Because a good person would never need those. If you want to have shadowbans on your platform, you are not a good one.
This basically reads as “shadow bans are bad and have no redeeming factors,” but you haven’t explained why you think that.
If you’re a real user and you only have one account (or have multiple legitimate accounts) and you get shadow-banned, it’s a terrible experience. Shadow bans should never be used on “real” users even if they break the ToS, and IME, they generally aren’t. That’s because shadow bans solve a different problem.
In content moderation, if a user posts something that’s unacceptable on your platform, generally speaking, you want to remove it as soon as possible. Depending on how bad the content they posted was, or how frequently they post unacceptable content, you will want to take additional measures. For example, if someone posts child pornography, you will most likely ban them and then (as required by law) report all details you have on them and their problematic posts to the authorities.
Where this gets tricky, though, is with bots and multiple accounts.
If someone is making multiple accounts for your site - whether by hand or with bots - and using them to post unacceptable content, how do you stop that?
Your site has a lot of users, and bad actors aren’t limited to only having one account per real person. A single person - let’s call them a “Bot Overlord” - could run thousands of accounts - and it’s even easier for them to do this if those accounts can only be banned with manual intervention. You want to remove any content the Bot Overlord’s bots post and stop them from posting more as soon as you realize what they’re doing. Scaling up your human moderators isn’t reasonable, because the Bot Overlord can easily outscale you - you need an automated solution.
Suppose you build an algorithm that detects bots with incredible accuracy - 0% false positives and an estimated 1% false negatives. Great! Then, you set your system up to automatically ban detected bots.
A couple days later, your algorithm’s accuracy has dropped - from 1% false negatives to 10%. 10 times as many bots are making it past your algorithm. A few days after that, it gets even worse - first 20%, then 30%, then 50%, and eventually 90% of bots are bypassing your detection algorithm.
You can update your algorithm, but the same thing keeps happening. You’re stuck in an eternal game of cat and mouse - and you’re losing.
What gives? Well, you made a huge mistake when you set the system up to ban bots immediately. In your system, as soon as a bot gets banned, the bot creator knows. Since you’re banning every bot you detect as soon as you detect them, this gives the bot creator real-time data. They can basically reverse engineer your unpublished algorithm and then update their bots so as to avoid detection.
One solution to this is ban waves. Those work by detecting bots (or cheaters, in the context of online games) and then holding off on banning them until you can ban them all at once.
Great! Now the Bot Overlord will have much more trouble reverse-engineering your algorithm. They won’t know specifically when a bot was detected, just that it was detected within a certain window - between its creation and ban date.
But there’s still a problem. You need to minimize the damage the Bot Overlord’s accounts can do between when you detect them and when you ban them.
You could try shortening the time between ban waves. The problem with this approach is that the ban wave approach is more effective the longer that time period is. If you had an hourly ban wave, for example, the Bot Overlord could test a bunch of stuff out and get feedback every hour.
Shadow bans are one natural solution to this problem. That way, as soon as you detect it, you can prevent a bot from causing more damage. The Bot Overlord can’t quickly detect that their account was shadow-banned, so their bots will keep functioning, giving you more information about the Bot Overlord’s system and allowing you to refine your algorithm to be even more effective in the future, rather than the other way around.
I’m not aware of another way to effectively manage this issue. Do you have a counter-proposal?
Out of curiosity, do you have any experience working in content moderation for a major social media company? If so, how did that company balance respecting user privacy with effective content moderation without shadow bans, accounting for the factors I talked about above?
@futurebird I have heard people have had success with the following:
+decoy computer equipment
+acrylic equipment shields
+cat drugs like 'nip, "val", and 'vine
+an ersatz human lap made from old pants and stuffing
+invoking a random section of Shadow Proclamation treaty (only works if cat is a disguised alien)
DNA belonging to a big cat has been identified on a sheep carcass found in Cumbria - leading to speculation that some sightings of mystery creatures are panthers or pumas....
Locals have long speculated as to whether the so-called ‘Beast of Cumbria’ is just one or several big cats that slink in the shadows of the countryside. Investigators have now obtained a vital piece of evidence to support the presence of at least one recently active in the county....
the cat was sat on the couch and I wanted to go outside so I tempted him outside with a treat. but just before I was about to go back inside he conked the fuck out in a shadow under the chair. jokes on me
Oh, you think darkness is your ally. But you merely adopted the dark; I was born in it, moulded by it. I didn’t see the light until I was already a Cat, by then it was nothing to me but BLINDING! The shadows betray you, because they belong to me!
