I keep misplacing my copy of 'This is How You Lose the Time War'. I'll find it, but I'll forget to put it somewhere memorable for later.
Apparently, this is how you lose 'This is How You Lose the Time War'.
Yesterday someone tried to tell me we're better off without literacy because writing is a means of control. My friend, those who seek your oppression don't want you literate. The ability to read & communicate is our best defense against tyranny. And they're taking it from us.
“You are going to get left behind if you don’t use AI.”
Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long-form, and books without needing AI summaries.
I think one of the worst things the internet did to reading was turn it into a pathetic competitive sport. You don’t need a 45 book goal. You just need to read what you actually like, at your own pace, and let the ideas sink in longer than a fleeting Instagram reel.
“You’re going to get left behind if you don’t use AI.”
Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long-form, and books without needing AI summaries.
Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.
The Golden Girls aired their final ep 34 years ago today, and there wasn’t a dry eye in the house. It was so emotional that the cast and crew kept breaking down, and you can still feel it on screen. Bea Arthur even breaks the fourth wall for one final “thank you” to the audience.
@fesshole You’re not grieving a person,you’re grieving a version of life you never tested. And those always feel perfect because they were never real enough to break.
A great sketch can nail a concept so well, it becomes the final word. Since 1998, nobody has had to say or write another word about boorish, drunken British people in Indian restaurants, because Goodness Gracious Me's "Going For an English" was a literally unimprovable statement.
Yes.
Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking.
Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
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As the weather has been pretty good, let's have a competition to win 2 sets of three books, all my Troubador publications. Just Follow, Like and Re-Tweet this post to enter, and I'll draw the winners at random in a week...
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