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Don’t forget, Sunday is the start of Pointless Exhaustion Week!
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Actually, here's that announcement, and it's huge! Who Killed Nessie by me and @rachaelsmith.bsky.social has been nominated in the British Book Awards! www.thebookseller.com/british-book...
Photo of a letter that reads: “If you don’t like my peaches, don’t shake my tree.” Sincerely, Shirley Jackson
If you don’t like my peaches don’t shake my tree
Pinky: What are we going to do today, Brain?
Brain: Same thing we do every day... try to survive the world.
We are in the dangerous territory where Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI are being normalized as a valid technology to be instrumented within both AI-Decision Support Systems (DSS) and Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) for targeting purposes. Yet current framing regarding Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s negotiations with the US’s Department of War instead risks overindexing on myopic interpretations of human oversight, or a particular companies' so-called 'red lines', papering over what should be the real target of our scrutiny: that generative AI algorithms are a flawed and inaccurate technology that fabricate and "hallucinate" outputs, often at a rate of 50% accuracy, where they're unlikely to be able to solve tasks outside of their data distribution and training data sets. Generative AI’s inability to handle novel scenarios that would arise from the fog of war thus raises serious questions about whether they can be successful in military settings. Furthermore, these “hallucinations” are an inherent property of these models given their probabilistic nature, with model providers stating that these issues are to persist.
Heidy Khlaaf: Chief AI Scientist, AI Now Institute (@heidykhlaaf.bsky.social):
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The Libby Book Award winners were announced, & we’re thrilled that these three phenomenal authors have won awards!
Congratulations to Catherine Newman (WRECK, Best Book Club Book), Nnedi Okorafor (DEATH OF THE AUTHOR, Best Science Fiction), & Alison Bechdel (SPENT, Best Comic/Graphic Novel)!
#ewgc
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I needed this laugh
If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.
As a Bears fan, this makes me sad
No. Just no. Please stop.
There is a reason these drugs didn't make it to market.
I don't think this is a good idea...
If you're a writer or researcher who thinks AI is better than you at your job, I believe you. I just don't think you should pretend like your skill issue affects me
Sixty years on, a Star Trek writer is still creating strange new worlds. Diane Duane’s early days writing fan fiction have led to a remarkable career as a novelist, comic writer and screen writer: www.dublininquirer.com/sixty-years-... Follow her here on BlueSky @diane.dianeduane.com
Happy world book day ya nerds
A cover for Navigating with You Vol 2 written by Jeremy Whitley, illustrated by Felia Hanakata, colored by Linden Cahill, and lettered by Jodie Troutman. The Navigating with You logo is top center and below it Neesha Sparks and Gabby Graciana stand back to back, holding hands across a landscape divide. However, they are both being pulled in opposite directions, Neesha by a tall female figure with a prosthetic leg headed into the city and Gabby by a tall, apparently male figure headed toward the beach.
I have finally been given clearance to tell you that last year's Stonewall honored, Harvey nominated, and Ringo Nominated queer slice of life romance "Navigating with You is getting a sequel. It's coming out this fall and you can preorder it now!
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Type of goon who yells "It's da freakin' Bat!" and sprays my old-timey Tommy gun, hitting everything but Batman as he throws me through a plate-glass window.
In other news, billionaire Bruce Wayne just paid my wife's medical bills and my son got a Wayne Foundation scholarship. What a guy.
Latest episode dropped last night. It's a long one that kicks off with an hour-plus overview of May 2026 comic/graphic novel solicitations. Enjoy!
I get asked to show up to book clubs, online and offline. Here is why from now on the answer is always "no." If you think this might have something to do with "AI" ruining yet another thing for everyone, you're absolutely 100% correct.
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Polls close at 7:30pm ET in North Carolina.
In Arkansas, at 7:30pm local time. (So 8:30pm ET.)
In Texas, at 7pm local time. (So 8pm or 9pm in ET.)
In New Mexico, also at 7pm local time. (So 9pm ET.)
All I'm watching in these states, on one page—and bookmark it as we'll add results!
tomorrow is with one of the biggest election days of the year. there's so much to go over it's hard to know where to start.
so, let me help:
here are the *10* elections i'm watching the most closely, *at the state and local level* (=no federal elections included!)
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I’m sorry to keep doin the “back our kickstarter” dance in Times Such As These™️, but I’m truly so proud of the work Rusty & Jodie & Atla & the folks at Iron Circus & I put into this comic, it’s been an act of joyful creation in a sea of despair. Please support our work if you can, and thank you 🙏
Maybe not a Pulitzer Prize, but a MacArthur Fellowship for sure
If you want to fill your lunar calendar kickoff with love, stories, and good spirits, may I suggest an annual Seollal/Daeboreum double feature of @geneluenyang.bsky.social's Lunar New Year Love Story and our Good Old-Fashioned Korean Spirit.
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'June' is also a verb meaning "to drive briskly."
So please june responsibly.