Is there much going on in the world? Probably not. I haven't been paying attention. In lieu of any actual noteworthy events going on, I am going to review another YA book I found at a library book sale for 50 cents.

The book in question is "What Waits in the Water", a 2017 young adult mystery/horror novel written by Kieran Scott. The book is set in contemporary times and follows a group of teenagers stuck in a "cabin in the woods" style scenario, with some adolescent melodrama included. The book includes hints of supernatural elements, and I will discuss those with spoilers later on. It was published by Scholastic Books, and that will also be important.

Hannah and her step-sister Katie are going to visit Hannah's long-term BFF, Jacob, at his parent's beach house on a lake in Michigan. His parents are gone for the weekend, leaving the kids alone. Hannah is mostly just friendly with Jacob, but she starts feeling jealous when Jacob starts flirting with her step-sister,

Wearing socks and sandals together is a fashion faux pas, and like many such things, has received more connotations than its denotations, over the years? What type of man wears socks and sandals together? This simple act, putting footwear over foot coverings, has received its own mythology, and like any mythology, it has shifting meanings. I think that much like the wearer of the manbun, the socks and sandals guy is trying too hard to be a "natural" guy, the openness and casualness of sandals

Odd Week, That

So apparently, Anthropic's AI used my collection, Live Nude Aliens and Other Stories, to train itself. Granted, it falls among a lot of texts, but it's an odd sort of compliment and an affront. In an American lawsuit, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion in damages to authors whose books they scraped from pirating sites for the purpose of training their generative. The settlement only applies to American authors, but a Canadian lawsuit may follow.