And some fun stuff... Document zoom is now available on desktop and mobile! 🔎 You can access zoom on desktop from document settings, the bottom bar, or left sidebar - and mobile from the top bar. You can also use hotkeys: ⌘ + / − to zoom in or out ⌃ ⌥ B to show or hide the bottom bar

Quick heads up on the sync warnings some folks have been seeing this week - We’ve had a big surge in people writing at the same time (we love to see it) - but it’s made the synchronizer cranky in some cases. We’re actively working on improvements now. 🧵[1/5]

Waiting for the day when AI art is recognized for what it is (universally cringe), and all our weird fics become premium reading because people are so hungry for human authenticity after years of slop-fuelled feeds… (That day is now btw)

Just when you thought publishing news couldn't get weirder, Grammarly’s AI bots start cosplaying as IRL writers (some from beyond the grave; others alive and prob drafting lawsuits right now). Grammarly's "Expert Review" grift is the latest example of how AI writing tools have lost the plot. 🧵

Your writing, your rules. The Ellipsus Reader features built-in copy-text controls, so you can share your work with peace of mind.

New to Ellipsus? Let’s take a quick look around. We’ll walk you through the dashboard, show you how to start writing, import your existing work, set themes, and lots more! More tutorials on the way. youtu.be/s27RewO_pqk

We don't want AI-generated stories. We want stories that are beautiful and weird. Mistakes and obsessions. Labyrinthine worlds; love poems that break us. We want the wild stroke of chance, the stray detail. We don't want soulless slop. We want work *written* by HUMANS.

We love you too! 🤣🖤

Where were you when you encountered the sacred text? #20yearsofMyImmortal

Shoutout to everyone who’s been valiantly escaping the AI-riddled hellworlds of Google Docs and Microsoft Word. 🙏 Now, you can make your exit from the LLM-industrial-productivity-complex a lot faster. Introducing… .docx import and export!!

For all the articles on generative AI, the media miss one simple point about generative AI: it's built to control us.

First, he comes out in support of Amodei. Then he nabs the contract, undercutting any such support. Now—he's lying about it! This man is a sociopath. May the backlash be swift and harsh.

Shameless. Repugnant. Evil. edition.cnn.com/2026/02/27/t...

The latest step towards weaponizing AI for mass surveillance and control of the internet. AI-free spaces are becoming more precious by the day.

We believe the issue delivering emails to Microsoft accounts should now be resolved. If you're still encountering problems when logging in with a Microsoft email, please reach out to support! Thank you for patience!

Factor in the harm to incomes, mental health, learning, creativity, social cohesion, and the planet… the holistic economic cost of AI is in fact terrible. www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

We are currently experiencing some issues delivering emails to Microsoft accounts. We are in contact with Microsoft about the issue. We'll provide an update when everything is clear. Our apologies!

The AI "race" is a race to the bottom. To be profitable, companies will be motivated to agree to the terms of the highest bidder, leading to serious social repercussions. No amount of "safety and transparency policies" should convince us otherwise. 🧵

And you thought the ouroboros eating itself was a metaphor… 🐍

We’ve just released a new way to share your work, Ellipsus fam... Introducing: the Reader! It’s is a dedicated public sharing mode with formatting designed specifically for your audience.

The news that Google is aiding DHS in their crackdown on ICE critics may be one of the most dystopian plot twists in a year already full of alarming events. 🧵#2

Happy to have you writing with us! 🎉

The US Department of Homeland Security is tapping Big Tech to hand over the personal information of people criticizing ICE… this is a major acceleration that affects all of us 🧵👇

You asked… you yearned… Ready to derail your WIP emotionally - two new Valentine’s themes are here for Theme Thursday! 💗 True valentine (light mode) 🖤 Orchid noir (dark mode) Soft or ruinous; your choice. - the Ellipsus Team xo 💌

While OpenAI, Anthropic, and X's Grok have dominated headlines in the 'AI race' thanks to numerous scandals, Google Gemini has flown relatively under the radar…🧵

Google is handing over personal user data to ICE without due process. The urgency to exit the Panopticon grows by the day. theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...

if you haven't yet switched to ellipsus: (it's literally so good, I love the theme colors, version management, export feature, focus mode, and supporting a platform with rage against the establishment) 🥰💕

We're aware of reports that #Discord will begin introducing ID checks for users. As you can imagine, we're very unhappy with this decision. We're staunchly opposed to grabs at biometric data, legal names, etc.

