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🔖 Read Please Don’t Use Generative AI To Mimic Historical Figures.

This is all kinds of a bad idea. The BlueSky thread linked in the post shares a conversation that makes me think the LLM wasn’t trained on Anne Frank’s writing, given its ignorance of the ethnic part of Jewish identity.

📚💬 “Kill the protestors, arrest the leaders, gaol the journalists. It’s what they do. It’s what tyrants do.” K. J. Charles, A Fashionable Indulgence

Just… In case you were wondering whether romance tackles serious issues.

Information is my love language!

GLSEN is my go-to resource for LGBTQ+ issues in K-12 education.

The Trevor Project is a suicide prevention and crisis intervention program for LGBTQ+ young people.

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Your mind is valuable.

Your attention is an important part of your mind.

Stop treating it like slop.

- Simon Woods

Finished reading: On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder 📚

This was a good book to read today, full of helpful ideas. Reading notes coming soon. Highly recommend.

Not everything I post on my personal site is getting pushed through to social media. If you want to learn how you can see all of it, I have a /follow page.

🔖 Read Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.

I first read this in high school and was long overdue for a re-read. If you’ve never read it, I urge you to read it today and let it prompt you to consider what is just and what work remains.

Finished reading: The Ruin of Gabriel Ashleigh by KJ Charles 📚

A fun short story. A hot 🔥🔥🔥.

Bit of venting (no advice needed): it’s frustrating to have multi chronic illnesses because a good day for one condition can be a bad day for another.