00:02:31 Marisha:“An important position.”
Matt and Robbie:"Missionary."
00:19:24 Laudna:“What’s harder: Expecting the worst, or being surprised?“
00:20:21 Ashton:”…The timing has always been wrong, and we’ve been going so crazily…” Nah breh. Just cuz your shards are from a couple (Emperor Rau’shan and Empress Ka’Mort) doesn’t mean this will work. Ashton has already tried to initiate intimacy and was declined politely more than once, so it’s lost the romance.
Plus it’s a bad idea SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE OF THOSE SHARDS. How many times are we gonna see Ashton shoot his shot at the wrong hoop that is also loaded with explosives?
It shows little to no remorse for his previous betrayal now that he’s making his own big red buttons to press.
00:22:49 Taliesin:“When ‘No Game’ meets ‘No Game’ passing through the rye.”
Liam:"Ashton’s between a rock and a hard place!"
00:25:28 Fearne’s ultimate weakness, a cute creature beckoning her silently away from the group. You see this tiny gray sugar glider-like creature…
Ashley’s reaction is heavy breathing, she is well aware of the cuteness power level this being possesses.
Laura is pleasantly surprised watching this.
00:29:57 Robbie makes a bunch of funny faces communicating with Taliesin. Then he hears Ashley say “before going all the way in, trying to pull my ass” and another funny face.
00:30:55 Marisha:“It’s like she’s trying to get into old dresses.”
Laura:(grunts)
Marisha:“Just a minute!”
Laura:(grunts)
Marisha:“Zip it!”
Laura:"Just. Zip. It. Up!"
00:32:00 Fearne the Cockatiel heads into a gap in the city wall with Orym trailing behind.
00:34:05 Fan Art Moment Orym’s “Prince of Persia” moment using his acrobatic skill to scale the city wall.
00:36:42 Fan Art Moment Cockatiel Fearne chirping disapproval at the beckoning sugar glider in adorable miscommunication.
00:38:08 Papa Zathuda shows up
00:42:30 Zathuda:"Perhaps, indeed, my kin can still be the one to pass the Hallowed Cage and awaken it."
00:45:45 Taliesin:“You deserve it, Demand a pony.”
Ashley:"I really just want a pony."
00:47:24 Clutch Insight check gets the first whisper in a while
00:49:28 Mic Drop Moment Fearne:"It’s Calloway."
00:49:43 Travis:(mouthing)"What does it mean?!"
00:49:50 Zathuda:“Maybe it’s important for you to face your own demons before we can truly break through.” He reaches into his cloak and pulls forth this wicked-looking black iron hand mirror, with a handle on each side. He pulls it from the shadow and holds it out towards you (Fearne) You look in the reflection, and you see yourself looking back.
Ashley:“I’m gonna, I’m gonna, I’m gonna…”
All:"Homina, homina, homina
Jersey FactsRalph Kramden would threaten the moon with Alice, but for Norton (Art Carney) the threatened destination was often Bayonne, New Jersey (as referenced in the recent 4-Sided Dive) and Gleason (who played Kramden) was a favored celebrity in the city, due to his mentions of the town in his performances.
00:51:46 Fan Art Moment Fearne’s reflection gives an evil grin and Matt catches the table with a solid jump scare as the image crawls out of the mirror.
00:52:59 Fearne flirts with her doppelgänger and finds out they want to take her place.
00:57:13 Liam:“I thought you said ‘Can I do a hentai with a short rest’.”
Ashley:"Yes I fuckin’ can! Give me 10 minutes!"
00:59:14 Fan Art Moment Dorian joins the pursuit in underpants and his flying boots.
01:09:42 Laura finds out that Matt has rolled a natural 20 with the Ruidus dice she gave him. “Fuck!”
Travis:“You did this! You did this!” makes Woman Yelling at a Cat meme face
01:10:47 Marisha’s mumble code
01:11:40 Marisha’s fan reads: "It was A HOT DOG!"
01:13:25 Fearne uses her evolved form at the risk of two more points of exhaustion on top of what she still has from not completing the long rest to follow a squirrel.
01:16:49 Voice Thief temporarily mutes Fearne.
Travis:“You can’t cast any spells?!”
Ashley:“Wi wubble compoment”
Travis:"It’s happening already!"
01:19:27 Matt:"Orym, you’re just watching them go to town on your flaming friend here."
01:20:05 Ashley and Laura have a miscommunication with the phrase "I smell you guys."
