johnrickards.bsky.social
Freelance editor, sometime writer, occasional trade journo and general dogsbody. Decent human being. Find me at johnrickards.com
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Ah, you’re too kind. It was a shame it never got traction (or a trad home before my agent jumped ship). It was a lot of fun to write…
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I mean, it’s very poorly targeted spam anyway. It’s not like I (a) have an office or (b) need any furniture of any kind.
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It's strange that ghost written novels are so accepted, if a celebrity said he was exhibiting a collection of paintings that turned out to be painted by someone else we'd all think he was having a breakdown.
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Yeah, that ship sailed long ago. Apparently taking everyone’s spines with it.
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We're not a new release, but we're an important one, especially now. Proceeds go to the Chicago Abortion Fund. 🫀
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Yeah, it's luckily easy enough to toggle (unless people have followed some of the advice I've seen to edit their system registry to get rid of it...). I *am* mildly curious how many people doing it have left Windows Copilot on, though...
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I mean, anything that makes it less likely to look stuff up on Bing can only be a bonus (I, of course, joke), but to my knowledge - which could be wrong - all you're doing by turning Connected Experiences off is make Word's spellchecker and text-to-speech a bit shitter.
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I've done both: sometimes had to ask around, hit-and-hope style, and sometimes my editor's said, "I'm going to ask [Big Name Writer They Know]."
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We've seen so many pass, we're basically Statler & Waldorf by this point.
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(Which is why I guess turning it off maybe borked autosave, if that's going to OneDrive.) (Windows "Copilot", which *is* AI-driven, *is* garbage - and unfortunately baked-in to the OS.)
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Yeah, as noted above, it's not Gen AI at all. "Connected experiences" is a dreadful term, but it's spellchecking, transcription/text-to-speech, machine translation, etc. that pulls data from another MS service (eg adding Bing weather to an email msg). Full list: learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/micros...
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This is - weirdly, I’ve always felt, because I just don’t *get* the substitution - one of the most common copyedit changes I have to make.
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The absolute worst.
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I’m not sure that’s possible.
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Again, if you need the direct link (not behind paywall) to the searchable db:
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Eight of mine, apparently. Three of which are only self-published in the US. I wonder how these guys would feel if I wandered into their house and started eating their food.