Rachel Lapidow

"Five paragraphs! Whoa, some of us have day jobs, authors!"

This letter is amazing.

With some of the TTRPGs I work on, the author may go more than a chapter without using an acronym. Also, readers of TTRPGs often will pick up the book and review chapters at random, so adding the spelled out version once per chapter helps reduce possible confusion.

Yes, I like to do it that way too. In books or games where the author has created the abbreviation, I like to spell it out once per chapter if possible.

Hope you have enough tokens.

I hate having to use slashes or abbreviations where I normally wouldn't.

Alright. The session is over.

My thoughts:

W.T.F.

I can see why people didn't want to be recorded because admitting that you need ChatGPT to write a 1-2 sentence comment to your client is EMBARRASSING.

That is fucking stupid and a massive waste of energy. The search function on CMOS's website works just fine. In instances where I've been unsure of what to look for, I've posted questions into editing groups and gotten answers from fellow editors.

Thanks! I just barely had enough space to include them.

I'm very happy about ASI's stance.

"Author": I hope you don't mind, I used AI to write most of my book.

"Editor": No problem, I lack the analytical skills to edit it, so I had AI do it.

"Reviewer": Heck, I didn't even read it, and my AI got the name of your novel wrong.

"Reader": It's all good. I had AI summarize your novel to me.

I did! He makes me laugh a lot. Sometimes at him, sometimes with him.

I have a TENS unit for my back. I was asking my husband to place the electrode pads on my back. Before doing so he said, "Now, Rachel, this may shock you."

I think it would be cute to market them that way, or as a good size to take on a picnic or something.

That's great that your husband is also good at parenting. It has to be hard at times.

Apparently, trying to further enrich billionaires while handing over more data to tech companies.

At our local European market, I got a bag of Walker's salt and vinegar chips. My husband was just looking at the bag and said, "For a minute, I thought 'walkers' was the name of their small size chip bags. The size you would take with you on a walk."

One of the big reasons why I don't want kids is that I absolutely wouldn't have the patience to deal with stuff like this. Please know that I respect the heck out of great parents like you.

Exactly!

Ditto.

She's beautiful! She will settle down in a bit, and then she will be so happy to have a new home.

What a gorgeous kitty!

Yes, things are terrible. However, I just got my first iced coffee of the year. With maple syrup, naturally.

What if there was a mindful way to steal people’s art, pollute Black neighborhoods, and raise everyone’s electric bill?

If you a third cat appears, that's when you need to start worrying.

OMG, I would be buying that series so fast!

That's good that he's more over enthusiastic than wanting to annoy/tease cats. And as you said, experience is likely what is going to help him better grasp the cat's boundaries.

That's great, that she knows how to politely indicate her displeasure first. Hopefully Squidling will learn to be gentle with her.

a man in a trench coat and tie is standing in front of a building . Alt: Donald Sutherland, a man in a trench coat and tie is standing in front of a building, in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. He points dramatically at the camera, and opens his mouth wide.

Maybe something à la Donald Sutherland?

Thanks!