TrishEM

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This is vital. Writing helps us think. So many students are saying they turn to LLMs because they don’t know what to say, and need to hear that not knowing is normal as one starts to write.

This is a big day for me. This novel represents the purest expression of all my formative influences and foundational interests, pressed together + running over. It’s an action thriller, a first contact narrative, a genre-defying thing that no plagiarism machine could algorithmically even aspire to.

Thursday is a paid holiday. Because Flavor Flav said so.

Third such incident in two weeks, after Lula and No Kings Meta as currently constructed is incompatible with multiracial, multicultural, electoral democracy

A 78-year-old volunteer has claimed a Reform UK councillor compared her to a Nazi collaborator because she has helped asylum seekers learn English. This is alleged to have happened on October 14, the same day reports came that Farage wants to prosecute charities www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Pakistan has denied carriers from Taiwan access to its airspace in support of Beijing’s One-China policy, the first move of its kind by any country. Full story: bloom.bg/47GpomT 📷: I-Hwa Cheng/Bloomberg

Science funders and research organizations in Europe are joining forces to expand open-access publishing and make the peer-review process more transparent go.nature.com/4BxeLAn

I told my editor that I had to go to South America to find treasure and rescue my kidnapped sister, and they were just like "how will this affect the delivery date", it's like none of the old publishing traditions are valued any more.

This is a hell of an intriguing description! Will read. (oh, hay, look, bsky just sold a book!)

Losing an election is not grounds for asylum. apnews.com/article/braz...

This one doesn't just wander into my head. It's lodged there as chapter one of my inner monologue on how to be a parent. Do the thing. Live in the moment. You only get finite chances and they run out quicker than you'd ever imagine.

On the blog, @pematson.bsky.social (Trish Matson) reviews Wole Talabi's The Fist of Memory. "It has lots of action but also a lot of thoughtful exploration of the need for connections and empathy..." skiffyandfanty.com/b...

Today we lost Walter Koenig. Some thoughts about a fine actor and genuinely nice guy....

ChatGPT has killed people with its "advice" and generative AI will continue to kill by providing wrong medical and life information until the companies pushing the systems are held accountable. Generative AI is essentially informational fentanyl. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/w...

This is ridiculous because Abbott literally pardoned convicted murderer Daniel Perry (who was also trying to meet 16 year old girls on Kik)

Great Texas Observer coverage here

Boosting because my father's undiagnosed sleep apnea (for 30+ years!) was passed off as "he's just a loud snorer!" yet led to severe heart problems and cognitive impairment. Get checked! Snoring for long periods is NOT NORMAL.

The hardcovers I preordered and paid for with money, watching me put more Libby books on hold.

reminder of a week-long sale, get your scary romance here. And for other scary romances (a thread):

Structurally there's no reason for this at all. The Olympics manages to have men's and women's events side by side. World athletics does too. But in team sports and many other areas there's this insistence that any women's event that happens must compete with rather than run united with men's events

A thread-of-threads on my research into the ruined places of the world, the abandoned ruins of modernity, interesting historical knowledge I've come across, and strange parts of history I find fascinating.

I wrote about the Cemeteries of Amalo trilogy and how (and perhaps why) it is a sequel to The Goblin Emperor (and what that means for Celehar): wmhenrymorris.com/nonfiction/K...

The vile attacks on Amy Acton need to be seen in the context of a party that *needs* people to believe women fabricating sexual assaults is common as rainwater. Because it’s pretty much the only way to evade the conclusion that the president is a rapist.

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

is true ✨🙂

Regular reminder that when you go to things while sick, you are giving those germs to people with autoimmune disorders, you’re passing them to someone’s newborn, to someone’s elderly parents. It’s “just a cold” to you but it can and does severely impact countless people.

hey all i dont know what authorsdaily dot com is? but they have an "Interview" with me posted that i - never gave - is full of lies - has my wrong pronouns - is full of things i dont do - or would never say? so i emailed them and told them to take it down but jfc, i am tired

Ohio’s biggest newspaper broke its own rules to endorse Amy Acton, calling Ramaswamy’s vile attack ad disqualifying. “Using childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it crosses a line Ohioans should defend, whatever their party.” thedailybeast.com/trumps-maga-...

The correct legal approach to this seems to be that when platforms start favouring some content over other, they don‘t deserve immunity for third party content on the basis that they are just platforms. They should become liable. finance.yahoo.com/media-advert...

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

Unbelievable!!! I just won the World Fantasy Award for Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology! Congratulations to my fellow nominees and all the other winners! (I’ve included a thread—actually my speech—explaining the fuel that drove this project.)

This is not simply a change of government. It is the collapse of a political order that has defined Serbia since 2012. #EuropeNews ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/mbhn

What's striking to me are the rules of engagement and the methodology of action here, which more or less is predicated on burying liberal delusions about "debate" or the "marketplace of ideas". The rules were ultimately very simple: amplify your own message and suppress your opponent's.

Today The Masked Gingernuts gives away reviewing secrets

Genuinely I don't know that it comes across to people who haven't been here to watch how almost unbelievable this was, just people taking something that looked impossible and dragging it kicking and screaming all the way to inevitability.

At one point he had a Whatsapp group with 10 million people in it, coordinating action. Which I didn't even think whatsapp was infrastructurally designed to support. And yes, whatsapp is of course a meta network, but the strategy was to be everywhere, to act redundantly, to be unbannable.