Stephen Cox Author

@stephenwhq
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Warm intelligent accessible #SFF
THE CROOKED MEDIUM's GUIDE TO MURDER - spooky, sapphic, Victorian - sequel coming.

Our Child of the Stars/Our Child of Two Worlds.
https://stephencox.co.uk/books/upcoming/

#Free #fiction on website and smart #newsletter.
Services to help creatives be interesting

Bi, parent, humane, "writes beautifully" I'm told. UK/the world

Genial bearded guy. Not genial about AI - make techbros pay for stealing

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"After months of heated debate and previous attempts to restrict the use of large language models on Wikipedia, on March 20 volunteer editors accepted a new policy that prohibits using them to create articles for the online encyclopedia.

The new policy, which was accepted in an overwhelming 40 to 2 vote among editors, allows editors to use LLMs to suggest basic copyedits to their own writing, which can be incorporated into the article or rewritten after human review if the LLM doesn’t generate entirely new content on its own."

https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-bans-ai-generated-content/

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content

“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

404 Media

Across England just over a quarter of all children live in poverty, rising to over a third of children in London; no wonder many voters do not believe claims by our political class that the UK economy is not dysfunctional & just needs some tweaks to improve.

This level of child poverty doesn't happen by accident nor does it happen quickly; its an indictment of the callousness & inhumanity of our political class' management of the UK's political economy.

#UK #inequality
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/26/child-poverty-london-housing-crisis

London has England’s highest levels of child poverty, data shows

About 38% of children in London live in relative poverty, compared with 27% in the UK as a whole

The Guardian
Another country falls to the billionaire paedophile religion.
RE: masto.ai/users/transworld/stat…
Transgender World (@[email protected])

India passes law to end transgender self-identification.. The country that stood up for trans people gives in to colonial bigotry. https://qnews.com.au/india-passes-law-to-end-transgender-self-identification/ #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Mastodon
Happy dance because my proposed new newsletter provider only provides AI tools to the paid plans! Talk about "don't threaten me with a good time!"

27. Which character would be the most fun to be around?

On a good day, Mrs Ashton is funny, a good hostess, a witty mimic, widely if erratically read, often kind, occasionally malicious and has the extrovert energy in a gathering she is enjoying. She also likes her drink.

Maisie - sharp, streetwise, knowing beyond her years - also holds court. Braddie might bake, plain sturdy fare but well meant.

@stephenwhq I find writing to be a kind of therapy. They are the storytellers words and come from their views and experiences. Yet they are shaped into a metaphorical world and played by different characters.

I find it takes writing a story for me to see how it has come from me. One example is my love of writing father figures, and I realised it came from my early childhood, when my dad worked abroad. Back then, I gravitated to reading fictional father figures to act as a surrogate anchor.

So writing is exciting and also I am working through stuff, like my present grief that the conventional progressive politics has not challenged the assault on decency, human right, and basic understanding of facts like climate change.

This has to be energy for the writing not precisely reproducing people or situations I have met.

27. If you had to pick one, would you say writing is a more exciting or cathartic process for you?

I was leaping to say I don't write for catharsis but no! A lot of my writing is underpinned by growing up in the AIDS crisis and the vicious homophobia of the Tory govermment which excluded all discussion of queer sexuality and identity. in schools. I came out late and I guess I am still relitigating my schooldays and the exclusionary wings of the queer movement.

#writing #books #amwriting #queer

#WritersCoffeeClub 27/3: If you had to pick one, would you say writing is a more exciting or cathartic process for you?

No.