There are no dragons in this book
Conventional publishing wisdom holds that it's not a good idea to release a new book on the same day as a highly-anticipated title like Onyx Storm, but I'm pretty sure the overlap between my readership and Rebecca Yarros' readership is, uh, nonexistent.
New Release: "Jay Moriarty vs the Machine God"
In the wake of narrowly-averted tragedy, Sebastian Moran returns to his old home in Herefordshire; his partner, Jay Moriarty, insists on coming with him. Together, they discover the cash-strapped local council has deployed a piece of software called AlgoDV to prop up its understaffed social services — and that AlgoDV was nearly responsible for the deaths of Moran's only real family. Which means the man behind the whole scheme, Councillor Robert Wallis, is about to have a very bad week.
"Jay Moriarty vs the Machine God" is the sixth story in my series The Casefile of Jay Moriarty, a modern-day queer take on the iconic Sherlock Holmes villain, his partner Sebastian Moran, and the various crimes they commit together.
This one is about AI-as-political project, the deliberate shifting of accountability onto systems that cannot be held accountable, the various ways a decade of austerity has devastated Britain, and tormenting local government officials for fun and profit.
You can get "Jay Moriarty vs the Machine God" most places ebooks are sold, or by clicking here.
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The reason that I'm concerned is that the executive in front of me should not be using that term. They have no idea what it really means, which is fine because they aren't specialized in my area, but I am wondering why someone who requires crayon-tier technical explanations is inquiring about a niche, unsexy element of a platform they don't understand. This would be like my 96-year-old grandfather asking me about Bitcoin mining—impressive if he had arrived at the question organically, but in practice I'm already dialing the bank to report a massive theft.
You’re battered by the Rot Economy, and a tech industry that has become so obsessed with growth that you, the paying customer, are a nuisance to be mitigated far more than a participant in an exchange of value. A death cult has taken over the markets, using software as a mechanism to extract value at scale in the pursuit of growth at the cost of user happiness.
what i'm doing about alice munro
There isn’t “the art and the artist” and one does not “separate art from artist.” To my mind, that is a broken moral calculus that confuses rectitude for an honest accounting of how we live in the world. The very question is stupid right down to its core.
Heads up, Books2Read's relay to Barnes & Noble's website appears to be broken at the moment. If you usually buy my books at B&N, you may have to search this new one manually.
-K
