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Lisa Cai
@lisacai.bsky.social
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She/her | From Toronto, Canada | Writes SFFH | Head of ToWriMo | Stories in Diabolical Plots, The Dark, Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, and others | #amquerying

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visceralhit.bsky.social
Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button
August 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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robdelaney.bsky.social
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
Bong Joon Ho took a characteristically radical approach when questioned on his thoughts around the rise of Al technology at the jury press conference of the Marrakech Film Festival on Saturday. The Korean director, who is president of the jury, gave two responses, one measured, the other deeply personal. "My official answer is, Al is good because it's the very beginning of the human race finally seriously thinking about what only humans can do. But my personal answer is, I'm going to organize a military squad, and their mission is to destroy AI," he said.
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
We need to be really aware of the danger of this. GenAI is a tool of oppression & conformity. When all art looks & sounds the same, it has no impact to change the world.
November 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
I'm old.

If you're not, listen to this.

Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.

Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.

It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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wnwagner.bsky.social
It's true! Nightmare Magazine will open to subs in January! Check out the schedule below for dates & times; read the guidelines for more specifics.
And yes, as ever, each writer can make one submission to each category: short story, flash, poetry, CNF.
adamant.moksha.io/publication/...
Moksha
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November 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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pipagaopoetry.bsky.social
www.gofundme.com/f/alice-wong...

here’s where to send funds to continue Alice’s legacy <3
Donate to Help finish Alice’s work, organized by yomi wrong
Our comrade, friend, collaborator and fierce Tiger Mischief Maker, Alice Wong, needs us. As yo… yomi wrong needs your support for Help finish Alice’s work
www.gofundme.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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elea.fyi
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.

Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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dimshores.bsky.social
Here is the beautiful front cover for SUFFERING THE OTHER, art and design by RewX. See the loaded TOC here: bit.ly/4i03e3h (TOC is also in the alt-text here). Coming February 2026, pre-order open in December. Reminder, this is a benefit for @raicestexas.bsky.social and Transgender Law Center!
Cover of the book SUFFERING THE OTHER - a dark but colorful illustration showing a winged creature with a human face, wings, and long trailing tails, in vibrant gold and orange tones, flying upwards towards the top right corner, while dozens of dark serpents with glowing eyes and forked tongues travel in the opposite direction. The book contains 16 original stories and 8 reprints (indicated with **), arranged here alphabetically by author name. Table of contents: Nadia Bulkin -- Infested ** Lisa Cai -- The Eighth Cigarette ** Matthew Cheney -- Queer Horror, and Other Stories Jennifer DeLeskie -- You Shall Love Your Crooked Neighbor with Your Crooked Heart Kurt Fawver -- The KnowQuest AI Chatbot Answers All Your Questions About Britemol C Robin Rose Graves -- Her True Face Alexander Hay -- LEAD ** Bitter Karella -- The Divine Feminine Gwendolyn Kiste -- My Sister, the Abyss Jonathan Lees -- To Those That Have Lost Hope Laura Mauro -- Ptichka ** David Peak -- Crawling Out of Black Sun Marigold Rowell -- Salt Blossoms Erica Ruppert -- Nor Stone, Nor Earth, Nor Boundless Sea Cheyenne Shaffer -- Ursula the Powerful ** A. J. Sharpe -- Sore Thumb Clint Smith -- “January Sick” J. J. Steinfeld -- The Suicide Inspector ** Bogi Takács -- A Technical Term, Like Privilege ** Jeffrey Thomas -- Song of the Loved Lee Thomas -- Kisses from the Pain Chamber Pamela Weis -- An Abomination A.C. Wise -- Sea-Wives Wen Wen Yang -- Ghost Festival in the Desert ** Cover art and design by RewX Edited by Justin Steele and Sam Cowan
November 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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histoftech.bsky.social
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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paulajohanson.bsky.social
Well, glad to share good news! Vol3 is trending at #17 in its category -- that is AWESOME news.
#IReadCanadian
kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/year-s-best-canadian-fantasy-and-science-fiction-volume-three
Year&#39;s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three ebook by Stephen Kotowych - Rakuten Kobo
Read "Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three" by Stephen Kotowych available from Rakuten Kobo. “Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction belongs on every Canadian reade...
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November 5, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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ourmankoto.bsky.social
Come one, come all! Join us for the launch of Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 this Saturday, Nov 8 at Bakka-Phoenix @ 3pm. Ten contributors will be doing brief readings from their work and the fine folks at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social will have copies for sale. See you there and pls share WIDELY.
November 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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manuscriptacademy.bsky.social
🎃 Horror writers! Our FREE panel is TOMORROW (Oct 28, 2pm ET)

✨ 3 top agents share horror #MSWL
📚 Mini classes on character/fear + tension/dread
🔍 Live query critique

