@ladylettera32
Canadian novelist-in-progress & Sea People's fan girl. Doing okay (allegedly). They want us too sick and worn down to fight back. Wearing an N95 is an act of resistance and an act of liberation. AI is built on stolen art.
Can't quite believe this needs repeating, but:
If you're using commercialised LLM extruders for any reason - whether it's rewriting an email, deploying a "thinking partner" or doing "research" for your next book...
You are handling stolen goods
You are sanctioning plagiarism
Stop
I know I know lol
Also So Many Templates 💖
Alt text: a drawing of a file folder filled with papers. Text reads "KEEP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES"
It's 5 am and my brain won't shut off.
Curse you tiny dopamine rectangle
Think of all the notebooks I could replace! Think of all the documents I could tag and organize and make easily searchable! Think about all the useful diagrams I could draw and add typed text to!
Now if I just had a spare $1200 lying around
Do I *need* a ReMarkable?
Strictly speaking no, but I want one
Maybe that's why so many people in power continue to push the narrative that covid is "over" but also "not a big deal"
Hard to push back when you've got brain damage.
Just a quiet word for anyone storing jerry cans of fuel in the garage: improper storage of fuel in quantity can potentially invalidate home insurance
Hello sweetie!
Happy to help! 😊
A copy of The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman lying on a fluffy blanket. Fun fact for my alt text peeps: this author's hate on for badly designed doors is how we got the term Norman Doors
Hopefully some quiet reading time in bed will help my brain shut off
If you use Grammarly, be aware that the experts in their ‘expert review’ were not involved in the creation of this ‘product’.
When you read the last book at the library the librarians take you to the secret book binding room, flay you, and turn your skin into a book.
Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal opinion article titled “A Guaranteed Income Won’t Stop People From Wanting to Work,” by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo. A subheading says evidence from programs around the world suggests basic income does not make recipients lazier. Below the headline is a photo of several women sitting outdoors at a table working.
"Not only don't people work less when they are guaranteed an income, they might actually put in more effort at work. And the fact that they have more money to spend leads to the creation of more jobs."
Nobel Prize–winning economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Me, starting a second novel: Oops I invented a religion again.
Me, eating a bland, woody grocery store radish: "RADishes? More like SADishes!"
Fingers crossed that the "AI" bubble will pop soon
Link to contact form:
www.calgarylibrary.ca/contact-us (library card not required)
The Calgary Public Library has announced that they plan to offer an artist in residency program specifically for artists who use AI. Given that AI is build on work stolen from real artists and writers I find this appalling.
Fellow Calgarians, please reach out to the CPL & share your thoughts!
I guess I didn't need to waste all that money on a WaterPik then ☹️
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Bees doing important Bee Bzzzness
Alt text: a still from Arrested Development showing the matriarch (Lucille Bluthe). Text reads "I mean, it's one banana, Micheal. What could it cost? Ten dollars?"
Yup.
I used to check my banking app before I bought ANYTHING and it took YEARS for me to break the habit. I'm mostly okay now, though buying anything over $100 stresses me out and I still get legitimately grumpy if I forget to clip a coupon and have to pay full price
Doodle of my characters Momo and K9 running. #kimgakaku
fresh, organically sourced, human grown mushrooms-
I have never met anyone who is more adept at tracking every last cent they have than people who live or have lived in poverty
it is a skill developed out of necessity and it never leaves you
Spouse's predecessor was like this & let's just say that he's an ex for a reason
I wish I had believed I deserved better BEFORE he dumped me, but dumping me was actually the best thing he ever did b/c then I met Spouse
Sending you hugs if you want them. I know it hurts now but this too shall pass
