Multi awards-shortlisted SFFH & non-fic author. Editor & typesetter. SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES 3 now in the wild! https://linktr.ee/tiffaniangusauthor Leftie, feminist, ex academic, ally, anti-AI. she/her. Now 🇬🇧 was 🇺🇸
It's not enough to be against AI, you need to be pro art. You need to be a champion of the art you love, you need to share that passion and joy, and do what you can to support the artists who make it, because it's not enough to hate AI, to hate what it's doing to art and media; you gotta love.
"...a Facebook page with 300,000 followers could earn its owner $1,000 USD a month if it had 'premium content' catered to higher-value audiences from the UK, US, and Europe ... Western views were worth eight times more per post than those from Asia." AI lies to you about history & takes your money.
Halifax ExaminerAI-generated fake historic images are destroying our past, present, and future Morning File by @suzannerent.bsky.social
Witches, monsters, mysterious islands, and mythological fantasy, you say?! 😀 If you fancy writing your own Odyssey, check out the Locus-recommended and BSFA/BFA nominated Spec Fic for Newbies writing guide series! Find TOCs and purchasing options here: linktr.ee/specficforne...
Good. Ban the pervert glasses from every event for decent people.
Hypervisible“The vast majority of the talent and agents at our events felt that these were a violation of their privacy and were damaging and spoiling the interactions at the tables. Several expressed concerns that they might not continue to attend in-person events if they were being recorded in secret.”
Large areas of Spain, France and Greece are literally on fire. Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated. Fires are burning out of control, and several firemen have died. Most of the Mediterranean sea is 5 degrees Celsius (yes, 5 degrees) above its normal temperature.
Uncontrolled AI is a threat to our jobs, our environment, and our communities. Canadians across the political divide know this, and that’s why they’re fighting back. The public must assert its role in the technologies shaping our lives, and draw hard lines where AI causes nothing but harm.
The universal basic income they keep referring to in a post-AI setting requires a form of government & a society that they're actively working against. What is this writer on about? They can't even tolerate a black actor in a fictional role in a movie, let alone judicious "redistribution of wealth*.
Ah, marketing, the bane of a writer's existences (we mostly want to be left alone to write, right?). M. Luke McDonnell shares what she learned at a marketing workshop clue: newsletters are vital!): milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2026/01/06/t...
Top Tips from the 2025 Dazzling All-Star Book Marketing Retreat – by M. Luke McDonellAs I prepare to publish my debut sci fi novel with a small indie press, the burden of marketing will fall firmly on my shoulders. Do I look forward to this challenge? I don’t. I’m a writer, not a p…milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com
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