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Your friendly neighbourhood editor for academic writing in arts and humanities, esp. music/ology. Also proofreads and branches out into other subjects occasionally. Ich spreche auch Deutsch! 🇩🇪
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The Government is considering allowing AI companies to freely use your works, unless you opt-out. This is unfair and unworkable. Now is your chance to tell them what you think! Submit a response to their AI consultation using the guidance below. www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...

Worth saying about just about every use of generative AI

Hey, @chrishinchliff.bsky.social, as one of your constituents who voted for you, this describes me and many people I know. Please get your leadership to understand this. Otherwise I’ll be voting LibDem next time.

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Microsoft is going to price gouge you by adding their genAI to your subscription without your consent, and they are not transparent about how to avoid this bullshit. Here's how to change your subscription back to "Classic" for a lower charge without Copilot: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffi...

The two thoughts/concerns/points of #AIResistance I keep returning to after the AI “workshop” I suffered through yesterday: 1. AI breeds dangerously uncritical idolatry 2. AI-oriented mindsets consistently misprize creative acts 🧵 1/

And here we go again…

And editors worldwide rejoice at the correct use of the en dash, too.

Authors, please be nice to your editors. If they make changes you don’t agree with, maybe ask them why rather than telling them they don’t know what they’re doing. Consider that your writing style may be out of date. Don’t accuse them of changing sentences that they haven’t.

An example of what many of the big-name publishers are up to behind the scenes. Elsevier is not the only one that is scrimping on copyediting - others technically employ editors, but at well less than minimum wage. The result is that the journals go massively down in quality and comprehensibility.

UK WRITERS: You need to fill in this consulation. Govt is very clearly looking to an opt-out model of rights licensing that puts all the burden on creators instead of profiteers. It's long and boring but this is important. www.gov.uk/government/c...

This is maddening if you use MS word to write books. Opt out to stop them using your writing to train A.I. Please share.

Interesting article about refusing AI - applicable to many academic fields, I think refusinggenai.wordpress.com

Okay, Bluesky, I have muted a thread - so why am I still seeing it? 🤷‍♀️ @support.bsky.team

Yaaaaayyy! Monday!!!! (Seriously. I love my job. Today: a conductor’s perspective on Schubert.)

Just done my first Bluesky cull of people I followed who haven’t followed me back. Sorry, unless you’re famous, it’s just rude. Your bleets aren’t that amazing.

Ah, AI, this has really convinced me how world-changing you are 🤷‍♀️

Dear Blue Sky CEO Jay Graber, I need an edit button! Sincerely, Everyone on Blue Sky Please repost if you agree!

Anyone on here understand how ScholarOne works?

Do you ever get the feeling the world’s gone crazy? With this in mind, I play the Flintstones theme in the style of the Russian classics.

People who say you need to allow divisive bigots in your social spaces to find out what they are thinking, clearly live in a world where every passing idiot thought of the divisive bigot community isn’t already amplified at deafening volume all the time through the best-funded channels on earth.

Can anyone tell me why I’m seeing posts from lots of people who have ‘! Invalid handle’ next to their name? What did they do?

Definitely true.

New pub rules