01:22:20 Ashley:“It goes boom-boom.”
Travis:"Woo! Muthafuckin Matt Mercer!"
01:22:53 Robbie:“Did you see the bloodlust in his eyes?! The excitement.”
Matt:"I’m just confirming."
01:24:32 Travis’ hype dance “Relentless. I fucking love this.”
Liam:“Snatch and grab. They’re about to throw a sack over her head and throw her in a van.”
Robbie:"I thought we were gonna take a nap and talk about our feelings."
01:27:14 Earthbind actually helps!
01:29:11 Fearne is knocked out and 2 death saves are failed on a second strike. Ashley makes an appropriate “oh shit” face.
01:31:28 Travis and Robbie bonding over Marisha’s Tea Pee Break
01:32:22 Ashley still affected by the Voice Thief spell somehow, even though Fearne has shrugged off the effect.
01:33:34 HDYWTDT
01:35:34 Robbie:“Does Mister throw his poops?”
Marisha:“He’s got a gun now.”
Robbie:“Excuse me?”
Matt:“Guess what he uses for ammunition for the gun?”
Robbie:“Poop?”
Matt:“Yes.”
Robbie:"Yaaay!"
01:36:15 Robbie:“That shit gun is gonna work so much better now.”
Ashley:"Yeah, NOW I’m gonna win!"
01:36:57 Fan Art Moment Wild West Mister
01:37:42 Zathuda and his cloaked fey dragon Gloamglut appear nearby.
01:39:04 Zathuda:"You are capable of greatness, Fearne. Why do you insist upon shackling yourself to lowborn sheep? Why do you cling to shreds of morality when your heart screams to be free and take what you wish?..Now I know what’s important to you. Perhaps I need to develop the next lesson…Ludinus’ Vanguard can fall to dust. Sammanar and their court legacy can crumble, for all I care. Let Zathuda blood become the devourer of gods. May you take what’s rightfully yours and cast to ash my disappointment in you. Embrace your essence. Step into your destiny. I’ll be watching."
• Front Mission 2: Remake (April 30): “FRONT MISSION 2: Remake preserves the mature story, strategic turn-based combat, and Wanzer customization options of the original.”...
My goldendoodle puppy doesn’t ever want to come back inside. I told my beagle “go get your sister” as I tried rounding up the puppy. Now when I say “go get your sister” the beagle runs to the puppy and baits her into chasing him into the house.
My cat Siegfrieda thinks that “bitte” (please) means “free petting”. That’s because I usually tell her bitte when she’s taking too long to obey the command. For example…
Zizi! Komm nach Hause! (Zizi, come home!)
[Siegfrieda ignores me to chase the shadow of a butterfly]
Frieda, komm nach Hause. Bitte. (Frieda, come home. Please.
Just recently moved and I don’t have a roommate here yet. He’s moving in at the end of the month. It’s just me and my cat and I’m incredibly lonely. I’m lying in bed feeling like shit and depressed right now and she’s on her lil bed attached to my bed because she might as well be a fuzzy shadow. Can honestly say I’d have killed myself without her because she’s the only reason I’m not dead right now
For those unaware, The Triple-i Initiative is a group of indie studios whose purpose is to highlight fan-favorite games and hype up established indie classics as well as new IPs....
