Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 13/10/2026i found where they grew that bean that lives in Chicago 1956555
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱Randy Au @randyau.com · 21hI'm dying laughing at how the cat has conformed to her flower shaped bed today 174175493393
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱John Scary Name Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 17hA reminder for those at the back. 188112832
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16hShut up! 7979391620
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 18hEVERYONE LOOK AT THE COVER FOR!! MY WIZARD BOOK!! ✨THE APPRENTICE LIAR AND THE DEATH OF THE WORLD💫 LYING! STEALING! AND ONE MILLION GAMES OF GO FISH WITH DEATH!!!!!!! MARCH! 2! 2027! 821546
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱weird menace and excessive bloodletting @gemmafiles.bsky.social · 12/10/2026 1239411105
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 13/10/2026A broad movement of labor-unions and left-wing groups is rallying in support of 15 anti-ICE protesters attacked by Trump. “I think it’s very important that we stand in solidarity with people who are in that position, and especially with people who are getting railroaded even worse than we are.” 211225
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Heeeey. You know a great way to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day? But my book! It tells the story of four Lipan Apache cousins who defy fate. Five starred reviews, and just released this week! Wowie look at that cover by Abigail Rajunov. <3 Thanks for sharing it, Mom! bookshop.org/p/books/chil... 715987
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I'm sure the delay had nothing to do with sacking 1300 devs this year alone 311321
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I don't think companies realize this yet but going "complete AI game development" isn't giving "the future" it's giving "we're broke." Like y'all just don't want to pay wages. 221388387
佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 12/10/2026RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period. I don't even know where it lives and frankly, I don't want to. Unfortunately I may be forced to learn which I am not happy about! 🤧 1189
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Sam 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. 19068971953
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 09/10/2026Now’s probably a good time to say that a couple years back I turned down a five-figure offer from HarperCollins because they refused to put in a clause prohibiting AI from touching any of my books at any point in the process. I was lucky to be able to walk away, and it was the right thing to do. 429873
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 09/10/2026a lot of big, hard pieces on the state of things came out today, and I really loved and felt so much of this one from @tajjaisen.bsky.social 1254
佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I wish I were kidding, but someone in editorial recently told me they used their "custom GPT" to generate copy when they hadn't read the book or didn't vibe with it. Like, what are we doing here? Why even work in editorial at that point? 0132
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026...mom trusted the sales rep. She read Mohawk, hand sold it to the customers she had relationships with and next thing you know a new writer is off and running on a career that's been good for him and great for the broader reading public. The algorithm can't capture that. I'm begging publishers... 1213
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026...hours talking about the books of that cycle. The sales rep had read the books. They knew what my mom had stocked and sold in the past. This is how my mom sold hundreds of copies of Richard Russo's first novel, Mohawk, in her very small store. Sales rep said there's this new guy outa Maine... 1162
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I don't want to engage in empty nostalgia, but the book business used to run on relationships, and while there's real limits to that model, it isn't without its virtues. My mom owned a bookstore for 23 years. She interacted quarterly with publisher sales reps who literally sat down with her for 2183
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Well-sourced, eye-opening (but in hindsight, unsurprising) piece from Adam. The main use of AI by publishers appears to be publicity/marketing. I would like to explain why this is a bad use from the perspective of someone who gets pitched dozens of books a week for coverage. 312756
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱Dana Terrace @danaterrace.bsky.social · 09/10/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=vluX... HERE WE GOOOOOOOO EPISODE 2!!!!!youtube.comKNIGHTS OF GUINEVERE: Ep 2 - Wolves Around The CornerYouTube video by GLITCH 16473482710
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 09/10/2026“What a powerful tool! Is it for anything? You tell us” 0162
佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Every major publisher is using AI and a lot of the smaller ones are as well. You can tell because they're all hiring AI engineers for 4x the pay of their regular staff. The hypocrisy and shortsightedness is so depressing. 1207
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Literary agents are also concerned that publishers might paste manuscripts into LLMs to generate rejection letters and publicity descriptions. Some are now adding protections to prevent that. More on the AI turmoil at some of the Big 5 publishing houses here: www.wired.com/story/book-p...wired.comBook Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are RevoltingWorkers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech. 117836
