SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

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Now’s probably a good time to say that a couple years back I turned down a five-figure offer from HarperCollins because they refused to put in a clause prohibiting AI from touching any of my books at any point in the process. I was lucky to be able to walk away, and it was the right thing to do.

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its that time again

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Sometimes, out of nowhere, I think of all the brilliant people who stopped writing because publishing broke them and chewed up their dreams. And we'll never get to read their beautiful words.

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Where are my fellow Jasper Fforde afficionados? I need someone to blather on to about how endlessly creative, clever, and funny his books are now that I've started Dark Reading Matter. It's like consuming a death by chocolate dessert--delicious but so rich my eyes want to roll back in my head.

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