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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This got a big reaction. Listen, I am not willing to stop using em dashes or correct grammar or even, yes, occasionally, to say that something was not X, it was Y.

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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I think AI writing is detectable by PEOPLE, but that one should be skeptical of AI claiming to be able to detect itself.

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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

The passage I uploaded was not heavy on em dashes or any of the surface tells. It was pretty idiosyncratic. I don't write like an AI or even in a generic way. I think it might just be a scam.

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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Yes I think it is plus what I said in my quote tweet. Can a sentence pass? Sure. A paragraph? Maybe, it depends. Longer than that and you're in much more obvious territory.

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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Lack of thought and logic behind imagery and sentences. Too much repetition of certain syntax. Human writing comes from the body, mimics speech and breath; the shape & length of arguments match human thought. AI has no body, no breath, no thought, and does things that run counter to bodily writing.

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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

AI tells tend to be more invisible to other AI rather than to humans because it's the same blind spot. People seem to have this fantasy that AI somehow thinks and reads us, but it does not. It can do complex tasks but often fails at basic reading comprehension that would be easy for a 10-year-old.

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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Yeah, or pay an observant reader who is trained in, I don't know, literature, language, etc. Heaven forbid.

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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

It was a short passage, but I guess apparently. Ugh.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/07/2026

The entire consumer-facing "A.i." industry is a fucking scam. Ban it from all your businesses and institutions.

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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I had not thought of the more vulnerable writer who is afraid their human writing could be mistaken for AI and thus PAY an AI to "humanize" their human writing...thus, ironically, rendering it tainted by AI after all. (I would basically challenge anyone to a dual who suggested my writing was AI.)

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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Yes. Not to be weird but I was shortlisted for a book prize. I've won awards. I can write?

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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I do think AI writing has tells. I will be reading something and then suddenly smell it, and then closer parsing shows there isn't human thought behind the words. I do not think AI can produce text of any length that can pass for human to an observant reader.

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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I think the best AI detectors are PEOPLE, who can tell that something is not right, that there is no THERE there.

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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I suppose the function of this is to get money out of people who are trying to pass AI writing off as human-written, so, morally I guess this might even out?

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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I ran an absolutely 100% human, zero AI-involvement at any stage passage of my writing through an "AI detector," curious if it could really tell human from AI work, and it said my own writing was "84% AI written" then asked I wanted to pay to have it "humanized." So there's that to keep in mind.

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Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Do I know anybody here with advice/knowledge about good ferries (small & large) in the west of England, Cornwall to Liverpool? I am researching myself but figured I would ask.

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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

English speakers should go back to using "good morning" and "good afternoon" to mean goodbye as well as hello.

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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Fan and cool but not cold baths. Water! Resign oneself.

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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Not ideal to take ten years to write a book but sometimes it just works out that way.

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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Thanks. I remember blackouts in NYC as well, I don't really know what to expect here. This is ... not great.

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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Thanks! The gardienne said it might be longer because everything is delayed right now. Hoping we can get it back soon!

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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Yep, we have no power for a chunk of the 2nd and I think part of the 3rd? It's weird because two streets over they have power but we are out of luck apparently.

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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Yup. Apparently it's just a few neighborhoods, including mine.

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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Waking up in this heat, once you actually manage to fall asleep at all, is like coming to after general anesthesia.

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Michael Erard @michaelerard.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

"We publish micro-fiction in the format of the Research Abstract, to encourage imaginative writing in the academy, entirely for fun."

journalofimaginaryresearch.home.blog

Journal of Imaginary Research Volume Eleven (2026)

Volume 11Download

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

BREAKING NYT: A New York City panel just voted to freeze rents for nearly one million rent-stabilized apartments — fulfilling one of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's key campaign promises and handing the mayor a major policy win six months into his tenure.

nytimes.com

Mamdani’s Rent Freeze Is Approved by New York City Board

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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Yeah exactly. The sweet sweet "cool" motionless air from the Sahara desert.

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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Thanks. I have a system for cooling the body as much as possible, just wondering about the fan sitch.

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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I'm routinely using a rotating set of metal cooking pots kept in the freezer to cool the body, sofa/bed surfaces, and tech devices.

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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This fan is not that fancy so I'm just going to not touch it since last week I couldn't get it to work at all.

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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

No wind. A cone of heat from the Sahara has come to murder me. Is 3am, please explain Bernoulli effect in this context. Many thanks.

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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Buster Keaton didn't stand still while a two-ton housefront collapsed on top of him with a window cut out to barely clear his shoulders on each side so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I mean, the franc isn't doing so well these days, so sure?

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Gretchen von Tongeln @metalligretch.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I'd like a show that's just an hour of TV cops typing, maybe they eat a danish every once and awhile.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 24/06/2026

"When I visited her in the Wichita Falls jail in May, her spirits were bright despite her circumstances. I wanted to ask her about what she’s been reading, but wondered if she was scared to answer. 'It’s crazy that we live in a world where it’s not safe to ask what books you’re reading,' she said."

theguardian.com

‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison

Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility

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