Someone (not here) was being an utter weirdo in my mentions, both making assumptions and also making my story about them.
I hit 'em with an "Ok. There We Are Then," and muted them.
I don't know whether I hope they know what I meant or they were utterly confused...
Telling people about the good, useful use cases for AI is kinda like telling people about the 30-50 feral hogs you need your AR-15 for
It is entirely true and yet so completely divorced from the lived experience of your audience that you sound ridiculous
It’s National Library Week, so support your fucking libraries people. Use them, fight for their funding, fight for your librarians. Don’t let your most reliable third space go to waste.
...came to a full stop at their red light across from me, THEN after my light went green and I'd started forward, pulled a rapid left turn in front of me.
That was fun.
The most dangerous portion of my commute, which contains three different methods of locomotion, (car, train, foot) is by far the walking bit.
Specifically the crosswalk in front of the Postal Museum.
Runner up to the person who, on the driving portion of my commute...
This from the administration that thinks the Pope is shaky on the Catholic theology of just war.
I...I need to go lie down.
I mean, valid.
"Everybody knows" -
- "I'm going to stop you RIGHT THERE. Because whatever you're about to say is probably a bigot-fest."
It might sound frivolous, but I solidified this stance as a romance author. So many people saying (basically) "everybody knows these books are trash" radicalized me and that spread across a bunch of different axes.
On top of reasons of role deconstruction and bodily autonomy, this is one reason why it's so important to many people in power to eradicate trans folk.
If you're secure with yourself, feeling good BEING yourself, they can't tell you you're broken and then sell you a "fix"
Fighting the "Everbody knows" fallacy is a hill I will actually die on.
I mean, it's not as cut and dried as some other cases (the next time I hear "attorney generals" I STG I will cut someone).
Let me know if I can ever return the favor. This was SO early and...I have some weirdness going on.
Oh, I’m fucking THRILLED. I needed that second pair of eyes!
When your word count goes down by 1,800 words even though you wrote about 3k words because @authoremmabarry.bsky.social was absolutely right about compressing four chapters down to one and it'll make the project MUCH better...
Them: Oh, you're a librarian? Can you recommend a book I should read?
Me: I know books, I don't know you
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Weird coincidence that a new thing to inflate the value of nvidia shares suddenly becomes popular just as the hype around the last thing to inflate the value of nvidia shares starts to die off.
Definitely just a coincidence though, no correlation whatsoever.
This is a valid point: whenever you see this sort of high-pressure sales tactic turned on a technology, you can be CERTAIN that it's a fake—actually useful new tech sells itself!
And don't underestimate the effectiveness of FOMO as a tool in the hands of a con artist.
FYI: Penzey's has vanilla extracts 33% off right now. Prices are only going to continue to go up & odds are good that most commercial brands will start using lower-quality ingredients, if they haven't already. Stock up now, while the good stuff is still kinda-sorta affordable.
A CEO of a medical insurance being gunned down was the basis of months of soul searching articles, this daily occurrence in the American Healthcare System is rarely examined and is considered good business.
Sophia Benoit's point!!! YES.
Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection.
So forgive me if I smell a rat.
What the misogynistic, Nobel-prize-stealing hell? No iota of subtlety here. A box of absolute tools "came up with" this one. Probably stole the idea from a female colleague.
“You gotta learn AI or get left behind!” is a bit galling given that the entire purpose of AI seems to be to steal our work and fuck our brains and shit up the planet, which is to say, its GOAL is to leave us all behind. That, in order to make its owners rich.
"Don't try me."
- Mood 24:7
Oh, I think more than a few of them think there’s a secret “hack” for writing and they just don’t know it and this is the workaround.
Vibe-writing.
...and I believe that some people are both wannabe creatives without being creative AND also sloppers looking for a payday.
A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.
i simply find it a little hard to believe that shortly after every website implemented ai code and fired a bunch of engineers they all started breaking constantly every single day but its not related to the ai code or the skeleton crew
I didn't like the book either, so I didn't bother with the movie (or miniseries or whatever the fuck it was). My second-least-favorite Henry (the first being Beach Read, starring the protagonist of every lazy 90's romcom who hides in bathrooms and stumbles over her own feet).