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My new Genre Grapevine covers the continuing issues with Must Read Magazines, the new owner of Asimov's, Analog and F&SF. Must Read Magazines has pushed the patience of the science fiction and fantasy genre with secrecy, silence, bad contracts, and bad statements. www.patreon.com/jasonsanford...

Some sketchbook doodles for the cartoon below

By Chris at lyonkid: www.instagram.com/lyonkid.art/

Annals of AI fuckups, part one million lithub.com/the-latest-l...

This is a good, close look at the details of several very prevalent AI-driven writing scams (including contacts on Facebook, which is a major offender) and ways to unmask them feliciasalber.substack.com/p/scam-attac...

Rain Volume 7 is out at last. Standard Edition - www.lulu.com/shop/jocelyn... Large Size Edition - www.lulu.com/shop/jocelyn... Digital eBook Edition - www.lulu.com/shop/jocelyn... And here for all Rain Books - www.lulu.com/spotlight/Li... Thank you for your support. It means the world to me. 💜

This is a protest not just against gen AI training generally, but against the UK government's proposal to allow AI companies to train on copyright-protected work unless the author/artist opts out www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Recommended www.goodreads.com/book/show/49...

AI companionship From the new Private Eye, out now.

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My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books.

My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books

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New Writer Beware blog post: The Curious Case of Fullers Library and Its Deceptive Link Requests. A bogus library turns out to be a clever link building scam. writerbeware.blog/2024/07/05/t...

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My latest New Scientist cartoon. #AI

The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion file770.com/the-2023-hug...