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obviously this entire thread is gold. and please, if you're a reader or writer in SFF, fill out the survey:
bsky.app/profile/vajr...
bsky.app/profile/vajr...
The survey is open to non-members (I am not one) and to readers (who here is not &c.) so I encourage you to share your feelings on the matter. Don't assume that everyone already understands that AI is bad or why! I mean, people *should*, but you could say that about a lot of things.
SFWA members and general SFF community:
In this press release, our Board of Directors apologizes for recent events.
Feedback from writers is strongly welcomed in the survey.
SFWA Members: Write to office@sfwa.org to support our Emerging Tech Committee.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/22/p...
In this press release, our Board of Directors apologizes for recent events.
Feedback from writers is strongly welcomed in the survey.
SFWA Members: Write to office@sfwa.org to support our Emerging Tech Committee.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/22/p...
December 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
obviously this entire thread is gold. and please, if you're a reader or writer in SFF, fill out the survey:
bsky.app/profile/vajr...
bsky.app/profile/vajr...
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1/ ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom focused on revealing injustices and abuses of power. Our stories are often fueled by tips and evidence from readers like you.
Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how your tips help shape investigations: 👇
Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how your tips help shape investigations: 👇
December 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
1/ ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom focused on revealing injustices and abuses of power. Our stories are often fueled by tips and evidence from readers like you.
Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how your tips help shape investigations: 👇
Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how your tips help shape investigations: 👇
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"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
December 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
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Spotted whilst out & about in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
December 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Spotted whilst out & about in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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Moving in to my friends house for Christmas and putting all my presents under the tree while whispering 'chrimsmusss' to myself like a toddler.
December 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Moving in to my friends house for Christmas and putting all my presents under the tree while whispering 'chrimsmusss' to myself like a toddler.
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The news that AI was being trained on stolen works?
It was broken first about the BooksCorpus, on May 11 of 2021, and it was discussed in major news media thereafter. Romance authors talked about it. A lot.
The first archive they stole was largely romance.
arxiv.org/abs/2105.05241
It was broken first about the BooksCorpus, on May 11 of 2021, and it was discussed in major news media thereafter. Romance authors talked about it. A lot.
The first archive they stole was largely romance.
arxiv.org/abs/2105.05241
Addressing "Documentation Debt" in Machine Learning Research: A Retrospective Datasheet for BookCorpus
Recent literature has underscored the importance of dataset documentation work for machine learning, and part of this work involves addressing "documentation debt" for datasets that have been used wid...
arxiv.org
December 24, 2025 at 2:54 AM
The news that AI was being trained on stolen works?
It was broken first about the BooksCorpus, on May 11 of 2021, and it was discussed in major news media thereafter. Romance authors talked about it. A lot.
The first archive they stole was largely romance.
arxiv.org/abs/2105.05241
It was broken first about the BooksCorpus, on May 11 of 2021, and it was discussed in major news media thereafter. Romance authors talked about it. A lot.
The first archive they stole was largely romance.
arxiv.org/abs/2105.05241
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It is about this: because so many people do not give a shit about romance, shit gets tried in romance first.
You should pay attention to romance publishing news and care about it, because they will try that shit here first.
You should pay attention to romance publishing news and care about it, because they will try that shit here first.
December 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
It is about this: because so many people do not give a shit about romance, shit gets tried in romance first.
You should pay attention to romance publishing news and care about it, because they will try that shit here first.
You should pay attention to romance publishing news and care about it, because they will try that shit here first.
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Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
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Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit
December 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit
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ICE whistles work.
The horns and whistles work
What it's like to watch community activists stand up to a Border Patrol raid.
www.motherjones.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
ICE whistles work.
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This might be the greatest insight about anxiety I've learned and is such a fantastic point here—that fighting anxiety makes it worse! It can be really hard to sit with it, but meditation has taught me that making friends with your emotions makes a huge difference in life
Understanding fight-flight helped a lot. Not a therapist, but iirc:
- Anxiety is part of your lizard brain, so don't fight it, because it's faster than your thoughts
- (!!) It's trying to protect you from a threat
- Panic is you thinking the anxiety IS the threat
- Thank it and sit with it instead
- Anxiety is part of your lizard brain, so don't fight it, because it's faster than your thoughts
- (!!) It's trying to protect you from a threat
- Panic is you thinking the anxiety IS the threat
- Thank it and sit with it instead
December 19, 2025 at 11:29 PM
This might be the greatest insight about anxiety I've learned and is such a fantastic point here—that fighting anxiety makes it worse! It can be really hard to sit with it, but meditation has taught me that making friends with your emotions makes a huge difference in life
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Also, the typoes do not negate my point because "proper grammar" is also not a true gauge of writing quality, only a true gauge of how pedantic one cares to be.
