He’s a musician from Puerto Rico. And it’s making MAGA nuts that he’s doing the SuperBowl halftime. I don’t know his music, but them being mad makes me like him!

It‘s easy to scroll social media and get the impression that everyone is doing better than you. But that’s rarely the full picture.

All this to say, it’s not just you. The industry is so, so hard right now. Do what you have to do to stay in the game. Don’t give up. Keep writing.

#scriptsky

YAYYYY!!!

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

Men claim women talk too much, but boy if you get that man on a panel, he will over talk every woman present in the room.

Absolutely. And I see people advertising as editors who are so cheap that I have to question the value of what they deliver.

Well, because it's us left-leaning wokies who make it and brainwash all the kiddies! (But yes, I honestly don't understand how the govt and people who purport to LOVE Britain/England totally ignore and undermine even Shakespeare and Austen and Bronte and all the others who bring in so much money.)

Yep, and all of this is part of a book's invisible history. The reader doesn't know any of this, and so if they see something that is a mistake (or they think is a mistake), while their first instinct is to yell that the book needed an editor, the truth might be much more complicated.

This is why we fight back!

This is just a friendly reminder that we will not willingly/knowingly discuss or review AI generated materials except to examine why we are opposed to it in the first place.

There is no argument you can make to change our mind. We are firm in the belief that human art must be protected from slop.

The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.

New newsletter on time management: it isn't what we think it is. buttondown.com/TiffaniAngus...

Working on Spec Fic for Newbies Volume 3, and I didn't expect my research to include looking into furries.

Just don't share A.I. slop of any sort. I've seen a wave of Sora shit on various social media platforms.
A.I. is destructive on too many levels to ever encourage anyone to use it, and sharing or liking is encouragement.
Complicity in the destruction of our planet and humanity.

SCHEME!!! The scheme of things!

I swear to god I’m going to drown this phone in the sink.

And I’m a bloody editor!!!!!

And now for some good news (yes, this is good news in the whole scene of things).

Thou shalt not make AI videos of dead people saying what you want. You wouldn’t dig them up and use their skull as a puppet, would you?

The people doing these things must be shamed into oblivion.

So he's admitting that the industry is built on widespread copyright violations and theft of intellectual property

Why does he speak about AI like it’s some kind of altruistic effort to save humanity, and not a way of billionaires getting richer off the backs of people who have worked hard?

Fuck this guy SO MUCH!

I mean, asking a bank for access to the vault would also kill the bank-robbing industry.

(The analogy might not hold up to really close scrutiny, but that’s how angry I am and how criminal this asshole—and all of AI—is.)

I keep trying to make the argument that democracy and freedom are incompatible with capitalism but nobody makes that argument better than capitalists

A lesson I had to learn in the last couple years is that as long as the tech industry has thrown all its money behind something then laws like copyright don’t matter.

Everyone on the fence about A.I., there's something you don't realize.

It's purpose is to eliminate human jobs and human skills.

That's it. That's its single purpose. For companies to no longer pay people or train them in skills.

From the other side of the desk, though: if you read a book and think it needed an editor, be aware that it very well might have had an editor, but (depending on the circumstances) the author has final say and could’ve just ignored the editor’s advice. Readers don’t know a book’s history.