Caroline Cormack
@bookclubdropout.bsky.social
Writer, reader, general book geek 📚📖
I’ve got a story in the AI, Robot anthology out now from JayHenge Publishing. https://amzn.eu/d/gEosHlq
I’ve got a story in the AI, Robot anthology out now from JayHenge Publishing. https://amzn.eu/d/gEosHlq
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Waited all day to read this and it was even better than promised. And comments that anti-trans panics -- and moral panics in general -- are a way to avoid dealing with the far more endemic sexual abuse of girls and women are spot-on.
I’ve spent a lot of the last three years investigating the rise of anti-trans politics. Often, it came back to the controversy over trans women athletes.
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Waited all day to read this and it was even better than promised. And comments that anti-trans panics -- and moral panics in general -- are a way to avoid dealing with the far more endemic sexual abuse of girls and women are spot-on.
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"“The first time I caught up to them, I could tell that they already knew who I was,” he told me when we first spoke on the phone in late October. “They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
"“The first time I caught up to them, I could tell that they already knew who I was,” he told me when we first spoke on the phone in late October. “They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”
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A new study pitted Google against ChatGPT as research tools. Across 7 experiments, one pattern held: Knowledge gained from chatbot summaries was shallower compared with knowledge gained from web links.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-chatbots-learning-superficial-llm
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-chatbots-learning-superficial-llm
Chatbots may make learning feel easy — but it’s superficial
People who use search engines develop deeper knowledge and are more invested in what they learn than those relying on AI chatbots, a study reports.
www.sciencenews.org
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
A new study pitted Google against ChatGPT as research tools. Across 7 experiments, one pattern held: Knowledge gained from chatbot summaries was shallower compared with knowledge gained from web links.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-chatbots-learning-superficial-llm
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-chatbots-learning-superficial-llm
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Tube Rain 1', Mornington Crescent Station (2015) by John Duffin
johnduffin.co.uk
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🎵 'Mornington Crescent' by Belle and Sebastian
youtu.be/1dVoliKbeng?...
johnduffin.co.uk
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🎵 'Mornington Crescent' by Belle and Sebastian
youtu.be/1dVoliKbeng?...
November 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Tube Rain 1', Mornington Crescent Station (2015) by John Duffin
johnduffin.co.uk
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🎵 'Mornington Crescent' by Belle and Sebastian
youtu.be/1dVoliKbeng?...
johnduffin.co.uk
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🎵 'Mornington Crescent' by Belle and Sebastian
youtu.be/1dVoliKbeng?...
@trampledamage.bsky.social Audiobook recco if you’re looking for something to listen to when you need a break from reading.
At the recommendation of someone here I started listening to the audiobooks of @joeabercrombie.com’s First Law series because narrator Steven Pacey is so good. Holy shit that was an understatement. The narrating skill is absolutely next-level.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
@trampledamage.bsky.social Audiobook recco if you’re looking for something to listen to when you need a break from reading.
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I grew up in a village in England and we had a mobile library van to bring us books. Today I learned (from Book Riot) that in the 1930s Appalachian villages had mobile libraries on mules 🤯😊💖
November 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I grew up in a village in England and we had a mobile library van to bring us books. Today I learned (from Book Riot) that in the 1930s Appalachian villages had mobile libraries on mules 🤯😊💖
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You know who’s not on the Epstein list? Drag queens who read children stories in libraries - Cheri DiNovo
November 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
You know who’s not on the Epstein list? Drag queens who read children stories in libraries - Cheri DiNovo
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
November 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
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London is a place where people of every creed, colour and culture live together in peace and mutual respect. A city where a council estate kid with immigrant parents can become Mayor.
That’s the reason some don’t want our modern, multicultural, progressive metropolis to succeed.
That’s the reason some don’t want our modern, multicultural, progressive metropolis to succeed.
'London is world's best city - people claiming it's lawless hate its success'
'The fact that London has again been crowned greatest city in the world disproves everything our critics claim, and they can’t stand it', the London Mayor Sadiq Khan writes
www.mirror.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
London is a place where people of every creed, colour and culture live together in peace and mutual respect. A city where a council estate kid with immigrant parents can become Mayor.
That’s the reason some don’t want our modern, multicultural, progressive metropolis to succeed.
That’s the reason some don’t want our modern, multicultural, progressive metropolis to succeed.
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theres a whole bunch of cultures that don't do rings to mark marriage but do do necklaces for the purpose, so do only Christians get to keep wedding jewelry or
Ministers now appear to be confirming in broadcast interviews that they would audit and could confiscate assets (including jewellery) excepting wedding rings from the jewellery that they could confiscate.