Okay, @bookstodon I have the full list of comps (If you liked this book, you may also like this other book). It's very very long, so I alphabetized the first books in each pairing, if that helps at all. Without further adieu: BOOK THREAD
1000 Best Books to Read Before You Die // Read This Next // The Western Lit Survival Kit
11/22/63 // Fatherland
The 1619 Project // Four Hundred Souls
1984 // Julia
1Q84 // The Bone Clocks
After Annie // Swim Home to the Vanished
Aftershocks (Kloos) // Nova (Delany)
The Alice Network // The Lost Girls of Paris
All Our Wrong Todays // Bridge (Beukes)
All The Birds in the Sky // Midnight Robber
All The Light We Cannot See // The Paris Library
All The Names They Used for God // New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
American Delirium // The Burned Bridges of Ward, Nebraska
American Gods // Sorrowland
American Prometheus // The Cassandra (Shields)
Annihilation // Roadside Picnic
Apeirogon // Immortals of Tehran
Appleseed (Bell) // The Red Garden
Ariadne // Clytemnestra
Ascension (Binge) // High Crimes (GN) Sebala
At Night All Blood is Black // Hangman (Binyam)
Awayland // The Summer People
Babel // The Starless Sea
Bad Cree // Crooked Hallelujah
The Ballad of Perilous Graves // The Black God’s Drums
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World // And at my Back I Always Hear
Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance // Other Birds
The Beauty of Your Face // The Topeka School
The Beekeeper of Aleppo // The Wrong End of the Telescope
Before We Were Yours // The Home for Unwanted Girls
The Best of Me (Sedaris) // The Fun Parts
The Binding // The Kingdoms
Bird by Bird // How Not to Write a Novel
Birds of America // Your Duck is my Duck
Black River Orchard // Red Rabbit (Grecian)
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman // Kaleidoscope (Selznick)
Bliss Montage // Gods of Want
The Bloody Chamber // Red as Blood
The Body is Not an Apology // Full of Myself (GN)
The Bone People // The Whale Rider
The Book of Fire // Harrow (Williams)
The Book of Lost Names // The Book of Lost Friends
Book of Night // Hex Life (Golden)
The Book Thief // The Librarian of Auschwitz
Broken (Lawson) // Solutions and Other Problems
The Broken Earth Trilogy (Jemisin) // The Earthsinger Chronicles (L. Penelope)
Caste // Read Until You Understand
Cat’s Cradle // The Crying of Lot 49
A Certain Hunger // Tender is the Flesh
A Children’s Bible // How High We Go in the Dark
Chouette // Blue Hour // Reproduction
Cloud Atlas // Cloud Cuckoo Land
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena // Magenta (Foden)
Crow Mary // James (Everett)
Cuyahoga // Attack of the 50 ft. Indian
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed // Zombie Sharks With Metal Teeth
Dark Matter (Crouch) // The Space Between Worlds
David Copperfield // Demon Copperhead
The Days of Afrekete // In the not Quite Dark
Deacon King Kong // Black Bottom Saints
Dead-end Memories // Things That Fall From the Sky
Dear Edward // The Book of Two Ways
Dear Life (Munro) // The Relive Box
Death Valley // Where Echoes Die
Detransition, Baby // Manhunt
Dinosaurs (Millet) // I Love You, But I’ve Chosen Darkness
Dinosaurs on Other Planets // Reptile House
Disappearing Earth // Hold The Dark
A Discovery of Witches // Middlegame
The Dog Stars // A Beginning at the End
The Dovekeepers // To The Edge of Sorrow
Dr. No (Everett) // American Mermaid
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead // Remnant Population
Drowning Practice // Flood (The Reset #1) Greene
The Dutch House // The House of the Spirits
Eat The Mouth That Feeds You // This Wicked Tongue
The Echo Wife // The Ones We Choose
The Employees // Genesis (Beckett)
The End of Men // The Men
Everything I Never Told You // All That’s Left Unsaid
Exhalation // Memory Wall
Far Out (Guran) // Love After The End (Whitehead)
The Fell (Moss) // Burntcoat (Hall)
The Fervor // Hex (Knight)
Fever Dream // The Ones That Got Away
The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America // Baking with Kafka
The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of The Whole Stupid World // OMFG, BEES!
Filthy Animals // A Minor Chorus
Fingersmith // Once Upon a River
Florida (Groff) // Ghost Summer (Due)
The Forest of Vanishing Stars // The Yellow Bird Sings
The Foretelling // The Steerswoman’s Road
Four Treasures of the Sky // Straw Dogs of the Universe
The Four Winds // The Past is Never
The Fox Wife // The Fox Maidens (GN) // Ninetails (Mao)
A Gentleman in Moscow // The Diamond Eye
Get in Trouble // Windeye
The Ghost Bride // The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
Gingerbread // The Book of X
A Girl is a Body of Water // Shallow Waters
The Girl With the Louding Voice // The Dragonfly Sea
The Glass Hotel // It Came From Del Rio
Gnomon // ZED
Going Zero // We Are Satellites
