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Christopher Berry @cplberry.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Using a LLM to write a term paper is useful in a similar way t using a forklift for weightlifting at the gym. Yes, it may be efficient in completing the task, but the value is in the hard work

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.

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sarah marii @sarahmarii.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Don't piss writers off because we will not stop researching until we have found a big problem for you.

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Jasmine "Skellington" Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I've just sent an email to Seattle Worldcon about all this, but I wanted to highlight this for everyone else: Their own Privacy Policy does NOT give them permission to share your personal data (even "just" your name) with genAI seattlein2025.org/about/privac...

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This Privacy Policy Statement is designed to provide details about how we manage, share, and secure the information we collect.

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sarah marii @sarahmarii.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The average American has three friends

A meme of a white man with a short beard and cowboy hat surrounded by floating text saying "beer," "trucks," and "girl"

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Dubious @dubiousca.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

The scifi dystopian shit is supposed to be discussed DURING the panels, not used to select them

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Qatar is the world's second largest supplier of LNG (liquefied methane) and also the lowest cost supplier. So what do they choose when they need new power generation? Solar. Simple math. When it's their money, oil and gas companies choose solar, while telling you that YOU need their LNG.

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QatarEnergy inaugurates 875MW solar portfolio

QatarEnergy has inaugurated two solar projects with a capacity of 875MW, which will more than double Qatar’s installed solar capacity.

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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

There is only one appropriate response to this from SFF authors: boycott Seattle worldcon.

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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

You guys are being so mean to Kristi Noem, but sometimes you have to pay for Dalmatian puppies in cash.

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 10/04/2025

29 days since I discovered this BS summary of Clarkesworld being served by Google. Multiple complaints have been filed, yet it is still there, mispresenting us. It's like they refuse to acknowledge the articles that now surround it. (My blog, The Guardian, NPR)

Google results for Clarkesworld (set to verbatim) show an generated description of Clarkesworld that reads:
Clarkesworld Magazine is an American online science fiction and fantasy magazine known for publishing short stories by authors such as Elizabeth Bear, Kij Johnson, and Caitlín R. Kiernan. The magazine has been praised for its high-quality content and diverse range of stories, but has also faced criticism for publishing AI-generated stories.
We've never been criticized for publishing AI-generated stories. We've been VERY critical of the AI companies, including Google over their theft and deceptive marketing of this product.
Articles around their description include my own blog post about the start of AI submissions becoming a problem and both a Guardian and NPR stories about how we had to shut down submissions in response to them.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 14/04/2025

Every day I understand Dante Alighieri a little better, writing a whole ass book where he could put everyone he hated in hell.

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sarah marii @sarahmarii.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

To be fair, they hype was that AI would make work easier. Did not specify how legal that work would be.

"Even worse, when you Google one of these slop-squatted package names, you’ll often get an AI-generated summary from Google itself confidently praising the package, saying it’s useful, stable, well-maintained. But it’s just parroting the package’s own README, no skepticism, no context. To a developer in a rush, it gives a false sense of legitimacy.

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sarah marii @sarahmarii.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Welp, there goes my plan to escape to the woods.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

BBC: Why don't women use ChatGPT? Woman: I tried it and it just barfed out useless garbage BBC: Women don't use ChatGPT because it's too difficult for their pretty little heads

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I keep thinking, "Oh, I'll write a satire!" And getting lapped. How can anyone work under these conditions?

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Jo Miles @jomiles.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

It's also the day for my favorite meme! If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.

Jadzia Dax and Kor hugging: "Curzon, my beloved old friend." "I'm Jadzia now." "Jadzia, my beloved old friend!"

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Boomer @boomerthemoose.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I heard there was a secret ooze It turned four turtles into dudes But you don't really care for pizza, do ya? They fought like this, Two swords, a stick A couple sai Some nunchuck tricks Those Ninja boys-a callin Cowabunga

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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 22/03/2025

Love fucking up a spelling so bad autocorrect is like "welp you're on your own now"

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sarah marii @sarahmarii.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Young men don't open bank accounts. They are too expensive. They wander the streets, dumpster-diving for avocado pits and spout them in garages. That's their savings. If one party supports dumpster avocados. They vote for em. Composters caused those savings to go down. Young men have changed

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 25/03/2025

what if we addressed predatory banking fees or explored options like postal banking instead of pointing people to an even more predatory shadow financial system

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

NEW: Erdogan has banned protests in Turkey. He has threatened to arrest anyone attending one. This is the people’s response. Fighting for their democracy with another vast gathering in Istanbul tonight. #Turkey 🇹🇷 (🎥 Credit: Özgür Özel - Chairman, Republican People’s Party)

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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

History repeats itself

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Extraordinary scenes in Serbia’s capital Belgrade right now. Around 500,000 people are on the streets in what may be the biggest protest in Serbian history. All demanding the resignation of President Vučić & his government. What began as a student protest is now a full democratic uprising. 🇷🇸

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sarah marii @sarahmarii.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

What trickles down is not the money itself, but the corrupted ideals it creates.

