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When I read prose generated by AI unprompted, I feel like all the training data was techbros saying things irrelevant to my interests. Not everyone’s interests, but definitely mine.

Finished reading: Wild Pitch by Cat Giraldo 📚

Finished reading: The Devil’s Delilah by Loretta Chase 📚

Finished reading: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book Two: The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan 📚

Another one I read with my kid.

💬 “In almost every case, our manner of appearing is our manner of being. The mask is the face.” Susan Sontag, “On Style” in Against Interpretation

🎮 Because I know you were on tenterhooks waiting to hear what Dreamlight Valley Belle’s book preservation advice was: she gave me a tube of super glue.

🎮 My character in Disney Dreamlight Valley: Belle likes reading, so surely she can repair this damaged rare book!
Me, a librarian, in real life: No. No no no. Enjoying reading does not automatically confer preservation expertise.

💬📚🎨 “Perhaps you can put it this way. A man who does a man’s work is a normal human being. A woman who does a man’s work is a kind of superwoman. She must be two selves, one who supplies energy for her part of the world’s work, the other the woman who fulfils the obligations custom has laid upon her.” -CECILIA BEAUX, AMERICAN ARTIST, INTERVIEWED IN THE BOSTON HERALD (1910), quoted in The Club: Where American Women Artists Found Refuge in Belle Époque Paris by Jennifer Dasal.

Finished reading: Sincerely, Your Inconvenient Wife by Julia Wolf 📚