The Goldfinch // Rules of Civility
Goliath (Onyebuchi) // Thrust (Yuknavitch)
The Great Gatsby // The Chosen and the Beautiful
The Great Glorious Goddamn of it All // Pity the Beast
The Great Reclamation // Okinawa (GN) Higa
The Great Transition // Sucker (Hornsby)
The Guns of the South // The Underground Railroad (Whitehead)
Hamlet // The King of Infinite Space
Hao: Stories // Skinship (Stories)
Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World // Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories
The Harpy // The Forbidden Territory of a Terrifying Woman
Heaven (Kawakami) // Bloomland
Hell Bent (Alex Stern #2) // The Indian Lake Trilogy (SGJones)
The Henna Artist // A Burning
Her Body and Other Parties // Delicate Edible Birds
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever // Meet Me in the Future
The Hero of This Book // Delphi
A History of Burning // Beyond the Door of No Return
A History of Wild Places // Dead Eleven
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy // The Grand Scheme of Things (Strang)
Homeland Elegies // Radiant Fugitives
The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet // Clark and Division
A House Between the Earth and the Moon // The Future
House of Leaves // We Spread
How Can I Help You // Sing Her Down
How Long ‘til Black Future Month? // Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
Hummingbird Salamander // Blue Skies (TCBoyle)
The Huntress (Quinn) // The Wind Knows my Name
Hurricane Girl // The Last Animal
Hyperbole & a Half // Barely Functional Adult (GN)
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears // The Collected Stories of Shirley Hazzard
I Hope This Finds You Well (Baer) // Dark Testament (Smith)
If I Survive You // How to Learn Jamaican
Illuminations (Moore) // Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick
In The Dream House // [EXTREME CONTENT WARNING]: A Blue Sky
The Invention of Wings // The Yellow Wife
Jackal // My Monticello
Jacob’s Ladder // Little Foxes Took Up Matches
Jesus’ Son // Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
Joan is Okay // Edge Case
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 // Flowers of Fire
Kindred // The Sweetness of Water
The Kite Runner (GN) // Yazidi! (GN)
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women // The Night Tiger
Land of Milk and Honey // In The Quick
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century // Tomb Sweeping
Libertie // Wake (GN)
The Library at Mount Char // The Gone World (Sweterlisch)
Lies my Teacher Told Me // Stamped From the Beginning
The Light Pirate // Lark Ascending
Lighter Than my Shadow // Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body
Like Life // Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea
little gods // The God Child
A Long Petal of the Sea // Last Evenings on Earth
Lore // Olympus, Texas
The Lost Man // The Last Word
A Lush and Seething Hell // Wounds: Six Stories From the Border of Hell
Luster // Speaking of Summer
Magic Hour // The Water Keeper (Martin)
Marguerite (Kemp) // Flowers of Darkness
The Mars House // The Olympus Project
The Mars Room // Chain-gang All-stars
Matrix (Groff) // The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Me Talk Pretty One Day // Assassination Vacation
The Measure // The Wishing Game
The Memory Police // You Feel it Just Below the Ribs
The Memory Theater // Adjacentland // At The End of the World
The Metamorphosis // The Bonus Room
Mexican Gothic // Just Like Home (Gailey)
The Midnight Library // The Other You (JCOates)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream // Shakespeare for Squirrels
Milk Fed // Written on the Body
The Minority Report // Veracity (Bynum)
The Mountains Sing // The Best We Could Do (GN)
Mouthful of Birds // We Show What We Have Learned
A Moveable Feast // The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Munich (Harris) // The Torqued Man
The Murmur of Bees // The Hummingbird’s Daughter
Music for Wartime // What Becomes
My Government Means to Kill Me // Manywhere
The Nature of Fragile Things // Vera (Edgarian)
Neverwhere // Slade House
The Nickel Boys // Home (Morrison)
The Night Circus // Caraval
Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird // Song for the Unraveling of the World
Ninth House // The Book of Love (Link)
No One Left to Come Looking for You // Brooklyn: A Crime Novel
Normal Rules Don’t Apply // The Rock Eaters
The Ocean at the End of the Lane // The Ten Thousand Doors of January
The Office of Historical Corrections // Heads of the Colored People
Old Babes in the Wood // Wednesday’s Child
Old God’s Time // Distant Sons (Johnston)
On Earth as it is on Television // Ripe (Hider)
Only The Beautiful // The Foundling
The Only Good Indians // The Removed
The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done // Away! Away!
