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The electric bills in Pennsylvania have gone up because the state cut a sweetheart deal with AI data centers. Good times out here.

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Happy JUNETEENTH y'all!!! Support Black creators. Here's a great place to start: go.bsky.app/VSHmC2p

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A writer must feed their brain. You need to go see things, enter new places, travel if you can, randomly pick up books in a library, eat different food, talk to people with weird hobbies. Expand yourself. The ideas will come. Do something different. #writingcommunity #booksky #growingideas #go

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There’s gonna be an audiobook too!! 😀

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there is not a single teacher alive who is surprised by this information.

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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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The resistance will be sparklified.

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Great thread about an unpleasant side effect of using Gen AI that I haven't seen talked about much at all. As usual, @alexandraerin.com‬ is spot on. And also it reminded me that I need to eat lunch, so thank you for that! It's so easy for me to fall into a line edit hole and forget to eat.

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"i asked grok" "I asked chatgpt" well I asked HAL and he refused to do my homework and locked me out of the spaceship

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“i asked chatgpt” “i asked grok” well i asked the stars why they suddenly appear every time you are near

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"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" Well, I asked the High Priest to consult the Urim and Thummim on his breastplate to divine the will of the Holy One but they stopped giving answers after King David’s reign so I had to go use actual research skills instead to get the answers I needed.

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"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

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Classic canned writing advice can often be ignored or applied with nuance, but sometimes it's literally just "show, don't tell." Unless you're writing board books, your readers aren't babies! They don't need to be spoon fed. Too much telling insults their intelligence. #amediting #lineedit

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Butlerian jihad, now?

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Further Fiction Reading: Gender Fluidity & Varied Sexual Identities (books like The 5th Gender) gailcarriger.com/2019/06/05/f...

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remember that these people oppose trans healthcare for children because giving children agency over their bodies makes it harder for them to get away with preying on them and they see themselves entitled to sexually abusing children

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Education is anathema to conservatism. Only the corrupt and inept vote conservative.

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Being my friend should come with hazard pay

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Now you can bring the crew of Tempest home for Pride for only $0.99! 🍑 Cozy romantasy, heavy on the romance 🏴‍☠️ Treasure hunting and map magic 🍑 Established romance 🏴‍☠️ Polyamory done right 🍑 Trans joy 🏴‍☠️ Disabled MC saves the day 🍑 Crew = family

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Hi authors! If you see this, it's your sign to go through your manuscript and see if your characters are always beginning to do things instead of just doing them. It is really important for your hero to "start to walk toward the palace" or can he just "walk toward the palace"? #amediting #lineedit

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I’d love to support an indie today - and maybe make a thread of people who could use support for others to do some shopping in, so please drop your stuff below! Alt text and SFW, darlings! 💖 And if you post any gen AI or NFTs - DISHONOUR ON YOU AND YOUR COW TBQH.

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Bachelor vs spinster

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I hope that no one ever treats Liz Bruenig the way she wants the state to be able to treat us.

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Holy shit, people need to calm the fuck down.

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education standards in Canada and the USA have been enshittified for decades. I don't think people really know how to research beyond typing whatever in Google and they don't know how to examine the results and they fight for their lives when i say "chatbots are not good for research, oh my god"

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Do not buy books from Dark Owl Publishing! The owner and operator is Andrea Dawn, a known white supremacist, who is currently on threads talking about plowing cars into protesters.

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I love seeing public scholarship just happening organically on the TL (re: the origins of "space opera" as a term)

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Same. I am so tired of avoiding it everywhere and avoiding the people who shill for it. It's like everywhere I go someone is running up to me like "I'M A GIANT HORNET RANCHER NOW! LOOK AT THIS! PUT IT IN YOUR HAND! EVERYONE IS DOING IT! IT'S A FUN AND EASY WAY TO CREATE A HUGE PAINFUL WELT!"

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