Two surviving children stand at the top of the hill overlooking the miners digging to find children still buried in the slag, Aberfan Coal Slip Disaster, 21 October 1966 by David Hurn. #AberfanDisaster
The Well There's Your Problem podcast just described Microsoft firing up Three Mile Island's nuclear reactor 1 just to power AI as plugging the turbine directly into entropy and I laughed so hard I nearly peed
I will ALSO report you for misinformation and false claims, just to be very clear, on account of how you are spreading those and those claims having a DIRECT impact on my livelihood.
Since some assholes clearly need to hear this: I do not, and will never knowingly, use AI in ANY part of my publishing (book or cover) and I WILL block you over accusing me of it. FUCK OFF. I already make peanuts off my work without you tanking it even worse because you need someone anyone to punch
James's story, of a large firm asserting ownership over something whose rights have in fact reverted to the artist, will be repeated again and again as AI fingerprinting will default to "the major label still owns it" instead of "this belongs the person who made it." that's why the big guys like AI.
Warner Music Group is claiming that they own my Monkey Vs. Robot album rights. They most definitely DON'T have any rights in it at all, but they're asserting that they do. What will happen? I suggest buying it on Bandamp before it gets wiped off the internet: kochalka.bandcamp.com/album/monkey...
31 track album
I was thinking of starting a Substack but maybe I will just build up my author website/newsletter instead. Much to think about.
OK this is actually kind of cool because, like, say youโre an author. You could link BlueSky to your website, run your blog/subscription through there too, basically create your own Substack and bookstore and then have a built-in place to shitpost about it all
Hi. Hello to all the very many new folks out there following me. Some words: I write fantasy inspired by Palestinian folklore. My writing is called "beautiful" a lot, and I've had a handful of award noms. Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction, edited by me, is out now.
bsky feels like it's at least 50% Americans expressing the screenshotted opinion in a polite, we left the Bad Place and shouldn't be confronted with pictures of war crimes the party we need to vote for is co-engineering kind of way. A quiet, calm, socmed suburbia kind of horror to it all.
