Super glad we are burning through fossil fuels and drinkable water so that the world's most boring people can replace art with an autocorrect that will give hilariously literal translations of the world's worst books.

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

Texas also has the second-largest LGBTQ population in the country — more than New York, only second to California. The second most immigrants, fourth most people of color. 4.8 million people voted for Kamala Harris or Jill Stein. That’s more people than even live in Oregon.

“Women of childbearing age should just leave Texas.”

Okay, aside from the economics of that... I’m an eighth generation Texan whose ancestors were among the first-ever to plant oats in places towns later formed. I deserve the right to stay here and fight for my home by telling the truth about it.

To summarize, so long as they pay for the copies they want to digitize and feed the AI, the AI can slurp up all of your books to train itself. Hopefully Disney's lawyers are able to do better against Midjourney.

If you love speculative fiction, then you owe a huge debt to @strangehorizons.bsky.social -- a magazine that successfully brought SFF short fiction online and expanded our ideas of what genre can do. It launched my career and many others. And it's still amazing.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

Another world is possible if we fight for it.

UNBOUND AUTHORS: We’ve prepared a letter you can send to administrators to demand things like expedited rights reversion, no AI use, return of electronic files (cover art, typesetting, etc) and the option to get any remaining copies of your books. DM me and I will send the template over

There is a right way and a wrong way but no third way I know of on the subject of human rights. Enjoy the ratio bootlicker.

Oh look they built an AI that can disappoint its parents.

So 97% of @NYMagUnion members--including me!-- just signed a pledge to walk out of work if we don’t get a fair contract from @VoxMedia. If you love @NYMag, sign our solidarity pledge to support us in the event of a walkout:
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Based.

Today marks the day when Bluesky becomes the place I have the largest number of followers I've had on any social media site, ever. I have thoughts about this, and about the ascendance of Bluesky generally, over on my own site.

whatever.scalzi.com/2024/12/02/a...

Looking for a starter pack of librarians to follow.

New all-gender restroom at the Capitol just dropped.

Feed me your starter packs! I want this echo chamber humming.

New platform who dis?