Klara, faceted @klara@wandering.shop

So happy to share with you: the first scifi story I've ever sold, appearing today in Strange Horizons!

Contains:
- robots
- cryogenic exoplanets
- linguistics
- beeping
http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/68hazardcold/

there are exactly two kinds of cops:

*at the support group:*

"Gene therapy gone wrong. How about ny'all?"

"Magical girl contract."

"HRT side effects."

"My witch girlfriend needed a familiar. How about you, newbie?"

"Bitten by a catgirl."

*silence*

"That's… not supposed to happen. At least, I didn't know it could happen."

"That's what they told me at the doctor's office, RIGHT BEFORE THEY REFERRED ME TO A VET 😤"

Good story to send to people who might think police "reform" is still a viable answer, so they can appreciate that they might be asking the wrong question.

https://newrepublic.com/article/158210/abolish-police-departments

B245.1
King
of frogs.

When an AI is trained on words, weird things can happen to the physical domain.

I asked the OpenAI API about horses.
https://aiweirdness.com/post/621186154843324416/all-your-questions-answered

If you're in the UK, do its trans people a massive solid and fill this in.

(It's set up by trans rights group Gendered Intelligence, before you ask)

https://gra.good.do/trusstme/trusstme/

B784.1.4
Girl swallows frog spawn;
an octopus grows inside her
with tentacles reaching
to every part
of her body.

H633
Riddle:
what is sweetest?

Use this website!!! It even sort by date added by default so you can just browse the games added since the last time you looked. Also be sure to click "Show more filters"

https://randombundlegame.com/browse

I've been previewing the new @OpenAI API, and honestly despite myself I was a bit nervous when I typed "go ahead and try it." It's that good.
https://aiweirdness.com/post/620645957819875328/this-is-the-openai-api-it-makes-spookily-good

When you type ./configure, the GNU Build System automatically spends the next ten minutes reminiscing about every major and minor unix variant created since 1971

Something about the current iteration of the #BlackLivesMatter movement that only just struck me? The number of men--young and old, of all races--who have told the press that the video of George Floyd's death made them cry. Now, AMAB folks who grow up in the USA are trained from birth that "men don't cry", and indeed, that most emotional expression is "unmanly". But seeing a real murder? That broke things open.

Normalize men expressing emotions in healthy ways.

Free ebooks for ppl who want to learn how the nature of policing dragged us all into this situation.

This ebook is free until June 5
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/952-who-do-you-serve-who-do-you-protect?discount_code=WHODOYOUSERVE

Also free https://www.versobooks.com/books/2817-the-end-of-policing

Also free
https://sevenstories.com/blogs/169-against-police-violence

Free

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2530-police

#acab #BlackLivesMatter #books

a personal account from a friend who was present at a Saturday protest at the governor's mansion in #Atlanta. Shared by author's request. first 4 of 8 screenshots. remaining screenshots and then transcript will follow in thread.