Ok so speaking as a past president & board member of several writing orgs, it's shocking that HWA allowed the "op-ed" in their member newsletter at all. Who ok'd it? It's great to share different perspectives. It's TERRIBLE to blow up your own credibility and the trust your members have in you!

🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈@haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 3h ago

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I’m not a big account by any means but oh the satisfaction of detaching a quoted skeet when a rando starts a convo I want no part of

Bree (half of Kit Rocha)@mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 2d ago

while there are problems with anything, the nuclear block is absolutely my second favorite thing that bluesky did. (my first favorite is detach quote, which is another thing that wrecks the way they like to use social media)

Related: me writing a horror story on a generation ship. A reader might not ever wonder what my utterly isolated ship-dwellers wear after so many decades but I’m certainly working on it. For my sins lol

Louisa@louisathelast.bsky.social · 2d ago

I’m gonna say virtually all authors need to get serious about textiles. Who is weaving them? Out of what? Who’s turning them into clothes and how much does it cost and do you have any idea how HARD all of that was before modern mills

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One of the all-time best opening tracks on an album and a classic 80s bop and this video! PURE JOY

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Why would you believe the thief who stole all the inner components of the car and then frankensteined it together when they tell you that the car is sturdy or safe to drive? “ai” “detectors” aren’t real. Stop legitimizing them.

The WNBA has never had a trans woman play in the league’s 30-year history and now the right and other anti-trans activists are hammering the league over something that has never been an issue, proving once again it isn’t about protection but exhibiting cruelty toward trans people.

I was literally deceased by the end of this www.instagram.com/p/Dba8hsKyLXh/

Lockdown people are so funny. They pull out their hair at the fact that schools were closed for five minutes, and then you ask them if they actually want to educate poor and minority children and they’re like of course not

So deeply annoying to have to turn off the note taker, the automatic extended chat, the whatever tf “ai” ✌️helpers✌️ on zoom every single time but you bet your patootie I do

Virginia S. O'Possum@virginiaopossum.bsky.social · 4d ago

Anecdote: Where I work, we get an AI-generated transcript of every single meeting. Since that's useless, we started having Copilot generate summaries. Since those are useless, my boss is now trying to develop a series of prompts that might eventually push Copilot to produce a useful set of notes.

Using lists of three is not an "AI tell." It's a common trait in human writing because our brains biologically want to make sure there's always one thing to marry, one thing to fuck, and one thing to murder.

Go figure. Just like white supremacist patriarchy

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 4d ago

< dozens of people tell me "you can just tell it to turn that behavior off!" > Yeah that's really not the point of my complaint. I'm not asking for suggestions on how to make the system more pleasant for me to use; I'm pointing out that it has dark patterns built in that make it harmful by default.

Honestly. Anna Maxwell Martin. That’s it, that’s the tweet.

Live-streaming Trump undermines Canadian journalism: “Donald Trump has no business being live-streamed on the CBC. This is no different from platforming Hitler, or a white supremacist.” An editorial by @taylornoakes.com.

CBC needs to stop live-streaming Trump’s disinformation

CBC News needs to stop live-streaming Trump’s disinformation.

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Something I love doing is talking about fossil fuels as "19th century technology". Coal plants and gas plants are machines from CENTURIES ago. The combustion engine is silly. It gets people thinking about what modernity means but also, importantly, it makes fossil fuel guys mad online

The answer unfortunately is "you should ask each trans person or search for a statement" because convention varies DRASTICALLY. There is never a reason to use my deadname even though I had academic honors under it. Other people feel differently.

SIX MONTHS It’s been 6 months since this clear action plan dropped. I know we can deny harder, folks. LET’S DO THIS

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 7mo ago

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns

Feels like a certain sort of irony that so many slopagandists do the bare minimum of due diligence or critical consideration while decrying our supposed ignorance of the facts

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I led a report about the environmental and resource parts of this! Companies intentionally conflate wildly different machine learning applications: using a sprinkling of good to justify a tsunami of bad ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b...

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 4d ago

There is a certain level of obtuseness in (some) "AI" apologists when they flounce up to point out what "AI" is good for in science, etc, while eliding the fact that almost none of that use is driving the current market capitalization, environmental degradation and resource hogging of the field

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I *did* feel like reading all that, and glad I did, not only for the funny and erudite takedowns but also because this is not, as some have characterized, an unfair critique of a modern adaptation by an academic. It’s a thorough consideration of how an “epic” film has, in the end, very little heft.

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last wk.

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Bree’s thoughtful (and humourous obvs) thread is likely essential reading for too many folks. I imperfectly strive to do imperfect good for/in the world. I’m also private. If you wanna trumpet good works tho,great! If you choose to judge & criticize, enjoy your purity, I guess. We are not the same.

Bree (half of Kit Rocha)@mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 6d ago

and the truth is--a lot of us are going to have to sit with a lot of choices that feel imperfect. the point of "there is no ethical consumption" etc etc isn't "so don't worry" I'm doing my best to try to minimize harm as I move through the world in a way that allows me to maximize my own good.

Lynne Freeman got a write up in the fucking New Yorker to turn people against Tracy Wolff and it absolutely fucking sucks that all the people who read that salacious piece will never know that Lynne Freeman lied to the court, conducted this litigation in bad faith, and had absolutely zero case.

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