Or: How do you write a speculative fiction satire in an age where sci-fi has become reality and reality has become indistinguishable from parody? This review includes vague but significant spoilers for Dark Reading Matter: The Last Thursday Next Novel. If you’re considering the book but are on the fence, my short spoiler-free review is: read it, preferably but not necessarily after the proceeding seven volumes and the other books in the author’s oeuvre. As the eighth and fina

This one’s personal. Repeat after me: Don’t use AI for nutrition, fitness, and wellbeing advice. Eating-disorder therapists are raising alarm over a pattern showing up in their sessions: patients uploading photos of themselves to AI chatbots and asking for weight-loss or muscle-building tips, and then returning to therapy with extreme, bot-generated meal plans (that fall way under the body’s nutritional needs) or excessive fitness routines (that overtax an already undernouri