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Freelance medical editor, alto, digital packrat, occasional traveller, trying to make things better. The pup is Bunty, an Airedale terrier (🎂2023-05-29). 🇨🇦 She/her. Yay for alt text. https://linktr.ee/rmarwick
The Sticky, apparently!
you can tell Wired has been doing good journalism lately because there's been increased whining by the extraction class about how Wired mysteriously changed in the decade since tech titans fully revealed themselves as sociopaths
from this recent Dorsey interview:
Uhhh the animal cruelty aspect is not emphasized NEARLY enough in this link preview (the flamingos are alive, but injured)
Yes!
Jesus.
Oh wait, it’s on Prime, we might have that
Oh good! I will add it to the list for the next time we have Netflix!
Join the #EFA BIPOC and Pittsburgh chapters with Karen Yin as they discuss her book The Conscious Style Guide on March 18. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3P1Bgtv
I never got around to watching the maple syrup heist show. Was it any good?
This site needs a break. Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative.
1. Doing a walking commute to work through a #forest #park (which I’ll be getting to do next two weeks!)
2. Plays/musical theatre from playwrights from underrepresented backgrounds
3. Heist novels
I went ahead and used my terrible photoshop skills to put him on that 90s school portrait background.
Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative.
1. Moss
2. The fact that we all got to be on Earth at the same time as David Bowie
3. This squirrel in Garfield Park, a couple of months ago, that posed like it was doing a school portrait.
Point of order: NYT top editors and ownership do not feel shame about what they publish.
This site needs a break. Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative.
1) Makin' cool shit (costumes and jewelry and painting my house)
2) The Soup Project (tonight: BORSCHT)
3) The 11th of March (happy Buck Frobisher day, Due South Fans!)
This site needs a break. Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative.
1. A roaring fire on a cold, damp day
2. Reading/listening to books, especially those with queer characters by authors
3. Hanging out and laughing with friends
They are SO cute
You may need a thing about now that isn’t awful. Here. Have a porcupine in a tree that I spotted near the St Lawrence River. I talked to them for a while and told them they were cool. I hope they got the vibe.
This site needs a break. Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative.
1. Dogs, especially mine
2. Choral singing
3. People who make amazing art and post it for us to see
I didn't have any natural talent at filling cavities but thank God AI has put a stop to dental gatekeeping.
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Is there a German word for “my chatbot says you aren’t very original because it has now absorbed your unpublished work and declared it known and I can’t be bothered to read what I sign my name to” ?
Don’t use LLMs to review manuscripts if you’ve agreed to review them….
You defend this expression not cuz its cool and you like it but because THE SLIPPERY SLOPE IS IN FACT REAL
I thought it wasnt real for years! I was FUCKING WRONG. I WAS WRONG. They will take amd take and take and no amount of "but im one of the good ones!" Will save you
The whole point of defending the right for uncomfortable, or even reprehensible fiction to have the right to exist isnt that its all cool and nothing is ever wrong with it
Its that government/corpo organizations will NEVER look at things with the """nuance""" you think is so self evident
You’re very welcome! Just saw this as well: bsky.app/profile/juli...
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
Turn a band into theatre:
Spider-Man: Turn Off The Darkness
This month, Jo reflects on Gene Wolfe's weirdness, why Sharon Shinn remains under-read, Agatha Christie's spookier stories, and finally finding a cosy fantasy that explains the appeal of the whole cosy fantasy boom!
I should be surprised that a company thought it was a good idea to steal the identities and work of experts to create fake versions of them to exploit and didn't think there would be profound blowback, but it's the golden age for assholes