Oona Out of Order // The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano
Open Throat // What We Feed to the Manticore
Orange World // What’s Yours is not Yours
Oranges Are not the Only Fruit // Mostly Dead Things
Organ Meats // Dazzling (Emelumadu)
Oryx and Crake // Borne (VanderMeer)
Our Missing Hearts // Paper Names
Our Share of Night // The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina
Our Wives Under the Sea // I Who Have Never Known Men
Out There Screaming // Twice Cursed
Outlawed // These Women
The Overstory // Once There Were Wolves
Pachinko // The Island of Sea Women
Paingod and Other Delusions // The Glassy Burning Floor of Hell
Pandemic (Riddle) // Child Zero
The Paper Menagerie // Beastiary
The Parable of the Sower // American Afterlife
To Paradise // Every Drop is a Man’s Nightmare
The Paradox Hotel // Flux (Chong)
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake // Peaces
The People of the Book // Ghostwritten (Mitchell)
The Pessimists // Why Did I Ever (Robison)
A Phoenix First Must Burn // Crosshairs (Hernandez)
Piranesi // Whether Violent or Natural
Poland (Michener) // Marzi (GN) Sowa
Poor Deer // Brother & Sister Enter the Forest
The Power // Woman World (GN)
Pride and Prejudice // The Other Bennet Sister
Project Hail Mary // Star Splitter
A Psalm for the Wild-built // Light From Uncommon Stars
The Pull of the Stars // As Bright as Heaven
QualityLand // Golden State (Winters)
Quichotte // FKA USA
Recursion // Big Time (Winters)
The Red Arrow // Dayswork
Red at the Bone // Riot Baby
The Refusal Camp // The Jackson Brodie series (Atkinson)
Remarkably Bright Creatures // Sea Change
The Resisters // Trashland
Ring Shout // Friday Black
Ripe (Etter) // The Startup Wife
A River of Stars // Central Places
The Rose Code // Good Night, Irene
Rosewater (Thompson) // Noor
Rubyfruit Jungle // With Teeth
Okay, @bookstodon I have the full list of comps (If you liked this book, you may also like this other book). It's very very long, so I alphabetized the first books in each pairing, if that helps at all. Without further adieu: BOOK THREAD
1000 Best Books to Read Before You Die // Read This Next // The Western Lit Survival Kit
11/22/63 // Fatherland
The 1619 Project // Four Hundred Souls
1984 // The Bone Clocks
After Annie // Swim Home to the Vanished
Aftershocks (Kloos) // Nova (Delany)
The Alice Network // The Lost Girls of Paris
All Our Wrong Todays // Bridge (Beukes)
All The Birds in the Sky // Midnight Robber
All The Light We Cannot See // The Paris Library
All The Names They Used for God // New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
American Delirium // The Burned Bridges of Ward, Nebraska
American Gods // Sorrowland
American Prometheus // The Cassandra (Shields)
Annihilation // Roadside Picnic
Apeirogon // Immortals of Tehran
Appleseed (Bell) // The Red Garden
Ariadne // Clytemnestra
Ascension (Binge) // High Crimes (GN) Sebala
At Night All Blood is Black // Hangman (Binyam)
Awayland // The Summer People
Babel // The Starless Sea
Bad Cree // Crooked Hallelujah
The Ballad of Perilous Graves // The Black God’s Drums
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World // And at my Back I Always Hear
Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance // Other Birds
The Beauty of Your Face // The Topeka School
The Beekeeper of Aleppo // The Wrong End of the Telescope
Before We Were Yours // The Home for Unwanted Girls
The Best of Me (Sedaris) // The Fun Parts
The Binding // The Kingdoms
Bird by Bird // How Not to Write a Novel
Birds of America // Your Duck is my Duck
Black River Orchard // Red Rabbit (Grecian)
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman // Kaleidoscope (Selznick)
Bliss Montage // Gods of Want
The Bloody Chamber // Red as Blood
The Body is Not an Apology // Full of Myself (GN)
The Bone People // The Whale Rider
The Book of Fire // Harrow (Williams)
The Book of Lost Names // The Book of Lost Friends
Book of Night // Hex Life (Golden)
The Book Thief // The Librarian of Auschwitz
Broken (Lawson) // Solutions and Other Problems
The Broken Earth Trilogy (Jemisin) // The Earthsinger Chronicles (L. Penelope)
Caste // Read Until You Understand
Cat’s Cradle // The Crying of Lot 49
A Certain Hunger // Tender is the Flesh
A Children’s Bible // How High We Go in the Dark
Chouette // Blue Hour // Reproduction
Cloud Atlas // Cloud Cuckoo Land
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena // Magenta (Foden)
Crow Mary // James (Everett)
Cuyahoga // Attack of the 50 ft. Indian
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed // Zombie Sharks With Metal Teeth
Dark Matter (Crouch) // The Space Between Worlds
David Copperfield // Demon Copperhead
The Days of Afrekete // In the not Quite Dark
Deacon King Kong // Black Bottom Saints
Dead-end Memories // Things That Fall From the Sky
Dear Edward // The Book of Two Ways
Dear Life (Munro) // The Relive Box
Death Valley // Where Echoes Die
Detransition, Baby // Manhunt
Dinosaurs (Millet) // I Love You, But I’ve Chosen Darkness
Dinosaurs on Other Planets // Reptile House
Disappearing Earth // Hold The Dark
A Discovery of Witches // Middlegame
The Dog Stars // A Beginning at the End
The Dovekeepers // To The Edge of Sorrow
Dr. No (Everett) // American Mermaid
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead // Remnant Population
Drowning Practice // Flood (The Reset #1) Greene
The Dutch House // The House of the Spirits
Eat The Mouth That Feeds You // This Wicked Tongue
The Echo Wife // The Ones We Choose
The Employees // Genesis (Beckett)
The End of Men // The Men
Everything I Never Told You // All That’s Left Unsaid
Exhalation // Memory Wall
Far Out (Guran) // Love After The End (Whitehead)
The Fell (Moss) // Burntcoat (Hall)
The Fervor // Hex (Knight)
Fever Dream // The Ones That Got Away
The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America // Baking with Kafka
The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of The Whole Stupid World // OMFG, BEES!
