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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.
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.
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🔖 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.
💬📚📝 “For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are the ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
💬📚📝 “…we no longer need Chicken Little to tell us the sky is falling, because it already has. The issue now is how to take care of one another.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
💬📚📝 “…a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
💬📚📝 “The core, ethical concepts in which you most passionately believe are the language in which you are writing.” Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
I really needed my past self’s advice to stop trying to optimize myself.
Thanks, me.
Finished reading: Dark Lover by J.R. Ward 📚
Listened to the audiobook. This one is very much of its time (2005).
Finished reading: How to Tame a Beast in Seven Days by Kerrelyn Sparks 📚
The pacing in this is wild, and by wild I mean slow. But it was interesting enough to keep me reading.
🍿 Watched This Is My Life.
Nora Ephron’s film directorial debut. I love a story about a mother and her kids.
My very kind and generous household family gave me time and space to rest during the pain phase of my migraine yesterday. I’m now in the postdrome phase and everything feels very weird. I wouldn’t be sad to get another 12 hours of sleep.
The first week of the New Year left me exhausted from peopling. And I came into the second week exhausted from an unusual work schedule. I have to dedicate some time to rest and taking care of my home over the next week.