It’s not “Illegal”, it’s that World was concieved and operates as a space free of US news.
There’s PLENTY of US news all over the rest of lemmy and we wanted a space where non-US news can’t be drowned out.
If we allowed it, it would rapidly become another US news echo chamber and at that point no different from [email protected]
First, image posts are not allowed, second, US news is not allowed.
Internal US news is not World. See [email protected] or [email protected]
Complete for now… Martin is the hang up at this point. 😉
But serious shout out to Folio for doing some of the best books in the business. I’ve spent way too much money with them. LOL.
It’s like illustrated editions are cursed or something…
Bloomsbury was doing gorgeous Harry Potter illustrated editions. They got through 5/7 and the illustrator burned out and stepped down. 😟 In theory they have a replacement and #6 will be out next year.
https://www.harrypotter.com/news/bloomsbury-announce-levi-pinfold-as-new-harry-potter-illustrator
The Folio Society was doing a fantastic illustrated sets of the original James Bond books, then their artist got caught stealing the work of other artists in their Wizards of the Coast work, that de-railed the final book in the series, but it DID finally come out.
https://commandersherald.com/trouble-in-pairs-accused-of-plagiarizing-cyberpunk-novel-cover/
https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/fiction/the-james-bond-collection
That’s how the Narnia books end funnily enough.
“And everyone died in a train crash, the end!”
Sorry if I spoiled the ending of a 70+ year old book series. 😉
The worst are the books that just don’t have an ending. I had that with Stephen King’s “Cell”. Fantastic premise, an alien information virus hijacks cell phone signals to turn people into mindless zombies building something.
What are they building? 🤷♂️
Were the heroes successful in stopping it? 🤷♂️
What the hell happened? 🤷♂️
It’s like King went “Oh, shit, the deadline is today? Fine, pack it up and ship it.”
For the film version they had to invent a new ending because the book just doesn’t have one, it stops, but no ending.
I was wondering why he just doesn’t cut the manuscript in 1/2, publish the first as “Part 1” and re-set his publication clock.
Apparently he has somewhere between 1,100 and 1,200 pages completed.
But as he explained elsewhere, he doesn’t write linearlly. He focuses on one point of view “chapter” and then that informs other point of view chapters, so there’s a lot of back and forth.
So 1,100 to 1,200 finished pages doesn’t mean a cohesive narrative.
So here’s my story… Not a fan. I found the first book to be a slog with nothing happening for the first 400 pages. Lots of people sitting around in rooms talking.
I also didn’t care much for any of the characters and from that point on chose only to read the Jon and Arya chapters.
So when I hit Arya discovering the aftermath of the Red Wedding I was like “Well, clearly I missed something…” Backtracked and read that chapter and went “Well… glad I wasn’t invested in THAT character!”
From a non-linear creative process, imagine if he wrote the Arya chapter first. I don’t know that that’s how he specifically did it, but he’s describing a similar process on the new book.
Now he has to go back and write that whole thing that he described the aftermath of.
It wouldn’t be publishable without it.
Looking forward to the announcement that he’s 3/4 done with the final 1/4. 😉 Then we just need the announcement that he’s 3/4 done with the final 1/16th…
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paradox-zeno/#Dich
“I’d love to turn it over to the publisher, but I’m having trouble deciding on the final punctuation mark.”
I dunno, Lemmy wasn’t around then, but let’s take for example the time Stephen King got hit by a van and was damn near killed:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/sep/24/stephenking.fiction
I’d say no, not World News. Definitely fit for News, Books, I dunno is there “Entertainment”?
But a car accident in Maine involving all Americans wouldn’t be World News.
There are no legitimate questions about the fairness of it:
https://www.genderjustice.us/commentary/trans-athletes-are-not-the-real-threat/
“In fact, after hormone therapy, trans women’s performance aligns with cisgender women’s performance.”
The key bit there being “hormone therapy”.
Your notion that men choose to compete as women so they can dominate is absolute, complete, 100% transphobic bullshit.
That’s not the way ANY of this works.
The real question to ask is why Republicans want to ban hormone therapy.
This is really on the line for world news.
American author, American artist, the only thing that barely qualifies it here is the Penguin half of Penguin/Random House is a UK Publisher and the conglomerate itself is owned out of Germany.
Allowing it for now, but it’s right on the line.
Too many fins!
(Don’t be silly, Saab is Swedish!)
Number 2 is the Saab GlobalEye. Fun angle on it, but real plane.
Usually I see them because there’s a super flaky user who creates new accounts, makes a bunch of posts in a variety of groups, then self deletes their account for some reason orphaning their posts.
So I get to remove a bunch of otherwise worthwhile posts because the user killed their account. Not sure what they think they’re accomplishing.
I think it drops off after a week? Yours was created on the 8th, so sometime after the 15th?
This is not a credible news source, they’ll publish anything.
From the “About” page:
https://world-outlook.com/about/
“Written contributions are welcome. They can be submitted to [email protected], which reserves the right to decide whether to publish any submission.”
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They also apparently had another system developed by a company called Thales, and the password for it was “THALES”.
Self posts are not allowed, if you have a news article discussing this, it’s welcome.
That was what happened with Terry Pratchett. He ordered all his uncompleted works destroyed when he died. 😟
Then Gaiman went ahead with a sequel to Good Omens anyway… 🤬
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Omens_(TV_series)#Series_2_(2023)