Filthy Animals // A Minor Chorus
Fingersmith // Once Upon a River
Florida (Groff) // Ghost Summer (Due)
The Forest of Vanishing Stars // The Yellow Bird Sings
The Foretelling // The Steerswoman’s Road
Four Treasures of the Sky // Straw Dogs of the Universe
The Four Winds // The Past is Never
The Fox Wife // The Fox Maidens (GN) // Ninetails (Mao)
A Gentleman in Moscow // The Diamond Eye
Get in Trouble // Windeye
The Ghost Bride // The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
Gingerbread // The Book of X
A Girl is a Body of Water // Shallow Waters
The Girl With the Louding Voice // The Dragonfly Sea
The Glass Hotel // It Came From Del Rio
Gnomon // ZED
Going Zero // We Are Satellites
The Goldfinch // Rules of Civility
Goliath (Onyebuchi) // Thrust (Yuknavitch)
The Great Gatsby // The Chosen and the Beautiful
The Great Glorious Goddamn of it All // Pity the Beast
The Great Reclamation // Okinawa (GN) Higa
The Great Transition // Sucker (Hornsby)
The Guns of the South // The Underground Railroad (Whitehead)
Hamlet // The King of Infinite Space
Hao: Stories // Skinship (Stories)
Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World // Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories
The Harpy // The Forbidden Territory of a Terrifying Woman
Heaven (Kawakami) // Bloomland
Hell Bent (Alex Stern #2) // The Indian Lake Trilogy (SGJones)
The Henna Artist // A Burning
Her Body and Other Parties // Delicate Edible Birds
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever // Meet Me in the Future
The Hero of This Book // Delphi
A History of Burning // Beyond the Door of No Return
A History of Wild Places // Dead Eleven
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy // The Grand Scheme of Things (Strang)
Homeland Elegies // Radiant Fugitives
The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet // Clark and Division
A House Between the Earth and the Moon // The Future
House of Leaves // We Spread
How Can I Help You // Sing Her Down
How Long ‘til Black Future Month? // Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
Hummingbird Salamander // Blue Skies (TCBoyle)
The Huntress (Quinn) // The Wind Knows my Name
Hurricane Girl // The Last Animal
Hyperbole & a Half // Barely Functional Adult (GN)
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears // The Collected Stories of Shirley Hazzard
I Hope This Finds You Well (Baer) // Dark Testament (Smith)
If I Survive You // How to Learn Jamaican
Illuminations (Moore) // Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick
In The Dream House // [EXTREME CONTENT WARNING]: A Blue Sky
The Invention of Wings // The Yellow Wife
Jackal // My Monticello
Jacob’s Ladder // Little Foxes Took Up Matches
Jesus’ Son // Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
Joan is Okay // Edge Case
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 // Flowers of Fire
Kindred // The Sweetness of Water
The Kite Runner (GN) // Yazidi! (GN)
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women // The Night Tiger
Land of Milk and Honey // In The Quick
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century // Tomb Sweeping
Libertie // Wake (GN)
The Library at Mount Char // The Gone World (Sweterlisch)
Lies my Teacher Told Me // Stamped From the Beginning
The Light Pirate // Lark Ascending
Lighter Than my Shadow // Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body
Like Life // Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea
little gods // The God Child
A Long Petal of the Sea // Last Evenings on Earth
Lore // Olympus, Texas
The Lost Man // The Last Word
A Lush and Seething Hell // Wounds: Six Stories From the Border of Hell
Luster // Speaking of Summer
Magic Hour // The Water Keeper (Martin)
Marguerite (Kemp) // Flowers of Darkness
The Mars House // The Olympus Project
The Mars Room // Chain-gang All-stars
Matrix (Groff) // The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Me Talk Pretty One Day // Assassination Vacation
The Measure // The Wishing Game
The Memory Police // You Feel it Just Below the Ribs
The Memory Theater // Adjacentland // At The End of the World
The Metamorphosis // The Bonus Room
