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That's good news.

I feel her anti-AI rage so deeply.

Same here!

Howard @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social and I have developed a cute little series on the archaeology and history of death and burial in the Viking age. I simply love these sessions and hope more people will discover us :D #vikingsky #medievalsky youtu.be/hi2MQG6ChXM

In our latest episode, we talked about Lagertha, the historical stories of her as a shield maiden who came to Ragnar's rescue *twice*, and the character from the TV show Vikings. If you're interested in our take on how the show Vikings handled Lagertha, give it a listen!

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One of the simple pleasures of my life was doing the NYT Mini Crossword with friends. Every day we'd share our times, and in these times of stress, it was something I looked forward to doing.

Now, the Mini is behind a paywall. Really, NYT? You can't give us that small pleasure?

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

Good. If your business is built on stolen property, you deserve to lose it.

"They've warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic's AI training now threatens to "financially ruin" the entire AI industry...."

Saying this again: there is a scammer out there targeting newbie authors, claiming I'm one of their clients. They use different names, and I'm already pursuing legal action. But I have never worked with a PR company, editing service, or book packager, so anybody saying so is lying, period full stop.

Thanks for sharing!

New podcast episode out! In this one, Johanna and I talked to historian and author Pamela D. Toler @pdtoler.bsky.social about her book Women Warriors: An Unexpected History. Fun fact: there were women warriors all over the world and in many different time periods.

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On the July episode of my podcast, my cohost and I talked to Megan Formanek, author of the Viking Trading Lands series. We discussed her research about women of the Viking Age with a focus on the trade routes through what is now Russia and Ukraine. Plus, a lot more!

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I’m no computer scientist, but I’m pretty sure that if your AI starts calling itself “MechaHitler” you kill that shit with fire post fucking haste.

AI is learning to lie, scheme, and threaten its creators during stress-testing scenarios "This is not just hallucinations. There's a very strategic kind of deception."

Gee, if only we had an entire genre of speculative fiction warning us of this exact scenario for the past century or so.

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I definitely needed a video of a Red Panda eating grapes.

😭

Hoarding wealth is a sickness

If you use AI to create your art, your story, your whatever, I immediately know you don’t care about making things — you only care about selling them.

Good for them.

my dudes there's no such thing as "too late" to regulate AI, that's a fake idea. AI models aren't untouchable data gods, they're algorithms hosted in cloud storage. Saying we can't regulate AI is like saying we can't deplatform Child P*rn bc "it's already out there". Like, 1s and 0s can be deleted

Thank you for including "female fit" tees!

Storytellers have been warning us for decades.

a girl is swimming in the ocean with a shark behind her ALT: a girl is swimming in the ocean with a shark behind her

Jaws is 50 today! I can speak for many of my generation that seeing Jaws ruined swimming in the ocean for me for a long time! Every time a piece of kelp brushed my leg, I thought for sure it was a shark ready to take me down. 🦈

An ad for Galaxy AI. The caption at the top says "the evolution of my social circle. It shows lots of people in 2023, only three people in 2024, and just the icon for galaxy ai in 2025. Fucking grim, man.

The tech industry wants you lonely, disconnected, friendless, and utterly dependent on them for information, transportation, employment, entertainment, and emotional engagement. Ask yourself why.

The June episode of my podcast is out! We talked with bestselling author Melanie Karsak! It was a great discussion. We talked about her Vinland to Valhalla series, Freydis Eriksdotter, and about why it's important to her to write strong female heroines.

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What a legend. RIP.

When I dread opening up the file and can't bear to look at it anymore.

#HistFicMay - what book am I going to write? Right now, I'm working on the first book of a trilogy, tentatively titled, The Lost Circle. That's all I'm willing to divulge for now! Fingers crossed, it will be ready for release later this year.

#HistFicMay #writinghabits - favorite time of day to write? Mornings. Maybe not as early as this picture shows, except in the winter when it gets light later. My preferred time to start writing is about 7am. with some breaks until noonish.

#HistFicMay #writinghabits - does my story have a song or playlist? YES! Every book and short story I've written has a specific playlist of songs (or one song) that fit the mood I want. For the book I just finished, I listened a lot to the soundtrack to the show Arcane.

Boo hoo. If your business model doesn't work unless you're stealing from others, then it deserves to die.