November 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
theres a whole bunch of cultures that don't do rings to mark marriage but do do necklaces for the purpose, so do only Christians get to keep wedding jewelry or
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I would posit that if the international treaties against torture are what is holding your country back then your country doesn't deserve to get ahead and holding it back is a moral obligation for everyone else
If you currently rely on the European Court of Human Rights for your minority group to *not* be targeted, you're in trouble...
November 16, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I would posit that if the international treaties against torture are what is holding your country back then your country doesn't deserve to get ahead and holding it back is a moral obligation for everyone else
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No, I'd say it's racists and those pandering to them.
November 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
No, I'd say it's racists and those pandering to them.
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"you can do it out of spite"
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I might play this as my alarm every morning for the next month
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"you can do it out of spite"
🙏🏻
🙏🏻
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‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ is one of those song titles that sounds quite comforting until you imagine it as the title of a story in an M. R. James anthology
November 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ is one of those song titles that sounds quite comforting until you imagine it as the title of a story in an M. R. James anthology
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Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
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Since we’re talking BUNNICULA I need everyone to know that the audiobook is read by Victor Garber and he truly out-gays himself. Harold and Chester absolutely come across as the fussy middle-aged couple they were obviously meant to be.
If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula.
October 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Since we’re talking BUNNICULA I need everyone to know that the audiobook is read by Victor Garber and he truly out-gays himself. Harold and Chester absolutely come across as the fussy middle-aged couple they were obviously meant to be.
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Can confirm, I did say this, over on Threads. I stand by it here as well. And everywhere else!
“Re ‘There are a lot of people on your side who will be in the Epstein Files too!’: No there aren't, my side is the ‘People Who Don't Fuck Children’ side, anyone not on this side can get all the way into the bin, what side are YOU on, exactly?” — John Scalzi
November 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Can confirm, I did say this, over on Threads. I stand by it here as well. And everywhere else!
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toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'"
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches
AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.
futurism.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'"
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Forgot this good advice I gave about throwing sandwiches and felony murder
/2 Also let me just remind you to throw any foodstuffs at the more svelte, weaselly-lookin feds because under the felony murder rule if ICE Special Agent Figgus McHiggis has a massive coronary lumbering down the street after you hit him with a Ding-Dong your ass is going down for MURDER son
November 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Forgot this good advice I gave about throwing sandwiches and felony murder
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An older medic with scant resources fights to support her community as they survive life behind the company wall.
This novelette is my only near future sf story, inspired by a long-ago convo with my dad & by the activists who never give up.
Free to read at
reactormag.com/barnacle-kat...
This novelette is my only near future sf story, inspired by a long-ago convo with my dad & by the activists who never give up.
Free to read at
reactormag.com/barnacle-kat...
November 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
An older medic with scant resources fights to support her community as they survive life behind the company wall.
This novelette is my only near future sf story, inspired by a long-ago convo with my dad & by the activists who never give up.
Free to read at
reactormag.com/barnacle-kat...
This novelette is my only near future sf story, inspired by a long-ago convo with my dad & by the activists who never give up.
Free to read at
reactormag.com/barnacle-kat...
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Viv Richards once had a bowler aim at his head with the ball , took a swing and missed and the guy tells him" its round and red, try to touch it", then hit the next one out of the stadium, beckoned the bowler to him and said "you know what it looks like, right, now try and find it"
November 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Viv Richards once had a bowler aim at his head with the ball , took a swing and missed and the guy tells him" its round and red, try to touch it", then hit the next one out of the stadium, beckoned the bowler to him and said "you know what it looks like, right, now try and find it"
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This is a bit OTT but yeah they would have adored Viv. Man once went out for a toss, lost, the other captain said "we'd like to bat first" and replied by by saying "do whatever you want, it won't matter"
American sports fans would have LOVED Viv Richards. As much swag as Reggie Jackson, Bill Russell, and Muhammad Ali COMBINED
Viv Richards was asked after scoring 138 not out in a world cup final if he thought god was on his side that day and said "no, he can't bat like me"
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
This is a bit OTT but yeah they would have adored Viv. Man once went out for a toss, lost, the other captain said "we'd like to bat first" and replied by by saying "do whatever you want, it won't matter"
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“It's five thousand miles to Rome. We've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.”
“Hit it.”
“Hit it.”
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 7:43 AM
“It's five thousand miles to Rome. We've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.”
“Hit it.”
“Hit it.”