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Kirkus ★ THE LOVELY DARK out April '26 🇺🇸 | Financial Times Best Children's Books '23 | Barnes & Noble Children's Book Award Shortlist '24 | Rep'd: Bell Lomax Moreton | No AI |🌱 linktr.ee/mattfoxwriter
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
I’m one of the ten thousand authors of this big 'blank' book, published today on the first day of the London Book Fair by the Society of Authors. It’s a plea to Big Tech to stop stealing the work of individual writers, artists and journalists.
www.dontstealthisbook.com
#DontStealThisBook #booksky
I’m one of the ten thousand authors of this big 'blank' book, published today on the first day of the London Book Fair by the Society of Authors. It’s a plea to Big Tech to stop stealing the work of individual writers, artists and journalists.
www.dontstealthisbook.com
#DontStealThisBook #booksky
“Everything we can save is worth saving. Everything we can do is worth doing” 💚 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...
New issue of KIRKUS REVIEWS, March '26
Featuring acclaimed scholar Namwali Serpell's new book about the works of Toni Morrison.
Also, my little book is reviewed in this issue.
www.kirkusreviews.com/magazine/202...
#thelovelydark #booksky
Reading this month (I can recommend all of these):
Theory & Practice (Michelle de Kretser)
Ixelles (Johannes Anyuru)
Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison)
Discontent (Beatriz Serrano)
The Maniac (Benjamin Labatut)
February recap. High point: walking on the frozen Baltic Sea out at Artipelag (and on the Årstaviken).
Last Thursday it was still -4°C in Stockholm; then it flipped and went up to +9° on Friday. Now it's spring.
Low point: everybody being ill and off school with unbelievable coughs and colds.
Oh boy. Enslopification here we come.
Oh boy. Enslopification here we come.
The Bachelors is still my fave.
It’s the worship of the inhuman.
I am kind of writing one... Agents likes it, going to talk about it next week x
The 4th Indiana Jones movie.
I'm writing a book. Every working day begins with me rewriting what I wrote the day before, and the day before that. If your reaction to that is "AI could save you that trouble," I know you're not a writer. Computer programs can't sleep on it, can't dream an idea, can't suddenly realize something.
Yup. As Kurt Vonnegut said, “I am a mono-polar depressive descended from mono-polar depressives. That's how come I write so good.”
Well done!
Of all the easy things you can do to help the environment, conserve water for communities not corporations, not perpetuate scams, support the labor and rights of creators... *not* using generative AI is the fucking easiest. You absolutely deserve to be shamed for using it for image and text creation
We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
Daughter went to a birthday party and the party bag contained a BOOK. These are my people.
Lord, spare me from tenured faculty with strong views about the job market.
I am absolutely delighted that @peteralanross.bsky.social Upon a White Horse is BBCRadio4 Book of the Week. For it is another of my own Books of the Year. Adventurous, ruminative, watchful encounters with place & time
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Oh this is wonderful. I'm so jealous.
“A single generative AI text query consumes energy at four or five times the magnitude of a typical search engine request.
Generating a single image using AI consumes the same amount of energy as charging a phone to full power.
Training one large AI model consumes nearly five times the lifetime..”
Excessive viewing of TikTok and Instagram Reels is damaging cognitive performance, according to this American Psychological Association study:
www.independent.co.uk/tech/tiktok-...
“Insurers increasingly view AI models’ outputs as too unpredictable and opaque to insure, said Dennis Bertram, head of cyber insurance for Europe at Mosaic. “It’s too much of a black box.”
www.ft.com/content/abfe...
Drinking coffee (vs abstinence) reduces the risk of recurrent atrial fibrillation. Lots of coffee studies are observational with residual confounding, but this is an honest-to-god RCT 👍
I stumbled upon this the other night, and it's terrific - well worth a half hour of your time. I'm a tech layman when it comes to film, but this felt spot-on to me and I learned stuff, too! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvwP...
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And if I’m shaken by this book, I haven’t been paying attention. I’ve looked away far too often.
'The medics are forced to create a new acronym for them. WCNSF - wounded child, no surviving family.'
I am so shaken by this book.