Doctorow is such a good writer, and he is so passionate about tech and IP rights. His ENSHITIFICATION concept is taking hold, he says, because it lets people swear about it. LOL I even watched past the commercials and my own 2:30 minute nope-barrier. youtu.be/d2e-c9SF5nE?...

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Toilet with a shower? ✅ Shower with a toilet? 🤨 Water heater right at shower? 🏆 Floor drain eliminates flooding worry? 🤯🎉 #India & many in Europe!

Unlock a wider reach with accessibility! 🌍 Editors don’t just polish prose—they make content usable for everyone. I rounded up essential accessibility laws, guidelines & resources that help editors nudge products to comply. #Accessibility #InclusiveDesign #AmEditing scieditor.ca/2026/01/acce...

Yes, this!

The old delusion of world order is over, and we must not put up with delusional gangsters threatening the world and destroying their own nation, to paraphrase. The "smaller" nations are not helpless and we're not rolling over, we're banding together.

Carney: "We stand firmly with Greenland and Denmark and fully support their unique right to determine Greenland's future. Our commitment to NATO's Article 5 is unwavering ... Canada strongly opposes tariffs over Greenland"

Why editing costs "so much." The editing of 80,000 words typically takes: 100 hours structural/ developmental 64 hours copyediting OR stylistic/line 36 hours proofreading To pay a poverty wage for that time, that would cost roughly $9,000. To work with a coveted, credentialled editor, —1/3

Good folks, this website is a good place for getting info about political protests against *many* issues: www.mobilize.us

The folks at #Retraction #Watch are my #science #heroes, detecting #falsified scientific studies. Follow the link to read about all that they do: www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

Sound on – It doesn't quite translate through the mic, but skiing was so squeaky that it sounded like an elastic band orchestra. The giant snowballs on my ski poles made bullfrog sounds, but I was not able to capture that. (Please excuse my form, with one hand on the camera. 😝)

Weather app has become an unexpected way to feel connected to my loved ones far away

I grew up where rivers had been paved over and filled in but the Black Creek ravine through the large Coronation Park in Toronto was a trove of snakes, frogs, and stone tossing.

Important question for publishers of all types who are excited about using AI/LLMs

Did my subconscious just try to skip this whole year?

It's not just Newfoundland. 5 full countries (of ~200) chose time zones a half-hour off the hour. A few others use a 45 minute offset! *Nfld is a province in Canada, not a country.

Air dancer got a good run this weekend. New for my birthday. Now all my wants have been checked off and I will be volunteering it for every event so I can play!

Don't update the year on your website. There. Whatever will you do with the free time I just gave you? 😃

Annual reminder to cross "update copyright year" off your to do list! 😃 Note the work’s FIRST year of publication, not what year it currently is. At most, update the date RANGE. Always include that first date! What WILL you do with this extra time!? www.copyrightlaws.com/copyright-sy...

When the "10 easy steps to lucrative email scams" guide could clearly use an editor. So close! Reply address coding fail, subject is "re" and entire message is "hello."

Happy half-price chocolate day to all who celebrate. This is not my second-fav day after Feb 15!

#Retracted ONLY *8 years after* a court case revealed that #Monsanto employees ghostwrote the article! Damn! The US exists solely for #corporations and #wealthy people to make boatloads of money at the expense of everyone else's #health. 💰💰💰💰

Writers can be tough to shop for, so we did the hard part for you. From style to story structure, these book picks are guaranteed to spark inspiration for writers of all styles. Check out Sean Brenner’s latest blog for all the recommendations. #AmWriting #WritingTips #WriterGifts zurl.co/OA6Sb

The world needed the sweetness and fun of Rob #Reiner, and his #activism. 💔 time.com/7340905/rob-...

#Editors, longtime editor @laurapoole.bsky.social will present the webinar “Art of the #Query” on January 29. Go here to get details and register: www.ciep.uk/events/event...

