I have made a Tripthulhu, a trippy Cthulhu! You can buy it on things! 🎉 www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1825... #art #Cthulhu #retro
Dr Ro Smith
@rhube.bsky.social
She's just this guy, you know? Agender, ME/CFS, science fiction and fantasy writer. Sometime epistemologist and metaphysician. I love gardening and art and complain a lot about being sick. Rhube.co.uk/wp Ko-fi.com/drrhube @rhube@wanderingshop.com
I have made a Tripthulhu, a trippy Cthulhu! You can buy it on things! 🎉 www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1825... #art #Cthulhu #retro
Sorry I've been absent a while. Things with me go OK. I have been making blackberry jam and art and candles and been loved by a little cat.
You don't try to warn the fascist about the Torment Nexus. They are already on board with building it. They either already have a plan for one, or they're out waving their flags, hoping that someone with more power has a plan to build one. No, you write science fiction about the Torment Nexus>
Hand painted stone portrait with rich florals and soft detail. One of my favourite pieces to date. #whimsicalart #handpaintedart #paintedrocks #rockpainting #storybookart
Maybe unpopular opinion but SFF conventions should have way fewer panels and way more "somebody talks about something random and interesting for fifteen minutes"
John Wiswell@wiswell.bsky.social · 6mo agoYou think I'm kidding but if a convention books me to do it I'll TED Talk the shit out of Jason's speculative timeline.
I'm so very bad at checking this, for which I am sorry, as it's my main method of keeping in touch with many people I adore. Here's a few things I have been up to: - Sewing new underbed storage - Painting a lamp - Being sprawled on by Garlic - Sitting in the sun with Garlic
@ajodasso.bsky.social *waves hello* having seen your Facebook message. I'm not often on here, and if I am it's usually as @rubyjones.bsky.social , but I wanted to make contact.
“The world’s largest professional organization of writing educators disagrees with the notion that the rise of generative artificial intelligence in the classroom is unavoidable." www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...
Writing Faculty Push for the Right to Refuse AI
As universities rush to adopt generative AI–powered tools that claim to enhance teaching, learning and workforce preparation, a growing contingent of academics is questioning where that urgency is com...
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A rare occasion where knight of the realm actually protect the rest of us.
Ed Newton-Rex@ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 7mo agoFantastic news in the UK today - the government has apparently ditched its plan to force creatives to 'opt out' if they don't want AI companies training on their life's work. www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog... 🧵 1/4
Go read my angsty android fiction under my spicy romance pen name, why not?
Ruby Jones@rubyjones.bsky.social · 7mo agoChapter thirteen of Synthetic Agency is here! The angst continues... www.patreon.com/posts/synthe... Synthetic Agency is an android romance novel I'm serialising on my Patreon. You can read the first chapter for free: www.patreon.com/posts/119290... #robots #fiction #romance #SF #lgbtq+ #writing
Had a go at drawing my cat, Garlic, based on one of her photos where she looks like a little model. #art #cat #GarlicTheCat
Also, if you borrow an author's book from a library in the UK, that author gets more than 12 pence per loan in Public Lending Rights. Any author can earn up to £6,600 per year this way. For context: I published my 15th book last year. The advance I received for it was considerably less than £6,600.
Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 9mo agoSomeone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.
Some of y'all are following this rag. You might want to reconsder that, given this *gestures to the poop they just smeared below*
Undark Magazine @undark.org · 9mo agoAI sits in billions of phones. Refusing to engage won't stop it, just leaves vulnerable people without knowledge. Demand ownership and control, not abstinence.
This is, in my opinion, not only the correct moral/ethical/legal position but also the correct political framing. Everyone can see the agency is out of control; everyone can see that it is constantly violating human rights. "Scrap it and start over" is the moderate position.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo agoMamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
the perennial "is this a good replacement for twitter / can it become as big as twitter" discussion is so confused. hominids became bipedal about 7 million years ago. for most of the time since we did not have microblogging. it's not a necessity it's a habit, if it all goes away that's fine
Your regular reminder that there is no legal path from martial law to suspending elections in this country. That doesn't mean there is no path. It just means that we need to reject the framing that the federal government has any legal authority to cease elections.
Ah yes, the doctor's waiting room, my favourite place. Nothing bad ever happens at the doctor's. Put baby in doctor's mouth.
Generative AI is an engine for churning out contaminated information faster than people can produce safe information, let alone fact check and correct it. And corrections never remove the original contamination, it's an attempt to stem the metaphorical bleeding and hope for the best. 11/
Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/
Happy New Year (belatedly). It is extremely cold here. Garlic is all about the snuggles.
My friend’s neighbor’s house fell off its foundation (old steel structure collapsed), and they just did the funniest thing.
