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Good coverage of the game and how her TERFiness gets in its way

I feel like I've seen a premise like this before but this is a funny one

It's all connected.

Great summary of the usefulness of LMMs. I had forgotten about the Xerox story.

Not new bird flu

Not a lot of solutions here.

A new class of incredibly powerful AI models has made recent breakthroughs possible.

While visiting an elementary school library in 2016 to count the fantasy books for a graduate class on fantasy literature, I noticed there were hardly any science fiction books for readers under 12. This ...

Apparently I'm a sucker for time travel romance now.

It makes sense that the more volume oriented writers would adopt it first.

A good point that the humanities are super necessary.

Some sad losses over the years when it comes to companies buying communities. Nice piece by Valente

Interesting take but as they even acknowledge Apple and AWS are rather different beasts in this even as their valuation has also tanked.

Wild! I assumed they were still dying. I'd add another note: despite books being their original business, they are often damaged in shipping.

The Enterprise may boldly go where no one has gone before, but it often returns to SF.

It is interesting how much the special is about how Charlie feels. Kinda rare! And also the whole story is much more Christian than I remembered. I think that's what makes it not a staple.

I keep hoping there will be some consequences but it sure seems unlikely.

Huh. Hadn't heard of the yard sale model.

Nice summary of the kind of antihero Luthen is

Fascinating. I knew some of the more famous ones but there are some surprises.

A funny and sweet interview. I think Marina might be a bit too much "it was a different time"?

So much fetish art and porn online that Asian plus female tends to result in highly sexualized generated images.

A reasonable line in the sand from an author with a lot of influence at certain imprints.

Discussion of Hugo Award nominees for best novel, other science fiction novels, and analysis of the awards. We read all the nominees before we vote.

Some neat tidbits on Andor's sound design

Nice take on the message from Apple's accessibility ad

Hah.

Fun stories of how she got into the role (and a reminder that actors rarely film the story in order!)

Not a good look

Amazing. They got the same guy.