It's also (charitably) an example of how difficult it is to keep this stuff out of your work. It's not just enough to reject the technology yourself - you have to rigorously inspect every supplier you use, every freelance artist, every image or piece of stock footage. It's exhausting
It's an example of how just one drop of AI in your work brings the whole thing into question. If you're happy using it on your cover, did you use AI to write this? Research it? Can I trust that your primary source quotes are real?
Not sure how to feel about this historian of Indonesia using a very visibly AI image on the cover of his upcoming book. If he's telling the truth then he's been conned by this "Indonesian artist". And if not...
One of my story is part of this anthology, today is the release day. E-book: https://link.amazon/B0h30roBu (also part of Kindle Unlimited) Paperback: https://link.amazon/B0ez75CUh
💯💯 Last week my conure chose me, the spare human, to take his after-treats nap. He stayed on my stationary wrist for almost thirty whole minutes. Admittedly, his preferred human was nowhere on the scene (he was in the next room), so I got lucky. It was amazing. :D
chestbursty@chestrovert.bsky.social · 6d agoNo degree or accolade can match the feeling I get when an animal decides I'm comfortable enough to fall asleep on
This story probes the depths of two pits of monstrosity: history and the deep sea
Chris Campbell@chriscampbell.bsky.social · 3d agoMy story, The Lure, is this month's featured free story in The Sunday Morning Transport. www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/the-lure Discover what secrets wait beneath the surface at the island of Saint Helena: "For hunger, like justice, only waits so long."
Inject this into my veins and please take all my available money.
Lost Token: Theropods 🦖 - Point and Click Adventure!@losttoken.bsky.social · 2d agoTen years ago, it started with a game jam. Since then, we've poured all of our love and craft into every single pixel. Now, it's finally here: a wordless point-and-click adventure in a prehistoric world full of dinosaurs. Theropods launches August 20th!🦕
My story, The Lure, is this month's featured free story in The Sunday Morning Transport. www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/the-lure Discover what secrets wait beneath the surface at the island of Saint Helena: "For hunger, like justice, only waits so long."
The Lure
August travels with the Sunday Morning Transport include stories by Christopher Campbell, Curtis Chen, Marie Brennan, and Rick Wilber.
sundaymorningtransport.com
Our general submission window is now open! We want stories and poetry with a strong voice and a sense of adventure, stuff that makes us feel things, stuff that lets us use our hearts and our brains and leaves us wanting more! For our full guidelines and schedule, visit: www.havenspec.com/submit/
Blue-tailed green bee-eater #nature #wildlife #birds #photography 📷 https://zeens.app/profile/roshn.me/post/3ms4jnneofk2h
Black-crowned night heron #nature #wildlife #birds #photography 📷 https://zeens.app/profile/roshn.me/post/3ms4jvuiyls2h
Juxtaposition is the only good thing about social media. The natural flow of my timeline reveals Thiel’s real face. Put on the fucking glasses.
Finished! And I wrote a little description at the bottom for when I find this again in 10 years and I am deeply alarmed because I forgot the context
Every day I'm happier that I am learning how to draw
Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P@clairezagorski.bsky.social · 3d agoGood morning, this is what a fetus looks like on MRI. (Those are tooth buds!)
Happy dancing to see my flash "If Mother's Grief Had Been a Dog" published in Thin Skin Magazine alongside one of my favorite flash writers @nomad-sw18.bsky.social . Check out Issue 8! My story was written in @smokelong.bsky.social (where else?) thin-skin.com/flash-fictio...
If Mother’s Grief Had Been a Dog - Thin Skin
Mother’s grief unfurled slowly, like paint blistering and peeling from the shed out back. For months after the sirens, she locked herself inside with our photo albums. She taped pink-stickered pages o...
thin-skin.com
Yes lockdown was really tough for kids. Lots of those kids are teenagers now so maybe as a thank you our establishments could stop deliberately making even more things worse for them due to a weird systemic hatred of our own youth
"The only way to meet every year the expense of four months of skiing was to send to the press accounts of the races in which my compatriots and I took part." #Photography #Monochrome #Switzerland #Travel #Adventure #Skiing #EllaMaillart #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin #ECK
I was literally deceased by the end of this www.instagram.com/p/Dba8hsKyLXh/
'rare books experts are increasingly worried that these artefacts may be under threat of destruction by generative AI companies seeking to feed their ravenous technology with new texts.' First they came for your monograph, then for rare books. Where next: wholesale destruction of archives?
‘More than just objects’: Australian booksellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI
Secondhand booksellers believe they may have been caught up in the AI supply chain that sees old books scanned then destroyed
theguardian.com
Fuck Harry Potter. Go read The Chalet School series!
Kate Armstrong@brainchain.ca · 3d agoFuck Harry Potter. Go read ‘Dirty Plotte’
Last weekend, the largest Natural History Museum in South China opened - the Shenzhen Natural History Museum! Let me take you on a brief tour 🧵
Before tomorrow's new edition, make sure to read our recent contributor Tracie Renee's (@tracierenee.bsky.social) heart-wrenching form-poem, "Our Last Walk," in @havehashad.com. 🔗 ⬇️
You only have to be on social media for two minutes to start to question why you want to be in society at all
