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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 06/09/2026

Status report, "Just Mentioning This..." Redux: I note an uptick in recent days in Discourse on alternative YA material about wizardry. So if you're interested, please note: the 9-book package of these are on #sale! 🙂bit.ly/YWNMESET

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Our New Millennium Editions box sets are optimized for each of the devices appearing under the price listing. Please click on one to choose the format you prefer.The New Millennium Editions of So You ...

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Dawn Brening 🎙️ @dawnbrening.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Wish more people knew the difference between gothic literature and romantasy. But oh well.

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Dawn Brening 🎙️ @dawnbrening.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Ugh, started reading a fanfic and realized the author just lifted the plot of one of those FB AI dramas. Even changed the male lead to match the Geralt wannabe male lead from the AI slop video. Disappointing. Annoying enough to have it pop up on FB in between reels, now their plots are invading AO3.

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Dawn Brening 🎙️ @dawnbrening.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Finally watched Masters of the Universe. Loved it. Also loved all the 80’s music. Did not expect to hear Queen in a movie in 2026 XD

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Dawn Brening 🎙️ @dawnbrening.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Need someone to do a short voice clip? Please feel free to reach out! Rates and examples on my carrd! dawnbrening.carrd.co

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Dawn Brening 🎙️ @dawnbrening.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Happy Dungeon Day Crawlers! Finally picked up the first Dungeon Crawler Carl book, finished it at 2 in the morning and bought the second as soon as I got up, halfway through it already. I sense an addiction to this series forming...

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Dawn Brening 🎙️ @dawnbrening.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

He does not care about anyone but himself. How many times does he have to say it to get through to people?

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Dawn Brening 🎙️ @dawnbrening.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Need someone to do a short voice clip? Please feel free to reach out! Rates and examples on my carrd! dawnbrening.carrd.co

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IGN @ign.com · 25/02/2026

In this new cinematic, LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight recreates the iconic sequence seen in the Batman (1989) movie in which The Joker takes over the Gotham City museum. Build the Legacy when the game launches on May 29! #IGNFanFest

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Dawn Brening 🎙️ @dawnbrening.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

What happened to the people wanting Clinton's blood in the 90s? Where are they now that an actually wanna-be dictator and king is in office? Where did your "morals and standards" go?

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Scott "KaiserNeko" Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Knowingly signing away your voice for A.I. is wholly immoral, even if it's legal. It disenfranchises other actors, shrinking the work pool, and contributes to an increasingly hostile industry that regularly commodifies and minimizes talent. It's a scummy practice that should – and will – be shamed.

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Dawn Brening 🎙️ @dawnbrening.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I would like to live in the future of Star Trek. Not the past.

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Conor Lamb @conorlambpa.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Please share. We need mail and email to @fetterman.senate.gov asking him to retract this ridiculous statement and stand tall against this lawlessness in the funding vote. For the sake of Renee Good and Alex Pretti do not write off his vote!

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Conor Lamb @conorlambpa.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Copies of these should be put up immediately on state/city property with this added: “The enslaved people memorialized here mean more to us than the president who tried to erase them. It is our patriotic duty to read every word on these signs.”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse serving veterans. He died trying to protect protestors being assaulted. A group of anonymous & masked men fired chemicals into his face, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him in broad daylight in front of witnesses. Then his government smeared him & defended his murder.

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

That's the spirit, Y'all.

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Dawn Brening 🎙️ @dawnbrening.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

What fucking peace plan senator? HE IS ENABLING MURDER AND SO ARE YOU

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Dawn Brening 🎙️ @dawnbrening.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I’d say I’m surprised but I’m not. Very disappointed and he needs removed. STOP DEFENDING MURDERS SENATOR.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Transphobia is a cancer of the heart and mind. It is a useless fear, based on ignorance and cruelty. Trans people are not responsible for a single one of the problems we face. Do the world a favor and grow the fuck up.

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Dawn Brening 🎙️ @dawnbrening.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

You have enough money to throw around to try to buy Warner Bros. But you can’t have proper subtitles? Bullshit.