Featuring Literary Agents Linda Camacho, Erica Bauman & Tamara Kawer

Get your free ticket: manuscriptacademy.com/mswl-live-ag...
October 27, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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pavlovforgoths.com
here's how you remove the AI from the latest Firefox update
Avatar whatacartouchebag Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image. 5d Crawling out of my hole to remind people that with this current update to Firefox (version 144) they've gone and dumped in their lot with a buncha lil AI tools, namely Perplexity as a new search engine. So if the sound of that leaves your mouth tasting of tar, here's what you want to do: In the url bar, type in about:config It'll give you a big scary warning page that you might poke holes in your browser. Good. You want to do that. Click continue. One by one, you're going to need to put each of these into the search bar in the page, not up top: browser.ml.enable browser.ml.chat.enabled extensions.ml.enabled browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled Each of these are gonna have a lil toggle icon on the right hand side that looks like a funky double-ended arrow. Click that and the value next to it should change to false. It all auto saves as you go. Some of these might already be set to false by default and that's peachy. The next best thing you can do for yourself is to set your default search engine to udm14 or Qwant, but for now, we're just tidying the garden a lil bit.
October 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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nicomaramckay.com
Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:
Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership
Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...
ised-isde.canada.ca
October 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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vermillionworks.bsky.social
For anyone who wants to know. (This is for Pinterest.)
vermillionworks.bsky.social Sarah N. @vermillionworks.bsky.social · Oct 17
This is how to do it via computer at least, not sure about mobile. Select the Settings button, push "Refine your recommendations", click the GenAI section and switch off everything in there.

I just did this so I've yet to see if this'll actually get rid of all AI content or not, but so far so good.
Settings button >> Refine your recommendations >> GenAI interests >> switch off everything
October 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
lisacai.bsky.social
Submit your claim here: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/contact
September 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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ourmankoto.bsky.social
...and the rest! Ebook pre-orders are live now, with trade paperback to follow shortly! www.amazon.ca/Years-Canadi... 2/2
September 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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canadacobrachicken.bsky.social
Please sign: A House of Commons petition to hold MPs accountable for misinformation they circulate.

*It's a two step signature, you'll need to check your email to confirm you are who you say you are.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-6679 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
September 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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rakeeshsorrel.bsky.social
The official Canadian Petition to reign in payment processor censorship has stalled out just under 10k signatures.

This is a reminder for Canadians, this is an OFFICIAL petition that will be responded to. Show your support in protecting our free speech!

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
e-6695 (Consumer protection) Keywords Censorship Credit cards Internet Pornography E-petition Initiated by Carmen Tam from Waterloo, Ontario Original language of petition: English Petition details Petition to the House of Commons Whereas: Mastercard, Visa, and other payment platforms have been leveraging their power over consumer ability to purchase legal content; In 2021, Mastercard changed its policies to regulate adult entertainment by preventing the use of its payment platform on numerous adult entertainment sites; As of July 2025, video game distribution service Steam now cites rule 15, that “adult only” content is not permitted on the platform if it goes against payment processor’s policies. Steam does not describe what content is defined as “adult only”; As of July 2025, video game distribution website Itch.io has “deindexed” all adult NSFW content from browse and search pages. Users that previously purchased legitimate video games cannot access games that have been removed; and This has set an unsettling precedent of corporate censorship, causing concern in video game development teams, including developers, voice actors, and artists in other creative fields as their livelihoods are in limbo. We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada, call upon the House of Commons to 1. Stop financial discrimination by payment platforms against legal goods and services; 2. Ensure transparency to consumers about content restrictions and the rationale behind them; and 3. Protect creators' rights to make legal adult content and ensure a fair appeals process for any penalized media.
September 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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tetzoo.bsky.social
I am opposed to AI products and services because of the extra power they require... IN A CLIMATE CRISIS. I am opposed to AI results - texts and illustrations - because they've been created unethically, via theft and non-consensual use of the work of others. Share if you agree.
September 7, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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jmkeep.bsky.social
Canadians! There is a petition to sign to protest Mastercard and Visa's control over the purchase of legal adult content. This is specifically about the Steam & itchio situation, but language protects adult creators.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

#nsfw #censorship #canpoli

@acvalens.net
Petition e-6695 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
September 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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courtneymilan.com
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
arstechnica.com Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
The assertion of technology “rights” and the systematic removal of human rights are part of the same fascist project.
gregpak.net Greg Pak @gregpak.net · Aug 26
No. It’s not sentient, you clowns. Stop selling this garbage in “news” articles.
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 26
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
August 26, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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alanbaxter.bsky.social
Turn off AI in search results. I just did this in Chrome and it works.
tenbluelinks.org#chrome-windows
How to Turn Off Google AI Overview and Set "Web" as Default
tenbluelinks.org
August 17, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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hellocookie.bsky.social
PSA: If you're at FanExpo Canada this weekend, take a moment to stop by the Bell Canada A I Photo Booth to tell them how upsetting it is that they're undercutting the artists of Artist Alley by offering free A I photos (that's trained on the stolen art of creators) to attendees.
Bell Canada photo booth at FanExpo Canada that has several booths set up for people to get free AI portraits done with a prompt generator.
August 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM