Selene dePackh

Today in the SLAG GLASS CITY Selene dePackh peruses old Pittsburgh to piece together her spouse's family tree. tiny.cc/timeisadista... #archivalcity #creativenonfiction #literarymagazine

‘I came out as autistic. Everyone said: That explains a lot’ | The Observer An autism diagnosis helped Laurie Penny make sense of their experiences, but its real value was in helping them understand the rest of society

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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.

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Meta Faces Lawsuit Over Torrenting 82TB of Pirated Books for AI Training | The Express Tribune Meta is facing a lawsuit over allegedly torrenting 82TB of pirated books from shadow libraries like Z-Library to train its AI models, including LLaMA.

tribune.com.pk/story/252764...

Honored to be in such good company on the Meta pirating victims list. We've all been data-scraped in some way or another by now.

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[harsh black and white comix-style cyberpunk image of feminine face repeating within itself from multiple angles]

Quick sample of my #NeuroQueer #ExperimentalLit #HybridEssay work from a few years ago.
heavyfeatherreview.org/2019/03/28/d...
click through from above link^
(Image is a separate uploaded illustration from the piece)

Alright, y'all. Let's share and get to know each other.

Reply with a link to and/or image of your WEIRDEST work! Writing, art, experimental darlings. Whatever you've got!

older piece, but you'll get the flavor
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#ExperimentalWriting

#writing #CNF #HybridEssay #LyricalEssay

Contract for publication between Slag Glass City magazine and Selene dePackh for "Time Is a Distance that Changes the Shape of Things"

From a couple of months ago. Sharing here to introduce myself. Contract with @slagglasscity.bsky.social for an author-illustrated piece on my spouse's research into the hard paths of two of her female ancestors (and the children they didn't want) in the feudal confines of peak industrial Pittsburgh.

cheers!

Shattered Souls at Heaven's Gate, by Ayòdéjì Israel - The Deadlands because we loved our country & it did not love us back: the night we died at the gates of heaven we dragged our feet like soldier ants

"because we loved our country"

& it did not love us back:"

TODAY!

Shattered Souls at Heaven’s Gate, by Ayòdéjì Israel

(little note that this one's best viewed on desktop 🖤)

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Complicated feelings writing the preface to the second edition of Troubleshooting a decade after the first one came out. Near-future dystopia is a fast-moving target; the book has become in some ways alternative history, and in others plain fact.
#BookSky
#Writer #Disablity #SpeculativeFiction

Hello

Troubleshooting (2nd Edition) speculative noir due out next year via Epic.

Hi there!

Hello.

Cheers. I crawled on up here from the sinking ship. Who should I follow?