Jolan C. Bertrand

drawing of an earthworm. It is orange-brown with darker brown segments

Day ten of #invertober
Common Earthworm

So cute, so cute! I have loved earthworms since I was a kid

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

Me, frantically blowing on every single dandelion I can find : « make it Alecto… make it Alecto… make it Alecto… make it Al… »

On va juste répéter continuellement les faits :

L'usage de L'IA GÉNÉRATIVE est facultatif détruit l'environnement écologique, renforce le capitalisme, enrichie les patrons et est l'outil assumé du fascisme.

À gauche, si vous utilisez ça, vous agissez contre les conviction que vous prétendez avoir

Image "Arrêtez d'imposer l'I.A. partout, putain !"

Visuel par l'artiste Dyna Moe

I would say that among people I know the primary two positions are "freak out" and "ignore this" and you will be shocked to know i think neither of those are the right move, but both are understandable. I think this is worth closely monitoring, without losing your shit over it.

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

Shout out to everyone only now learning that "Albert Einstein was reclusive at the end of his career, shunning public engagements."

Really meant,

"For the last *20 years* of his career, Einstein opposed US racism by only speaking publicly at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

The city of Florence from Piazzale Michelangeno, showing many rooftops, the tower of the Palazzo Vecchio, the belltower, and the Duomo, with folds of hills behind and a huge grey billow of cloud, but the sky full of light behind

We've been having this kind of weather in Florence the last few days, storms and clouds, and bursts of sunshine. #SomethingBeautiful

NOT NOW, WE’RE BUSY

A nationwide day of disruption has started in France, “Bloquons Tout” (Block Everything). Triggered by new austerity measures, the call demands a total halt to work, consumption & banking activity — “We don’t pay. We don’t consume. We don’t work.”

Stay tuned for more from France. #BloquonsTout

Pareil, je voulais me mobiliser mais j’ai dû renoncer sous peine de me manger mes dead lines (ce qui, malheureusement, n’affecterait personne à part moi), mais si vous êtes dans la rue aujourd’hui sachez que vous avez toute ma gratitude, et si le mouvement se poursuit je vous rejoindrai ASAP !

Four People I Need You to Kill Before the Dance Begins by Louis Inglis Hall Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

Very glad to hear that people have been enjoying my newest story at Clarkesworld!

It’s available now for free - although if you can subscribe, you’d be helping a great team there continue to do great work.

clarkesworldmagazine.com/hall_09_25/

Linehan adde: 'You're trying to make out I'm a bigot because I believe in women's rights and oppose men trying to intimidate and bully women.' He said Ms Brooks has been involved in trans activism since 2013. Prosecutor Julia Faure Walker said Ms Brooks would have been six years old at that time. 'So he says,' Linehan replied. Ms Faure Walker said that Ms Brooks' driving licence proves she is 18. 'If you can lie about your name and sex you can lie about anything,' Linehan replied.

Transphobia is a unique sort of bigotry that just absolutely cooks the online brain. Holding it nearly always results in an inability to ever admit you’re wrong about anything and exponentially increases the likelihood of believing in a cascade of ever dumber conspiracies and fascist ideology

I don’t know you, George Penney, but you should know that your Spotted While posts brighten my day every single time. Gratitude from the other side of the world.

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If you actually have a reasonable budget to hire an artist for your project, TELL THEM IN YOUR INITIAL EMAIL TO THEM. Right off the bat. Here is the project, this is what I can pay, this is the deadline. We get so many time wasters it’s remarkably refreshing when a potential client is upfront

Space Unicorn!

ICYMI, PLEASE SHARE! Writers! Uncanny Magazine is OPEN to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! We can't wait to read your stories!!! buff.ly/xB0IZOX

Action contre l'extrême droite

Le compte Cerfia (plus de 200K abonnés sur Insta) vient d'être racheté par le milliardaire d'extrême-droite stérin afin de faire gagner le fascisme en 2027.

1- N'intéragissez pas
2- Bloquez le compte
3- Appelez vos proches à bloquer
www.instagram.com/cerfiafrance...

If you can read Spanish, I hope you like Sofón, Issue 1. It includes 17 SFF short stories and poems in Spanish, which I really enjoyed reading, editing, and putting together. Sofón is the third speculative fiction magazine from Mexico that pays its authors. I also did the cover art ^u^

Je vous engage à lire ceci, ça brisera et réchauffera votre petit coeur <3
(Thanks @bluejo.bsky.social for the rec)

Yes thank you Jo, it’s not like I was using my heart for anything this morning T_T

Youpi, c'est le retour du " le droit d'auteur c'est un truc de possédant de droite "
Pour rappel, si personne ne peut gagner sa vie avec ses livres, les seuls qui pourront écrire à un niveau un peu visible ce seront ceux qui ont déjà de la thune (ie, les riches).../...

Hello ! Je veux bien plus d’infos sur ça (je fais partie des gens qui ont découvert l’existence de LibGen avec cette affaire), cela dit de ce que j’ai compris c’est pas LibGen qui est poursuivie ici mais les boites qui ont entraîné leurs IAs avec son contenu.

Alors juste pour clarifier : LibGen n’est pas, à la base, une base de données destinée à entraîner l’IA, elle a été ratissée comme énormément d’autres espaces de contenu web libres d’accès mais c’est pas elle la coupable.

Alors là aucune idée, désolé :/

(Suite) allez remplir le formulaire de la firme qui s’occupe du dossier, vous serez recontacté et tenu au courant le cas échéant (et si vous êtes sûr-es, dans le doute remplissez quand même le formulaire, la firme fera le tri) : www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

(Suite) en tapant votre nom dans la barre de recherche de cette database : www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... (hésitez pas à checker plusieurs versions de votre nom, à intervertir nom et prénom etc.) pour voir si une ou plusieurs de vos oeuvres y sont.
Et si vous êtes effectivement concerné-es (2/)

Yo les auteurices de France qui me suivent : y a une action juridique en cours contre l’IA générative aux US (mais qui nous concerne aussi), plus on sera nombreux au dossier plus l’industrie de l’IA en pâtira, du coup checkez si vous êtes concerné-es (suite dans le thread) (1/)

“But if you abolish this, what will you replace it with?”

Listen, my fucking CAT would be a better alternative to this and she shares a single brain cell with all the other orange cats