I know I'm far from the first person to point this out but it blows my mind how people are going bonkers over AI and how it's going to change everything when every time I use it it just plagiarizes a pre-existing website
@AbandonedAmerica At a #tech meeting, last night, with bright young things working in #AI & one young man in his early twenties, who referred to himself as “the villain”, assured me it was 💯 % over for content-creators, #writers such as myself.
To prove his point, he boasted about #publishing a #book on #amazon , entirely ‘written’ by AI, which took him all of 5 days to compose.
And, to think that I was attending this meet up looking for a #job … Sigh
#vendredilecture "Strange Bedfellows" de l'Américaine Ina Park. La professionnelle de santé raconte les infections sexuellement transmissibles, en partant de son expérience de son médecin. C'est drôle, pas moralisateur et instructif, à la Maïa Mazaurette. Bcp aimé le chapitre sur les officiels américains qui traquaient les IST dans les années 1970, celui sur les postiches pubiens... Herpès, gonorrhée, VIH, syphilis, chlamydia... On se familiarise avec eux. L'insta d'Ina https://www.instagram.com/inaparkmd/
#VendrediLecture "My Fourth Time, we drowned" de Sally Hayden. Je ne sais pas s'il sera traduit en français, mais cette enquête est indispensable à lire. La journaliste irlandaise raconte l'enfer vécu par les réfugiés en Libye. Abandonnés par le Haut Commissariat des Nations unies pour les réfugiés et par l'Union européenne dans des conditions atroces, ils se livrent à Sally Hayden sur leurs conditions de vie atroces. Et témoignent de l'irresponsabilité des pays riches #books#book
#VendrediLecture "Notes on an execution" ("Une exécution" en français) de Danya Kukafka. J'ai détesté ce roman. L'autrice veut privilégier la parole des femmes qui ont été victimes ou proches d'un serial-killer. Il m'a semblé bourré de clichés, dans un style plat. Parmi les autres défauts, les chapitres avec le compte à rebours avant la mise à mort du serial-killer et le fait que les vies de toutes ces femmes ne soit évoquées qu'à travers leurs relations au meurtrier #books#book#feminicide
My #bookreview is brief/won't spoil, to spread good, great, & spectacular #horror#books far & wide.
NARCISSUS is a unique spin on a classic myth with a special resonance in a world that seems to reward vapid, vacuous vanity. This compact and creepy nightmare will keep your gaze transfixed as the gory horrors mount and may even inspire a little self-reflection, after. (Shortwave Pub)
Today's indie author review: Casey Morales' I Hear You:
"What I loved about this book - besides the two great dogs and the two amazing humans - was what I learned about the things the deaf have to deal with... I highly recommend this book. Five stars."
My #bookreview is brief/won't spoil, to spread good, great, spectacular #horror#books far & wide.
The stories, poems, & characters in HOW LOVELY TO BE A WOMAN ring w/ a strength & authenticity that grounds them even as they travel into supernatural & metaphorical territories. This impressive debut by Tiffany Michelle Brown is great: sinister, disturbing, unique, angry, & empowering.
Managed to struggle through Nietzsches Beyond Good and Evil the other day, what a load of shite.
I guess I'm more educated now? The valuable bits could easily be condensed into a couple of paragraphs. #book#philosophy
They crashed sometime just before the dawn. Figuratively speaking, even if Sigmund’s dismount from Sleipnir’s back had been less than elegant. He’d been lying on a damp mat of moldering leaves and spine-cracking roots when it’d occurred to him he’d brought absolutely nothing useful for a long hike across the country.
“Fuck.”
They were in some creepy-ass forest. Full of gray, twisted trees more hung with beards of moss than leaves. A low mist rolled along the ground, roots winding and protruding and cracking through the halfhearted path and, all in all, Sigmund thought the placed looked like a film set for a particularly unsubtle horror movie. He half expected zombies or cannibals to come lurching out of the shadows.
My #bookreview is brief/won't spoil, to spread good, great, & spectacular #horror#books far & wide.
Troubled, flawed, complicated women & insidious, unsettling horrors are contained within A SMALL LIGHT. Sara Century artfully evokes various shades of dread whilst imbuing her characters w nuance & complexities even as chaotic, horrifying situations befall them. @WeirdpunkBooks
Today's queer indie author review: Alexandra Caluen's Mistletango:
"Angelo's a dancer/dance teacher between jobs and has gifted himself with a holiday in Buenos Aries, who ends up accidentally sharing a room with Ramon... A very sweet and beautifully written whirlwind romance.
My #bookreview is brief/won't spoil, to spread good, great, & spectacular #horror#books far & wide.
THE SALT GROWS HEAVY by @casskhaw is an elegant, fractured fairy-tale of Monsters & the monstrousness they encounter. Their world is populated w/ horrors, cruelty, & viciousness, but the dark, beautiful, bloody heart of this novella pulses w/ companionship, respect, & love.
My #bookreview is brief/won't spoil, to spread good, great, & spectacular #horror#books far & wide.
SHADOW PATHS is a mini-collection of 5 unsettling horror stories w a series of Q & A's + author's notes. Elin Olausson's distinct, descriptive writing & the unique uncanniness of the worlds revealed make this a memorable assemblage of quietly sinister, melancholic tales. (Tales From Between Press)