I hardly bought any, actually. They're mostly free giveaways.

Or, I could visit the post office myself and mail the books. I am a bit of a dumbass sometimes. But in my defense, this is the only the second time I've flown and bought a lot of books.

You're getting a beat down if you think I'm going to give you any of my books.

One problem with flying to conferences is that I inevitably end up with even more books than I started with. This is bad because then I have to carry them back to the airport. THIS TIME AROUND, I DIDN'T EVEN VISIT ANY BOOKSTORES, AND IT STILL HAPPENED, FOR PETE'S SAKE.

Yes, I am taking this seriously, but given how many times I've had to deal with hacked websites, I'm not panicking.

2, it is such a serious issue that almost every hosting company dealt with it in a few hours. 3, even in a worst case scenario, so long as you took basic steps like making sure you have daily backups of your website, it is really not that hard to de-hack your website.

Here are a few reasons why you shouldn't worry too much about this week's PHP news. 1, that issue needs to be solved on the server level by hosting companies. It's not something that a website can fix too fix.

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Calibre now has decent sounding text to speech functions. buff.ly/5xXOeOd

AI isn't all bad - someone used it to clone and release Photoshop. buff.ly/nbZ2WoJ

Someone didn't think this sign through.

Doyle Calhoun points out that most if not all of the high profile accusations about writers using AI have been aimed at minority writers. buff.ly/j08VJpO

Josh Heath wrote an explainer post about writing for hire. buff.ly/hW2IrOM

Don't use AI to make art. Use childhood trauma like a real artist.

The Walrus questions whether readers can actually detect AI writing. buff.ly/PL6k3gq

Spritz has released a new version of the Readme! speed reading app: buff.ly/zuw5T42

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There are bunches of ways the developers could have improved the interface or other functionality, but no, Whova decided to add AI.

I did not give Whova a link to my profile, nor did I ask for this. I have to assume this is an example of an AI being left alone to run amuck. That is annoying, but what really sucks is that Whova is otherwise a fairly shitty app.

Okay, now this is annoying. This morning I was filling out my profile in Whova in anticipation of going to WFC later this week. A few minutes ago I went back in the app to discover that Whova decided unilaterally to scrape my LinkedIn profile and add a bunch of shit.