In the Texas Tribune article they quote a local rancher who is selling his ranch’s groundwater to the oil and gas industry and seems to have decided it's not “if they ruin” the water but “when.”

“The oil field’s kind of notorious for messing up the groundwater,” he said. “My idea is to sell enough water to where I could save up and buy somewhere else if they do ruin the water.”

He clearly understands how things have always worked and has taken the “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” approach by adopting the oil industry’s business model: extract and sell what resources you can for profits and then when there are no more profits, leave town with your money and leave the mess for someone else to clean up.

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Inequality Media @inequalitymedia.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Half of Americans have less than $500 in savings, according to recent estimates. Meanwhile, the combined wealth of the three richest men in the world is roughly $740B. Our problem isn’t an issue of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding wealth inequality.

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How much money Americans have in their savings accounts—nearly half have less than $500

Nearly 50% of U.S. adults don't have enough cash to pay for an unexpected medical bill or car repair.

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sarah marii @sarahmarii.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Are "AI summaries" actually just written by my boss? Because he also only hears 10% of what I say and then rearranges to form puzzling conclusions that become my responsibility to correct.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The Agriculture Department has axed two programs that gave schools and food banks money to buy food from nearby farms and ranchers. Roughly $660 million that schools and child care facilities were counting on to purchase food has been canceled. This will hurt both kids and small, local farmers.

politico.com

USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks

States have been notified that they will not receive 2025 funding for schools to buy food from nearby farms.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I honestly don’t hate the picture of all the Chicago cops protecting Tesla because showing a bunch of armed agents of the state openly enforcing Elons will is revealing the truth of our situation much more clearly than anything protestors could show

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sarah marii @sarahmarii.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Upcycling wind turbine nacelles into tiny homes. www.fastcompany.com/91214085/win...

“Most parts of a wind turbine—the foundation, tower, gearbox parts and generator—are made of metal or concrete and therefore easily recyclable,” Vattenfall’s website explains. “Steel, for instance, can be melted down and reused, but the downside is that this takes a lot of energy and creates emissions.”

To address this concern, Vattenfall teamed up with the Dutch Design Foundation‘s design lab last year, asking designers in the area to respond to a key question: “What if a decommissioned wind turbine could become a gold mine of resources?” Rotterdam-based Superuse Studios submitted the idea for a tiny home, which ultimately came to fruition.

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Toni Morrison: “Racism may wear a new dress, buy a new pair of boots, but neither it nor its succubus twin fascism is new, or can make anything new. It can only reproduce the environment that supports its own health; fear, denial, and an atmosphere in which its victims have lost the will to fight.”

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sarah marii @sarahmarii.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

People wish safe travels when someone is going from one place to another but I feel like most of the danger happens when going from one time to another.

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InkStruck @inkstruck.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I was playing with a #flipped (or symmetrical) composition for this monarch and coneflower print from 2 summers ago. Feels right for this #PrintPromptMonday! #printmaking #linocut

A white coneflower on the bottom and monarch butterfly above on an orange background mirror each other to create a sort of hourglass shape

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Jenny DeMilo @jennydemilo.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Farmers: losing billions Trump: “have fun!”

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DaBean. @honeybadger10.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Target is clearly having a moment.

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sarah marii @sarahmarii.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Existence of Amazon Prime implies existence of millions of plastic swatches showcasing various finishes of Amazon Topcoat. AT is full of VOCs that slowly poison you. Your local hardware store is crying but you can't hear them over the swooshing of the paint roller. Each month you chose a new color.

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sarah marii @sarahmarii.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

"Why don't you put on a costume and play?" "Daddy is busy defending Ukraine."

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Surprised Face Guy @surprisedface.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

AOL warned us of the dangers of logging on. It would play for us the screams of the damned. But we didn’t listen. We didn’t listen.

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Me and the homies pregaming a little nature in the park before we head into the woods

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.” I encourage you to join. robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

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sarah marii @sarahmarii.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

okay guys, now's the time to stock up on weather

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

After months of rumors, I can confirm that the "big 3" SF/F magazines of Asimov's Science Fiction, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, and Fantasy and Science Fiction have been purchased. The new owner is Steven Salpeter and a group of investors. 1/2 www.patreon.com/posts/123173...

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Asimov's, Analog and F&SF purchased by new owner | Jason Sanford

Get more from Jason Sanford on Patreon

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I love leaving voice mails for my senators where I say things like "the USPS is very important to our country" as if I'm helping a small child with a book report or describing our civilization to an alien

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sarah marii @sarahmarii.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

One of my favorite things about being in a local writing group is the feedback -- "Horrifying! Well done!" only comes from people who have known you long enough to get the vibe.

Gdocs comment: "Another provocative, edifying, horrifying poem from our own Sarah! Well done!"

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sarah marii @sarahmarii.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Mechanic presented the oil dipstick. I licked it, swished, spit into the cup holder and knowingly said "very good." Is the look he gave me sexist or was I just supposed to smell it?

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