Char Newcomb

Char Newcomb

@charnewcomb.bsky.social

Writes 12th/13th century #histfic & #scifi BATTLE SCARS trilogy - ROGUE - ECHOES OF THE STORM https://charlenenewcomb.com U.S. Navy veteran. Retired librarian. Grandma.

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indieBRAG
@indiebrag.bsky.social

We proudly announce that ELERI'S ENCHANTMENT by Chad Queen has been honored with the B.R.A.G. Medallion (Book Readers’ Appreciation Group). It now joins the very select, award-winning, reader-recommended books at indieBRAG. This award reflects the book's quality and its impact on readers.

bragmedallion.comEleri's Enchantment - Chad Queen - Children's, Fantasy BooksRead more about Eleri's Enchantment, an Award-Winning Children's, Fantasy book by Chad Queen!

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Alison Morton Author
@alisonmorton.bsky.social

Destroying pleasure – Generative AI writing AI can be wonderful; it can be morally corrupt. It can ease our lives; it can destroy our creativity. Now, I use AI for research. I regard Gemini, ChatGPT, Vibe as LLMs (large language models) which cut hours, possibly days, off my research. It's a quick…

alisonmortonauthor.comDestroying pleasure – Generative AI writingAI can be wonderful; it can be morally corrupt. It can ease our lives; it can destroy our creativity. Now, I use AI for research. I regard Gemini, ChatGPT, Vibe as LLMs (large language models) which cut hours, possibly days, off my research. It's a quick fix. It points me towards genuine sources which I then consult directly. But it's a passive mechanism – a huge library – despite all those chatty questions at the end.

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Admirable Women
@admirablewomen.bsky.social

Jane Addams: the first American woman awarded the #Nobel Peace Prize, 1931, her efforts to revive the ideal of peace & champion social justice globally. She co-founded @aclu.org, 1920, and is the "mother" of the #socialwork profession in the US. She was born #OTD in 1860. #CivilLiberties #HistSky

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Jenn
@jennburrill.bsky.social

Huge step by Arizona to get money out of politics 💸 Arizona Supreme Court "parted ways with the U.S. Supreme Court’s analysis in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, concluding that corporate campaign contributions are not a form of protected expression under the state constitution"

statecourtreport.orgArizona Charts New Path for the Right to Speak FreelyIn upholding an election disclosure law, the Arizona Supreme Court departed from the U.S. Supreme Court's framework for evaluating free speech claims.

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Katherine Pickett, Editor (she/her)
@popediting.bsky.social

So true! Send your inner critic out the door while you're writing the first draft. Just let it flow. You can fix it later! (Of course, I always advocate a little planning to make sure you know more or less where you're going in the flow!) #editing #writesky

International Screenwriters' Association@networkisa.bsky.social

You have to start somewhere as a writer. Critically acclaimed author and screenwriter Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl, Utopia) remarks that starting with a bad first draft is better than getting stuck trying to complete a great one.  #writing #film #GillianFlynn #GoneGirl

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Jason Koebler
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social

Exclusive: A rare bookseller suspected his books were being bought by AI companies. He stuck an AirTag in a book and we tracked it to a secretive Amazon facility in Las Vegas where they scan and destroy books called VGT3: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

404media.coWe Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training FacilityWe placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Donna E
@edwardsdna.bsky.social

A Medieval Man's Injuries Reminded One Archaeologist of Modern-Day Car Crash Victims. They Turned Out to Be the Work of an English Trebuchet: A skeleton unearthed in Scotland likely belongs to a soldier struck by a… @SmithsonianMag #MedievalHistory #Archaeology #Trebuchet #ScottishHistory #Injuries

dlvr.itA Medieval Man's Injuries Reminded One Archaeologist of Modern-Day Car Crash Victims. They Turned Out to Be the Work of an English TrebuchetA skeleton unearthed in Scotland likely belongs to a soldier struck by a high-speed projectile during Edward I's 1304 siege of Stirling Castle. The man suffered more than 160 fractures

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Michael Clemens
@mclem.org

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

aiddata.orgBefore reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learnedWhy we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.
Char Newcomb
@charnewcomb.bsky.social

Tidying up my blog as part of migrating to a new platform, I came across a link to this fun interview on @helenhollick.bsky.social's blog: ofhistoryandkings.blogspot.com/2018/11/nove... (And thank you, Helen who - even 8 years later - remains an amazing cheerleader!) #historicalfiction

ofhistoryandkings.blogspot.comNovel Conversations With Charlene Newcomb and Sir Stephan l'AigleA blog about pirates, 1066, King Arthur, history, mysteries, writing and general chit-chat interesting bits and pieces

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250 to 250
@250to250.bsky.social

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social is a historian, Guggenheim Fellow, author of White Flight and One Nation Under God, and co-editor of Myth America. Kruze examines the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the crowning achievement of the civil rights era. #WeAreAmerica250