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in my defense, the tour guide was calling them “bullies” when she could have been calling them “infanticidal rapists”

ceterum censeo normalize dolphin personhood

So they can be tried for their crimes

No, no, nothing that socially and financially benefits me is weird. In fact I think it should be normative.

the mandate of heaven is stored in the balls

Do you think executives at paper towel companies have meetings where they talk to each other about being market leaders in absorbance-based excellence

Demand accountability from future influencers! In age-appropriate crayon!

The One Ring would be safe with me. Like, I’d still totally get corrupted, but I’d procrastinate actually using it for anything.

It is exhausting.

That is *such* a good board game. My favorite run was the game where they had pretty much figured out I was a cylon, so instead of revealing myself I started running for president every turn. They wasted so many resources trying to stop me that they started failing crisis events.

This website rules

tbh Hunter deButts would be a fantastic name for the protagonist of an erotic thriller novel

Depending on their circles, they might know people who hate the religion. Some branches of Christianity also heavily invest in an “us-vs-the-world” narrative and imply that it’s easier not to make your faith public, and thus an act of courage to be public about it.

ur so real for this

Everyone in the replies talking about social anxiety as if this isn’t how the Buddha died

Heartbreaking: Local author uses “slay yourself and rise again” as arc words, cannot use them as marketing copy on the off chance people try to take it literally

"If you pay me $8 a month, you can make donations in excess of 280 characters!"

I'd invite you to read up on the transformer architecture of LLMs and compare it to cognitive appropriation models of human learning. The idea that you can lump both processes into a single category called "training" is not an evidence-based position.

That does not substantively address my comment.

This argument rests on the assertion that human training and LLM training are the same kind of thing. I would argue that's an equivocation fallacy. You would need to demonstrate that the LLM is engaged in the same kind of cognitive appropriation that underlies human learning for this to hold.

I'm not saying you can't articulate fresh ideas in your writing or tell stories that haven't been told. I'm saying you're going to have to rely on the tools that other writers have built—the ones you've internalized that taught you what storytelling *is*.

This is why writers shouldn't try to be original. Being original requires building a new tradition from scratch, and I'm sorry, but you're not based enough to diff the collective effort of generations of intelligent, creative people by yourself.

Thinking about tradition as a lens. Beyond institutionalized traditions (e.g. civics, religion) there are quieter traditions like genre that contain a history of people approaching situations with a particular set of tools they inherited from the people before them. And you can read texts this way.

this is and has always been the funniest discord functionality to me. yeah dude i would love to stream scrivener to my group chat

wait how much of the genre does that describe? I thought it was just stuff like The Book Thief and whatever the fuck Pynchon was on

optimist: the cup is half full
pessimist: the cup is half empty
rhetorician: the cup's fullness is constituted by the audience's reaction to it, which is often a matter of pathos as much as logos

THE FOUNDATIONAL WORK OF WEIRD OCCULTIST BULLSHIT WAS ALSO THE FOUNDATIONAL WORK OF CRYPTOGRAPHY AND STEGANOGRAPHY

written by a guy who deeked into an abbey during a snowstorm when he was 21 and became the abbot within a year and bullshat so much historians were confused for centuries

Joined a couple author starter packs and now my feed is entirely composed of people promoting their books. Thinking if I repost all of those posts then I can make the problem twice as bad for everyone else in the pack. Most important part of networking is the psychological warfare.

The moving plans I've been working on for months have suddenly fallen through and I need more funds. Opening commissions!!!

If you see this post do it!

Pronouns: she/her
Height: what are you a cop
Shoe Size: what are you a cop
Zodiac: what are you a cop
Smoke: what are you a cop
Tattoos: what are you a cop
Piercings: what are you a cop
Fave drink: what are you a cop

PUT AWAY YOUR MORNING STAR, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE LOW SELF-ESTEEM. AND YOU WILL WIN.

Haven’t deleted my twitter yet, so I’ve been able to witness: after the election, the amount of bots following me every day has skyrocketed.