Wandering Adventure Party

@herrLorenz It was part of the frame around Hitler's rise to power.

A reminder: last time an idiot POTUS imposed global tariffs (1930) it led to a 67% drop in US exports and crashed the US economy during the Great Depression (which had already begun, but which the tariff war intensified enormously). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot%E2%80%93Hawley_Tariff_Act

#WritersCoffeeClub March 11: Do writing challenges spur on your progress?

Nope.

Before NaNoWriMo jumped the shark I sometimes used it as a "pace car", but more often than not it didn't coincide with my production cycle—if I'd just finished a novel in October I wouldn't start a fresh one in November! (Also, 50,000 words is about the least commercial length there is, in trad publishing.) I won NaNo once or twice, but purely by coincidence of timing.

As for story prompts? Nah.

@walkinglampshade @xs4me2 Shockingly, as a working novelist, loaded language is MY WEAPON OF CHOICE in my day job …!

@clothbot She was quoting William S. Burroughs, a couple of decades earlier.

A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda

An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow’s disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the time
https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-funded-moscow-based-global