December 19, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Also, the typoes do not negate my point because "proper grammar" is also not a true gauge of writing quality, only a true gauge of how pedantic one cares to be.
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Sometimes the best writing is a floral, visual sentence. Sometimes the best writing is a simple sentence. Sometimes the best writing is a single word or even a blank page.
But good writing is parsing what the situation calls for and deploying each where most resonant.
But good writing is parsing what the situation calls for and deploying each where most resonant.
December 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Sometimes the best writing is a floral, visual sentence. Sometimes the best writing is a simple sentence. Sometimes the best writing is a single word or even a blank page.
But good writing is parsing what the situation calls for and deploying each where most resonant.
But good writing is parsing what the situation calls for and deploying each where most resonant.
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this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
December 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
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World building fails and collapses under the weight of too many theories, too many imported ideas. World building is an emotional response to the engine of your imagination as much as an intellectual response. Make yourself continually in service to your world by actually building it and feeling it.
December 18, 2025 at 10:48 AM
World building fails and collapses under the weight of too many theories, too many imported ideas. World building is an emotional response to the engine of your imagination as much as an intellectual response. Make yourself continually in service to your world by actually building it and feeling it.
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I'm not sure most folks are aware of the immense magnitude of loss this would entail for the global weather and climate community, and beyond. NCAR has played a greater cumulative role in advancing weather prediction and atmospheric modeling than perhaps any other single entity in the world.
December 17, 2025 at 3:46 AM
I'm not sure most folks are aware of the immense magnitude of loss this would entail for the global weather and climate community, and beyond. NCAR has played a greater cumulative role in advancing weather prediction and atmospheric modeling than perhaps any other single entity in the world.
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Just to be clear, he means the people who are Democratic county chairs, the people who go canvassing, the people who are making sure that doors get knocked on and we get out the vote.
December 16, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Just to be clear, he means the people who are Democratic county chairs, the people who go canvassing, the people who are making sure that doors get knocked on and we get out the vote.
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From HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020):
December 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
From HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020):
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All of this suffering and death occurring over less than 1% of the federal budget. Infuriating!
December 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
All of this suffering and death occurring over less than 1% of the federal budget. Infuriating!
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Read the story by @annamaria.bsky.social and Brett Murphy with photos by Peter DeCampo.
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Read the story by @annamaria.bsky.social and Brett Murphy with photos by Peter DeCampo.
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But he told ProPublica the administration never cared to differentiate between the “fluff” and vital humanitarian programs. “It was the most harebrained operation I’d seen in my 38 years with the U.S. government,” Nagy said, referring to the methods used this year. 8/x
December 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
But he told ProPublica the administration never cared to differentiate between the “fluff” and vital humanitarian programs. “It was the most harebrained operation I’d seen in my 38 years with the U.S. government,” Nagy said, referring to the methods used this year. 8/x
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Officially bored of drawing with pen only, so doodled with color.
This is drawn from the writing talisman on my desk. It reminds me to go slow and steady, and swim with the current.
This is drawn from the writing talisman on my desk. It reminds me to go slow and steady, and swim with the current.
December 1, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Officially bored of drawing with pen only, so doodled with color.
This is drawn from the writing talisman on my desk. It reminds me to go slow and steady, and swim with the current.
This is drawn from the writing talisman on my desk. It reminds me to go slow and steady, and swim with the current.
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THIS. Dog training gave me such extraordinary insight into myself and my work habits.
"Why am I punishing myself for doing the right thing?" is a thing I ask a lot.
"Why am I punishing myself for doing the right thing?" is a thing I ask a lot.
Learning to be a dog trainer helped me understand behavior, recognize fear and the outward projections of fear (aggression, isolation, dysfunction), understand the affects and futility of abuse, understand my role in humanity, to name a few things.
The thing I have found about my current job is that there is no piece of learning I do not use. It's not just about facts (although those, too).
Learning to do proofs taught me patience with material and the skill of banging my head against a brick wall.
Learning to do proofs taught me patience with material and the skill of banging my head against a brick wall.
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
THIS. Dog training gave me such extraordinary insight into myself and my work habits.
"Why am I punishing myself for doing the right thing?" is a thing I ask a lot.
"Why am I punishing myself for doing the right thing?" is a thing I ask a lot.
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Those happened to be the things that taught me two skills that I've used over and over: beating my head against a brick wall until the wall gives way, and how to approach subject matter with the self-expectation that I understand ALL of it, not just ENOUGH.
December 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Those happened to be the things that taught me two skills that I've used over and over: beating my head against a brick wall until the wall gives way, and how to approach subject matter with the self-expectation that I understand ALL of it, not just ENOUGH.