Vogon Troubadour
@vogontroubadour.bsky.social
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Journalist who has written for over 100 publications, fundraising researcher, aspiring mystery writer, occasional stilt-dancer and alto-saxophone player
Pronouns: She/her
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"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
Still looking for a new publisher for A Feast of Folklore!
Max Miller of Tasting History called it 'A must read the next time you are sitting down to a sausage roll.' You can't get higher praise.
Max Miller of Tasting History called it 'A must read the next time you are sitting down to a sausage roll.' You can't get higher praise.
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For those who missed it: I tried to fly back from Chicago to London last week and was prevented from doing so because a UK border agent said they have no record of my citizenship. This reminds me that an immigrant's place is precarious, even with all the legal paperwork. Anyway, I miss home.
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Alex Segura
@alexsegura.bsky.social
· Jul 17
Lina Chern On the Real Life Detective Story That Haunts Her Still
The morning Joe Gliniewicz died I was picking my son Leo up early from school. He was sick and no one knew why. A nonverbal kid can’t tell you where it hurts so the only solution is to send him hom…
crimereads.com
newest required reading features a digital comic with three parallel endless scroll columns telling the story together, an approach to sequential art i've never quite seen before. one of the more creative exclusive releases from the @ldcomics.bsky.social online fair
The Keluarga Cable Ship Company is art as an act of inquiry
Mereida Fajardo expands the horizons of the webcomic.
doomrocket.substack.com
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