Dr Tiffani Angus

Grammarly should get fucked

Farage U-turns again on Iran war as Reform’s policy descends into ‘chaos’

No principles, no morality, no information, no expertise, just endlessly appeasing Trump, Putin, Netanyahu and assorted billionaires and foreign oligarchs or chasing the next headline, until suddenly colliding with reality. Bang, oof.
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Re-boosting this thread with alt-text for this post: This image shows a book with a white background and an illustration of a black highwayman's mask on the cover. The title reads: Don't Steal This Book: A Plea from Authors.

It's not too late to stop it and if people did what you're suggesting, all they will do is increase the resources available to AI & decrease them for people.

You don't beat this system by participating in it. You help it.

You know the best way to kill AI? Don't use it. Don't buy it. Don't share it. Don't give the people who use it your labour or your money.

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Me, too!

I’m in this.

The UK government is considering upending copyright law to benefit AI companies. Don’t Steal This Book urges them not to.

Apart from the list of authors involved, the book is empty, representing the effect the government’s plans would have on authors' livelihoods.

2/3

I worked at ARU and LOVED that those signs were there!

Background image is a book cover: the top third is bright green with yellow text that reads Tiffani Angus, Val Nolan. The middle third is black with white text that reads Spec Fic for Newbies Vol. 3; the bottom third is green with yellow text that reads A Beginner's Guide to Writing Even More Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. Foreground text: "Typically manifesting as an idealised version of higher educational environments, dark academia serves as a form of resistance against the contemporary corporatization of universities, where students are as likely to be regarded as financial assets than anything else." p. 128

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Really there are only two kinds of nostalgia.

Personal: "things were better when I was younger, healthier, less aware of the world, and with fewer responsibilities"

Impersonal: "things were better in this past I read about in a storybook"

Why Some Of The Largest Book Publishers Are Hiring AI Engineers YouTube video by Forbes

Jesus...

Tonight! 8:30pm! Live in the Discord with @bookdragonauthor.bsky.social!

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Background image is a book cover: the top third is bright green with yellow text that reads Tiffani Angus, Val Nolan. The middle third is black with white text that reads Spec Fic for Newbies Vol. 3; the bottom third is green with yellow text that reads A Beginner's Guide to Writing Even More Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. Foreground text: “Westerns have always had their share of capable women because the setting fosters independence and resourcefulness. Space westerns are no different, and, while the parent genre’s stereotypes of barmaid, schoolteacher, and golden-hearted sex workers (looking at you, *Firefly*) still exist, they’ve long been supplanted by a broader range of archetypes.” P. 47

Howdy, pardner! That's a mighty fine... *spaceship* you got there. SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES 3, out soon from @lunapress.bsky.social looks at Space Westerns, why we took our wagon trains to the stars, and the various characters that walk into our alien saloons! Pre-order now! linktr.ee/specficforne...

Your kid has found a messiah or the dog a minion.

Saw the "OMG why are 40 & 50 year old people even ON social media?" post & my first thought was, "What do you think *should* happen, kid? Should we all just do a Logan's Run?" & then I realized this child has never once in their life heard of Logan's Run & I turned to dust & my ghost is typing this.

Oh look, reason #9567 to hate AI and the havoc it is wreaking on the creative industries!

Background image is a book cover: the top third is bright green with yellow text that reads Tiffani Angus, Val Nolan. The middle third is black with white text that reads Spec Fic for Newbies Vol. 3; the bottom third is green with yellow text that reads A Beginner's Guide to Writing Even More Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. Foreground text: “You know when something *isn’t quite right*. You feel bloated, a little nauseated, and maybe that baby bump isn’t the expected shape. That’s when the question comes up of whether it’s a baby … *human* … at all.” p. 204

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Background image is a book cover: the top third is bright green with yellow text that reads Tiffani Angus, Val Nolan. The middle third is black with white text that reads Spec Fic for Newbies Vol. 3; the bottom third is green with yellow text that reads A Beginner's Guide to Writing Even More Subgenres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. Foreground text: "We also can’t forget the many delicious elves from Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy: bowman Legolas, royal elf Galadriel, lord of Rivendell Elrond, and his daughter Arwen, who marries Aragorn. Jackson depicts them as tall, beautiful, and mysterious, with long blond or dark hair and pointed ears: they’re Middle-earth thirst traps!" p. 123

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On the blog, @trip.bsky.social spills all the tea about running a Kickstarter. His new one *just* launched (find a link there)! So you get advice *and* an opportunity to take part in an older publishing model that now offers swag along with the book!
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It’s a tool that has been built on the copyrighted work of thousands of writers without permission or compensation. It’s a tool that’s being pushed on us whether we want it or not to line the pockets of the people who will lose money if we don’t use it. So you do you, but I don’t have to roll over.

Anthropic’s AI tool Claude central to U.S. campaign in Iran, amid a bitter feud Anthropic’s AI tool Claude is playing a key role in the U.S. military’s campaign in Iran, amid a bitter fight with the Pentagon over the terms of its use in war.

AND there’s this

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A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

Uninstalling ChatGPT and using Claude isn’t the flex you think it is. It’s still AI, it’s still slop, you’re still outsourcing your brain.

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

That’s hilarious bc IT IS NOT SACRED! It was a fluke, run by a bunch of people who had absolutely no idea *really* what they were doing & were seeing what spaghetti stuck & drinking the profits. I was born in N Hollywood & the stories I heard… The place is *another planet* but that’s why it worked.

I’ve got some friends on it. I ended up muting 2 on Fb because the pressure to be the same size I was in when I was 25 (30 years ago) is quite enough, thankyouverymuch, and I don’t need a running log of how much weight you’ve lost. I’m so much more interesting than my body, yanno? It’s *exhausting*.

I really liked it, too, but you never hear *anyone* mention it. I mean, the brashness makes perfect sense for a film ABOUT the birth of the film industry and celebrity (at that level of recognition). The first 15/20 minutes (the party) are *glorious*.

Real privilege to speak at the launch of Trans Actual recent report.

Absolute solidarity with the trans community and everyone working so hard for a better future for trans and non binary people. 🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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