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I've written a longer piece on the book that's been pulled due to "AI" use allegations, what that means particularly for newer authors, and what, if anything writers can do in the "AI" era to prove their work is their own: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/07/31/a...

Another Reason Not to Use “AI” For Your WritingBack in February I did a long post about “AI” and why I wouldn’t use it for my own writing, and one of the reasons I gave was “the fact that ‘AI’-generated text …whatever.scalzi.com

One thing I can confidently say is that more than a few other books have been canceled for AI use--including by established authors and non-fiction books--that have just not made the news yet.

My genuinely brilliant colleague in Southeast Asian studies, Dr. Erik Davis at Macalester College in St Paul, faces a federal indictment and a possible six-year prison sentence, for having "ties" to "antifa" (i.e. for organizing anti-ICE protests). www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The professor facing prison in ‘antifa’ case: ‘They want to scare all who oppose ICE’Erik Davis is accused by the government of a ‘conspiracy’ to obstruct ICE – experts say it’s part of a pattern to criminalize lawful organizing and ruin activists’ liveswww.theguardian.com

"finally, we have created Fahrenheit 451 from the cautionary tale,"

Don’t ask AI for medical advice. Don’t ask AI for legal advice. Don’t ask AI for advice on anything. In fact, don’t use AI full stop. It’s destroying what’s left of our intelligence. It’s decimating the environment. It’s enriching the billionaire class & hurting everyone else.

ChatGPT medical advice brought man 'to brink of death', lawsuit allegesAn American man sues OpenAI and its founder Sam Altman, claiming the popular chatbot "repeatedly misdiagnosed" him.www.bbc.com

I get that some people don't understand this. Maybe they think the chat function is a legitimate summary of actual websites. But lots of us have been yelling about this for *years* now! The information about how unreliable, thieving, and damaging to the environment is available! Don't. Use. "AI".

"After boarding a handful of boats — stuffed to the brim with people and pets — community members drove across the lake as their entire First Nation burned to the ground behind them. " www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

'It's a miracle': First Nation members escape northwestern Ontario wildfire as community burns to the ground | CBC NewsNamaygoosisagagun First Nation, also known as Collins First Nation, has been destroyed by a wildfire that spans over 350,000 hectares in northwestern Ontario. Community leaders spoke to CBC News about...www.cbc.ca

Woke urbanites just don't understand the importance to hunting culture of owning, checks notes, a cannon www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Former Manitoba MP Inky Mark charged with firearms trafficking after hundreds of weapons seized | CBC NewsInky Mark, a former federal politician in Manitoba, has been charged after police say they seized hundreds of improperly stored firearms from his home last week.www.cbc.ca

"I believe the people of Maine deserve better than Susan Collins, and so even though I had some misgivings about Toht, I ignored every click and whirr of my moral compass to cheer him on."

If Only There Had Been a Sign That the Face-Melting Nazi from Indiana Jones Wouldn’t Make a Good Senator“There’s simply no way any of us could have predicted a Nazi SS guy with his eyeballs dangling out of his sockets and the Staff of Ra broiled into his flesh ...buff.ly

Phrenology. Used in the past to justify racism, white supremacy and eugenics. Now being advocated by the head of the *EQUALITIES* & *HUMAN RIGHTS* commission in the UK. Next up, Lamarkism. Not, a white, cishet, neurotypical, non-disabled, middle class, Christian man…? Be afraid.

every country is going to lead on ai. every country is going to have the biggest data centres. every country is going to build small modular reactors to power them. every country is gearing up to compete on quantum computing. i’m so tired of all this bullshit.

A federal judge in California has issued a nationwide block against the Trump administration’s policy of making arrests at immigration courts, putting an end to a practice that garnered national attention. https://cnn.it/4gI5s8y

Uuuuhhhhh, this is VERY, VERY BAD. I haven’t been on socials much today, so I can’t say “no one is talking about it,” but I am surprised I haven’t seen more www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prisonActivists accused of being part of antifa get long prison terms in case seen as test of Trump’s crackdown on dissentwww.theguardian.com

What a great thing to note down in official board meeting minutes.

Why are we even doing this research what is the fucking point