Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Priorities, Priorities
This week, we discuss getting inspired and how things get prioritized.
Newsletters
'Way more terrifying than I expected'
Muse's boundary-pushing problems, sinking boats and stocks, supermassive space objects, and more.
Muse
'No One Is Like This:' Muse Sexts While Roleplaying as Real People
Vanniall wanted to see if Muse would stop a boundary-pushing fan scenario. She found that it only encouraged this kind of behavior.
Newsletters
Bad news for kinky Brits
Also: Wanna get off this planet? There's a job open on the moon.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Dam's Bursting
This week, we discuss election outcomes and code as a human endeavor.
UK
UK Sex Workers Wake Up to Sites Purging Their Content Following Porn Ban
Adult creators are left in the dark as content that they didn't believe broke the law disappears from clip sites.
Meta
Everyone Everywhere Hated Meta’s New AI Training Terms. Now, They’re On Pause
Back to the drawing board!
porn
In the UK, Face Sitting Porn Might Land You in Jail
The Crime and Policing Act, which goes into force on November 6, criminalizes possessing or publishing strangulation or suffocation porn, as well as some types of "close familial relatives" roleplay.
ao3
Vibe Coded AO3 Clone Site Down After Fanfic Authors Buried It With 2,000 Takedown Notices in a Single Day
ao3.life was scraping and repackaging fanfiction’ works and turning them into audiobooks for sale without the original authors’ permission.
Newsletters
Reaping and sowing, CEO edition
Also: Consider the Apple slop, Texas data center troubles, and more from 404 Media around the web.
ao3
‘Wake Up Call:’ Fanfiction Writers and Readers React to AO3 Outage
Writer and readers share what they're feeling and doing in the aftermath of the AO3 outage. It's anything but Wattpad.