Martha Wells

Today’s large language models are hardly related to the kinds of machine intelligence we see in science fiction, according to Martha Wells, author of the Murderbot Diaries series

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I have just signed on to the Human Artistry Campaign's fundamental principles on the use of AI in the creative arts. Join me if you agree. And if you don't, who do you think you are fooling and what have you become as a human being, anyway? www.humanartistrycampaign.com

Human Artistry Campaign

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For victims, survivors, and the millions of Americans who live in fear, our government is not upholding its end of the deal. It's failing to protect our safety. This Independence Day, I urge elected officials to set us free from gun violence.

Gabby Giffords: Americans Deserve Freedom From Gun Violence | Opinion

On this Independence Day, the last before our nation's 250th birthday, Republicans and Democrats alike must recommit to keeping the American people safe.

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Yes, that's what happens to those tech-bro's...

“If someone tells me: ‘You can’t do it this way. This is no good.’ I’m going to do it that way times 1,000.” I enjoyed listening to this fantastic conversation about the Kubrickian mind with @dharlanwilson.bsky.social. open.spotify.com/episode/5kUB...

D Harlan Wilson Takes Us into Strangelove Country

Writers on Film · Episode

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28 Years Later — very good zombie vibes but I wanted so much more of some things (the gang at end, the alphas) and a whole lot less of others (the tired familial tropes and the overwritten talks and the lack of plot coherency). The sequel will be better if we don’t have to wait 28 Centuries.

If you are looking for the earlybird #StokerCon registration for #PITTSBURGH in 2026, then try this: www.eventbrite.com/e/stokercon-... @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social Join ussss......... #bramstoker #horror #writing #convention

(I'm discovering that most of the fascinating people I met at Stokercon are on Bluesky!)

Scott Edelman@scottedelman.bsky.social · last yr.

So happy to have finally met @joycecaroloates.bsky.social in the flesh a third of a century after we shared a Table of Contents in the 1992 Dennis Etchison-edited anthology MetaHorror. And how lovely it was to swap memories of mutual friend Barry Malzberg.

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