Lauren Thoman

Commands around the world, including U.S. Central Command in the Middle East, use Anthropic’s Claude AI tool, people familiar with the matter confirmed. Centcom declined to comment about specific systems being used in its ongoing operation against Iran. The command uses the tool for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios even as tension between the company and Pentagon ratcheted up, the people said, highlighting how embedded the AI tools are in military operations.

The WSJ is reporting that AI, specifically Claude, was used in targeting for the attacks by the Epstein Empire.

That would mean the use of AI led directly to the massacre of 115 schoolchildren and 20 volleyball players.

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A joint statement by data protection authorities from around the world about the dangers of LLM-generated deepfakes

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Actor Michelle Yeoh unveiled her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. She thanked her fellow colleagues for their support and her family, including her parents.

'A different set of rules': Thermal drone footage shows Musk's AI power plant flouts clean air rules • Tennessee Lookout Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company continues to fuel its data centers with unpermitted gas turbines, according to a Floodlight investigation.

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is continuing to fuel its data centers with unpermitted gas turbines, according to a @floodlightnews.org visual investigation. Thermal drone footage shows xAI is still burning gas at a facility in Southaven, Miss., near Memphis.

Authors, show me your tattoos to commemorate your books! Did you do covers? A symbolic image? Quotes? Something abstract? I think I'm going to start one that I add onto with each book and would love some ideas.

My phone insists on autocorrecting to Withering Heights every single time and you know what, I'm good with that

You can tell I'm coming up on my deadline because instead of working on EITHER book I'm supposed to turn in soon, I'm back over here trying to make Bluesky work again.

GENIUS

What's your random thing you think about all the time? Not prompted by current events or anything else, just always on your mind.

For me it it's entropy. Just constantly thinking about how everything in the universe is slowly but surely endeavoring to melt into a puddle of inert cosmic goo.

Hats off to GOOD LUCK HAVE FUN DON'T DIE for absolutely roasting society's embarrassing prioritization of convenience and self-gratification over everything else, including our own wellbeing. More movies should aggressively shame their audiences about phone hypnosis/ gun violence/ social media/ AI.

Also, even though she's not here much, massive shoutout to @laurenthomanwrites.com who was canvassing everyday for @aftynbehn.bsky.social over the past few weeks. A great way to thank Lauren is to buy one of her books. bookshop.org/lists/books-...

Thank you, Mike!!!

I'll Stop the World Check out I'll Stop the World - <p><b>"Lauren Thoman's <i>I'll Stop the World</i> is a whip-smart mystery with a vibrant cast of characters that gives off great eighties vibes. I was absolutely dazzle...

There exists a book in which the gen-x/elder millennial childhood era is visited in such a way! @laurenthomanwrites.com’s I’ll Stop The World: bookshop.org/p/books/i-ll...

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

Man, 34, is no longer blind after tooth is implanted in eye in 'crazy' surgery Tooth-in-eye surgery sounds like science fiction, but it can help people with severely damaged corneas see again. A patient and his doctors describe what it's like.

TIL that for some people with irreparably damaged corneas, you can pull one of their teeth, drill a hole in it, install an artificial lens, sew it into their cheek (so tissue attaches), then pull it out and stick it in their damaged eye, and ... it works fine!?! www.nbcboston.com/news/health/...

It was a fun time, if extremely overwhelming!

Man and woman posing for photo dressed as Clark Lent and Lois Lane from Superman (2025)

Man and woman posing for photo dressed as Rogue and Gambit from Marvel Comics.

A man stands between two women, with a fourth woman reclining on the floor in front of them. All are dressed as characters from Jurassic Park (1993) and in poses similar to iconic shots of their characters in the movie.

Three women taking a selfie, two with looks of happy surprise, one smiling. LtR: Lauren Thoman, Ashley Poston, Becky Albertalli.

Headed home from my first ever #DragonCon exhausted but happy. So much fun hanging with friends, meeting new ones, and getting to talk about books and stories and characters with passionate and talented people. If we hung out at all or if you enjoyed any of my panels, don’t be a stranger!

Hey I’m in here!

Thank you!

✨ An absolutely gigantic dog named Gloom who is the very goodest boy
✨ Government conspiracy
✨ Scrappy underground resistance
✨ Action galore
✨ Also mini-heists and cons
✨ Lots of other fun stuff I cannot talk about yet!

Things to expect in DREAD CHASER:
✨ Post-apocalyptic world
✨ An entire cast of mixed-race characters (it's the FUTURE, baby; the pot is long melted)
✨ Also everyone is some flavor of neurospicy
✨ Rivals-to-lovers banter-fueled slow burn
✨ Roving monsters
✨ Found family
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Publisher's Marketplace deal report which reads: "Lauren Thoman's DREAD CHASER, pitched as The Last of Us meets The Mandalorian, in which a teenage bounty hunter must team up with his rival as they pursue the target of a lifetime in a chase that unravels everything they thought they understood about the world they live in, to Kate Prosswimmer and Nicole Fiorica at Margaret K. McElderry Books, in a two-book deal, for publication in spring 2027, by Holly Root at Root Literary."

Surprise, I get to publish more books!

So excited to finally be able to talk about my YA debut, DREAD CHASER, hitting shelves in 2027 from @simonandschuster.bsky.social, with the sequel coming in 2028!

This book is absolute mayhem and I can't wait for y'all to read it. Some details in replies ⬇️

Replace "spongebob quotes" with "movie and actor trivia that people just use IMDb for now" and this is an actual scan of my brain

I kept blaming Mondays for my struggle to hit my word count targets at the beginning of each week, but then I remembered the genocide and fascism and robots and our melting brains and the crumbling climate and the death of democracy and was forced to concede that the problem *may* not be Mondays

I mean *I* know that (never used it, never will), but I'm assuming people who use it in place of a healthcare professional probably use it for a lot more than that as well, so I was mostly saying to at LEAST do not do THAT

GOOD. The fact that this actually had to be spelled out like this is wild, but I’m glad at least one state finally did.

Fair, although I feel like it’s still preferable to be confidently wrong on your homework assignment and fail than to be confidently wrong on your health and die. (But like… why are folks willingly putting themselves in either of these scenarios)

That’s where *I* am with it for sure, but for the folks who aren’t there yet, I need them to at LEAST stop entrusting their health to it

A dumb and extremely eager-to-please intern who is allergic to saying “I don’t know”

I mean that would be MY preference but can people at least START by not entrusting it with their physical and mental health