If you're voting for the Hugos this weekend, please consider A GIRL AND HER FED for "Best Graphic Story or Comic." We're eligible as we wrapped the most recent act in 2025, a 20-year project about the illusions of freedom we somehow managed to land. #Hugos #WorldCon #GraphicArt #GraphicStory #Comic

K.B. Spangler@kbspangler.com · 2mo ago

We have an illustrated "About" page here! agirlandherfed.com/main?i=1&p=a... And this cover page is the introduction to our Hugo packet. #Hugos #WorldCon #GraphicArt #GraphicStory #Comic #Comics #Webcomic

"AI-powered search summaries (or AIO - Artificial Intelligence Overview) are increasingly answering questions before users ever visit the websites that created the content." Google AI Overview recently arrived in France, and naturally, I quickly found my work there. 🫡

Folks, if you have even a couple bucks it'll help keep this excellent magazine alive! #BookSky

Uncanny Magazine@uncannymagazine.bsky.social · last mo.

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Uncanny Magazine@uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 3w ago

When the Uncanny Magazine Year 13: The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU! Kickstarter reaches 725 Backers, we will publish an exclusive Mini-Interview from solicited poet Pedro Iniguez! JUST 16 MORE BACKERS!!

LAcon V Worldcon Film Festival Announces 2026 Award Winners file770.com/lacon-v-worl...

The August issue of Clarkesworld is now online and features stories by Ravn J. Silver, Eilis O’Neal, Jordan Alexander, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, E.N. Auslender, Y.M. Pang, and H.H. Pak. clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_239 Subscribe today at: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Free speech matters. So does verifying what's true. Without a stable historical record, accountability suffers. A new paper, THE POLITICAL THREATS OF VANISHING CULTURE AND THE NEED TO PROTECT OUR FUTURE MEMORY, explores why. 📖 Read or download ⬇️ journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/artic... 🧵

More recently, the White House is currently trying to write new grant rules that would give Trump and his appointees even more power to cancel grants for political reasons. So the case, which concerns cuts last year, carries special import now: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/u...

White House Faces Stiff Pushback on Subjecting Grants to Political Review

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What Is Safe To Eat? How I'm Thinking About Cyclosporiasis as of 2AM on Juky 23rd www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...

“Wharton School researchers have dubbed this phenomenon ‘cognitive surrender,’ in which users shift from treating AI as a tool to treating it as an authority, accepting its answers rather than actively evaluating them.”

The hidden cost of letting AI choose your lunch

Relying on AI for decision-making could lead to "cognitive surrender," a weakening of critical thinking that makes people distrust their own judgment.

businessinsider.com

Educators take note. 🧪🍎🎢🧬

Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him)@cbdawson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Small n, but study of undergrads "suggests that unrestricted ChatGPT use impaired long-term retention, likely by reducing the cognitive effort that supports durable memory... while AI assistance may ease initial learning, it appears to undermine the effortful processes needed for robust learning."

Just finished a lovely book, “The Hearth Witch’s Guide to Magic and Murder.” Thank you @kiricallaghan.com, for this fun and captivating mystery. The story grabbed my interest right away and kept me filled with suspense throughout. An all around enjoyable read! Recommended!

it's notable to me that the administration tried to frame tonight's UFC event as a "gift to Americans" but you can't watch it unless you have a paid subscription to Paramount+

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell@garethlpowell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

There is a poem by Annie Dillard that begins with the lines, "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." And I think about that a lot.

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

Arte es Ética@arteesetica.bsky.social · 3mo ago

¡ATENCIÓN! 🚨 El 5 de Julio de 2026 entra en vigencia la actualización de los ToS de Linktree. Esto incluye el uso de IA generativa (Dall-E de OpenAI) con los textos, imágenes y links que el usuario suba a su cuenta. Incluso compartirán toda la info del usuario con otros proveedores externos de IA ⚠️

The May issue of Salon Futura is now online, featuring fiction by Martha Wells, Tracy Deonn, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Evangeline Walton and Mats Strandberg, plus Welsh poetry, Celtic Magic, genre interviews, the Hay Festival and Åcon.