Next #ThemeThursday, pick your trope: 💗 We’re pretending it’s platonic (it is not) 🖤 This will end badly (and we both know it) Choose your emotional devastation. Coming soon! 💌

Believe it or not, our comms team watches this video everyday as a pump up exercise 🫡

They're not even discreet about it. They're literally telling us TO OUR FACES (c.f any article on Curtis Yarvin or Peter Thiel— we're sparing our spirits and yours by not sharing one). But the billionaires made a mistake if they think we'll stand by and watch it happen. Things are gonna change.

Don’t know how many more examples it’s going to take for people to realize that billionaires are an existential threat to democracy and its institutions.

It's a well known fact that Big Tech scrapes plagiarized material to train their LLMs— but what does scraping actually look like? What exactly goes into it? 🧵👇

"The document describes how the scanning company’s 'hydraulic powered cutting machine' would 'neatly cut' books, whose pages would later be scanned."

We like to think Ellipsus is... versatile 😆

Big Tech platforms are not a safe home for any content, least of all resistance activity. These companies exist to to surveil us and reap our data for profit. Now they're the go-to tool for authoritarian governments to track and censor us. #fckZuck www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

What's happening on TikTok (censorship, the new privacy (read: surveillance) policy) is extraordinarily fucked, but ultimately predictable. Big Tech has been certifiably MAGA for years, and these platforms will only continue to enshittify. edition.cnn.com/2026/01/26/t...

👋 *taps the sign*

wait they removed Bovino? maximum respect to the people of Minneapolis: you did this. power to the people forever

Welcome aboard! Good to see larger players like Comic con & SFWA taking a stand against gen AI in creative work. Art show head Glenn Wooten nailed it: "More strident language is necessary: NO! Plain and simple." We couldn't agree more. Cheers to the human resistance ✊

The year is 2004. Google has just announced an exciting new venture: Google Print. With the blessing of five major libraries, Google sets out to digitalize the world's print material. There was only one, teeny tiny problem— they didn't ask permission. 🧵👇

Last week, we discussed Google's not-so-great habit of … selling our data for profit (🫠) and how Google’s ‘robber baron’ techniques have earned it the title: Duke of Data Theft, Arch Villain of The Internet™.

P.S.A. We’re seeing communities across the U.S. organizing to keep each other informed about… ICEy winter conditions. 🧵

As surveillance capitalism has expanded over the years, so has the data Google collects. Biometric data (face, voice), location, private medical data—if it can be used to identify you, to sell to you, it creates value for Google. 🧵👇

I wanna say goodbye to Google Docs for good, tbh. At least with my creative work. I haven't trusted it since people have lost their entire Google Accounts for things a squinting, tipsy, AI bot would think looked like anti-TOS material (though in all those cases, it never was). It Reads Your Docs.

The idea behind surveillance capitalism is super simple: 1. collect as much data as possible. 2. fashion behavioral predictions from said data, tied to user profiles, 3. sell the predictions as a product to interested parties (advertisers; governments; whomever's buying. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

Google claims they don't sell your personal data—and technically that's true: they don't sell raw data. Rather, they sell predictions of your behavior fashioned from your data. From its war on privacy, to data extraction: surveillance capitalism started with Google.

Big Tech spends millions ever year on lobbying efforts in the US and EU to water down data protection laws, with Google at the front of the pack. (Source: www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobb...)

Hey all! We had a brief hiccup with the synchroniser earlier today, but it’s been resolved. Ellipsus stores your work locally in your browser, so your writing should be a-ok. If you’re having trouble opening the tool, please reach out to support and we'll get on it right away.