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Rollan is Editing

@rollanschott.bsky.social

Domesticated American living in New Zealand. Semi-published author. Recovering film bro. Forever DM. All opinions are mine but probably also someone else's first. Grimdark fantasy WIP, Writing community

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Catherine Winters@catherinewinters.com · 4mo ago

When she picks the wrong pocket, sixteen-year-old Nia unlocks a magical talent she didn’t know she had. Now she’s posing as an heiress, a con man’s gone missing, and Nia and her band of would-be thieves are on the run from magehunters, mathematicians, and the governor herself. #WIPPit #F #YA #LGBT

A mood board of eight tiles and a centre square with lockpicking tools and ancient writing: 1. Always have an escape plan. 2. A swindler never lets herself feel like a fraud. 3. Don't look for the easy grab, look for the easy mark. 4. Never get involved with golems. The pictures depict, clockwise from upper right: A) A city of canals and towering footbridges. There are minarets and steeples and red-tiled roofs. B) A market selling elaborate lanterns, all aglow. C) A porcelain and gold hand, reaching upwards. D) Two figures leaping across rooftops against the coming dawn. E) A pocket orrery engraved with runes. F) A wax stamp with removable chits that function as coins in a card game. G) The lords of the city overlooking grand canals and issuing edicts. They are dressed in fine red robes and silks. H) Assorted bones and shells used for divination and more.
Rollan is Editing@rollanschott.bsky.social · 4mo ago

NO STARS OVER THE WUP WUPS Blacktongue Thief meets Annihilation Rima had forsaken her people to work for the tall men. When she's forced to shepherd a group of mysterious strangers through the Wup Wups, however, she must decide how much danger she'll tolerate to do the right thing. #wippit #a #f

Mood board for No Stars Over the Wup Wups, an adult fantasy set in a vast, mysterious swampland the sun never touches.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 7mo ago

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 7mo ago

To strike 1,000 targets in 24 hours in Iran, the U.S. military leveraged the most advanced AI it’s ever used in warfare. Anthropic’s Claude partnered with the military’s Maven Smart System, suggesting targets and issuing precise location coordinates. https://wapo.st/46BFe1T

Zak Jarvis@zakjarvis.bsky.social · 7mo ago

To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books. She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it. It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.

Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8mo ago

The reality is that 2024 was a fundamental test of the moral character of the nation and we failed spectacularly. We’re living with the consequences now. Maybe we improve. I hope so.

Mike Drucker@mikedrucker.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Bari Weiss’ two accomplishments so far are hosting an interview that she desperately wanted people to watch (but they didn’t) and trying to spike a news story that she desperately wanted nobody to watch (but they did)

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 10mo ago

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"