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Dawn Brening 🎙️ @dawnbrening.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Listening to Fall Out Boy and thinking about Hazbin. Ya know what would be funny? If they got Brendon Urie to play Cain. THINK OF THE POSSIBLE DUETS!!

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LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Cai Haoyu's company Anuttacon posted a job listing the other day for english AI audio training The job's specifically about fine tuning audio driven interactions with AI models that process speech and dialogue Varsapura - Mihoyo's new title - is being led by Cai Haoyu and is said to be AI focused.

A job listing for "AI Trainer (audio) For Gam,ing & Multimodal AI at Anuttacon"

Further information on the job description:

Anuttacon is seeking a detail-oriented AI Trainer (Audio) to support the development of advanced multimodal AI systems used in immersive virtual worlds and interactive games. This role focuses on annotating, transcribing, and evaluating audio-driven interactions to help create emotionally intelligent, human-centered dialogue experiences.

If you are passionate about gaming, storytelling, and voice-based AI technologies, this opportunity allows you to contribute directly to the future of interactive entertainment.

Job Overview
As an AI Trainer (Audio), you will work closely with AI models that process speech and dialogue. Your input will help improve speech recognition, emotional understanding, and conversational realism within games and virtual environments. The role requires accuracy, creativity, and a strong ear for nuance in spoken language.

Further detail on the job expectations:

Key Responsibilities

Transcribe audio-based dialogues with a high level of accuracy

Annotate speech data, identifying tone, emotion, inflection, and subtle expressions

Evaluate and tag AI-generated responses to enhance realism and player engagement

Support the improvement of dialogue systems used in games and virtual experiences

Collaborate with internal leads working on speech recognition and interaction models

Required Skills and Qualifications

Native or near-native English proficiency with strong transcription abilities

Ability to accurately understand and transcribe multiple English accents

Excellent attention to detail and consistency in annotation tasks
Comfort working in a fast-paced, evolving AI development environment

Strong interest in gaming, virtual worlds, or narrative-driven experiences

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Eyepatch Wolf @eyepatchwolf.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Keep hearing devs say that they only use ai for "pre-concept art" There is no pre-concept art. There is concept art. That's where the idea starts. With the concept. You're using ai for concept art.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 13/01/2026

ICE approaching a teenage girl and U.S. CITIZEN on her way to soccer practice and snooping around her car with giant guns is not making us safer. All it does is terrorize our kids.

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Dawn Brening 🎙️ @dawnbrening.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

No one wants this. In fact we want AI out of books and out of the creative fields.

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Kaylyn Saucedo - MarzGhoul @marzgurl.com · 02/12/2025

Please tag me if you see any anime that appears to plainly be using AI transcriptions for closed captions. That's CLOSED CAPTIONS (SDH) for ENGLISH DUBS, not subtitles for Japanese audio. I wanna publicly keep track of some of these and start holding platforms accountable.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 28/11/2025

Why don't we like "AI?" You try to put it into everything in nonsensical ways. It doesn't work the way you claim it will. You don't pay for the work you use to generate it. Your intent is labor reduction without a contributory return. You know it's unpopular so you try to hide it. You lie about it.

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LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.

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Dawn Brening 🎙️ @dawnbrening.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

After reading Prophet Song I needed something a bit lighter and funny, so John Scalzi's Starter Villain it is! Hera is best cat btw. Tho Persephone is a close second. Also as a Pittsburgher, loving some of the little bits in there mentioning the area XD

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:

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Dawn Brening 🎙️ @dawnbrening.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Gravy. I need all the rest but can do without gravy.

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Dawn Brening 🎙️ @dawnbrening.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Read “Prophet Song” by Paul Lynch for a book club and it’s really scary how much it feels less like fiction and more of a prophecy.

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Dawn Brening 🎙️ @dawnbrening.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Short answer? no. Long answer? Noooooo. We do not need genAI in the arts. Get that out of here. Art is meant to be an expression of humanity. GenAI is not humanity. Its a slop machine.