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It was such a slap in the face,” says one HarperCollins employee. “We’ve been making valid business cases for years to be paid a healthy salary, and instead they spent that money on software that most of us don’t really want.” 125839
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026at a HarperCollins AI "brainstorming" session, staff say they raised legal, ethical, and environmental concerns and were told that's “the cost of doing business.” The employee portal was updated to say AI's environmental impact is "a small part of most individuals’ total digital carbon footprint." 320939
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026NEW: Staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette told @adamm0rgan.bsky.social AI is infiltrating their workplaces, from generating cover art and back cover copy, to publicity materials, to rejection emails, as execs tell junior staff to "champion" the tech. www.wired.com/story/book-p...wired.comBook Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are RevoltingWorkers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech. 27597336
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon 810207294627
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱Rebecca McCarthy - Game Writing & Narrative🔜 MCM Comic Con @rebeccamwrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Dressmaker is a masterpiece. 11697892190
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Gender Queer has only been out for 7 of the last 35 years, yet it is number one on this list. 214357
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The #2026IgnyteAwards Critics Award recognizes contributions to reviews and analysis of the field of speculative literature Congratulations again, @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social 714630
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The #2026IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Middle Grade goes to THE GLADE by @jamsternazzy.bsky.social (Bittersweet Books) 29224
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Our next category, Outstanding Novel: Young Adult highlights novel-length (40k+ words) works intended for the young adult audience Congratulations to THEY BLOOM AT NIGHT by Trang Thanh Tran (Bloomsbury YA) #2026IgnyteAwards 111432
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.socialwired.comICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir DatabaseDHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say. 12530031792
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026with all respect: i'm losing touch with what AI does because i have no interest in it and it's not my business. nobody worries about me losing touch with developments in particle physics or artificial bull insemination. it's not my fault the richest guys on earth want me to make their toy my life 452385359
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 03/10/2026Incredible to see THE FIST OF MEMORY featured as one of October's best sci-fi and fantasy books from LitHub! lithub.com/time-travel-... 55712
佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 03/10/2026#TBT to when I went to the Tate Modern in the pouring rain and saw a bunch of incredible gay Chinese papercut art by Xiyadie and also Marcel Duchamp's urinal. 130
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱Jake (Real) @jakemhs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026THE LORD OF THE RINGS (1954) 5687140
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this: 262185634909
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱Civil Eats @civileats.com · 02/10/2026The Perilla People’s Garden at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art features more than a dozen perilla varieties and aims to bring people together to probe the deeper questions about colonization and the movement of people and plants.civileats.comAt This Public Garden, an Asian Herb Offers a Portal to the PastThe herb perilla raises questions about colonization and immigration. 03112
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I remember when ai first launched and I realized in horror how specifically LOISH has been robbed. Just took everything whole and put in their blender. And to hear people say her work is AI? I'd have to go to the hospital. 629974
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱The Other Other Mike Myers @battlehork.bsky.social · 02/10/2026English has keigo but it consists primarily of "I hope this email finds you well" and "Please advise" 13311
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱Melissa Caruso @melissacaruso.bsky.social · 29/09/2026THE SEVENTH BANISHER by A K Larkwood has Knives Out meets Lovecraft meets Gideon the Ninth vibes with a bunch of terrible but fascinating people trapped on an isolated island murdering their way through mind-blowing plot twists on a creepy magical mansion (out in March): bookshop.org/p/books/the-...bookshop.orgThe Seventh BanisherFrom the author of The Unspoken Name comes a riveting Gothic fantasy mystery full of uncanny magic, long-guarded secrets, and a deadly trial to inherit a legendary power, perfect for fans of The Taint... 24010
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This isn't just a think piece saying they disagree with PEN America; they actually went back and examined at the data and reporting — including a key claim that a literary agent was selling far fewer books by Jewish and Israeli authors in the US — and found it lacking. Fascinating work. 14118
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱Robin Stevenson @robinstevenson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026October is LGBTQ+ history month 🏳️🌈. If you'd like to talk to me about booking a virtual school visit for grades 5-12, send me a message! More information on my website (link in bio). 051
Reposted by 佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 01/10/2026Big brother www.inprnt.com/artist/print... 192134724