Caroline Cormack
@bookclubdropout.bsky.social
Writer, reader, general book geek 📚📖
I’ve got a story in the AI, Robot anthology out now from JayHenge Publishing. https://amzn.eu/d/gEosHlq
I’ve got a story in the AI, Robot anthology out now from JayHenge Publishing. https://amzn.eu/d/gEosHlq
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I would posit that if the international treaties against torture are what is holding your country back then your country doesn't deserve to get ahead and holding it back is a moral obligation for everyone else
If you currently rely on the European Court of Human Rights for your minority group to *not* be targeted, you're in trouble...
November 16, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I would posit that if the international treaties against torture are what is holding your country back then your country doesn't deserve to get ahead and holding it back is a moral obligation for everyone else
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No, I'd say it's racists and those pandering to them.
November 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
No, I'd say it's racists and those pandering to them.
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"you can do it out of spite"
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I might play this as my alarm every morning for the next month
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"you can do it out of spite"
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‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ is one of those song titles that sounds quite comforting until you imagine it as the title of a story in an M. R. James anthology
November 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ is one of those song titles that sounds quite comforting until you imagine it as the title of a story in an M. R. James anthology
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Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
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Since we’re talking BUNNICULA I need everyone to know that the audiobook is read by Victor Garber and he truly out-gays himself. Harold and Chester absolutely come across as the fussy middle-aged couple they were obviously meant to be.
If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula.
October 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Since we’re talking BUNNICULA I need everyone to know that the audiobook is read by Victor Garber and he truly out-gays himself. Harold and Chester absolutely come across as the fussy middle-aged couple they were obviously meant to be.
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Can confirm, I did say this, over on Threads. I stand by it here as well. And everywhere else!
“Re ‘There are a lot of people on your side who will be in the Epstein Files too!’: No there aren't, my side is the ‘People Who Don't Fuck Children’ side, anyone not on this side can get all the way into the bin, what side are YOU on, exactly?” — John Scalzi
November 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Can confirm, I did say this, over on Threads. I stand by it here as well. And everywhere else!
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toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'"
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AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches
AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.
futurism.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'"
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Forgot this good advice I gave about throwing sandwiches and felony murder
/2 Also let me just remind you to throw any foodstuffs at the more svelte, weaselly-lookin feds because under the felony murder rule if ICE Special Agent Figgus McHiggis has a massive coronary lumbering down the street after you hit him with a Ding-Dong your ass is going down for MURDER son
November 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Forgot this good advice I gave about throwing sandwiches and felony murder
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An older medic with scant resources fights to support her community as they survive life behind the company wall.
This novelette is my only near future sf story, inspired by a long-ago convo with my dad & by the activists who never give up.
Free to read at
reactormag.com/barnacle-kat...
This novelette is my only near future sf story, inspired by a long-ago convo with my dad & by the activists who never give up.
Free to read at
reactormag.com/barnacle-kat...
November 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
An older medic with scant resources fights to support her community as they survive life behind the company wall.
This novelette is my only near future sf story, inspired by a long-ago convo with my dad & by the activists who never give up.
Free to read at
reactormag.com/barnacle-kat...
This novelette is my only near future sf story, inspired by a long-ago convo with my dad & by the activists who never give up.
Free to read at
reactormag.com/barnacle-kat...
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Viv Richards once had a bowler aim at his head with the ball , took a swing and missed and the guy tells him" its round and red, try to touch it", then hit the next one out of the stadium, beckoned the bowler to him and said "you know what it looks like, right, now try and find it"
November 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Viv Richards once had a bowler aim at his head with the ball , took a swing and missed and the guy tells him" its round and red, try to touch it", then hit the next one out of the stadium, beckoned the bowler to him and said "you know what it looks like, right, now try and find it"
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This is a bit OTT but yeah they would have adored Viv. Man once went out for a toss, lost, the other captain said "we'd like to bat first" and replied by by saying "do whatever you want, it won't matter"
American sports fans would have LOVED Viv Richards. As much swag as Reggie Jackson, Bill Russell, and Muhammad Ali COMBINED
Viv Richards was asked after scoring 138 not out in a world cup final if he thought god was on his side that day and said "no, he can't bat like me"
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
This is a bit OTT but yeah they would have adored Viv. Man once went out for a toss, lost, the other captain said "we'd like to bat first" and replied by by saying "do whatever you want, it won't matter"
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“It's five thousand miles to Rome. We've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.”
