charlesatan

@johnchu.bsky.social good morning

@fluoritewitch.bsky.social konbanwa

I spent part of my childhood in New Jersey, still have family there, and really appreciate this focus on literacy from Senator Kim.

i still have some of these left! if u want one donate $5 or more to mutual aid/abortion funds and email me yr address! (mccarry.sarah at gmail dot com) i don't need donation receipts i trust you!

Grammarly declined my request to interview CEO Shishir Mehrotra today. But it told me that in response to criticisms, it will allow experts to opt out of the feature by emailing expertoptout@superhuman.com.

I've decided that instead of wasting my own time to see if Grammarly has stolen my name and writing for use their business, I'd just email them to opt out and make them waste some time cleaning up their own goddamn mess.

www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...

@artbyveya.bsky.social has lots of *amazing* stuff, IMO, the one that seemed to fit this thread would be

bsky.app/profile/artb...

The Church at the Edge of Time the pastor is a woman / with small birds living in the hollows of her eyes.

Since this one’s got a lot of unexpected love the past month, here’s the poem I had the most fun writing last year:

“The Church At The Edge of Time” in @strangehorizons.bsky.social

this is so offensive

ai can not die soon enough.

@datlow.bsky.social good evening!

If you're a writing professional who'd rather *not* have random AI-generated articles attributed to you without your knowledge or approval, here's the opt-out email:

expertoptout@superhuman.com

It's insufficient and tacky af, but it's a start. Go ye thereforth, etc. etc. etc.

@cheriepriest.com good afternoon!

@gwenda.bsky.social good afternoon!

@codenameminali.bsky.social 午安

@minavesguerra.com good morning

Not giving oxygen to the Times piece indicating some nebulous body of whoevers preferred AI over human writing, but if you're a human writer looking for validation in dismissing negative reviews of your work, Happy Today to you

@portraitofmmex.bsky.social good morning to you and Holiday

Reupping just in case you didn't know that my ghost book is now available!

Uncertain Sons — Undertow Publications

If you're reading for the Hugo Awards, please consider @thomasha.bsky.social 's "Uncertain Sons" in the Novelette category. Thank you. You can read the story here:

undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons

Tumblr is now blocked in the Philippines (was tagged as a gambling site)... 😅😅😅

Okay LFG #WhatAGameDevLooksLike! I’m Mary, + this is my 10th year in games. I’ve been AAA and indie, everything from narrative director to contract writer, and I’m now a senior writer at CD PROJEKT RED.

I’ve got two wee children and a very lorge cat, 50+ houseplants, + many unfinished manuscripts 💕

Purple background, white text, which says If the foundational question of Indian feminist SF was about power - who has it, who wields it - the question that has obsessed the genre since the 1990s is about bodies. Whose body is it? Who controls what happens to it? "Indian Feminist Science Fiction: A History (Part 1)" -- Amritesh Mukherjee

This two-part essay from Amritesh Mukherjee is a powerful examination of the themes and preoccupations of Indian feminist science fiction: power, caste, bodies...

The first part is out now - free to read - and the second will be out in June.
www.speculativeinsight.com

@johnchu.bsky.social good morning

@fluoritewitch.bsky.social konbanwa 🍓

This is what happens when you have a religion that you see as separate from your culture. Like this is so close and also misses the point.

Like, EXACTLY, membership dues are basically taxes. Communities pool resources to have things like, I dunno, a place to meet? It’s not sinister.

@riningear.bsky.social meow meow meow

@keezyyoung.bsky.social good luck with the week hope you recover soon

What Do You Do and What Do You Make? Conversations with AI engineers, fashion Substackers, and weed clerks about what they brought in last year.

I didn't know ghostwriting other people's newsletters was a thing:

nymag.com/intelligence...

Generational trauma 😅

Cherie Priest Says Get Your Damn... @cmpriest I just reflexively yelled "No!" and kicked a chicken bone off the sidewalk. My dogs are at home. I am at Target. 12:58 PM • 9/5/21 • Twitter for iPhone

I just randomly thought about this very real tweet from @cheriepriest.com from 5 years ago and had to go find it