Matthew Fox

Kirkus ★ THE LOVELY DARK out April '26 🇺🇸 | Financial Times Best Children's Books '23 | Barnes & Noble Children's Book Award Shortlist '24 🇺🇸| No AI | 🌱

[Matthew Fox @mattfoxwriter]

My publisher. Well done. Go get 'em.

[Hachette Book Group @HachetteUS]

Hachette Book Group joined fellow publishers and our author Scott Turow in taking action to protect the rights of authors and the integrity of creative work.

At the center of this effort is a simple belief: the stories, research, and ideas created by authors matter—and they deserve to be respected and protected.

We’re proud to stand with our industry partners and authors in this important moment.

Read more from @nytimes: https://t.co/Xtc3XHnUyk

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Yup

[Henry Winkler @hwinkler4real]

O my

[Andrew Piper @_akpiper]

Auto publish: AI has homogenizing effect on area [fill in blank] when no humans are involved.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

@leathercatheter Lack of literacy is an even more effective form of control.

[Emma Grae @emmagraeauthor]

It’s another level of fucked up that myself and millions of other people are now having to rethink our entire lives because of AI technology that we didn’t want or ask for.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Been feeling bleak for the past week after I read an essay saying the market for middle-grade books has collapsed because kids can no longer read them. Two long-time publishers of middle-grades have shuttered, with more to come. We don’t appreciate what a crisis this is. +

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

oh my god

inflicting ai tutors on the poorest in society, when their effects are so little understood, is the height of irresponsibility.

this government has been entirely captured by the tech industry

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

As with fat tails Llms are frequency machines that fail to extrapolate outside the sample set. What they know is the VISIBLE.

Almost as bad as economists, almost worse than psychologists.

[Matthew Fox @mattfoxwriter]

@OdedRechavi Oh shit yes.

[Nicholas Shakespeare @dolphinsands]

I’m always interested in good books written at speed:
The Country Girls, 3 weeks
Charterhouse of Parma, 52 days
Decline and Fall, 3 months
Which others?

[Reuters @Reuters]

King's College Hospital in London has opened a rooftop garden for critical care patients. Its first patient, a 29-year-old woman dependent on feeding tubes, said the outdoor space gave her 'a real boost to keep on going

[Malika 🧬 @malikules]

atheism leaving my body with every new Pope tweet

[Alejandro Cencerrado @AlejandroCence2]

El efecto de un solo árbol en la calle es equivalente a cinco aires acondicionados del tamaño de una habitación funcionando 20 horas al día. Si nuestra ciudad se llenara de calles como esta la vida en verano sería mucho más agradable.

[juanjo @ben_cole90]

We are fucked

[Nicholas Shakespeare @dolphinsands]

I grieve for the Israel I once admired so much

https://t.co/LsSLw1qdGm

[Nicholas Shakespeare @dolphinsands]

Amos Oz to me, Tel Aviv 2015: "At night it turns into a refugee camp full of hysteria & insecurity, with more troubled dreams per sq km than any town I know. The past is present, not clinging in a good way, with a demagogic anger for a military position. Everyone wants to kill."

[Andrew Waddison BEM @AWPRCO]

Angry doesn’t even begin to cover it..

Today at Snettisham beach protected area for ground nesting birds including Little Ringed Plover, Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover…...

Signage EVERYWHERE asking for dogs on leads.

📸 Derek Bromage - Snettisham Village Facebook Page.

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

I can't properly describe to anyone under the age of 30 just how cool the Internet was before Amazon, Google, Meta, and Apple turned it all into a walled garden of garbage and commerce.

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

Strong signs that >50% of Clive Lewis' Guardian article today was written by AI.

That's according to Pangram, which has a very low false positive rate (1 in 10,000).

This would contravene the @guardian's policies if so.

Would be good to get clarity on this.

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

@CrewkerneGaz Take this down …. It’s not satire it’s AI slop and you’re using my image without permission . Pls let me know once this has been removed