Adele Buck

Okay, it's time for a proper intro thread, not just the one I whacked up there during the workday. I'm Adele, I'm a law librarian by day and romance author by night. I talk occasionally about a bunch of stuff but a lot about books. I'm about to talk about my books!

Can we stop calling them "prediction markets" and call them what they are, which is betting/gambling platforms? My teeth itch every time someone says they're "trading" on one of those things. Betting. What you're doing is called betting or gambling, Kevin.

It is long past time to stop giving anyone in the GOP a cookie for simply not being utterly horrifying.

Nailed it.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

"Bombast." That's what you call a vile attack on a survivor of childhood sex abuse. Okay, Bezos.

Ruin a song by adding "In my pants" "Sweet Baby James in My Pants"

If you keep up with the financial news too you’ll see that C-Suite employees of the big AI and AI adjacent companies have sold off billions of dollars of stock in their own companies in the last 6 months. The smart money’s cashing out of this pump and dump whilst they can before the rug pull

And I want it to be clear this should be a matter of consent. I should have a right to veto use of GenAI to alter the text of my book, to forbid my book being fed into any LLM including proprietary, and to veto its use in associated areas--cover, design, translation, audio, and marketing copy.

have spent the last few nights schooling Mr. B. on the Julia Stiles lore. He's ready. #dwts

-A living wage -Guaranteed healthcare -The right to join a union -The right to vote -The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family -The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence This is what we really need to thrive — not flying cars or AI or giant data centers.

If you gave a nickel to a crow that crow would have made more, by billions, than Anthropic

I mean, @edzitron.com says it with a lot more receipts, but GenAI is a way bigger bubble than the dotcom one. And I worked for Nasdaq during that whole fiasco, fwiw.

The Most Interesting Kitten in the World

These books are super fun!

Art. I would also argue that this is not "frivolous," as I've been buying art since I've had even a little bit of surplus cash. But yeah, that's what I'd buy.

lol this is like asking if i'd give up bedbugs to shut down rats. YES I WOULD LIKE TO GET RID OF ALL THE PESTILENCE THANK YOU

Sad. But at least she can go back to not being a lawyer.

You know...just musing about how the right completely lost it and claimed that Michelle Obama was "disbarred" when she went on inactive status because she wasn't going to practice law AS THE FIRST LADY. No reason, really.

Add "for Tax Purposes" to a movie: Bend it Like Beckham for Tax Purposes

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The only people who think book banning is good publicity are authors who sell so many copies they wouldn't notice. Okay, cool, the ban didn't sink Stephen King's career? Try interviewing a queer author whose book hasn't hit four digits.

"My successor will be a Kalshi commercial" took me right out.

I look forward to a statement from the union of restaurateurs that they will only use dog shit in a responsible manner. • Promote responsible and ethical use of dog shit • Comply with the evolving best practice recommendations on dog shit in food • Where dog shit is used, it is used for good.

Every movie, song, and book that you love was made without the technology that people who don’t make art are now insisting is necessary for making art.

Eeeep - it's @alwayscoffee.bsky.social's birthday? HAPPY DAY, GIRL!!!

When I say my eyes were out on STALKS listening to this story (and also thinking, "Oh, @authormsbev.bsky.social absolutely knows this woman's history.") www.instagram.com/reels/DeKBfc...

Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.

I LOVE teaching novel workshops. There’s nothing more satisfying than helping someone navigate that particular marathon. Unfortunately, most workshops are geared for short stories. That’s why I started offering my Whole Novel Workshop several years ago.

Are you an MLIS student or new-ish librarian worried about navigating convos around AI? Join @juliesetele.bsky.social & me for a free webinar hosted by Rutgers LIS students. Let's talk strategies for finding your (AI skeptical) people & finding ways to push back. 📚 scarla.rutgers.edu/event/talkin...

Having trouble deciding which books to buy from Amazon during Prime Days? Try this: None, then go support an independent bookstore instead. 😌

the tech industry is about to invent books

“every time someone is sleeping on a subway bench in a city, the rest of america can sort of say ‘ugh, look at these cities.’ but we are holding a lot of your people who you failed to love and take care of.” 👏 👏 👏

To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try

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Looks like animatronic lutefisk

The world would be a better place if more people internalised the idea that "not for me" does not equal "crap", and "stuff I like" is not objectively better than "stuff I don't like".

Having seen the Joyce Carol Oates very bad, not good tweet about romance and AI, I can't help thinking about the way that romance has been treated as a punching bag for so long and always by people who are completely unwilling to engage with the genre and know little about it.