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So much of the “promise” of AI right now is saving time creating. Let me say it from my chest: all I want is to spend more time creating. I’m not making content. I’m engaging in my vocation, my calling, my literal reason for existing.

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If you ever wondered why PhDs take so long—and I did until my master’s degree, they’re pretty mysterious—it is largely because of the amount of reading and understanding you have to do. Reading more books than most people will read in their lives every year. Hard, boring books

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When you use AI to admonish Trump, you're literally putting pennies in his pocket, eating enough energy to make 3D print of a middle finger, AND telling artists that their humanity is less important than an image he'll never see on a site he's not on to get kudos from folks who already hate him.

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Reminder that I have a very good reading tracking spreadsheet that keeps all your information and automates a lot of stuff and you don't have to look at Goodreads ever again.

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I wasn’t surprised she was a supervisor. (I had worked with a lot of human corporate supervisors and after a while they were fairly easy to identify.)

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@patman.bsky.social saw this, thought of you notalwaysright.com/according-to...

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Quick break from the chaos for my fellow writers, especially my beginners be careful who you share your work with be careful how many snippets you post you would be shocked at how shameless some writers are when it comes to outright plagiarism ✌️

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I just need people to not think the Black Death has to do with wells being poisoned.

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Today us the last day to enter to win a copy of The Changeling Queen on Goodreads! Go forth and enter! www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

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There was some strange system where they all got their food and shelter and education and medical for free, no matter what job they did.

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So you think Merlin the magician wasn't real? I guess that means you also don't believe that he still exists and walks amongst us? Then how do you explain this??? ;)

submitted 11 days ago • 30 comments

eyes all the books on Vikings on my bookshelves Blood eagles for the lot of them, I say.

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@allyscottauthor.bsky.social

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It's time for the Pride Birds! #lgbt #pridemonth

submitted 13 days ago • 126 comments

Yf onlye storytellinge and depth and significance of choyce improved yn vydeo games as much as the graphics did each yeare.

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Oh, hey. TIDAL CREATURES is out in paperback today! If you want a book about weird alchemy, found family, moon deities around the world, academic politics, the destructive applications of peach trees, lesbians, and the Impossible City, this is the book for you.

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

They don’t give murderbots decent education modules on anything except murdering, and even those are the cheap versions.

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I need all the help I can get. Our corgi Winnie is missing. My husband was camping with her this weekend and she has gone missing. She’s been gone for three hours. They’re at cougar Flats campground, which is in Yakima county Washington. Please help us find her!!

submitted 15 days ago • 47 comments

If you are lgbtqia, you belong and deserve love and happiness and everyone who thinks otherwise is a raging hunk of wet trash. I love you, Red Sonja loves you, Wonder Woman loves you, Batgirl loves you, and the X-Men love you.

submitted 15 days ago • 38 comments

I needed to have an emotion in private.

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I just C'mon The tool that gives you like 50-100 words when you're stuck is inside your skull!!!! Or maybe weed! Or a nice walk! Or literally anything else!

submitted 19 days ago • 128 comments

I liked humans, I liked watching them on the entertainment feed, where they couldn’t interact with me. Where it was safe.

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Best reason to do it, I’ll take that agreement, where do I sign? The generative side needs to be killed. And people who don’t want to do their jobs need to rediscover the joy of templates.

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It’d be pretty cool if aspirational masculinity was just like. Being a gentle, funny dad and a loving partner and having jumper cables and a lug wrench on hand and maybe learning how to build and paint sets for school plays instead of being a sentient crypto ham hock with a creatine addiction

submitted 22 days ago • 60 comments

Holidays are great. I got so much writing done today.

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They hate artists and only want art that does what they want it to, but they can’t create the art; thus, the hatred

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Ok, you find it funny or interesting why some centuries are "long" and others are "short" and why do historians use terms like "the Middle Ages" or "the Renaissance" but get cross about it all the time? And keep forbidding things like "the Dark Ages"? Isn't it weird? Well, no. 1/

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i keep seeing people say that LLMs are good at search. NO. WRONG. You have just forgotten how good search used to be. Google broke it's own flagship product, and so you are accepting a demented chatbot's half baked gishgallop because we no longer have functional web search.

submitted 27 days ago • 106 comments

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT

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It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

submitted 27 days ago • 76 comments

I saw someone say AI is useful because it generates ideas. My dude, I'm full of ideas. I have docs and docs marked under 'ideas.' I have outlines and fragments of stuff I might work on. Trunked stories galore. Even if I continue to write a novel a year for the next 40 years I won't run out of ideas.

submitted 27 days ago • 86 comments

It’s super cool being an author just trying to puncture the membrane of getting noticed, and yet a list of AI-generated recommendations of books that don’t even exist are taking up that space

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“why are you swearing when you’re an English professor, surely you know more words” I do know more words! And this is the one I chose because I know enough words to know it was the best fucking one! TY!

submitted 27 days ago • 24 comments

Humans always think they’ve covered their tracks and deleted their data, but they’re wrong a lot.

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Stop calling A.I. slop “art” and real human-created works “content”

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monday again is it

submitted 29 days ago • 8 comments

(I know that’s actually not a permanent solution and pretending bad things aren’t happening is not a great survival strategy in the long run, but there was nothing I could do about it now.)

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Take the fictional character quiz and post the first 4 that you know. openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac... These all pretty much track.

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