Today the Irish Examiner published my piece about the hellscape of platform manipulation and spam that is the modern web. In it, I highlighted that such actions materially benefit Twitter. Now, for the first time in 14 years, I've been suspended by Twitter. For "platform manipulation and spam".
Welcome to the party everyone...
Just shy of ten hours till I'm actually retired, but a few last thoughts (before the next last thoughts, and the thoughts after that):
Benjamin Dreyer shares some observations as he leaves Random House after 30 years of copy editing.
Has anyone in the entire history of publishing EVER called them Hodder and Stoat-on? I say this as someone who's worked in and around books my entire adult life www.thebookseller.com/news/hodder-...
Hodder & Stoughton has unveiled a new brand look and logo, featuring a hand-drawn stoat which references the pronunciation of the company name.
Companies have scraped millions of copyrighted books/articles and copied them without permission to train generative AI. We are conducting a survey and would like to hear from you. Be sure to share it with your writer friends! form.jotform.com/233316136049...
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I've never done a BlueSky cover reveal before - but here it is! The gorgeous, moody, tropical cover for my new book ONE PERFECT COUPLE. You can find out more and preorder over at bit.ly/oneperfectco... - UK cover and preorder links coming very soon!
In the run up to Christmas I'd just like to remind everyone it's *Brussels* sprouts. It shouldn't be, but it is, so here we are.
Ladies and gentlemen, our former education secretary. As a voter, I'm offended. As a writer, I'm in considerable pain at the suffering of these poor tortured sentences.
