Sara Nović

It's the "I guess" for me 🫠

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(Cameos by @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social and @maris.bsky.social)

The Fact of the Matter Fact-checkers, legal, reviews, and the truth in nonfiction.

Wrote a bit about the (lack of) fact-checking in publishing, and the poor substitute of the "legal review": buttondown.com/signs+wonder...

Pretty much anyone sentient right now can see the chasm between what is true and what is legal. With the waters muddied by legacy media’s soft touch and AI peddlers’ hard sells, it can be hard to parse out the difference between what is true, and what feels true, on top of what people might like to be true, what a plagiarism robot says is true, what the regime says is true, and on and on. Any time we cater to anything or one outside what we know to be true, our shared reality, and the ties that bind us to it and to one another, are diminished.

I'm soo looking forward to hearing @novicsara.bsky.social memoir.

YES! I bought an audiobook of a Deaf author signing into microphone.

Live post me unhinged happenings from AWP while I sit here with Braxton Hicks please and thank you 😅

I read way too much Left Behind as a child for this shit.

Unless you're a practicing Calvinist I don't want to hear about the inevitability of AI or any other damn thing. (And even then, feel free to miss me with weird-ass robot predestination.)

#DeafShelf, 2025 Edition Often when I'm doing a book event, one of the questions I get is about what books by deaf authors people should read next. This is one of my favorite...

And a 2025 update buttondown.com/signs+wonder...

So, that happened! And what happens next?

Here's a list! buttondown.com/signs+wonder...

Also Nice Indian Boy; that was delightful.

Is it possible that Sinners is the only movie I actually enjoyed this year? I feel like every other experience was me saying, "I understand technically why this is good, but..."

Just brutal 🫠🫠

a man is sitting in a chair with an apple laptop . Alt: a man is sitting in a chair with an apple laptop closes it slowly, then throws it out a window.

Me: OK...after a lawsuit, the police altered their policy on dealing with deaf people so that it was no longer OK to choke them unconscious. Is that... better?
Lawyer:... and?
Me:...?
Lawyer: and the DA said the force was justified. 🙂
Me:

Me: In 2013 police choked a deaf man unconscious and then held him in jail for assault for several months without an interpreter, until eventually dropping the charges.

UK lawyer: defamation! You didn't tell teh whole story! After they let him out, he sued and they changed their policy.
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Reclaiming my book Making Deaf space in the world of sound

More about the process here buttondown.com/signs+wonder...

For the audiobook of TRUE BIZ, Random House folks and I invented a way of differentiating between English and signed dialogue by recording ASL sounds to lay beneath the dialogue. So excited to be back in the studio to do the same for MOTHER TONGUE tomorrow. Here's a clip from last time 2022:

Wait, people are PAYING to use ChatGPT, it's stealing infinity intellectual property, and it still can't make money??

People who are looking for a fight I think! I really don't know who else would enjoy it!

Unclear. I mostly try to crosspost what I can and get out. A few things have gotten a lot of likes but doesn't really translated into followers? 🤷

It's honestly too much for me!

I keep opening it to do book marketing stuff and then running away screaming 😂

Meanwhile, over on Threads, I've somehow landed in an algorithimic venn diagram from hell where people are both yelling at parents for not using the library enough, and yelling at parents for bringing their children to the library and disrupting the quiet. 🫠

Imagine a world in which people could hold in their brains simultaneously that the guy running Iran was bad and the people running the US and illegally starting a war with Iran in the dead of night are also bad.

Like, I'm not even expecting them to have morals or ethics, but like, didn't you do this for the power and attention and shit?

It is a little weird to me that all these weirdos spend a ton of time and money to run for Congress and then just surrender their power to a dictator doing very illegal and unpopular stuff.

Muting the word "distraction" for public safety reasons.

Been writing a newsletter essay about truth and fact-checking in publishing that just keeps getting longer instead of ending 😅

Any military action in the Middle East makes a lot more sense when you remember that a contingent of people running our government are literally trying to end the world so they can trigger the rapture.