Zelenskyy: "Prices are rising because of the war in the Middle East, the blocking of Hormuz. Everyone understands it. If we want to speak with people fairly, if we want to be clear, if we want to speak with our nations openly, people have to hear reality. Don't play games with people."

Reminds me of some "hamburger" cookies that I made years ago for April Fool's Day with vanilla wafers, Nutella, and shredded coconut that I'd dyed green with food coloring. I'm not a baker like you, but I can assemble stuff!

Very dystopian that on the article about a A.I. data center poisoning the air, there's a little rainbow A.I. chatbot button just lurking at the edge, waiting to poison the air some more to answer your banal question

Not to take away from celebrating Carson, but she's a "former professor" here in large part because the university shut down her department and cancelled its classes. What pride does the institution claim now—years later—when austerity is forcing other scholars out? What does that 'pride' do?

So... I get a bunch of publicity emails and a lot of the Harper ones feel like they've been run through the plagiarism machine. It's not lovely. Tor, Orbit, not a whiff so far. The difference is palpable.

They were not acting on their own. They were acting as their human programmers programmed them to act, just as you are acting as these corporate shills want you to act by propagating this fiction that GenAI programs are thinking for themselves.

This LLM nonsense is a black hole of productivity. I got a 12 page document from a client (obviously generated using some LLM tool) explaining what they thought was wrong with our software's physics. We had people wasting time on this but an experienced engineer would have spotted the obvious error

Suella Braverman selling 106 copies of her book after all that publicity is so delicious.

Park service could remove more than 500 trees at historic golf course Pres. Donald Trump wants to redesign

Billionaires can clearly afford to pay more taxes if they can spend this much on political influence. Tax the rich! If you're in California, vote for the wealth tax.

Dust off your spine-tingling novels and novellas for our spookiest event yet: Apex Book Company's open reading period from Nov. 3rd-9th! 🎃📚 Both agented and unagented submissions welcome! Our guidelines and wishlist are linked below. Stay tuned for submission instructions closer to the start date⬇️

Congratulations to all the winners! It’s especially delightful to see Silk and Sinew win, an anthology which we loved at PseudoPod Towers, and from which we ran the story ‘Squatters’ last year! A wonderful piece of work from Shawna Yang Ryan! 🎉

When military police found Adrian Martinez's body, his bags had already been packed for his trip home to Houston. The army says he took his own life, but their investigation seemed to ignore one key fact: He was a sexual assault whistleblower.

Love this. Please understand, even if these events aren’t for you, they are for a community suffering from social isolation, and you could help.