The answer to "if you don't adopt AI you'll be left behind" should be "yes, please go away and leave me behind, that sounds ideal"

While this article in Science is getting dragged for leaving ChatGPT trackers in links, there's a subtler issue. The author states "[T]he ability of large language models (LLMs) to predict protein structures and to accelerate the discovery of new materials has revolutionized both fields." (1/7)

One thing you as a writer can do to distinguish yourself as human? Be divisive. Slop is sycophantic; it grovels & apologizes as it tries to give you what you want at all times. You're not a sniveling slop bot. You're an artist. So stop trying to tell readers what they want to hear. Give them art.

This survey on AI use in book publishing is short, and unlike many AI-use surveys has options for stating a position against AI. I encourage authors, editors, illustrators, etc., including freelance and indie, to take a few minutes for it.

I have immediate availability for: Academic editing Copyediting for all types of fiction except extreme horror, religious fiction, and things containing a dialect I don't speak. Copyediting for general interest non-fiction (except religious). Line editing for science fiction, fantasy, and erotica.

For my editor friends, this sounds like a useful trick, though I haven't tried it myself yet. Moving wherever directory Word puts normal.dotm in to Dropbox may also work to help with recovering from Word deciding we no longer need all those fancy macros.

Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.

New feed aggregating calls for papers, abstracts, and so forth. #cfp #academicsky bsky.app/profile/wes....

not sure if everyone can access this, but I just learned about some dramatic changes to SSRN from Steve Bainbridge's Substack. This is really bad; SSRN has been how I keep up with scholarship in my field from a variety of researchers www.stephenbainbridge.com/p/the-social...

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I've done a big update to the 'Against Generative AI' bibliography, including a link to today's papal encyclical. Enjoy! catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

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I like this description of the so-called AI-writing detectors: they are "very good at detecting LLM usage, even when it's not there."

Good thread on the dangers off LLM-based transcription products changing the meaning of historical documents. Earlier OCR tools make transcription errors, but they are generally misrecognitions rather than fabrications. The tool described here appears to recognize the text but then alters it.

"Based on the dataset you shared, US and UK responses differ mainly in tone, intensity, and wording style, even though they express similar emotional states" New post on what happened when I got Copilot to do some data analysis: kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signa...

Side note: Despite what some people are saying in the comments, "car bumps into students" is not in the passive voice. It's a crappy headline for different reasons. Let's dig into why, starting with an explanation of what the passive voice actually is.

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Boosting for the editors following me.

Sentiment analysis has been solved, y'all.

There's no reason to tack an LLM on this. You need a simple UI to build a list of include/exclude filters users can easily tweak as needed. (But wait, we already have tools that do that).

This headline is getting a lot of attention here and it sounds scary, but it's also bullshit. The Treasury did not in fact declare the U.S. insolvent. It released the annual balance sheet that showed we have (quite) a lot of debt compared to assets. It's not the same thing. (1/3)

If you know anything about chess, this poster on Etsy is as funny as those fraudulent rat balls. www.etsy.com/au/listing/4... #chess #researchintegrity via u/MinuteRegular716

For all the people saying that Grammarly should be sued over its "expert review" feature, here is the Grammarly class action lawsuit, alleging violation of the right to privacy and the right of publicity: prf-law.com/current-case...

I've just learned from Jennifer Yankopolus (of Macro of the Month) that I can make a custom tab in the MS Word ribbon just for key-but-lesser-used macros. And in the doing I found I can change the order of tabs, too. Exciting! #EditorHeaven #Edibuddies macroofthemonth.substack.com/p/macro-of-t...

Database of decisions/penalties in legal cases where "AI" was found to be used by either a litigator or a judge; does not count *All* cases of "AI" used in court filings, just those where it was a) found & b) officially remarked upon or penalized. Incredibly useful collection & arrangement of data:

People using Chrome may want to know about this. To disable the new default AI mode. Type chrome://flags in your address bar. Search for AI mode in the search box below and disable the three options displayed.

Any freelance editors available that can be hired to help me chop 10k-15k out of a horror comedy novel? Got a *very* positive response from an agent but the length of the work is the issue (currently 110k on a horror/comedy, need to get closer to 90k-95k).

This from 404 Media is inaccurate. The change at arXiv applies only to two types of CS papers, literature reviews and position papers, not original research. Those papers were already very limited by arXiv policy. blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/a...

The layout of this paper is expert level trolling! journals.uc.edu/index.php/vl...

Do I know any freelance editors who specialize in sci-fi horror? Someone asked me for recommendations, and I'd love to refer them to the right editor (which is unfortunately not me).

#Edibuddies I've made a new feed that loosely attempts to capture posts by editors & proofreaders for editors & proofreaders. If you follow the old one, please switch to this new feed. bsky.app/profile/did:...

I'm usually somewhat "meh" about ToS panics, but this wording from academia .edu seems a bit beyond the pale. I just cancelled my (mainly unused) account there.

I got tired of mashing together tools to write long threads with 𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 and ℳα†ℏ—so I wrote La𝑇𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡! It converts Markdown and LaTeX to Unicode that can be used in “tweets”, and automatically splits long threads. Try it out! keenancrane.github.io/LaTweet/

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#editors — here's something (else) coming from Microsoft to f'up our workflows.

"If your supply chain uses AI coding, you should assume it’s dangerous trash put out by morons. If any of your upstream dependencies has a .cursor folder, you need to assume they’re not competent, and remove that dependency pronto."

Hey Firefox users.

Agentic artificial naïvete. Billions of dollars to make a browser extension that autoclicks on phishing links.

My video about how LLMs are not search engines has led to many, MANY comments telling me that I should be using Perplexity. Some insisting that Perplexity does not hallucinate. Out of a list of 26 papers it just provided me (in "Research" mode) 4 were real. FOUR. 85% hallucination rate.

Another example of why the attack surface of LLMs is infinite: blog.trailofbits.com/2025/08/06/p...

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kind of a shot in the dark here, but anyone know of reputable freelance editing platforms (e.g., places where freelance editors can find clients)? Like the equivalent of Wyzant for tutoring, for example

A concrete example of what I mean when I say AI cannot summarize. You actually have to be able to read and comprehend something before you can take the active step of interpreting it to summarize. AI cannot read, comprehend, or interpret.

Today in misleading summaries: The Adobe report discussed in this @sejournal.bsky.social article doesn't show "77% of Americans report using ChatGPT as a search engine..." (though to be fair, that is one of the report's "key takeaway" bullets). The sample is 1000 Americans *who use ChatGPT*.

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The thing about Grok isn't just that it's a Nazi, it's that it tells on all the other LLMs. Outsourcing critical parts of your brain/workflows/team to systems tuned in more subtle ways by companies that may not share your values is just as risky as obvious bias or hallucination

English needs a tense to describe an action that will happen in the future but should have already been started. Perhaps past perfect aspirational?