Stockton Smith

journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact

Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition.

TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

A screenshot of a Draft2Digital popup that lets you know you can make your catalog of books available to bookshop.org

Oh my gosh, actual good news for indie authors distributing wide

I have no idea how long this sale will run, but if you've been eyeing the audiobooks for The Reanimator Mysteries series, Chirp has all 3 for less than $9 right now

Copies of print edition of the January Locus magazine with following names on front: Tom Holt: K.J. Parker: Kamilah Cole; John Varley: Michael Kelly.

In the mail today, copies of @locusmag.bsky.social . Surreal to see my name there. If you haven't, please consider supporting this genre institution. A digital subscription amounts to just $4 for each jam-packed issue.

oh, BORTAC. i've heard of them. they're the guys who raid aid tents and destroy medical equipment on the border. amazed they can find time in their busy schedule to murder people outright.

“Just Keep Going North”, by William T. Vollmann At the border

“What does it look like inside one of these detention centers?”

“It’s completely devoid of color. Eloy is that weird institutional blue paint…I’ve not been inside any of the cells, because I’m not allowed, only into the consultation room.”

From "Just Keep Going North"

Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of James Jean.

I went to the nearest Barnes & Noble and awkwardly explained to someone at the help desk that I had a new book out and asked where it might be (it's genre fluid) and it was faced out (!) Then she took some pictures, had me sign their books, and said they'd already sold a copy. A win/win/win.

wait, what's this article about? I stopped reading at "Two top podcasters..."

100%. and sorry if it sounded like I was saying YOU were talking about creative control. I'm agreeing with you. I was referring to this article and people in general who imagine they can have hp products without the evil. They know better or they wouldn't need sad PR deflections.

but if we could get that down to 16...😅

yeah, my point was that even if she had no editorial control, we already know what she uses her money for, so the "she's not involved" defense is stupid anyway. she's getting the money. it will be used for evil. same with any HP commodities.

lol, oh, so is she not getting royalties?

forbidden slushie

it doesn't matter for the reasons you mentioned, but also...

Felonious Means: A psychedelic noir thriller Alex Garibaldi is the kind of guy Cass and Artie can't stand. He's an unrepentant robber baron, coked up on self-importance, and used to everyone around him following his commands to the letter. A ra...

Felonious Means, the third book in the Inveztigators series is out NOW! Grab an ebook, paperbacks are coming soon, and it's on kindle unlimited:
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it really highlights our two-tiered justice system that the federal government can post CSAM and just add a disclaimer "*warning, we may be committing a federal crime posting this" and there's no fear of accountability.

can't forget "s/he"

they/them singular "confusion" is the most disingenuous. it's so intuitive usage-wise that teachers spent all of my public school education trying to convince students that it exclusively a plural pronoun.

if only we could have imagined that absolute power would corrupt absolutely..

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Thrilled that On Fire and Under Water is a Finalist for the Best Anthology Derringer Award!Congrats to the other five well-deserving finalists also! This is an honor and I’m so happy for everyone at @rhppress.bsky.social and our 15 contributors for making this anthology such a great success.

how are we still on "i don't understand pronouns" 10 years later from these ghouls?

No beds. No nurse. No answer on how many people in custody.
U.S. Rep. Kelly Morrison details what she saw at Whipple over the weekend:

DOJ Released Unredacted Nude Images in Epstein Files A note from investigators in the files said some images Epstein had were "POSSIBLE CSAM."

no better summation of America's unrepentant rape culture than that one of the biggest stories of the last decade is about the abuse of women and girls and every single stakeholder working on it couldn't give less of a shit about the actual victims of the story

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Africa and the Diaspora
2. Language and Politics (Linguistics seminar)
3. Linguistic Morphology
4. Quran (studied Hadith as well)
5. The American West (with a very iconoclastic prof)

The tree

#shittycamerachallenge #chamera #kodak #photography #glitchart #glitch

It makes you sound crazy to say this out loud, but it's becoming increasingly clear that the United States government has been effectively toppled by a group of overt pedophiles

tfw you're correcting a manuscript and you find a chapter with no corrections to make...

English translation of statement from Ecuadorian Consulate regarding ICE’s attempt to enter their building in Minneapolis today: