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Professor, Scholar, Poet, Photographer, Synthographer, Editor of Glint Literary Journal

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Whether You Like it or Not, AI is Going to Take Over Creative Writing An observation in five parts

Whether You Like it or Not, AI is Going to Take Over Creative Writing
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The "Take Over" in the title is misleading since the author is primarily suggesting AI will become more acceptable as a writing aid.

04.10.2025 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Do We Even Need Literary Writing? When the marketing usurps the meaning

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20.09.2025 13:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fungi spotting on the Chesnut Ridge Loop Trail

#falseturkeytail #coraltooth#snowfungi

04.08.2025 00:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The doe doesn't mind posing but may not approve of me peeking at the shy, handsome guy.

#deerphotography #naturewalk #blueridgemountains

23.07.2025 23:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Not getting a belly rub.

#notmycub #wildlife #blackbear #virginiawildlife

14.07.2025 18:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I was standing in my driveway photographing a couple of does on this sunny rainy day when a mama raccoon crossed my path. She heard my camera click, then approached to get a closer look.

#wildlife #raccoon #natureencounters

08.07.2025 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just a couple of trees out for a walk before rain.

#deerfolk #wildlife #ruralliving #naturefix

06.07.2025 22:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm photographing more bucks lately, usually between branches while they're pretending to be trees. This one has seen me enough to remain in his comfy position in the shade.

#buck #whitetail #blueridgewildlife

03.07.2025 00:36 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Young'uns

#deerlovers #youngbucks #nature #wildlife #ruralliving

27.06.2025 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Welcoming Party

#blackbear #notmydog #ruralliving #virginiawildlife

23.06.2025 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Summer Solstice 2025

#solstice #deerfolk #fawns #blueridgemountains

21.06.2025 00:29 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Weekend walk at Padapas Pond

#naturewalk #canadageese#padapaspond #virginiawildlife #nature

17.06.2025 15:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wake Up, You Lazy Skin Sack. I’m a Songbird and It’s 4 A.M. Wake up my sleepy mouth-breather, it’s 4:01 a.m. and I feel chatty! I might be small but I’m a warm-blooded lunatic and I’m right outside your bedr...

I will never look or listen to chickadees the same way ever again.

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wak...

09.06.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dappling

#fawn #blueridgemountains #wildlife #whitetaildeer #naturewalk #deerphotography #naturelovers

07.06.2025 23:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The kids are all right.

Juvenile red-bellied woodpecker, cardinal, brown thrasher

#birds #redbelliedwoodpecker #americancardinal #brownthrasher #youngbirds #birdlovers

26.05.2025 02:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My first closeup sighting of this leucistic robin.

#leucisticrobin #birdwatching #birdlovers #nature

18.05.2025 00:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...

14.05.2025 12:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Will thrash for food

#brownthrashers #babybirds #familysitcom #birdwatching

13.05.2025 02:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cape Fear Botanical Gardens

#capefearbotanicalgarden #flowers #naturewalk

04.05.2025 21:28 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Poetry Challenge: Memorize β€˜Recuerdo’ by Edna St. Vincent Millay Starting today, we’ll have a week of games, videos and essays to help you along the way. First up: readings by Ina Garten, Ethan Hawke and Ada LimΓ³n.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

28.04.2025 12:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Emerging From a Collective Silence, Universities Organize to Fight Trump A recent group statement showed that the nation’s academic leaders, at first reluctant to oppose the president’s moves, are beginning to unite.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/u...

27.04.2025 15:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thrasher, Catbird, Crasher

#birdwatch #backyardplayers

27.04.2025 03:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#write #aminacain #ahorseatnight

17.04.2025 01:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Good Morning! The Living Dead Woman is up at Eclectica Magazine in five new sonnets. Thanks to editor Tom Dooley for welcoming her morbid miscellany.

To read more, visit:

www.eclectica.org/v29n2/hammac...

#eclecticamagazine #poetry #midjourney #livingdead #poemtoimage #aicommunity
#experimental

14.04.2025 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | John Fetterman: GLP-1 Drugs Saved My Health. More Americans Need Access. The government should make it easier to access GLP-1s.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/o...

09.04.2025 10:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
robins

robins

berries

berries

pink petal

pink petal

wisteria

wisteria

Spring is sprung

02.04.2025 02:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation When Language Models Learn to See and Create

"The question isn't whether these tools will change visual media, but whether we'll be thoughtful enough to shape that change intentionally."

www.oneusefulthing.org/p/no-elephan...

30.03.2025 12:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | The View Inside Trump’s Assault on Universities The Trump administration’s attacks on universities will lead to the permanent diminishment of vital American institutions.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...

16.03.2025 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
female oriole on icy railing

female oriole on icy railing

male oriole on icy railing

male oriole on icy railing

male oriole with cylinder feeder

male oriole with cylinder feeder

female oriole with scattered seed

female oriole with scattered seed

Orioles on an icy day

20.02.2025 04:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | Trump Wants to Destroy All Academia, Not Just the Woke Parts The administration’s war on universities defies rational self-interest.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

14.02.2025 13:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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