Nicole Sune Sbitani

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What a great essay from @ergative-abs.bsky.social & @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social on the linguistic complexities of THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY. Rise up, language (and anti-language) nerds! www.nerds-feather.com/2026/10/essa...

This is *wildly* illegal and *incredibly* immoral. The paper claims that by *simply reading an article*, you agree that you can never, ever sue them for virtually *any reason*, *and* that you have consented to effectively *unlimited* surveillance and commercial exploitation of your private data.

Why would I ever spend my precious, exhaustible time reading something you couldn’t be bothered to write when there’s already more books in the world than I’ll ever have time to read?

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

He said he didn't just wake up one day and stop loving me. It started with boredom, then annoyance, and finally #doubt. It took years, apparently. I had no idea; he never told me he was drifting away. I wonder if I would've ever learned he'd changed if I hadn't found her earring in my bed. #vss365

AI people think the only value in anything is the final output (result, picture, song, story, etc) when the real value is always in the input (ideas, effort, thought, work).

It had to happen, and I'm amazed I haven't seen something like this before: a scam exploitiing the Anthropic copyright settlement. See the lines at the end, under "Jessa's" signature? "Source" is the Library of Congress (I clicked the link). Confirms that scammers are harvesting contact info there

Watching my bully go after the new kid ignited something in me. I couldn't let him suffer like I did. I was steeling myself to confront the brute, channeling hatred into courage, when the most #unexpected thing happened: he vanished! The lunchroom took a collective gasp. Was this my doing? #vss365

My daughter earned her reputation for #bravery. While other children conquered playgrounds, she was trained to lead an army. Though I love her courage, I hate the circumstances that made it shine. I would've gladly traded all her fame and military skill for her to have a life of peace. #vss365

This is also just empirically untrue as a matter of reading consumption: women do, in fact, read books by men. It’s men who do not read books by women. I suspect the reason is not “biological.”

Scifi fans, we must collect another one of our own who has embarrassed us yet again

There's a guy in my replies who says he doens't read women because they write well about emotional conflicts and unrequited love and that's not what he wants. He reads sci fi he says. Can you imagine reading sci-fi and not reading Octavia Butler? Or Ursula K Le Guin? Or NK Jemisin?

I finally encountered the infamous "I don't read anything published after 2022 because of AI" opinion in the wild, and it's such an astoundingly terrible "solution"... It's basically "I don't like how LLMs are killing the book industry so I'm going to kill it FIRST."

In light of some magazines pulling scummy things on creators lately, I’m doing a little thread on short story rights. I don't want anybody getting taken advantage of. Also, if you're new, this stuff can be confusing!

Eldercare, exhaustion, and golems in my new story in @lightspeedmagazine.com today, "Until the Cure"! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/unti...

I'm really curious how they would know and why it would matter that my kettle is electric (it is!) 😂

Ahahaha there was a scene like this in an early draft of WICKHILLS - Ferec the spy goes through the pockets in a quick, desultory fashion (there's nothing) and Velasco is like "But 😢 there's supposed to be 😢" (because he's obsessed with a fictional Sherlockian-style detective)

Creating an "AI" avatar of your dead loved one w/o their input or consent, & saying that it counts "the same" as the dead loved one— ESPECIALLY as evidence in a MURDER TRIAL— is both a massive misunderstanding of what "AI" is & how it works, & a hugely dehumanizing insult to said dearly departed.

There are some news articles going around about sexual violence reporting rates at different universities. Let’s talk about why some schools have higher reporting rates than others:

If you see this, recommend a short book. One Level Down by Mary G. Thompson

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

The global resistance movement against longevity recruits Hanna Kim when a forced blood donation leaves her sister in a preventable coma. Hanna must defy her powerful mother and reject everything she was taught to discover the truth and save those she loves. #DVpit #A #SF #SFF #OWN #Asian #POC #WOC

anyway character driven stories are not, in fact, easy to generate by a thing that doesn't understand human emotion

When 150yo grandma gets in an accident, Hanna & sis are forced to donate too much blood to save her. With sis in a coma & everything she knew about longevity shattered, Hanna chooses to reject the system her mom helped build & join the global resistance. #DVpit #A #SF #SFF #OWN #Asian #POC #WOC

Great perspective in this thread for all of us participating in a pitch event for the first time!