One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite us...

Sam Field and Tiffanie Drayton chat with Mac Crane, author of Perverts, about challenging the definition of perversion, finding connection, and exploring how parenthood affects the creative process.

A few of the new histories that caught our eye this month...

What makes a romance novel a romance? How do you write a kissing book? Writing a well-structured romance isn't the same as writing any other genre—something the popular novel and screenwriting guides ...

Literary Mama is an all-volunteer organization that brings mamas and mama supporters together through literature. Over the years, our staff has included mamas of all sorts, reaching across identities ...

Discover the techniques and tools for building a successful editor-writer relationship.Becoming an effective editor involves not only working proficiently with words but also learning to forge success...

Caro Claire Burke’s debut novel, Yesteryear, scrutinizes and satirizes the phenomenon of the tradwife influencer—a married woman who shares her chosen traditional wife lifestyle online. The novel’s po...

Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...

One of the things I often hear from writers whose inboxes are crammed with incredibly personalized marketing or book club or editor impersonation emails–you know, the ones that make it seem the sender...

Alt: A cartoon potato is lying down staring upward. Text around it reads "No thoughts. Only potato."

How to move away from the untenable, uncomfortable middle ground By Emily M. Bender and Decca Muldowney A dancing ledge, as viewed from above. Image: Will...

It is all but impossible to avoid AI these days, even if you try really, really hard. I recently switched to using DuckDuckGo as my phone’s browser in order to avoid the instantaneous and automatic AI...

The AAUP ad hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions developed the following toolkit resources to fight against the top-down adoption of technology by colleges and universitie...

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Alt: Regina George from the movie Mean Girls snaps at her "friend," Gretchen, after she's said the word "fetch" too many times: "Stop Trying to Make Fetch Happen."