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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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"As we traced AdVon's web of fake bylines...it quickly became clear that the company had been publishing content well beyond Sports Illustrated and USA Today." https://futurism.com/advon-ai-content

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From the article: "But descending into AdVon's miasma of fake writers and legal threats, it quickly becomes hard to trust anything connected to the company, from its word salad reviews to basic questions about which writers are even real people..."

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"When cases of neglect were prosecuted, they clearly showed the fault lines in Victorian society between men and women, the middle and working classes, and the disrespectable and respectable poor." https://lithub.com/intentional-neglect-on-the-creation-of-nationalized-child-protection-in-victorian-england/

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Another cuppa, another layer of eyeliner, another chapter to revise.

It's almost like a drinking song.

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"After his early experiments, Albert Hofmann became convinced that LSD is not only a powerful potential treatment for the mentally ill but also a valuable bridge between the spiritual and the scientific." https://www.openculture.com/2024/05/watch-the-bicycle-trip-an-animation-of-the-worlds-first-lsd-trip.html

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Morning Walk Report: Very bright, crows pleasant but not importunate, Boxnoggin clingy and testing the boundaries to make certain he's still the bestest of boys. Rowan trees and vinca in bloom, blackberries growing near-visibly, bees staggering about, drunk on sunlight and pollen.

lilithsaintcrow,
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The morning's run felt heavy, but that was probably because my per-kilometre time is holding steady at about ten seconds less than last week's. Bees really do prefer the braid to the ponytail. A small, very alert white dog escorting an elderly man solicitously.

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Today's jam is Soap&Skin's cover of "Me and the Devil", which needs to go on a book soundtrack. Not sure which one yet, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfWSOs5YbQ8

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The windows are open, the house breathing in spring, second jolt of coffee's cooling to drinkable temperature, Boxnoggin is sprawled out for pre-lunch nap, stiff and near-bruised I am ready for battle.

And that's the morning report.

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"Many users are removing or editing their questions and answers to prevent them from being used to train AI — decisions which have been punished with bans from the site's moderators." https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

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"Thieves broke into the closed building in the wee hours on the morning of May 7th and stole the Bronze Age gold torc and a heavy gold bracelet from the same period. Only the two gold objects were taken." http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/70148

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Ahahaha Shuffle Play is starting me out with Madonna’s “Rain” and okay, algorithm, you got me, good one.

lilithsaintcrow,
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…straight into Placebo’s cover of “Running Up That Hill”, today’s gonna be great.

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"I had heard the claim that the dragon in the myth of St George and the Dragon was an example of a dinosaur that had persisted into the Middle Ages, but this is a new one on me: Grendel in Beowulf was a dinosaur." https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/08/grendel-was-a-t-rex/

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@NateBarham I could not stop snort-giggling.

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Creatively Invoked https://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/2024/05/creatively-invoked/

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In which Boxnoggin has forgotten rain, the trees are gussying up, and a god peeks through prose-bars.

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Just saw an article howling, "How will authors find readers if BookTok goes away?"

...you do realise we did so before it ever existed, right?

sigh

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I have an idea. I would like to build a desk for myself using a slab of wood and a bunch of milk crates.

Milk crates are cheap. You can buy them for $5-$6 each on specialty sites.

I have the perfect spot for it on my third floor, next to a window. I could theoretically fit a 100-inch slab of wood in the spot.

lilithsaintcrow,
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@ernie So long as they can bear the structural load, I’m thinking it’s a great idea.

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good morning fediverse :cofepats:

toot-lab is back online, for now at least. storm came through and walloped the hell out of the north Georgia mountains.

gonna be a manual labor kinda day in Sundogistan - three or four down trees and chaos all around but so far seems everyone is safe and well.

be safe out there, fedi

:blobpats:

lilithsaintcrow,
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@djsundog Goodness, I’m glad you’re all right.

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"I did not recognize this system as a system until the day I decided to cull the herd once and for all. Most book lovers come to the Great Purge sooner or later..." https://lithub.com/bookshelves-for-your-book-selves-monica-wood-on-why-she-organizes-books-by-emotion

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"When you look at the numbers presented in the report, they add up to a game that doesn’t take lives, but saves them." https://www.retroist.com/p/dungeons-and-dragons-saves-lives

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Forgot I put a joke involving belching in this prison escape scene, and am seriously considering having it issue from the other end.

lilithsaintcrow,
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(Such are a writer's tiny joys.)

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Have reached the stage of going sentence-by-sentence, changing many three times before deciding to leave them as they originally stood and muttering curses at Past Me for the sheer number of notes in brackets I left for the revision pass.

In other words, progress, but argh.

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@wendypalmer This is the Way.

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