Leonie Mack, who has received a mysterious rating for her latest novel Head Over Wheels (Bedford Square), said: “Just yesterday, I had a one-star rating on a book that’s not out yet, from a brand new account listed in the Russian Federation that has no other reviews than my one-star rating.

Goodreads reviews have long been associated with review bombing, for example in 2021 Time revealed how some authors were [allegedly victims of extortion], facing demands to pay scammers to avoid bad reviews on the website.

God dammit. Goodreads enshittification.

Very, very cool. Is it wrong that I feel a small sense of victory for the imaginative power of of this research team, given the constant AI and quantum computing take over that tech pushes?

It’s good game.

Really wish the makers of the old Westworld game hadn’t stupidly/blatantly copied the code for their game to make it. Would have been a nice companion game.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/16/18185093/westworld-mobile-game-shutting-down-bethesda-warner-bros-fallout-shelter

Nice. $80 and exclusivity to Epic again, right? That extra capital didn’t help the first game, don’t have any hopes it will this time either.

On my MacBook Ghostty is fucking awesome!! Testing several for the macOs these past weeks and so far it’s still at the top.