Write Weirder Is Fun Advice, But It Misses the Point
The 'write weirder' defense against AI sounds great until you realize most commercially successful fiction isn't weird at all.
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Your Algorithm, Your Audience, Your Rules
Bluesky just gave everyone the power to build their own feed algorithm, and authors who ignore that are handing their discoverability to someone else.
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Tech Reporters Are Building the Workflows Indie Authors Have Been Waiting For
A Wired piece on journalists using AI reveals a spectrum of approaches that maps perfectly onto the choices indie authors face every day.
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Your AI Is Getting a Moving Truck (And Some Platforms Are Changing the Locks)
Google and Apple are making it easier to carry your AI life between platforms, while Wikipedia and Reddit are drawing harder lines about where AI belongs at all.
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OpenAI Is Cleaning House, Disney Is Holding the Bag, and Your AI Still Thinks You're a Genius
OpenAI killed Sora and shelved its adult chatbot in the same week, leaving Disney with a billion-dollar problem and the rest of us with a useful reminder about which AI bets actually pay off.
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The Government Is Trying to Kneecap the Company That Makes Claude, and You Should Be Paying Attention
The DOD designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk for pushing back on military use of Claude, and a federal judge just called it what it looks like. Retaliation.
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Your Book Trailer Just Got a Lot Cheaper (And Weirder)
OpenAI's Sora 2 is now powerful enough to make real book trailers, and the safety guardrails tell us something interesting about where AI video is headed.
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Stop Learning Apps. Start Building Them.
The most underrated use of AI isn't generating words, it's building yourself a tool that does exactly one thing the way you need it done.
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The Uncomfortable History Lesson Every AI User Deserves
A new documentary traces generative AI's statistical foundations back to eugenics, and whether you agree with its conclusions or not, the questions it raises are worth sitting with.
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