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📚REVIEW🔍 @sffinsiders A Stellar Spy By @DarjaniMaya 🔗👇 With seamless flow and expert timing, Stellar Spy builds an inevitable suspense. It is an emotionally charged journey and a joy to read from start to finish. I had a great time with this one. Spy genre fans will enjoy this SciFi/Fantasy take. Not sure what to read next? Then grab Stellar. Your mood will thank you.

#ComicBookReview Absolute Batman Vol 1: The Zoo by @ssnyder1835 , Nick Dragotta & Frank Martin One simple change to the character’s backstory, and what an intriguing new setting we get. Fiercer, more brutal, but equally epic. Full review on @sffinsiders . Link in comments 💬

I have a new review up on SFF Insiders (@sffinsiders)! Check out my thoughts on WILDFLOWER by Becky Jenkinson on their site!

Smashed that second stretch goal ❤️ Extra art incoming from the same artist who did this piece 😤 Let’s goooo

It’s unreal to see the level of support coming out of this 🔥

#BookReview The Devils by @LordGrimdark A fantasy suicide squad featuring polite vampire, a pagan werewolf, an egotistical necromancer, a charming pirate, and an immortal knight... you’re in for a crazy fun journey. Full review on @sffinsiders . Link in comments 💬

📖 SPFBO Read No. 5🏅 Officially onto my last assigned #SPFBO book! This has been a wild time and the most reading I’ve done in such a short span. Can’t wait to see what Peter Aldin has in store for me. 🤙🏼 I will say it’s currently a tight race from my assigned pile!

My review for A Little Hatred by @LordGrimdark is up on @sffinsiders 🔗 ⬇️ Be prepared for spoilers on the reviews for books 2 and 3. #grimdark #ageofmadness

Many fantastic books here! Bryan is the best! 🤙🏼

I don't know. The promised AI cornucopia looks more like a partial mirage to me, at the moment. Reduction in force is resulting in productivity increases related to leveraging AI. This is being realized in fewer future hires bc more is being done with less, people wise. The service side phone bank/chat operators are out of luck and this is a huge part of any customer service for a business. They are mostly scripted and AI excels with that. I see a shift in dynamics. People are still needed to understand the business, be fluent in and able to evaluate code for intended purpose. As the environment evolves the AIs will need to be trained and corralĺed. Buggy whips give way to model Ts. Career paths evolve. Much disruption for sure. Sorry for the random meandoring.

@BlueSmokeFire Same. But I think we’re about to see a counter revolution to AI’s disruption. With enough angry unemployed people anything can shift.

This is an absolutely stellar guide for identifying AI-written pieces. Check it out so you can identify it yourself in the wild. 👇

@autumn_inkblood Totally agree. I'm skeptical of humanity's ability to differentiate as it progresses. I am disheartened.

@BlueSmokeFire I don’t believe in throwing out the baby with the bath water. AI has its uses and place, but the arts ain’t it. I agree that AI writing will probably continue to evolve but people still only value human-made art for the most part.

@DarjaniMaya Yep, def Morrison's, a little Gemini search confirms. Didn't think to do so prior to posting. Thanks for the nudge Maya. Innoculating classics with "mesages" is less.

@BlueSmokeFire And it looks like it's a copy of Beloved and it's whoever is reprinting it under vintage classics has the ad

This needs this to be verified, not sure this is real. If factual, that would be an instant DNF and add to the burn pile. I don't care what way you cause leans. Sell it with the prose. That is not prose.

@zillaah707 Heck yeah!

Creamy sausage pasta I guess you’d call it

@CHRISDBRAND This I can also recall. C64 was... game changing. 😆

@BlueSmokeFire The days of loading a game onto the ram via cassette tape 😆

You have more confidence in humanity than I. I use the heck out of AI for work, tons if SQL with colleagues leveraging it for all kinds of what was previously eldritch coding. AI gets better with every iteration. Today's tells will be out dated in no time. I'm not an advocate by any means. In the creative sphere, I am actively anti AI.

@BlueSmokeFire I’m more hopeful. Public opinion of AI is lower than that of ICE. And we haven’t even hit the massive unemployment spike yet.

@CHRISDBRAND In the middle of the game you would have to take the floppy disk out and flip it over.

@BlueSmokeFire Hell yeah!

@Lyons_Pen You'll be fine. Take care of business. There is always something requiring attention.

I have unanswered emails, undone taxes, an unfinished audiobook, an unfinished book, two unfinished editing projects, an unfinished hair rope, and unfinished home repairs. So I’m taking a little hiatus. Wish me luck. This is what I get for hibernating all winter.

@the_book_hermit Hey, @AuthorLeishman didn't this guy block you? 🤣

🚨SCREAMING AND HYPERVENTILATING🚨 They say never meet your heroes, but William Shatner was so sweet. A distinguished gentleman and my hero. 💙🖖🏼