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lilithsaintcrow

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I write books.

Black sheep of the von Schtupp clan. A crow for a fetch, I'm your huckleberry.

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So I fell into watching "Dancing For the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult", and I am having a few thoughts about how the playbook for cult leaders, narcissists, and sociopaths (what a Venn diagram) is still super thin--pamphlet-sized!--but they use new tools whenever they can. https://www.netflix.com/title/81638162
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I will absolutely take the worst, gaudiest, most horrid amateurish Poser book cover created by an actual human over an "AI"-generated one any day.

And believe me, my friends, I have had some utter HOWLERS slapped on my poor books. Still exponentially better than plagiarism soup.

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The absolute worst human-created book cover is exponentially infinitely better than "AI" plagiarism soup trash.

I said what I said.

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"Opinions vary, but it is neither as externalised as Orwell’s evocation of individuality crushed by an all-seeing, all powerful state machine, nor as internalised as Beckett’s pared-down psychological landscapes of despair, although it intersects with both." https://www.theguardian.com/culture/article/2024/jun/01/how-franz-kafka-inspired-word-of-our-times-kafkaesque

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Trying not to get sucked into this Netflix documentary on a TikTok dance cult.

Just, wow. What a time to be alive.

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"And although Congress historically pulled various levers to try to keep the Court in check, it has, of late, gradually disengaged from such a role—resulting in a Court that does not believe it is, or ought to be, beholden to anyone else." https://lithub.com/how-the-supreme-court-changes-laws-behind-closed-doors/

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Got a notification from Airtable that they're going all-in on that "AI" nonsense. The only thing I really used it for was the yearly reading log, but that's been exported now and I'll use a local spreadsheet.

So much goodwill is being lost by companies leaping on the plagiarism engine bandwagon.

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As I said elsewhere: They say individual user data won't be used to feed the Microsoft "AI" they're using.

Of course, these companies also say they'll respect robots.txt and not scrape all our feeds and websites to feed their plagiarism machines, and my firewall user agent blocking data politely disagrees.

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The protagonist of the shiny Muse-bait story wants Len's "Steal My Sunshine" on repeat. I don't know how to feel about this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teUlISh-TiA

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"The researchers are still in the early stages of combing through millions of entries, but their findings thus far have often aligned with digital re-analysis products that use data to estimate past weather, including the wind." https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-a-trove-of-whaling-logbooks-will-help-scientists-understand-our-changing-climate-180984424/

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"I don't know about you, but if the end of the world starts tomorrow then I don't want to be anywhere near a bunch of investment bankers with guns and crossbows they barely know how to use." https://www.okdoomer.io/billionaires-going-bunkers/

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Hello, small bird who startled the hell out of me by landing to cling on the screen of my office window, claws scritching the glass behind it. I am sorry to have expostulated in your direction, but you must agree I had reason.

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"Timothy Pickering was charged by his fellow patriots to relay the sentiments above to Governor Gage, while the town Tories gave him a welcoming address..." https://streetsofsalem.com/2024/06/03/revolutionary-summer/

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Not everything in a story needs to be explained. Many times a reader's answer to a question posed by the characters or narrative is much more informative than the author's.

Learning to leave that space--and protect it against all comers--is a question of artistic choice and just plain experience.

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While I'm in a mood to dispense advice: Don't get caught on a single work, even if you ARE a genius. Finish, query, move on. If a publisher won't take it, explore other avenues. Don't get bogged down attempting to flog only. one. thing.

Your talents ache to be used, and stretched. Do so.

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A work doesn't have to be perfect. It has to be true, as true as you can make it. Oddly enough, "universal" doesn't mean "average". It means "so specific the ring of truth can be discerned."

Don't try to be universal. Try to be specific and honest to your own experience.

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Will this get you published? Maybe, lightning sometimes strikes, and that's okay.

Mostly, this will keep you writing. And that's the name of the game--not letting the bastards wear you the fuck down. Outlast them. Be true. Let your work and its imperfections find the people who need it.

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If some joyless scold takes exception to the mystery in your work, just be glad its heart is being protected from someone who would more likely stab than celebrate it.

Be weird. Be elliptical. Be YOURSELF on the page.

Readers will recognize that. The ones who will stay with you, anyway.

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And that's all the advice I'm giving tonight. Go forth and be weird, my beloveds.

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"The case is an outlier for the CCB in several ways. It involves the active participation of a large corporation, addresses three separate types of copyright infringement, and deals with statute of limitations issues." https://writerbeware.blog/2024/05/31/guest-post-disney-books-and-the-copyright-claims-board/

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Both projects resisting today, but I've made wordcount. Which means if I want to I can shift to the shiny, shiny Muse-bait.

But I'll keep bashing at the novella until it's time to start cooking dinner. Because now it's personal.

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"Publications hope that by willingly opening their archives to ChatGPT, they’ll receive attribution, referrals, and general pride of place in the algorithm’s recommendation features." https://lithub.com/more-media-companies-are-making-deals-with-openai/

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Didn't we already see how this works out with SEO poisoning and "pivot to video"? Exposure does not pay.

lilithsaintcrow,
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@susankayequinn I don’t think it’s stupidity, just greed and groupthink.

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@mwl @susankayequinn They're afraid everyone else will get richer and leave them behind. What if the line doesn't go up? THE LINE MUST GO UUUUUP.

sigh

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