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Tee Koobaan 🇨🇦 - Kevin Sorbo's failed acting coach 🙄 @teekoobaan.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

In a world full of Wayne Gretzkys, be a Mario Lemieux mariolemieux.org

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Home - Mario Lemieux Foundation

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Dawn Brening 🎙️ @dawnbrening.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

What was even the fucking point? We know that if they leave the ACA up to a vote (that isn’t even guaranteed to happen) it’ll be dead in the water. We had one, ONE chance to force them to the table. And they threw it away.

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Dawn Brening 🎙️ @dawnbrening.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Watched a couple videos about Sadako and the Ring franchise (go check out CZsWorld he does fantastic horror series breakdowns) and found out the book went from horror to science fiction horror and now I must find them and devour them.

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LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Anyway here's Mihoyo promoting AI assisted game production including: "Efficiency in Image and Material Generation With very few materials, they can generate character model sheets + 3D models, allowing for the testing of multiple designs and their artistic outcomes." Something to keep an eye on.

A promotional image from Mihoyo for "AI Job Openings" that explains "in the world of Honkai we have always believed that AI can create infinite possibilities"

Examples of 2D artwork and 3D models that demonstrate how the AI would allow them to see how models would appear when translated from one to the other

An example of the Honkai Star Rail mascot Pom-Pom chatting to the playing using AI technology

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LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Here’s some choice details from the job listings The part that stands out to me is “Have rich practical experience in various generative tools (including images, video and AUDIO)”

miHoYo
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Al technology art Full-time
Shanghai | Fine Arts & Expressions
Social recruitment
| Job duties
1. Participate in exploring and establishing creative workflows for generative Al according to the specific needs of the project
2. Participate in the formulation of evaluation standards and result evaluation of video and image
model generation effects
3. When necessary, use generative Al and traditional methods to produce the art assets (images, videos, etc.) required by the project

5. Have rich practical experience in various generative tools (including images, video and audio)
6. Have passion for Al-native art production and expression, and be willing to explore new possibilities

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Dawn Brening 🎙️ @dawnbrening.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Bought a couple of new cardigans from Steady Hands, as I had a couple of friends recommend them. Happy I went with M/L instead of L/XL like I was leaning towards! They are so comfy and warm too! Got the Lihua and Lishu ones from the Apothecary Diaries collab. 10/10 will be buying more.

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Dawn Brening 🎙️ @dawnbrening.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

That’s it? That’s the comeback monologue? Oh well. Back to the other late night shows.

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Disney has lost nearly $4 Billion in three days from combined stock price collapse and cancelled subscriptions.

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

BREAKING: Six leading medical organizations filed a lawsuit on Monday against Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, and the health dept, charging that recent decisions limiting access to vaccines were unscientific and harmful to the public. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/h...

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Medical Societies Sue Kennedy and H.H.S. Over Vaccine Advice

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Kit Harrison @kitharrison.com · 06/06/2025

Seeing people who refer to SAG or any other labour union as a "mafia" or "bullies" doesnt just strike me as the opinions I'd expect a child to have, but a fundamental depressing misunderstanding of how unions actually function. They exist to give power to people who do not have any individually.

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Dawn Brening 🎙️ @dawnbrening.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Finally caught up on FFXIV MSQ, because I want to mindlessly gather lol But for real I’ve missed playing the game more and want to get back into it. Plus I need to work on my glams.

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Dawn Brening 🎙️ @dawnbrening.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

🤬 I can't take all of this anymore. It's insanity and it needs to stop.

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Erica Friedman @okazu.yuricon.com · 19/04/2025

There are still a few tickets for the remaining Sailor Moon The Super Live Shows in CT, Philly and NYC. It was fantastic, go see it if you can. sailormoonsuperlive.com

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Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: The Super Live | North America 2025

Don’t miss Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: The Super Live in North America 2025! Catch groundbreaking 2.5D musical across North America.

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Dawn Brening 🎙️ @dawnbrening.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I work in a library for the blind and physically handicapped. We mail books out and have a digital library tied to National Library Service. I have had so many people call and ask what will happen to us, and will they still be able to get books, will their books be taken away? Will they disappear?

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