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Paper collage, hybrid prose, digital art, no AI. Wildlife/climate. As such, small but angry. Still masking. Still clinging to tattered hopes. they/them Ⓥ

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its like a choice between a flaccid, day old egg white omelet and a flaming tower of arsenic cheetos

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Reminder: Fascism rose partly as a result of the 1918 pandemic. Do not stay silent about the attempts to ban masks and protests.

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I’ve said this before, but it’s timely again. Dear writers: 1. Read contracts carefully. 2. Don’t know what something means? Ask. 3. You can add clauses to your contract. “No AI covers” and “All rights revert to the author after four weeks without communication” are great ones.

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It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits

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Remember that to the tech elite: 1) art is merely content 2) creativity is worthless 3) AI systems should be allowed to steal from every writer and artist to make the tech companies even richer.

OpenAI CTO Mira Murati: “Some creative jobs maybe will go away, but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place if the content that comes out of it is not very high quality.”

Roundup: OpenAI says some artistic jobs shouldn’t existdisconnect.blog Read to the end for a good overview of failing social media platforms

Maddie is tired and just wants to grow beets in her tub. Why, I don't know, but I can't say I blame her. New flash fiction up at the blog 🙂 cbauder.com/2024/06/21/w...

Tigers at the Wiggly-Pigcbauder.com Maddie stands quivering in Aisle 21c, mouthing the tiny words on the panic-orange label. Fluoronoxonine 7. Pentaphalese armitans. Dionicide bicarbum. Her GenFriends said this brand promised homeolonic...

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New prints are in! —> Kathleenneeley.com/shop

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HISTORICAL NARRATOR VOICE - “The next logical step was to replace the pollsters themselves with ‘AI,’ which led to the election in 2032 of President Boaty McBoatface (actually three orcas in a trench coat), and the beginning of the Three Day War (still ongoing).”

Pollsters are simulating political surveys with AI because nobody answers the phone: ash.harvard.edu/articles/usi... "The big difference between humans and AI agents is that the AI agents always pick up the phone..."

Using AI for Political Polling – Ash Centerash.harvard.edu

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This fits well with the studies that came out early this year that repeated vaccination reduces the chances of Long Covid www.scientificamerican.com/article/vacc...

People who were repeatedly vaccinated for COVID-19 — initially receiving shots aimed at the original variant, followed by boosters and updated vaccines targeting variants — generated antibodies capable of neutralizing a wide range of SARS-CoV-2 variants and even some distantly related coronaviruses.

Repeat COVID-19 vaccinations elicit antibodies that neutralize variants, other viruses | Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louismedicine.wustl.edu Response to updated vaccine is shaped by earlier vaccines yet generates broadly neutralizing antibodies

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One time I was being kind of a whiney smart ass about writing and Ted Chiang turned to me and quoted this verbatim. I write it down in my daybook anew about this time every year, as I finish my story for the Sycamore Hill workshop (which starts Saturday so why am I on social media?)

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"Why do LGBTQIA+ people love superheroes so much?"

Oh, you mean why queer people might be drawn to stories where the protagonist leads two separate lives, one far more colorful and exciting than the other, but has to keep the life where they are their true self a secret from their friends and family for fear of judgement and reprisals? No idea.

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This should go without saying, but: PUBLISHERS SHOULD NOT ADVERTISE PAID EDITING SERVICES IN THEIR REJECTION LETTERS Rejection letters are necessary, because publishers receive more submissions than they could possibly publish. FFS have some basic respect for people submitting.

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people will share all sorts of different tips and tricks for how to season your keyboard. i can tell you the method that works for me: eat some potato chips right before you start typing. over time your keyboard will take on a natural sheen that will make your writing deeper and more complex

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This, but also, not everyone can tolerate being bad at something for long enough to develop skill. Tolerance for failure is an underappreciated requirement for getting good at something.

