The worst danger of AI isn't that it exploits creators, nor that it guzzles energy, wastes water and hands power to an undeserving elite, but that it severs our links to each other. It discourages conversation, spontaneity, empathy, critical thinking: everything that makes us better than machines.
I think it has been misattributed.
Margaret A. Wilcox (1838 –1912) was an engineer and inventor of the train car heating system. She also contributed to the development of home appliance technology, but her early inventions had to be patented under her husband's name, as women were not then allowed to hold patents. #CelebratingWomen
My wife has a story in the amazing sapphic collection! 💗
If AI were trying to detroy humanity, the frst thing it would do would be to sever the emotional bonds we have with each other. To destroy empathy. To make human seem second rate.
Write first: inspiration is extra.
Unsolicited writing advice, no.96:
Don’t worry about whether or not you’re a proper writer. Don’t worry about whether or not you’re any good, or whether you will be judged, or rejected. Just write. Have fun. Enjoy what you do. Everything else can wait.
Just signed copies of VIANNE for the Barnsley Book Vault! @bookvault.bsky.social
And this morning the Shed is a mad March hare, dancing with the windswept hills...
Yes.
Great sold-out event tonight at Lingham’s Bookshop: thank you to Sue and Lisa, and to everyone who came!
It’s gorgeous. I have one from last year, and it smells sublime…
Lovely warm audience at Barton grange - and look! They have my roses! #Vianne
Yowza!
I boost @cemurphy.bsky.social works but I don't know that I'm as invested in people reading those as this one. I think it's *good*. I think you should get it and read it. Review it. Talk about it. Hope you like it too!
BONE & BLOOD is available today at Amazon Kindle
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXFPLQW...
ITV have generally refused to indulge in anti trans nonsense and have platformed trans people more than the others.
Excellent to see that continue.
Edurne Pasaban Lizarribar (born August 1, 1973) is a Basque Spanish mountaineer. She is the first woman to climb all 14 of the eight-thousanders – and the 21st person to do so. Her first 8,000 peak was in 2001, when she reached the summit of Mount Everest. #CelebratingWomen
GNU SIR TERRY PRATCHETT
Signal this to all towers, not logged.
‘He’d never have wanted to go home. He was a real linesman. His name is in the code, in the wind in the rigging and the shutters. Haven’t you ever heard the saying “A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken”?’
Going Postal
Two gigs in one day! Rock and roll... :-))
And this morning the Shed is a lantern room at the apex of a tall tower…
Talk about beautiful stories that make you cry! Just read The Soundtrack of My Afterlife by
@cornellwriter.bsky.social
at @adventitiouswords.bsky.social This was such a lovely and loving story that built to a truly gorgeous ending.
www.adventitious.net/stories/the-...
Warning: just one of the many festival scams that have come my way in recent weeks. Some details are halfway plausible, others not at all. It's always worth checking the e-mail address on the official website (also, no book festival in the UK pays this kind of fee.) 😂
Really looking forward to my events at Barton Grange and Lingham's Books tomorrow. Both events are already sold out, but if you'd like to hear me talk about VIANNE and the magic of chocolate, please check out my remaining tour dates here... www.joanne-harris.co.uk/events/
I love British Library Publishing's Tales of the Weird series. As well as the excellent "Possessed" I have read "Spores of Doom - Dank Tales of the Fungal Weird" and am currently reading "Evil Roots - Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic". All brilliant books and plenty more in the series.
Yeah, I saw that...
It is, yes: but I think it has value as a recognizable statement of intent.
Authors Guild in the US did this about 18 months ago. www.instagram.com/p/DBLJvVXgIU...
Officially out tomorrow!
Oh. 🫣