Mexican Gothic // Just Like Home (Gailey)
The Midnight Library // The Other You (JCOates)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream // Shakespeare for Squirrels
Milk Fed // Written on the Body
The Minority Report // Veracity (Bynum)
The Mountains Sing // The Best We Could Do (GN)
Mouthful of Birds // We Show What We Have Learned
A Moveable Feast // The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Munich (Harris) // The Torqued Man
The Murmur of Bees // The Hummingbird’s Daughter
Music for Wartime // What Becomes
My Government Means to Kill Me // Manywhere
The Nature of Fragile Things // Vera (Edgarian)
Neverwhere // Slade House
The Nickel Boys // Home (Morrison)
The Night Circus // Caraval
Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird // Song for the Unraveling of the World
Ninth House // The Book of Love (Link)
No One Left to Come Looking for You // Brooklyn: A Crime Novel
Normal Rules Don’t Apply // The Rock Eaters
The Ocean at the End of the Lane // The Ten Thousand Doors of January
The Office of Historical Corrections // Heads of the Colored People
Old Babes in the Wood // Wednesday’s Child
Old God’s Time // Distant Sons (Johnston)
On Earth as it is on Television // Ripe (Hider)
Only The Beautiful // The Foundling
The Only Good Indians // The Removed
The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done // Away! Away!
Oona Out of Order // The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano
Open Throat // What We Feed to the Manticore
Orange World // What’s Yours is not Yours
Oranges Are not the Only Fruit // Mostly Dead Things
Organ Meats // Dazzling (Emelumadu)
Oryx and Crake // Borne (VanderMeer)
Our Missing Hearts // Paper Names
Our Share of Night // The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina
Our Wives Under the Sea // I Who Have Never Known Men
Out There Screaming // Twice Cursed
Outlawed // These Women
The Overstory // Once There Were Wolves
Pachinko // The Island of Sea Women
Paingod and Other Delusions // The Glassy Burning Floor of Hell
Pandemic (Riddle) // Child Zero
The Paper Menagerie // Beastiary
The Parable of the Sower // American Afterlife
To Paradise // Every Drop is a Man’s Nightmare
The Paradox Hotel // Flux (Chong)
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake // Peaces
The People of the Book // Ghostwritten (Mitchell)
The Pessimists // Why Did I Ever (Robison)
A Phoenix First Must Burn // Crosshairs (Hernandez)
Piranesi // Whether Violent or Natural
Poland (Michener) // Marzi (GN) Sowa
Poor Deer // Brother & Sister Enter the Forest
The Power // Woman World (GN)
Pride and Prejudice // The Other Bennet Sister
Project Hail Mary // Star Splitter
A Psalm for the Wild-built // Light From Uncommon Stars
The Pull of the Stars // As Bright as Heaven
QualityLand // Golden State (Winters)
Quichotte // FKA USA
Recursion // Big Time (Winters)
The Red Arrow // Dayswork
Red at the Bone // Riot Baby
The Refusal Camp // The Jackson Brodie series (Atkinson)
Remarkably Bright Creatures // Sea Change
The Resisters // Trashland
Ring Shout // Friday Black
Ripe (Etter) // The Startup Wife
A River of Stars // Central Places
The Rose Code // Good Night, Irene
Rosewater (Thompson) // Noor
Rubyfruit Jungle // With Teeth
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sues Meta, citing chatbot’s reply as evidence of shadowban (arstechnica.com)
Big cat DNA confirmed on sheep carcass | Rhyl Journal (www.rhyljournal.co.uk)
DNA belonging to a big cat has been identified on a sheep carcass found in Cumbria - leading to speculation that some sightings of mystery creatures are panthers or pumas....
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Locals have long speculated as to whether the so-called ‘Beast of Cumbria’ is just one or several big cats that slink in the shadows of the countryside. Investigators have now obtained a vital piece of evidence to support the presence of at least one recently active in the county....
Daily discussion thread: 🐈⬛ Wednesday, May 15, 2024
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List of every game trailer from The Triple-i Initiative
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