celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026thank you!! i did figure it out in the end. and thus figured out how apple's confusing structure meant that some thing has to be enabled for another thing to be disabled. 110
celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026i'm bugging their support now and will report back. 110
celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026yeah literally. at least they *do* let us turn them off but still. but still. 010
celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026www.pcmag.com/news/is-appl... found it i think. tbh deceptive of them to put this under screentime and not directly under siri. come on apple.pcmag.comIs Apple Intelligence Stealing Your Mac's Storage? Here's How to Turn It OffIt turns out that privacy comes at a cost. Apple's AI models take up a lot of space on iPhone and Mac, but what can you do about it? 130
celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026anyone know how to make sure this never appears again on my mac? it appeared in scrivener which *definitely* didn't do this, this is all the latest mac os. 130
Reposted by celia winter 🦋Matej Kollár @smuggerby.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The Gardener nurtures the Fool 219952
Reposted by celia winter 🦋Jennifer Hudak @jenniferhudak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026My poem "Swimming the Witch," about how systems of power often create the very things they are attempting to quell, is now free to read at @trollbreathmag.bsky.social -- just in time for spooky season! I hope you enjoy! magazine.trollbreath.com/swimming-the...magazine.trollbreath.com 1110645
celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026truly "the bitch is back" by elton john has been playing in my head all afternoon. 020
celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026me waltzing with my laptop around the apartment: "my love, never leave me again. never go where i can't follow." my laptop: "don't ever hurt me again" me: "i swear it. i swear it." 170
celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026hello my laptop is returned to me good lord i am such a millennial who requires a Big Screen to do thins sometimes 1161
celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026What I hate (and suspect most are afraid of) is the threat of the “gotcha.” Which I will admit is purely *my* experience of fear since I saw it happen wrongly to a friend. 110
celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Ultimately: I agree Pangram is a tool in the toolbox, and I think as long as it is clearly communicated that it is in use and that authors have the right to consent to its utilization (or just not submit), I get less frustrated. I want magazines to do what they can not to publish slop. 210
celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Part of the problem is people are afraid everyone is operating in bad faith: slopmongers are very much operating in bad faith and people view ai detectors as an extension of that. Trust has been tremendously eroded more broadly from a couple of different angles. 120
celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I suspect part of why people aren’t as likely to provide details of their false positive experience is it can be humiliating, dehumanizing, and terrifying. What if people don’t believe you? What if you step forward or defend yourself and everyone thinks you are a slopmonger? 130
celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I will convey this to her but I think the whole thing bruised her tremendously, since she provided what backup materials she could, as well as other writings that predate AI and was still told it wasn’t good enough and that Pangram’s analysis was the only thing that mattered. 110
celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is from July so again, it is plausible their algorithms are improving, but someone wrote about their own experience in a widely swinging pangram score: writerkatharine.substack.com/p/pangram-fl...writerkatharine.substack.comPangram Flagged My Own Writing as AIHere's Why That's a Problem 110
celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Maybe their algorithms have improved; I know someone who was falsely accused because of Pangram and had her offer to publish revoked because of it. 110
celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026As a data analyst, I also find their data presentation…deeply unclear. They are trying to offer a simple guidance on something that is fundamentally complex and doesn’t clearly explain what they mean. What does that “confidence” mean and why? 020
celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I recognize editors need to be careful and rely on more than just trust; but any decision made solely on pangram output makes my skin crawl. 240
celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Given that Pangram can be tricked by punctuation changes (people have tested this) I don’t find it trustworthy. That is perhaps my kindest opinion of the tool, which I know has also been used to level false accusations. 250
celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My computer is in the shop so I am barely a person, but last week I signed my contract for another short story sale! My story “The Forest’s Kin” will be appearing in ROF’s first installment of their Whispers Made Flesh anthology series, tentatively coming out in November! 5283
Reposted by celia winter 🦋Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.” 282158854
Reposted by celia winter 🦋CB Droege (Manawaker) @cbdroege.bsky.social · 24/09/2026🦄Trauma makes choices for us 🎙️ Manawaker Studio presents: "This, Too, is Magic" by Celia Winter @crossingwinter.bsky.social 🎧 Any podcast app ❤️ Supported by patrons! www.patreon.com/manawaker/po... #FlashFiction #FictionPodcast #SpecFic #NewEpisode #booksky #unicorn #purity #magic 02314
celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It’ll be ok I just have to commute today apparently bleh 020
celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Welp hashem did not write my work laptop’s name in the book of life 380
Reposted by celia winter 🦋Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026when ai leaves u behind 75261709819
celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Me at the Gogol bordello show yesterday while they sing a song that inspired my vampire x old lady story idea: “what if this story is about a third of its original intended length actually” (even more E coded than you thought) 110
celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Oh dear I seem to have entered my “what if this could be a novella” wra 1121
Reposted by celia winter 🦋Joe Merrick @joemerrick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026To commemorate the collaboration between Pokémon and the ESA, a special Pikachu plush was sent to the International Space Station from April 11th through June 17th What a picture. Absolutely stunning 2259422020
celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Lower wacker is unironically one of my favorite things about Chicago. 030
Reposted by celia winter 🦋🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Welp, confirmation from a market that gen AI art is used when there are "no other options." No other options?? SEriOSLy? 🤔 Let's start a thread of where you can find art to use in the public domain because I'm sick of this shit! Please reply below with your favorite resources. 👇 167735
Reposted by celia winter 🦋Jennifer Hudak @jenniferhudak.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Ok y'all -- I have a GIFT MEMBERSHIP for one year of poetry review awesomeness up for grabs! Want a chance to win it? Comment below. I'll choose a winner on Monday at noon Eastern. 102421
Reposted by celia winter 🦋Justin Pot @justinpot.com · 10/09/2026pro tip: tell your boss the AI said you’ll be more efficient at home and see which one of their irrational beliefs wins out 118695
Reposted by celia winter 🦋K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 11/09/2026“Rejection” means that someone in the chain is looking for a German Shepherd and you’re handed them something else. Perhaps it was a chihuahua. Perhaps a bicycle. The fact that you didn’t give them the German Shepherd they want doesn’t mean your bicycle is bad, it just means it’s a bicycle. 320653
Reposted by celia winter 🦋Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 10/09/2026john fetterman is the first rat in history to climb onto a sinking ship. 475239124327
Reposted by celia winter 🦋Sand_Scorpio 🦋 is hunting for Ben Solo @sand-scorpio.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Let Go (Never Let Me Go) by @crossingwinter.bsky.social #reyloWRW Reread this fic in which Tinder-matched Rey and Ben are on the same train when they swipe right and fall headfirst into the most emotional, meaningful conversation and also for each other. archiveofourown.org/works/150719...archiveofourown.orgLet Go (Never Let Me Go) - Chapter 1 - crossingwinter - Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy [Archive of Our Own]An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works 095
Reposted by celia winter 🦋tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place. 425174243863