i hate it when people give out reckless and irresponsible firearms advice online. you don't want to use anything less than .300wm when shooting appliances inside your home.

Here's how to opt out.

These are all flagrant lies, unsourced yet printed in a newspaper that allegedly fact checks things. The rest of it is meandering panic-bait that treats jail breaking LLMs. They don’t even describe the virus! They just said someone made one. Bullshit!

Scam alert: there's an IngramSpark impersonator at ingramsparkbookpublishers dot com. Part of a wave of publishing/ghostwriting scams from Pakistan that hijack authors looking to self-publish--they often "borrow" well-known publisher names but this one also "borrows" the real IngramSpark's logo

Cops used 83,000 cameras to track a single abortion patient — on her abuser’s tip.

When you hear about Big Tech companies lobbying the federal government to stifle AI regulation in the states, this is one reason why.

assistant professor, associate professor, grad student

So the thing we've been warning about re: Age Verification just happened, mere months after it started becoming a wider required. Imagine that!

Can't technofix your way out of a social values problem

Not dated at all! You look lovely!

Oh look Nazis shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params... #maddow #ultra

BOOK COVER ARTISTS

QRP with your book covers 📚

#BookCovers

(Retired from illustration last year but here are some of my later covers)

NEW from me for @wired.com's politics issue: I have spent SO much time fascinated by the "network state"--privatized cities in special economic zones (SEZs) where the normal rules and regulations don't apply.

www.wired.com/story/tech-b...

Breaking Google up was one of the last best hopes for preventing the free press from getting squeezed into oblivion and harvested into AI slop, and for saving the open web. The ruling that effectively lets Google continue operating as a monopoly isn't just disappointing, it's a disaster.

I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field.

There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.

🧵 Hey, romance authors! I want to make you aware of a scam. Someone pretending to be Fresh Fiction reached out to me using the email freshfiction.bookclubs at gmail dot com, which is not a Fresh Fiction address. They wanted $50 for a video book club opportunity. (FF does not charge for these.)

Why publish one story about A.I. gone wrong when you can publish two?

Here's my other story today on how the NYPD used facial recognition tech to arrest the wrong man for public lewdness.

The perp was 5'6''. Cops charged Trevis Williams, who is 6'2''.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/n...

Disable ChatGPT this fucking instant. Destroy it. JFC.

I also remember when Bookstore Romance Day started!

It was so frustrating to have people yelling at us to shop at our local indie bookstores and we had to keep saying "they literally hate us" (one of our locals said we were going to HELL LOL)

This helped change that. I love it. 💓

In the future, stores might use cameras to identify you as you walk into the store and display individualized prices based on what they think you are willing to pay.

I'm working with Rep Sabadosa to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores because the cost of groceries are already high enough.

Typewriter here I come

For years I have been saying we must get rid of course evaluations. Lots of good tools for qualitative confidential feedback. But the bureaucratic centralized course evaluation is a tool for replicating bigotry.

A NEW PATREON FREEBIE!
I'm bringing back the MY NEVER-ENDING TBR LIST!
www.patreon.com/post...

Check out this round's selections!
#booksky #romancenovels #romancelandia

We need federal legislation to stop hedge fund vampires from bleeding our health care system dry. Moving forward, we need to nationalize our health care system. No more private hospitals or private prisons.