“Hit it.”
“Hit it.”
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 7:43 AM
“It's five thousand miles to Rome. We've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.”
“Hit it.”
“Hit it.”
😮 This whole thread! It keeps getting more 😮 as it goes.
i fully agree with this theory and in my actual field, british architectural history, The Problem is that Salisbury Cathedral is built on top of a lake and no i am not exaggerating
between this and the FSO Safer (another ship at serious risk of exploding) I’m convinced every field has its “yeah, this is the problem that keeps me up at night” and I’m on a quest to learn about all of them
November 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
😮 This whole thread! It keeps getting more 😮 as it goes.
“I drove through three states wearing her head as a hat.”
Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.
November 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
“I drove through three states wearing her head as a hat.”
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Good morning. This week's theme is London at War.
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'London and Wartime: Nocturne' (1918) by Sir Claude Francis Barry
(Private collection)
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'London and Wartime: Nocturne' (1918) by Sir Claude Francis Barry
(Private collection)
November 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Good morning. This week's theme is London at War.
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'London and Wartime: Nocturne' (1918) by Sir Claude Francis Barry
(Private collection)
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'London and Wartime: Nocturne' (1918) by Sir Claude Francis Barry
(Private collection)
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I have never used it.
I have never written a prompt.
I've never been tempted to.
Every AI feature that I can turn off has been nuked on all devices.
I have never written a prompt.
I've never been tempted to.
Every AI feature that I can turn off has been nuked on all devices.
Hands up if you've never used Chat GPT ✋
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
Probably a good way to tell right now if the job you’re applying for is run by absolute dumbfucks is to ask if they’re using AI.
November 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I have never used it.
I have never written a prompt.
I've never been tempted to.
Every AI feature that I can turn off has been nuked on all devices.
I have never written a prompt.
I've never been tempted to.
Every AI feature that I can turn off has been nuked on all devices.
Tokyo Express by Seichō Matsumoto and translated by Jesse Kirkwood - Murder and trains, always a great combination for crime novelists! 💙📚 #booksky #reading
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November 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
The sexual and ethnic politics of the movie are unsurprisingly terrible but the aspect of this film that has aged the worst is the idea that a narcissist billionaire tech bro with a plan for saving the world is anything but a terrifying prospect. (Still a fun watch though. Peak Agent Coulson.)
Iron Man (2008) ⭐ 7.9 | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
2h 6m | PG-13
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November 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The sexual and ethnic politics of the movie are unsurprisingly terrible but the aspect of this film that has aged the worst is the idea that a narcissist billionaire tech bro with a plan for saving the world is anything but a terrifying prospect. (Still a fun watch though. Peak Agent Coulson.)
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Somehow safeguarding goes out of the window when it comes to trendy technologies that it would simply be Luddite not to allow into every aspect of our lives
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Somehow safeguarding goes out of the window when it comes to trendy technologies that it would simply be Luddite not to allow into every aspect of our lives
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We don’t get to choose the times we’re born into, but we can try to shape the time our grandkids will be born into.
October 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
We don’t get to choose the times we’re born into, but we can try to shape the time our grandkids will be born into.
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I mean, the whole thread, but this is the gist.
Call them cunts and tell them they get nothing. Spit in their stupid faces. Put extra Asians in the Christmas adverts and explicitly say you're doing it to fuck them off. Tell them *no* for once Jesus actual Christ lads. Not "this is unworkable" or "this is expensive". Just no.
October 30, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I mean, the whole thread, but this is the gist.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Time to go the other direction. A prequel to Jurassic park. John Hammond’s early days where his weird obsession with cloning dinosaurs means every business he starts gets run in to the ground.
Director Gareth Edwards is said to be in talks to return for a sequel to this year's dino-soaring hit, Jurassic World Rebirth.
filmstories.co.uk/news/jurassi...
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Jurassic World Rebirth | Gareth Edwards said to be returning to direct sequel
Director Gareth Edwards is said to be in talks to return for a sequel to this year's dino-soaring hit, Jurassic World Rebirth.
filmstories.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Time to go the other direction. A prequel to Jurassic park. John Hammond’s early days where his weird obsession with cloning dinosaurs means every business he starts gets run in to the ground.