Bollocks, I say. In defense of human voices. There’s been a bit of a thing online lately where people are questioning the point of creative work, now that AI is replacing so many skilled craftspeople in the creative industries. Fuck that. If you’ll happily surrender your creative outlet because a machine can have a fair …
Zohran Mamdani puts the social in socialism and rides a blue wave to victory. He’s got the MAGA faithful sweating in their too-tight pleather hammer pants. Trump called New York’s newly elected mayor Zohran Mamdani a “little communist,” and a “communist lunatic.” For Ted Cruz he’s a “literal, Karl Marx-quoting, America-hating jihadist.” Mamdani’s biggest crime? …
As Trump plays human wrecking ball at the White House, why does it hurt so much? And does it really matter? The answer to that is a big, fucking “yes.” Donald Trump just sent the bulldozers in to rip out America’s heart. Because as First Lady Betty Ford said back in her time: “if the …
I’m fairly sure it’s not this. “Convincing” doesn’t mean “real” OK, I’m going to say it. Plugging some prompts into ChatGPT and calling yourself a writer is like putting a frozen TV dinner into the microwave, pushing some buttons, and calling yourself a chef. Photo by Stepan Kulyk on Unsplash Generative AI is a compiler …
Why the No Kings movement needs to keep its head. On 18 October, two percent of America’s voting-age population took to the streets to tell President Donald J. Trump to, respectfully, fuck off. Their message was simple. No Kings. Not now. Not ever. That’s important. But it’s not enough. Resistance on that scale sends a …
Three things have crossed my desk over the past week that have made me think about the future and the world we’re making for ourselves. They also got me thinking about the number one way we can future proof ourselves and our way of life as a tsunami of technological breakthroughs led by mind-blowing advances …
The pressure creatives feel in challenging times No matter what creative field you’re in, you do what you do because you’re attuned to the world and the people in it, so when that world is in trouble, it can be a struggle keeping perspective about the things going on around you. Allowing the creative muse …
Every writer’s been there. That terrible moment where we really should be writing, but choose to do anything but. Here are the tricks that get me writing again.
The question I’m asked most often by aspiring writers is how it’s done; my answer is pretty simple: Write… Just write… then write some more. This is expanding on one of the points I made the other day about some of the things that work for me as a writer. And this is in response …
Over @threads, the debate about whether or not audio books can be considered ‘real’ books and whether listening to them actually constitutes ‘reading’ has reared its head again. A disclaimer, first. I do have a horse in this particular race for a couple of reasons. For one, the audio book of my novel, The Water …