I think, if you never sat down to learn the skills of a particular art, that art seems mysterious to you and it's easier to think that someone with those skills must just have "talent" cause you can't imagine yourself being able to do those things. Like, a long time ago on an online writing workshop

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It's actually quite empowering to realize that the "one weird trick" to getting good at something is to put in the time. It removes the concept that you have to be somehow preordained to do it. The hardest part for people is the patience necessary to suck for a while before things start to click

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That thing about getting ideas into sentences being cognitive load... that is literally what writing *is*. And you don't *have* ideas, in a very real sense, until you've turned them into sentences yourself. There's a reason copyright law insists on a fixed form, not just an idea.

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Here's what everyone needs to know* about climate change: 🌍 It's real 👥 It's human-caused ⚠️ It's serious 💡 With immediate action, it's solvable ⌛ Later is too late * social science shows these msgs increase acceptance of the issue, awareness of the risk and, most importantly, willingness to act.

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applying for one rn

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ACTION ALERT: Contact Governor Kathy Hochul & say that you are against banning masks in NY, & she should issue a statement retracting her comments on CNN supporting a mask ban. Call: 518-474-8390 (press 1 to leave a message, press 2 to speak to a person) Write: www.governor.ny.gov/content/gove...

Governor Contact Formwww.governor.ny.gov

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ME: is the carbon footprint of driving my kids to go camping morally permissible if experiencing nature leads them to act more sustainably throughout their lives GOOGLE: we're draining freshwater lakes to tell people to drink bleach

Google's AI Overviews must create entirely new information in response to a search query. That costs an estimated *30 times* more energy than simply extracting information from a source through a traditional search. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/what... by @parshallison.bsky.social

What Do Google’s AI Answers Cost the Environment?www.scientificamerican.com Google is bringing AI answers to a billion people this year, but generative AI requires much more energy than traditional keyword searches

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Gen X has been training for this moment our entire lives. #quicksand www.mainepublic.org/environment-...

State will post signs about quicksand at Popham Beach after woman sinks in up to her hipswww.mainepublic.org A woman from the town of Poland reported on social media that during a walk on the beach Saturday she suddenly fell into the sand up to her hips and had to be pulled out by her husband.

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From the DuckDuckGo home page, click on the three lines in the upper right. Go to "Settings". Choose the "AI Features" button near the top right. Turn all that shit off.

Well, it was nice while it lasted. I've been using DuckDuckGo as an alternative to Google for years and saw today that they're integrating AI into their searches. It sucks out here.

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I want to be able to take apart laptops with screwdrivers so I can make repairs and upgrades myself. I hate that all the computers less than 10 years old are held together with fucking GLUE and designed so if you try anything DIY on it you’re immediately gonna break it forever.

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Are you looking to cancel your Adobe CC subscription? Did you balk at their early termination fee? You can do it for FREE: ui.dev/rwd/articles... Love me a good loophole. Make it hurt in their wallet. 👏

Cancel Adobe without paying the cancellation feeui.dev How to cancel your adobe subscription without paying the cancellation fee.

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Once again reminding people that if you're ever feeling overwhelmed by everything that is going on in the world and all of the bad news, it really helps to focus on the little things you can control rather than what you can't. Making small, positive changes is better than feeling paralysed.

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Library run

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Every time I see "AI" being crammed into another consumer product I think of how in the 50s we put radium in suppositories because "the atom" was the snakeoil hype of the moment

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Scam alert: Ghostwriting scam Prime Publishing House is sending solicitation emails, falsely claiming that real authors have used its services (several have reported this to me). Always beware of solicitations, and for more on ghostwriting scams see my blog post writerbeware.blog/2022/01/24/h...

How to Spot a Ghostwriting Scam - Writer Bewarewriterbeware.blog In 2018, I wrote a post that, in part, warned about a solicitation from an obviously dodgy “ghostwriting” service (one big clue: the mangled English everywhere on its website). With a bit of digging, ...

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HAPPY PRIDE EVERYBODY WE WIN And they're Jewish queers to boot lfg www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...