SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER (Tor Nightfire, Titan). 5 Bram Stoker Awards. Shirley Jackson finalist. Work in Strange Horizons, Nightmare, Asimov's, Pseudopod, etc. Clarion grad. 🏳️🌈 www.lucysnyder.com Rep: @jord4nhill.bsky.social Cats, aquariums and terrariums
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Hey, the court just gave final approval to the settlement in Bartz v. Anthropic. I'm reading through the order right now. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69058...
Judgment AND Order AND Terminate Civil Case AND ~Util - Terminate Motions – #680 in Bartz v. Anthropic PBC (N.D. Cal., 4:24-cv-05417) – CourtListener.comJudgment AND Order AND Terminate Civil Case AND ~Util - Terminate Motionswww.courtlistener.com
The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social
Yeah I think I spoke up on this because things will only get worse if they are ignored and at least Taco Bell did something!! They did it unprompted! No one asked them to. They did something they are obligated to do and a lot of other corporations won't.
This kinda mirrors my thoughts on the matter, and an issue that I do genuinely think is killing us: right now we treat the first person to DO SOMETHING about a problem as the cause of the problem, which disincentivizes actually giving a fuck about anything.
DoeNot to go to bat for a fast food conglomerate but they were the first business to blow the whistle on this, pull potential contaminants from their stores and alert people to the potential harm. It is not their fault their supplier gave them an invisible parasite. It's a supply chain problem
Exciting news from Lightspeed -- an old hand leaves, an older one returns. I am going to miss the team so much, but I'm so excited for what will come next! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/e...
Editorial: July 2026 - Lightspeed MagazineBe sure to check out the editorial for a rundown of this month's content and for all of John Joseph Adams's media and book recommendations!www.lightspeedmagazine.com
Huge new class action lawsuit filed by big publishers and authors against Google this week over AI training. It accuses Google of taking millions of books / articles provided to them for use only in Google Books, Google Play Books, and Google Scholar, and secretly using them to train LLMs. 🧵 1/4
I usually don't repost images without alt-text but I went to alt-text this one and I'm like well it's... well, it's a crab-fishing boat, and there's a door, and the door is Full Of Crab????????
Zac ThompsonPictures from a friend of mine who works on a crab-fishing boat off the coast of Newfoundland. I love the nightmare crab door.
me writing a piece of fiction: "I cannot use an exclamation mark as the whole thing will sound unhinged." me writing an email: "Do you! Want! To send me! The File! I would really! Like! The file!"
I am extremely pleased to have this essay, on how American fiction has grappled with COVID, in @currentaffairs.bsky.social. This is a subject I care deeply about and had been wanting to write about at length for a long time. Please give it a read.
We Still Haven’t Processed the PandemicNovels set during the height of COVID-19 fail to tell the full story of that era of mass death and despair.www.currentaffairs.org