Stephanie Leary

Can’t tell you how fast I’d be seated for the new Tron movie if it weren’t for that fucking guy

Distribution is THE under-reported story in book publishing (outside of the trade publications) and losing B&T is going to have untold ripple effects on the industry, small presses, and authors.

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

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The thing about 7 billionaire freaks passing the same increasingly large wad of IOUs back and forth, is that only a pundit could possibly think this translates to increasing prosperity for everyone else.

We've got to stop writing stories about defeating villains without also examining the systems that create them.

Villains aren't reacting to nothing, and they aren't upset at a world that works.

I'm looking at you:
-Supetheroes
-Fantasy books
-SO much of the romantasy sphere
-dark academia
-ETC

I was with some publishing folks recently. They said almost every pitch now is basically, “this book is just like those other books but written, bravely, BY A MAN.”

The one who could retire, did. The rest of us just got drunk

It always seems especially arduous to get to Boston from here. Good luck!

This is the most amazing bit of cross-cultural mythmaking ever. I wonder if this was inspired by myths of Talos? Anyhow, I am very sorry that the secretive guild of ancient Roman robot engineers never existed, though pleased they were appropriately unionized.

Can we all file an amicus brief stating that we don’t want either of them doing it?

I’ve never seen The Godfather. I’ve tried twice, and each time was interrupted by a phone call telling me that a family member had died. I’ve decided I don’t need to see it that badly.

I’ve said it before, but chatbot user interfaces that pretend to be human or human-like need to be banned.

It’s a deceitful, dehumanizing and deeply unethical scam.

queen shit, rest in peace

Thinking about the way (white) fans of The Murderbot Diaries missed the fact that it’s a slave narrative until @marthawells.com started saying, “IT’S A SLAVE NARRATIVE” in interviews.

If anything, they're the biggest indictment against cutting back on humanities in education.

Like, they aren't just missing the subtext, in some cases they're flat-out ignoring the *actual text.*

We Have at least 70? years of science fiction exploring this proposition and all reaching the same conclusions as Josie.

Which I only bring up because everyone involved in this AI thing is a science fiction fan, but not one who understands what they read.

Concise summary of the Trump admin’s proposed “compact” with universities: “In other words, this is the most sweeping pile of unconstitutional conditions that any American constitutional lawyer has ever seen in the wild.”

I’m imagining “A moose once bit my sister” in the most backwoods redneck accent possible

The LA Public Library research librarian explaining what is going on with Charli and Taylor is outstanding work

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Oh dang. This is an excellent analogy.

wild to see a Western president say this after listening to scholars say this for over a decade lol

This is one of the lesser known (but tragic) consequences of Gen AI. It’s not just about theft of IP, which is usually mentioned, it’s about damage to the information infrastructure of underfunded archives, libraries and museums etc. with long term consequences for them and for researchers.

hey peeps

do you know a good book or guide about community organization governance?

like how to handle voting, disputes / accused but not witnessed violations of CoC, that sort of thing?

i know some of y'all are nonprofit people / organizers

This is so good.

I’d argue that developer education should be called out specifically, but this really covers it:

“…accessibility […] is treated as simultaneously too trivial for specialists' technical opinions to be given weight, but also too difficult to get right without a specialist …”

I see this anytime you have a UX or marketing person in tech at all - there's years of dismissing such fields and keep looking for quick-fix or code solutions, when a user experience is NOT solely that. I mean.. most of us don't use a command line interface for checking email anymore, for reasons!

Highlighting this, blowing it up to 4ft letters, outlining it in gold stars, applying glitter, and staking it outside the windows of open source project leaders.

Thanks!

That’s so kind of you! Thank you so much! ❤️

A woodcut of a bird beside the text "motherfucker do I look okay?"

They really are excavating centuries-old rakes just so they can step on them.