Charlie Stross declares he writes 100% without AI as of Aug 2026, denounces data-scraping and copyright theft by AI developers, and flags regulatory/legal risks around LLMs while envisioning limited, local tooling.
Marjane Satrapi, the author of Persepolis, has died at age 56.
Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery is a 1948 fiction piece anchored by concrete stats (about 300 villagers, ~2-hour lottery, 77-year tradition) that reveals deadly conformity in a small town.
A detailed review of Solvej Balle's planned septology On the Calculation of Volume, praising its minimalist, time-centered prose and the progression across volumes I–V with Volume VI anticipated.
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