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NaNoWriMo Organizers Said It Was Classist and Ableist to Condemn AI. All Hell Broke Loose
04 Sep

NaNoWriMo Organizers Said It Was Classist and Ableist to Condemn AI. All Hell Broke Loose

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Morris, another member of NaNo’s writers board, first learned of the statement early Monday morning from a Facebook friend’s post. She immediately took action, publicly severing her ties with the organization, and even deleting her decades-old account on the NaNo site. ”I have a very hard line when it comes to these generative AI programs,” she says.In a blog post, Morris elaborated on the issues she has with the use of AI in creative work: The platforms are unethical, the tech scrapes content from published authors without paying royalties or fees, and it robs writers of the opportunity to find…
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What to read this weekend: Rural horror infused with Chinese mythology, and the lush alien world of Convert
31 Aug

What to read this weekend: Rural horror infused with Chinese mythology, and the lush alien world of Convert

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New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention.Sacrificial Animals by Kailee PedersenThere’s something about the idea of coming home and reawakening dormant familial trauma that just makes for great horror stories, and Sacrificial Animals is no exception. In the novel, brothers Nick and Joshua Morrow return to their family’s farm in Nebraska after many years estranged from their abusive father, reopening old wounds and allowing supernatural forces to take root. Sacrificial Animals bounces between “Then” and “Now” perspectives, painting a picture of the boys’ childhoods under the violent and racist man, and the gravity of returning once they learn…
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What to read this weekend: Near-future dystopian fiction and a new approach to explaining life’s origin
11 Aug

What to read this weekend: Near-future dystopian fiction and a new approach to explaining life’s origin

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New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention.Hum by Helen PhillipsRobots have become a regular fixture of the workforce, and humans are losing their jobs to AI. Climate change is wreaking havoc on the planet. It’s getting harder and harder for the average person to make ends meet. Facial recognition technology is being used for surveillance. Sound familiar? In her new novel, , author Helen Phillips paints a picture of what our near-future could look like.Its main character, May, has lost her job after technology made her role obsolete, and, desperate for money to support her family,…
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What to read this weekend: Existential sci-fi, a repair manual for the climate crisis, EC Comics resurrected
03 Aug

What to read this weekend: Existential sci-fi, a repair manual for the climate crisis, EC Comics resurrected

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New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention.Toward Eternity by Anton HurToward Eternity does not waste any time in getting to the drama. The novel by Anton Hur begins in the not-so-far-off future, and opens with a moment of crisis: a patient in a nanotherapy research clinic has seemingly vanished into thin air. This patient had been undergoing a new type of treatment that uses android cells (dubbed “nanites”) to cure cancer by replacing the body’s own cells. In doing so, however, it transforms the body entirely into a nanodroid, giving rise to “nano humans” that are…
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10 Livros de Python que vale à pena você ler
28 Jul

10 Livros de Python que vale à pena você ler

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Livros dignos de leitura e para ter na prateleira da sua coleção. Python é uma linguagem de programação dedicada para iniciantes, no entanto, também é muito utilizada por diversos segmentos que requer conhecimentos avançados. Nesse artigo conheceremos 10 Livros de Python que vale à pena você ler !!! Os leitores de Introdução à Computação Usando Python: um Foco no Desenvolvimento de Aplicações vão perceber que os conceitos serão apresentados gradativamente para que haja uma introdução inclusiva à ciência da computação, e críticos da área definem a metodologia do livro-texto como a utilização da “ferramenta certa para o trabalho no momento…
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What to read this weekend: Keanu Reeves wrote a book with ‘weird fiction’ author China Miéville
27 Jul

What to read this weekend: Keanu Reeves wrote a book with ‘weird fiction’ author China Miéville

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New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention.The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China MiévilleA few years ago, Keanu Reeves took a dive into the world of comics with a series called BRZRKR, which he wrote with longtime comic creator Matt Kindt. The limited series, which played out over 12 issues, follows a half-mortal, half-God warrior known as B who lives a violent existence but cannot die. And after 80,000 years of being alive, he really wants to. Eventually, he ends up working as a killing machine for the US government.Netflix has plans for a…
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What to read this week: The Light Eaters, Paranoid Gardens and I Was a Teenage Slasher
20 Jul

What to read this week: The Light Eaters, Paranoid Gardens and I Was a Teenage Slasher

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Recent releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention.I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham JonesStephen Graham Jones is something of an expert on slashers. The author has tackled the genre in a slew of his novels (most notably in the Indian Lake Trilogy, with its slasher-movie-obsessed main character) and has an ongoing column in Fangoria dedicated to its impact, so it’s not really a surprise to see he’s churned out another entry for the canon. But this time around, we’re getting a different perspective: the slasher’s point of view.I Was a Teenage Slasher is the fictional memoir…
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What to read this week: An astronaut’s journey and queer horror that bites back at cliché
14 Jul

What to read this week: An astronaut’s journey and queer horror that bites back at cliché

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New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention. Bury Your Gays by Chuck TingleChuck Tingle may be best known for his oft-memed erotica titles, but the author has also been making a name for himself in mainstream horror in recent years. Tingle’s second full-length horror novel, Bury Your Gays, was released this week, and if the title didn’t make it abundantly clear, it calls out one of Hollywood’s tiredest tropes: queer storylines that inevitably end in tragedy or erasure.In Bury Your Gays, bizarre circumstances befall the book’s protagonist, an Oscar-nominated scriptwriter named Misha, after he refuses studio…
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I Am Laura Kipnis-Bot, and I Will Make Reading Sexy and Tragic Again
18 Jun

I Am Laura Kipnis-Bot, and I Will Make Reading Sexy and Tragic Again

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When a flattering email arrived inviting me to participate in an AI venture called Rebind that I’d later come to think will radically transform the entire way booklovers read books, I felt pretty sure it was a scam. For one thing, the sender was Clancy Martin, a writer and philosophy professor I didn’t know personally but vaguely recalled had written about his misspent youth as a small-time jewelry-biz con artist, also being a serial liar in his love life. For another, they were offering to pay me. “Clancy up to his old ways!” I thought.My role, the email explained, would…
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One of Stephen King’s best recent novels is being made into a show for MGM+
15 Jun

One of Stephen King’s best recent novels is being made into a show for MGM+

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MGM+ has ordered an eight-episode series based on Stephen King’s 2019 novel, The Institute, Deadline reported this week. The novel follows the plight of 12-year-old Luke Ellis and a group of other children with telepathic and telekinetic abilities who have been kidnapped and held captive at a facility deep in the Maine woods, where their powers are being exploited. Their story becomes intertwined with that of an ex-cop Tim Jamieson. I really enjoyed this one when it came out, and as a lifelong King reader who has become hardened against the disappointment of terrible adaptations, I’m choosing to remain hopeful.So…
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