Jed

Editor, writer, generalist, logophile, paronomasiac, ludophile. Bi, poly. Pronouns: he/him. Mastodon: @[email protected]. I don’t speak for my employer.

[Jed @elysdir]

A note to new followers: Welcome! But in case you were expecting stuff about editing, I should clarify that my tweets consist mostly of links and retweets, mostly about political issues or science fiction.

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@layansima Thank you!

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@LindseyHall17 Hi! Trying to reach you (very time-sensitive) regarding Hugo Voter Packet. Please check for email (sent just now) from [email protected].

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Thread.

[Indy @IndecisiveJones]

me: correct me if I’m wrong-

the internet: sir, we will correct you even if you’re right

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@courtneymilan !!

…wait, do books created by “your own publishing house” using ChatGPT count toward tenure

[Abigail Larson @Abigail_Larson]

Hi @Adobe just curious, what is this page full of hideous AI imagery "in the style of Abigail Larson" that's obviously not my work doing on your site?

[Sondra Eklund @Sonderbooks]

Crazy times! It looks like people are already selling AI-produced children's nonfiction books. We'd ordered two titles from "Bold Kids" publishers around the same time. I ordered "Rabbits: Children's Animal Fact Book" wanting books about pets that weren't cats or dogs 1/x

[Alice R Fraser @aliterative]

Interesting fact: t-shirt is actually short for “Tyrannosaurus Shirt”

[Jed @elysdir]

Here’s my archive (of about 18,000 tweets), created using that tool:

https://t.co/eXCAbTHgs4

It’s nicely searchable and browsable.

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“Make your own simple, public, searchable Twitter archive”

First you ask Twitter for an archive of all your tweets; then you run this tool to create a set of files that you can put on your own website.

https://t.co/5shMxliG8t

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[Katie Pennick @KatiePennick]

barbie’s wheelchair vs my actual wheelchair: a critical comparison

aka the best twitter thread i will ever post

strap in

#Barbie

[Jed @elysdir]

@bulatov_org !!! This is a coincidence for me, too, because I’ve spent the last several days working on updating my own VRML page. Thanks for posting about this!

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I’m giving up on posting on Twitter, at least for now. (Might change my mind later; we’ll see.)

You can find my posts on Mastodon at @[email protected], or on Facebook, or on my blog: (https://t.co/jo5LX6R5BQ), which has an RSS feed.

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“It is often necessary to reverse engineer images of data visualizations to extract the underlying numerical data. WebPlotDigitizer is a semi-automated tool that makes this process extremely easy”

https://t.co/jsgdp8tyKQ

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The Job Accommodation Network provides a list of several dozen disabilities, limitations, and accommodations. “This information is designed to help employers and individuals determine effective accommodations and comply with [the ADA].”

https://t.co/BEWFCfc7PV

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More about deepfakes. The ability to create realistic-looking fake images of real people keeps getting easier, faster, and cheaper. At this point, you can do it for free, given about five images of the real person in question.

(Article from late 2022.)

https://t.co/5AsJgMJarn

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This article starts by focusing on the conflict between rooftop solar and desert-based solar, in Nevada. But it goes on to explore some difficult tradeoffs between building solar and wind farms on public land, and protecting endangered plants and animals.

https://t.co/SStrrej0qU