Photograph of a library with many books. Image by jarmoluk from Pixabay.
The Quad, active since 2015, is a #mastermind #group of 7 #editors: quadlings.com. On our blog, we share our knowledge with the worldwide #editing community. The newest post, by me: "A #Tool for Keeping Up with the #Editing #Profession." quadlings.com/a-tool-for-k...
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Librarians deal daily w/problems presented by AI: catalogs increasingly filled with low-quality AI-generated work and the burden of countering false or misleading information. But there are also opportunities to use AI to support their mission.
I've summarized a recent BISG session on the topic.
The return of BookCon underlines one of the greatest transformations in book publishing in last 10 yrs. It's more author/indie- and consumer-driven than ever before. BookCon can succeed and grow; industry-facing BookExpo remains dead as a doornail.
Appreciate this from @sarahrusso.bsky.social
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
*THIS! This* is one of the many reasons I don't want my #researcher-authors to use #AI in writing their #ResearchPapers! And many #medical #journals also don't want them to.
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Do not like.
Everything the Ellison family could own if Paramount buys Warner Bros:
Paramount+
CBS
CNN
Showtime
HBO
Warner Bros
TNT
TBS
MTV
DC Studios
Nickelodeon
Comedy Central
Cartoon Network
And more...
This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped.
State AGs must step in and block it.
Jeannette wrote another post on #AI vs. #human #writing that speaks to me: "Where Do We Find Meaning?" She says: "When there is no longer a perceived need for the process [of writing], then #critical #thinking and #creativity both go by the wayside." www.jeannettedebeauvoir.com/thoughts/tme...
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#Author and #editor Jeannette de Beauvoir voices an important concern in her blog post “Who Will #Write Tomorrow's Great #Liturature?”And I feel the same concern about the #scientific #literature. www.jeannettedebeauvoir.com/thoughts/lit...
If you can, I recommend moving your tech use away from the US. As not only are they aggressively fascist, censoring and spying on everyone?
Their nation is falling apart. And Amazon/Apple/Google/Microsoft/etc will probably collapse along with them.
This is a decent list of non-US alternatives.
"I think there's a small but real chance he's eventually remembered as a Bernie Madoff- or Sam Bankman-Fried-level scammer."
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VOTING 101
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Is it the same for the VP as it is for all American women?
If not, why not?
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This was shit we were fighting twenty years ago. More than that, actually.
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Photo of the editor's mate standing on the Rocky Point Trail, with his bicycle, on Long Island in New York State.
Photo of the editor's young adult son standing on the Rocky Point Trail, with his bicycle, on Long Island in New York State.
While I have been enjoying #editing an #author’s #research paper today, my mate and one of our sons have been enjoying an 11-mile #bicycle ride on the Rocky Point Trail system further east here on Long Island (in NY State)—and they did that *after a full day of work*!
From @ehnewsroom.bsky.social: "A 2022 review by Alfonso Balmori in Environmental Research examined studies from 20 countries on people living near #cell #towers and cell #antenna sites and found that the majority reported #health effects such as #cancer." What you can do: www.ehn.org/cell-tower-r...
Photograph of 2 books edited by Katharine O'Moore-Klopf: Textbook of Urgent Care Management and Textbook of Urgent Care Medicine.
I always enjoy it when Facebook brings up happy memories. Today's memory is this:
"The babies I editorially gestated for all of 2013!"
The book on the left was written by John Shufeldt, MD, JD, MBA, FACEP. The book on the right was written by Lee A. Resnick, MD, FAAFP, and Shufeldt.
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Last week, Donald Trump unveiled plans for a new triumphal arch for a traffic roundabout in Washington DC. With its history of sugary classical monuments the city could accommodate one more — but the president has no sense of scale, says Eddie Heathcote ft.trib.al/KDYedX7
The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds.
Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative.
Also why do we tolerate Presidency by social media posts?
