I didn’t know there were FIVE ICE detention hunger strikes going on all over the country.
Gillian Brockell
New: Hackers have been stealing high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI support chatbot to change the email associated with the account they want to steal.
Shockingly easy, terrible flaw associated with offloading support to AI:
www.404media.co/hackers-simp...
ANNOUNCEMENT: The workers of Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com are forming a union. Please read our mission statement below. 👇
#DHWU
ANY PERSON this age group can get a card, whether or not they’re experiencing book bans. That’s powerful for queer young folks in small towns with no libraries or libraries with limited hours or collections, too.
The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.
www.404media.co
Someone follow up with book buyers at the big retailers (who shape a *lot* of what is seen) — Walmart, target, Barnes and noble, Amazon — ask the actual people who are buying books for their stores why they’re not pushing for more lgbtq+ stories bc buyers are immensely powerful in this conversation
Spoiler alert, it's not the libraries.
We're making less money because publishers pay us less.
My most consistent unpopular opinion - an argument I've lost many times in the past 35 years - is that Pride is for the community & the community does not benefit from the parasitic involvement of corporate fair weather friends.
Daily Memo reporting from Adelanto on the five hunger strikes happening around the U.S.
What happens when publishers begin avoiding LGBTQ+ stories before a book is ever challenged? This article explores how years of censorship efforts are creating a chilling effect across the publishing industry, making it harder for queer voices & stories to reach readers
bookriot.com/queer-books-...
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Authors, agents, publishers: every part of the industry is seeing the strain of five years of escalating anti-LGBTQ censorship.
Happy Pride Month. If you know a young person (age 13-26) in the US who is getting their access to queer library books restricted because of local small-minded folks, please refer them to the Books Unbanned program. More people should know about it.
#pride
booksunbanned.com/card
Public support for the LGBTQ+ community by corporations has become politically risky, public relations expert says. n.pr/4fKOBBG
You all-- I never thought I'd see the day, but library peeps, strap in for a fight. The Author's Guild is going after us as the reason why authors are making less money. I don't think they understand who they are dealing with: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
A survey commissioned by the Guild found that only 25% of print books and e-books read in the past month were bought new or through a paid subscription, with readers increasingly turning to low- or no...
I've worked at the 'big' studios. While I'm on the writing and showrunning side, none of my projects have used AI in their process.
I feel confident about my designers, directors, and story artists doing the same.
These folks are convincing themselves 'everyone is doing it'.
jessamyn
Becky Spratford
Chad Quandt
"whatever, everyone already uses it anyway so it's fine" is just not really the message a sorry person promotes.
I'm frustrated by how everyone just gave him the benefit of the doubt. I'm not feeling very forgiving when this is the messaging. I don't think I'm being unreasonable either
jess m.
That's exactly the issue with AI
I frequently have to go to page 2 or 3, but it does require the expertise the AI doesn't have.
Aliette de Bodard
I think I'm an 8/10 expert in my job. I occasionally do online research, and these days, AI has the first bash. It's a 5/10 expert. The answer I'm looking for is on around page 3 of the old style search, but a 5/10 expert wouldn't recognise it, and a 2/10 human wouldn't know that AI is not that good
