What's a resource that you can get for free that you think more people should know about?
Hey authors and publishers, if you are producing work that uses no AI whatsoever, you should promote that! I hate AI with the power of a million suns, so even if it's the most boring thing in the world, I'll boost your Master & Commander fanfic or w/e to my ~20 followers to the best of my ability 🫡
Could a machine dig through thousands of newspaper articles about an actor who died mysteriously, discover the actor lied a lot, cross-check everything twice, put together a timeline spreadsheet with 400ish entries of his whereabouts, and proceed to write a book about him?
Seconding all the recommendations for Rick Riordan novels. I believe I spotted someone pointing out the Amulet graphic novels. Those are really good! I don't think I saw Lockwood and Co., or Bartimaeus by Jonathan Stroud in other recs. Those might be good transition books.
Children's Booksky, help me out? Series for a bright turning-10yo who has read the XX Treehouse, Wimpy Kid etc, getting into the Phoenix comic, that sort of thing. My son's aged out of middle grade and I am out of the loop on new books!
Actually, this is most on my mind from the museum today. It’s a gorgeous grass-script colophon at the end of a scroll by Wu Bin, one of my favorite Ming painters. The text is the fu on Mt. Tiantai 天台山赋 by the Jin poet Sun Xinggong 孙兴公, but I don’t know who the calligrapher is.
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Harvard Medical School have developed a nasal spray that in preclinical studies, offered NEARLY 100% protection from respiratory infections by COVID-19, influenza, viruses, AND pneumonia-causing bacteria. Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️
file under "what do I do with this information?!", cross-index to "what" and "things I will remember in 3 years and be like wait, did I dream that, probably I dreamed that and then have to look up only to find out once again that it's completely true"
