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Mary Epworth @maryepworth.bsky.social · 19h

In short season 10 of @withinthewires.bsky.social needs some music! It's the final season too, which is sad because @happierman.bsky.social and @j9andif.bsky.social are BRILLIANT colleagues and this has been a really wonderful world to be part of. <3

Mary Epworth @maryepworth.bsky.social · 19h

Once a year, the lesser-spotted Mary Epworth manages to drag herself into a Logic session, to actually record some new music. Today is that day.

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 19h

Wild to claim that we're the ones risking killing an industry that operates at a loss of several billion a year

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 19h

The industry can't afford to do *anything* on its own but all the other costs are expected to be covered by continued investment, weird that the art it relies on is the only thing these people think should be free

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, like for my serial, which is set in the 20s and has a posh lead character, I would use fewer, but in contemporary commercial fiction I'd use less

Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 2d

I would argue that nowadays fewer is kind of formal speech, so if this is for work, it'll depend on who's saying it, but then that's true of all "correct" grammar

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, I can count my hates. They are many.

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 2d

Ofc language is an ever evolving, uncontrollable force and linguistic prescriptivism is a fool's game, and in modern use using less instead of fewer is perfectly acceptable because it has been used like that for long enough that its meaning has shifted, tyfyt

Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 2d

Fewer! Fewer is for things you count, less is for things you measure

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 2d

Baffling news, honestly; surely he is already contracted to keep doing this till the heat death of the universe

Chortle @chortle.bsky.social · 2d

Graham Norton Show renewed for three more years

Talk show pulls in 2.9m viewers

dlvr.it

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 5d

Anna, I would only want you to be a journalist in 1924. Notebook in your hat, trenchcoat on

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 5d

Taking at least one statistics class should be a requirement for journalism

The Independent @the-independent.com · 6d

Nearly a third of Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

1 in 3 Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

www.independent.co.uk

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 11d

The first five chapters of my serial novel are still free to read! Have you read them yet?
calamitystrinket.ghost.io/a-stranger-a...

Chapter I: A Stranger Appears

367BCE, somewhere on the Mediterranean Sea He woke in a cold sweat and, for a moment, he didn’t know why. His cabin was still and empty. The wood of the small ship creaked around him; he could hea...

calamitystrinket.ghost.io

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 11d

The first five chapters of my serial novel are still free to read! Have you read them yet?
calamitystrinket.ghost.io/a-stranger-a...

Chapter I: A Stranger Appears

367BCE, somewhere on the Mediterranean Sea He woke in a cold sweat and, for a moment, he didn’t know why. His cabin was still and empty. The wood of the small ship creaked around him; he could hea...

calamitystrinket.ghost.io

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 12d

The whole industry also has leaned far too heavily on social media for years, and that just doesn't work unless you are influencer level successful on social media. And often not even then

Tajja Isen @tajjaisen.bsky.social · 12d

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus

Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

thewalrus.ca

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 12d

I read @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com's newsletter about film masterpieces and it made me have thoughts about film masterpieces
ihavenoplanforthis.ghost.io/art-vs-enter...

Art vs. Entertainment or; how to be a film guy

Look, I wasn't going to write a newsletter today. I was going to be a few days late, which, given my intention is to be a week ahead, is already very late. But then my friend Marie's newsletter came o...

ihavenoplanforthis.ghost.io

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 14d

Anyway, if anyone has any ideas on how to wrest control of the information superhighways back from craven billionaires please step up, we need to get moving

Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 14d

Boris was simply both stupid and self-serving; a disaster for the country but at least we all understood WHY

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 14d

This is US-centric, but applies here too, obviously
stringinamaze.net/p/policy-can...

Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 14d

I honestly hate Keir Starmer more than I ever hated Boris Johnson

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 14d

SO FUCKING SICK OF FEELING INSANE

Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 14d

The fox needs access to the hen coop ASAP, to prevent disaster

At the conference in Dubai, Ellison began with a joke about Musk before warning the audience that artificial super-intelligence was coming sooner than expected.
What, Blair asked him, should governments be doing about it? "The first thing a country needs to do is unify all of their data so that it can be consumed and used by the Al model, Ellison responded.
Ellison was also specific about which data needed unifying - and he had an example in mind: "The NHS in the UK has an incredible amount of population data," he
declared, but it was too "fragmented" at present. Below him, the former prime minister nodded, clutching his Tony Blair Institute (TBI) notebook.

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 14d

Labour could have simply looked at a list of all the cuts to services over the last couple of decades and renew that funding

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 14d

Those shitty hotels are filled with people who would be living in and contributing to our communities, working and paying income tax, spending locally and supporting the economy, if the government would just process their fucking claims!

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 14d

So fucking sick of feeling insane, yk, like what the fuck are we doing here

Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social · 14d

A BBC investigation finds asylum seekers trapped in dilapidated hotels, spending years in administrative limbo, indebted to criminal gangs and yes, moved arbitrarily so that they have to take taxis across the country for routine GP appointments.

Government response? Stop the taxis.

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 15d

It's lucky authors love being read 💅

Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 16d

True story

Reader: how long is your book?
Author: 87218 words!
Reader: How many pages it that?
Author: I have no idea

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 16d

I have made the first five chapters of my serialised novel FREE TO READ for the next TWO WEEKS.
I would love for you to read it and to tell everyone you know to read it.
calamitystrinket.ghost.io/a-stranger-a...

Chapter I: A Stranger Appears

367BCE, somewhere on the Mediterranean Sea He woke in a cold sweat and, for a moment, he didn’t know why. His cabin was still and empty. The wood of the small ship creaked around him; he could hea...

calamitystrinket.ghost.io

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