Asking ChatGPT is the modern speaking to the gods through fish entrails.

I am begging BookTok girlies to quit complaining about the beautiful illustrated covers that are trending in Romance novels right now. Stop it. Romance covers have never been this gorgeous and illustrators don't need more jobs taken away from them.

That monstrous bill has passed?! Wtf. To my friends down south in the States, I'm sad and angry for you. I'm scared, too.

I would eat the rich but they’re tasteless.

I read a book about gay people and became gay and then I read a book about straight people and became straight again and then I read a book about Australians and became Australian and then I read a book about Bigfoot and became Bigfoot. Book-banners are weak knuckleheads.

So I was today years old when I learned Cricut is pronounced like the insect, cricket, and not like my French face was saying it "cry-cut". lol

Some days I think everyone has already read my books, but there may be those who don't know the amazing story of #genius Ann Lowe. You should. It's on sale for an unknown amount of time for less than 2 bucks where e books are sold! bookshop.org/p/books/by-h...

I'm tired of having people talk to me from inside their car.

Made myself laugh on my morning walk.

Maybe it's called a corpse flower because that's a dead ballerina stuffed in a bucket.

It was lovely meeting another gray curly haired woman in the grocery store. I pointed to her head and said LOVE THE CURLS! And she pointed at mine and exclaimed LIKEWISE! I never would have done this in my 20s, 30s. But in my 50s, I'll talk to anyone. Like *anyone*. Not caring anymore is liberating.

“I asked ChatGPT to help me write this.” I know. I could tell. I can always tell

What's with all those old videos with lines through them at The Other Place?! There's so many of them!

Chaotic good people are the very best people in the world and you can't convince me otherwise.

Yep. At the grocery store sometimes it seems like those of us of a certain age exist in a different dimension. We can see and hear everyone, including each other, but younger people cannot see or hear us — until we somehow cross the barrier between worlds and get their attention.

Me: I am going to use two hands to type now. Cat: absolutely the fuck not.

This wrapping paper turns everything into bread 🥖 Created by Japanese designer Ippei Tsujio

I hate seeing folks i agree with using gAI to make propaganda-style posters for things I support. Y’all. You cannot use the enemy’s tools to fight them. ESPECIALLY if you are arguing against capitalist overreach or for environmental issues. Come ON.

#MayTheFourth be with you ✏️

I've never seen so many Americans follow a Canadian election. We feel seen.

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the techno weenies have ruined autonomous cars and artificial intelligence and spaceflight, what other fantastic visions of the future will they fuck up in our lifetime

I have no doubt the lecture fell on unlistening ears and an unwilling mind. Our vice president was there purely for a photo op with the Pope. He got it, and sadly for our vice president, that's all he will take away from meeting a better man than he. It's all he was capable of taking away from it.

Oz, the Cruel and Powerful, takes over Medicaid and Medicare with a page right out of the fascist playbook vajenda.substack.com/p/oz-the-cru...

“Just calm down and let people enjoy chatgpt.” Sorry, no. I find it creepy that folks are treating a machine that mimics human speech as their friend / therapist. It is feeding you lies. It is destroying your thinking abilities. Shut it off. Talk to other humans. Go outside.

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I know I'm a thousand years too late but I'm watching The Blacklist and the Reddington character could make me do whatever the hell he wants. Wooh.

I don’t know how I didn’t see this before. The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias. The shorthand is that people overestimate their skills/knowledge in a given domain, because they lack the knowledge to assess their own competence. ChatGPT etc have automated the Dunning-Kruger effect.

i'm 18 minutes from getting to watch on live TV what the Great Depression looked like

Just mapped how to get to my dentist by bus...55 mins to an hour. It's a 13-minute drive, ffs. #Ottawa #Vanier

Age yourself with a carton you watched as a kid.

the AI art crowd is just suffering from extended main character syndrome. It's the need to not train for battle but to fast forward past the training montage and take selfies with a sword. It's the inability to accept there are skill that will not just be gifted to them. It's being overcoddled

We're allowed to trebuchet-fling people stealing Ghibli Studio's soul for genAI slop right into an alligator-infested moat. I checked and it's allowed.

Me and countless other authors today…😂

My emo rhino amuses me

The thing about so-called generative artificial intelligence is, the intelligence isn't artificial. It's real. It's OURS. The techbros stole our intelligence (our data, our thoughts, our stories, our art) and used the software to regurgitate it and spackle it together into digital particleboard.

If you wouldn't expect a dentist hygienist to clean your teeth for love of oral hygiene or a mechanic to change your oil for love of cars, you should not expect a writer to provide free books for love of the creative process.

Migraines with aura suck. And are scary.

Instead of using ChatGPT, why not just get a family member to lie to you while they set fire to a tree?

As a Canadian, I am 25% more pissed off today.

I personally consider the boycott a success because it was a baby practice action for people who have never done that before. People got on board! They got to feel what it was like! It was easy! And when they get asked to do something next, they’ll have an experience to build off of.

“VANCE SKIS IN JEANS” is so devastating

For the record, do I think a one-day boycott is going to make much of an economic impact? No. Do I think that a sort of "Baby's First Boycott," performative though it is, might be useful to make some folks aware of the impact of their economic power, and how it might be wielded politically? Maybe.

It's not the snowstorm. It's not lack of information or so-so candidates. It's not voter cards coming in late. People just don't give a shit. Thanks assholes. #OntarioElection