Issue 80

This is the May 2026 issue of Salon Futura. Here are the contents.

salonfutura.net

A full list of the winners is here: locusmag.com/2026/05/2026...

2026 Locus Awards Winners - Locus

The Locus Science Fiction Foundation announced the winners in each category of the 2026 Locus Awards on May 30, 2026, during the Bay Atea Book Festival. Tananarive Due, Stephen Graham Jones, and Nnedi...

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer@princejvstin.com · 3mo ago

Congrats to @nnedi.bsky.social @johnpicacio.bsky.social @alixeharrow.bsky.social @stephengrahamjones.com @amalelmohtar.com @somtoihezue.bsky.social @thomasha.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social @drkarenlord.bsky.social @older.bsky.social @clarkesworldmagazine.com and all of the winners!

This is an excellent explainer - worth the time to read all the way down.

rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The number of people in the replies to this who completely misunderstand how property and casualty insurance (car, renters', homeowners', etc) works on a fundamental level means it's time for an explainer of What Car Insurance Actually Is!

RIP Peter H. Raven

Peter H. Raven obituary: visionary botanist who transformed our understanding of plant diversity

As the leader of the Missouri Botanical Garden, he called global attention to the biodiversity crisis.

nature.com

Read @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social's Dreadful, which was hilarious. Amnesiac sorcerer wakes up in a burning room & discovers that: -he's the dark lord -he's got a princess in his dungeons -he had PLANS Unfortunately, his past self was rude enough to not leave notes about said plans. Hijinks ensue.

Rich is not a protected class. It is not immutable. Don't want to be treated like a parasite on the civic body? Don't act like one.

Prof. Nathan Shrader@nathanrshrader.bsky.social · 4mo ago

These folks have no shame, self-awareness, or patriotism. #TaxTheRich www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Hi everyone! I don't talk much about it here, but I have an autoimmune disorder called ankylosing spondylitis. My life is SO MUCH better now that I have a diagnosis and medication. But that medication also costs me *$700* per month just to be able to literally walk.

You have friends everywhere. #maythefourth

I wrote about being nominated for Hugo and Locus Awards (yay!), toxic metrics, the necessity of play, and everything that's wrong with American politics. In under 700 words because damn, I'm good. www.patreon.com/posts/156286...

Play is learning and learning is experience and, according to Aristotle, experience is the meaning of life. | Elizabeth Bear

Play is learning and learning is experience and, according to Aristotle, experience is the meaning of life. by Elizabeth Bear on Patreon. Join Elizabeth Bear's community for exclusive content and upda...

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I'm so happy that "The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For" is a finalist for the Hugo! Congratulations to all the other nominees!

Los Angeles Worldcon@laworldcon.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Best Novelette (cont.) “The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For” by @lateonsetgirl.bsky.social (Reactor, April 2, 2025) “The Millay Illusion” by @sarahpinsker.bsky.social (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 67) “When He Calls Your Name” by @catvalente.bsky.social (Uncanny Magazine, Issue 65) 9/

We need a labeler here that lets everyone know. ACTUALLY WENT TO THE 2026 WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS DINNER

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4mo ago

If you attend the White House Correspondents Dinner this year, you should be legally barred from using the term "journalist" to describe yourself from that point on.

I'm disappointed that @brianstelter.bsky.social is going to the appalling WHCD dinner. It is *not* at all useful for anything journalistically defensible. It's a celebration of smug clubbiness and, this year, of submission to disinformation and fascism. view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/177...

Same.

Ann LeBlanc@robotleblanc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I think it should be legal for me to throw tennis balls at cars if the driver is texting

I think it should be legal for me to throw tennis balls at cars if the driver is texting