Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

A two-headed masked luchador wearing two different masks: one a blue-green and gold classic design and the other green with a spread-wing eagle design. He's wearing a blue singlet and standing in a slightly awkward but still hopefully sufficiently menacing manner. He's framed in a. gold-colored frame with a blue gradient background with wobbly white lines radiating out around the heads. Lettering above and below the frame reads 'Quizás Suceda Hoy' which I believe is Spanish for 'Maybe it will happen today'.

A photo of a light-colored cat with a gray face and ears and wide blue eyes. Unknown forces are holding up to the cat’s ear the handset of a beige antique-type touch tone phone. A rectangular speech bubble with a jagged tail has been drawn on the photo to indicate it is the sound coming out of the handset. Words inside the bubble read, ‘Maybe it will happen today…’

My students took part in a huge competition that's a very big deal for us, and they absolutely crushed it under a lot of pressure, and I keep getting choked up because I'm so proud of them.

Ah, interesting gambit, let's just check how pivoting from reliable software people actually use to an AI focused subscription service is going for Adobe real quick

I tried it out when it first showed up because I'll try any new tech but quickly gave it up when I realized it was 1) incredibly harmful and 2) absolutely useless.

Inside the Underground Safe Houses Sheltering Immigrants From ICE

Historically speaking, not a great sign

Rachel A. Rosen 2025 Award Eligibility. Blight (The Sleep of Reason Book 2), novel, What If We Kissed While Sinking a Billionaire's Yacht (Antifa Lit Journal Vol 1), short story, Wizards & Spaceships, podcast/fancast. The entire thing is a scrapbook aesthetic with bats and moths.

Self promotion is always awkward and even more so when the world is going to hell, but hey, the Aurora Awards opened up for nominations today and I have three works that are eligible. Consider giving me a nomination if you're a CSSFA member! www.csffa.ca

If you think Claude is the ethical AI, I don't even know what to say to you.

I bought Procreate because of this (and it's a great piece of software). Also retrospectively glad I bought Wyze cameras after they ran an ad parodying Ring's surveillance dog commercial.

OMG I adore this. I want to write something worthy of it (actually for one of my future projects this style would be perfect).

God your stuff is so good. I wish my trilogy were done so that I could hire you to redo all the covers.

It's just murder. Everyone is "gasp! what about the children???" when it comes to them reading library books but bombing a school full of little girls is just sparkling regime change for a prosperous democratic future.

Oh neither am I but I could fake mediocre output the old fashioned way if I needed to.

The good news is that when someone uses this phrase, you are free to ignore anything else that comes out of their mouths.

My spicy take for the evening is that the phrase "AI is here to stay" is a thought-terminating cliché invoked to shut the brains off of anyone engaging in the discussion of or debate about LLMs.

It really is either you support trans rights or you support Hitler 2.0

So, consider how this goes:

They deploy ICE to remove people who are “illegal”

Kavanaugh says US citizens will be fine, once they show their IDs (sure, buddy)

Kansas just showed us they can & will invalidate the LEGALLY ISSUED IDs of CITIZENS immediately & without warning

Because they want to

This is extra funny to me because I used to work for NASCAR.

CRITICAL RACE THEORY? BROTHER, EVERY RACE IS CRITICAL

Saw this in Discord and it’s amazing

I'm so sorry but also I'm so glad it wasn't just me. I thought I screwed it up somehow. Nope, it's the UI that's bad.

The Nebulas are closing soon, and so I am boosting again for visibility even though it hurts every socially anxious bone in my body to do so.

I bought and started using Procreate specifically because of their AI policy.

At first I thought "oh they're doing the Panopticon," but it's so, so much worse than that.

I saw a screenshot of the tweet about Versailles and truly we are ruled by people who have never in their lives read a book or even paid attention in a high school history class

first they came for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and I said nothing, but i did laugh quite a lot

Image slide text reads: Let Royal Canadian Legion #264 (Kensington/Hillhurst) know you disagree with their decision to cancel an event about rising censorship & banned books: admin264@shaw.ca 403-283-5264 Small image excerpt of the Writers’ Union of Canada and the Writers’ Guild of Alberta statement. Text continues: Freedom of Expression is a fundamental right in a democratic society, it's concerning that the Legion has stated a Freedom to Read event doesn't align with government values.

We stand with The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC) and @writersguildab.bsky.social, and condemn the Royal Canadian Legion No. 264 Kensington/Hillhurst’s decision to cancel their Freedom to Read Week event.

#FreedomToReadWeek #FreedomToRead #CAIABB #yycpoli #yyc #kensingtonyyc

"DoFo" has a lot of nerve...as usual, right?

Good boy deserves a gold medal for cute and also running fast.

Rachel A. Rosen 2025 Award Eligibility. Blight (The Sleep of Reason Book 2), novel, What If We Kissed While Sinking a Billionaire's Yacht (Antifa Lit Journal Vol 1), short story, Wizards & Spaceships, podcast/fancast. The entire thing is a scrapbook aesthetic with bats and moths.

Should you want to nominate me for awards, here's my 2025 output. You would also get an output of high-pitched shrieking if you're into that.