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He's dreaming. They're are too many different kinds of disabilities and unless he's disabled himself, he'd never understand that. It's almost offensive.

Today’s Book News Thursday, 20th November 2025 Politics Loom Large at 2025 National Book Awards At the 76th National Book Awards in New York, winners including fiction honoree Rabih Alameddine and nonfiction winner Omar El Akkad used their...

Today’s Book News Wednesday, 19th November 2025 (London date) Publishing in Color Stays the Course Publishers Weekly reports that the seven‑year‑old Publishing in Color organization remains committed to bringing diverse voices into Christian...

Today’s Book News Tuesday, 18th November 2025 (London date) Stable Distribution adds McSweeney’s and four others Stable Book Group’s joint venture with Hachette Book Group has signed McSweeney’s, Pigna, Gloo Books, Marble Press and Amber Books...

Today's Book News Monday, 17th November, 2025 The Sheikh Zayed Book Award Celebrates its 20th anniversary Publishing Perspectives marks two decades of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award, highlighting how the Abu Dhabi-based prize has become a major...

Yikes! Machines over people. It's disgusting and scary. Greed is seriously a problem and it's never felt more ominous. At least AI can never replace caregivers...

Today's Book News Friday, 14th November, 2025 Webtoon Posts $11 Million Q3 Loss Webtoon Entertainment, which owns Wattpad, reported that third‑quarter revenue rose 8.7% year‑on‑year to $378 million, but higher costs for marketing, personnel and...

All GP surgeries in England are already using AI. This is government mandated. There have been plenty of fuck ups already which the humans have to apologise for. I work with this every day in general practice. It's not all bad. The staff are more...

Medical researchers are testing programs and if the test results can be trusted... AI takes the symptoms and test results and matches it with a diagnosis far more accurately than local GPs. And especially interesting for women it doesnt follow...

Globe Pequot Adds Another Publisher Globe Pequot Publishing Group acquired nearly all titles from Tucson‑based Rio Nuevo Publishers, known for books on Southwestern arts, crafts, cooking, history and architecture. The purchase, which includes a...

And, I think, there’s a bit of blurring the boundaries between Machine Learning (ML) and Large language Models (LLMs). Machine Learning has been with us for a while now and can be useful in specific circumstances (I’m thinking about diagnoses...

Techno-feudalism. The original serfs only got a break thanks to plague. But that was when the feudal barons were still in situ and needed people to herd the livestock and till the land. Plumbers, joiner, fitters, multi disciplinary skills, short...

Well exactly. But a peek into some of the disturbing notions now being openly discussed by the technocracy does suggest that PJ is right: their “democracy is dead” meme will easily morph into the new feudalism. Young people are increasingly...

or pay taxes...

The cake is a lie.