Donald Trump is waging war on our hard-won rights – it’s time to fight back.

Join me and Good Law Project and say loud and clear: not in our country. goodlawproject.org/s/c22468

So glad I woke up to see this. Signed. Immediately and without hesitation.

‘Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers’

To add your name, please read and sign here: lithub.com/against-ai-a...

UPDATE: Our open letter now has 150 politics academics & writers as signatories

Appeasement won't work! It only harms the most vulnerable

www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer

Our open letter has been covered in @scotnational.bsky.social

www.thenational.scot/news/2517016...

There you have it. Lead TERF Maya Forstater says trans men - who they consider women - aren’t allowed in women’s spaces either. It was never about protecting women, just the most sexist, patriarchy-defined version of one. Good luck to all women who don’t meet the “feminine” brief.

Unfortunately, crypto-fascist doesn't mean dead fascist; and there are very few people who hide their fascism anymore.

Facebook was the platform used to disseminate the xenophobic propaganda in Myanmar that directly led to the deaths of 50,000 rohyngas.

The smug little ginger twat should have been handed over to the Haig years ago…and yet ‘silence’ from Washington.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...

I recently watched Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash, and really enjoyed it. It's an isekai without excessively powerful protagonists or a lot of sexual references, but with generally good character development.

anilist.co/anime/21428

#anime

Petition to force the Charities commission to investigate the Global Warming Policy Foundation and the Institute of Economic Affairs for breaches of Charity law.

goodlawproject.org/petition/hel...

Looks like I shouldn't have made it in Novelette either (maybe)?

Instead "Upstart" (which I was shocked not to see, it's GREAT): clarkesworldmagazine.com/lu_12_22/

& "Hummingbird, Resting on Honeysuckles": clarkesworldmagazine.com/yang_11_22/

You can angry-read both at @clarkesworldmagazine.com

My thoughts on not really winning a Hugo.

(Apologies for a long summary of much-repeated detail, this is my record for myself as much as anybody else. Feel free to correct me if I got anything royally wrong.)
samtasticbooks.com/2024/02/17/r...

Pondering the mess of the Hugo Awards, I find myself trying to explain where the Administrators went wrong, in a way that they might hear and understand.

So: If you find yourself keeping things secret because if people find out what you're doing they'll be upset, perhaps you shouldn't be doing it.