Nearly done updating the SFU structural editing course to align with the extensive changes to EdsCan professional editorial standards last year. I'm really pleased by how it's shaping up! 34,000 words, not counting assignments or readings!

If you cmd + i on a song in Apple Music, you can click the Options tab and set the start time to skip the intro that doesn't quite slap as hard as the rest. (Can also skip weird outtros there & set the fade to turn your playlist into a personal DJ!)

Seeing this flowchart I made of the publishing process, it’s easier to understand why I haven’t found a satisfactory one already. Publishing is complex! Layered! Variable! This shows workflow parts usually covered by "and then magic happens" [for months!]. scieditor.ca/2025/11/publ...

I stand with Franklin!

I still feel obliged to at least look at Word's suggestions, but what a waste of time all the false positives are! Go home, Word. You're drunk!

Felt cute; might delete later. (Prevented distraction during a call by cleaning off my desk) #amediting

This does inflated harm to the whole area of knowledge!

Alert the irony awards! Faked refs in an... ethics journal about… whistleblowing — NOTE: It was a READER who complained. Not the editors. Not the peer reviewers... 😒🤨

"This AccessAbility online guide is meant for anyone involved in the process of designing communication materials." accessability.rgd.ca

@theatlantic.com discusses why it’s problematic that #universities, after years of doing essentially nothing to address the rise of #generative #artificial #intelligence (#AI), are now scrambling to do too much with it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... (gift link)

Newer LLM models ("AI") made up even more BS than previous models! "Premium chatbots provided more confidently incorrect answers than their free counterparts." Much need for editors to vet quality! www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

Canadians! You can now vote for the Canadian Word of the Year! (If we had the option to choose a Canadian WOTY in French as well, I'd suggest the gender-neutral pronoun "iel" which has been in the news a lot in Quebec this year, but probably not applicable since this is an English dictionary)

This title is burned in my brain because I have to correct it every time. LOL It's not "Origin of THE Species." Thank you for your attention to this matter.

🔆 #OTD Nov. 24th, in 1859 Darwin's evolutionary (and revolutionary) book is published, "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" It changed our view of life... "Nothing in biology makes sense, except in the light of evolution." - T. Dobzhansky Darwin Online 🧪 darwin-online.org.uk

"60% of OpenAI model's responses contain plagiarism" — report is bit old, but about ChatGPT 3.5, nonetheless. "45.7% of all outputs contained identical text, 27.4% contained minor changes, and 46.5% had paraphrased text." 1/2 www.axios.com/2024/02/22/c...

Loving @jen-hamilton.bsky.social's book/AU journey posts, like this one on FB www.facebook.com/share/v/1Bfk...

I don't record my yoga but I had to share this experience of downward [CAT! Thankyouverymuch] which is, honestly, one of the benefits of home practice

As an avid #audiobook reader with 4 on the go and many colleagues doing the same, I'm surprised that BookNet stats say the share of buyers remains steady at 8%. Wonder if library audiobooks skew this. From: booknet-canada-aqx4.squarespace.com/blog/researc...

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Well, this looks like a worthwhile read for PD, editors! The Impact of Generative AI on the Novel. Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy. University of Cambridge. 83 pp! www.mctd.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

Went to "like" a YouTube video and was mildly amused by this current count.

While boards push mgmt to replace workers with AI prompts, "contemporary AI systems FAIL to complete the vast majority of projects _at a quality level that would be accepted as commissioned work_." www.remotelabor.ai

First tool use in THIS species, the headline should say. Wolves figured out how to swim out to buoys and pull them to shore to get a meal out of the crab traps. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/environment/...

#Narration is an art. In a thread about annoying voice sounds in #audiobooks, a spontaneous love for Julia Whelan broke out. Just comment after comment spontaneously mentioning how great she is. How do I find a list of her work for my next reads? (She did Really Good, Actually — my current read.)

Hearing someone ask tell her another human that they "do not understand their _prompt_" instead of saying "question" is replacing my annoyance at having "an ask".