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What AI Teaches Us About Good Writing | NOEMA While AI can speed up the writing process, it doesn’t optimize quality — and it endangers our sense of connection to ourselves and others.

"Broadly, good writing seems to require a balance of conformity and nonconformity, and at times, deliberate rule-breaking." Interesting look at how generative AI gets writing wrong. #AI #ChatGPT #writing www.noemamag.com/what-ai-teac...

My favourite travel app, Tripcase, is sundowning. Alternatives like Tripit seem pretty poor. Ideas welcome!

L’actrice belge Emilie Dequenne, prix d’interprétation féminine à Cannes en 1999 pour « Rosetta », est morte à 43 ans La comédienne est décédée à l’hôpital Gustave-Roussy de Villejuif, près de Paris, des suites d’un cancer rare. Elle avait été révélée, à l’âge de 17 ans, par le film des frères Dardenne, qui avait également obtenu la Palme d’or.

L’actrice belge Emilie Dequenne, prix d’interprétation féminine à Cannes en 1999 pour « Rosetta », est morte à 43 ans

Grammar Fans Flock to a Film About Participles and Gerunds (Gift Article) “Rebel With a Clause” celebrates the improbable cross-country journey of a woman who gently imparts grammar rules to strangers.

Word nerds unite! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/n...

How to be a Canadian I’ve been thinking about what it means to be Canadian. Since I started writing this blog about life in France and lately in Switzerland, I’ve only posted a few times about my home country. Even tho…

When identity is all about what you're not. francesays.com/2025/02/23/h...

Submit SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN!! Please read the guidelines below. Successful writers and artists will be notified within a few weeks of the deadline closing, if you have not heard from us by February 20th p…

Just learned that The Ghastling is open for submissions: theghastling.com/submit/ 3K length horror stories #horrorwriters #Horror #WriteSky

What can you say about the death of a racist? francesays.com/2025/01/08/l...

I wrote something (quickly) about David Lodge.

Train conductor’s bilingual morning greeting raises hackles in Belgium Ilyass Alba welcomed passengers onboard a rush-hour train in Dutch and French – flouting strict language rules

Happy to live in Switzerland where our trains always welcome passengers in at least two of the official languages, plus English!

Train conductor’s bilingual morning greeting raises hackles in Belgium www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

How Facebook restricted news in Palestinian territories Palestinian news outlets have seen a steep drop in audience engagement since October 2023.

Even if Meta had 'no intention of silencing certain voices, the result is the same. Proof that the algorithm controls what we see and therefore think. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Shortbread!

Vive la France, vive la République ! #lesvoeuxduprésident

Am I the only one to be annoyed by the oft-used marketing term 'free gift'? Is not a gift free by definition?

Watching It's a Wonderful Life. Never gets old. Christmas must be coming!

Home - AG Literary Agency Books to Traditional Publishers Books to TV/Film

Fake literary agency alert: AG Literary. Web domain 17 days old so a bit hard to figure how they sold so many books already 😜 What they're really selling: a "compelling book proposal", provided by a "third-party vendor" aka the actual scammer agliterary.com

Farewell to a well-travelled and much loved cat. francesays.com/2023/10/19/a...