Sofie Bird

Science fiction writer, artist, nerd. She/they.

[Sofie Bird @sofie_bird]

Tweeting to pin:
@[email protected]
same handle at cohost
... in all likelihood I'll post there about as often as I do here (ie just this side of "never") but you never know.

[GreatLimmick @GreatLimmick]

* Delaware
* Indiana
* New Hampshire
* New Jersey
* North Dakota
* Rhode Island
* Utah
* West Virginia

(the list was downthread, reproducing it here for convenience)

[Sofie Bird @sofie_bird]

@Niefsck *hugs*

[Dr Kate Compton @GalaxyKate]

Sometimes I get frustrated when I compare arts and tech salaries, but

look

tech people

I'm not saying you are the problem
I'm saying the exchange rate is in our favor
and someone with a FAANG salary could literally commission their own opera once per year

so we should do that

[Arvind Narayanan @random_walker]

4 ways OpenAI appropriates labor & externalizes costs of ChatGPT:
– authors of training data not compensated
– workers in Kenya paid $1–$2/hr
– those who identify failures not acknowledged/compensated
– civil society, academia, regulators left scrambling to adapt/mitigate risks.

[Dina Nayeri @DinaNayeri]

“everyone was talking about impostor syndrome and “the confidence gap,” but no one was talking about gender bias and systemic racism.” Amazing piece by ⁦@lsjamison⁩ in ⁦@NewYorker⁩ https://t.co/XKi3VNcK0m

[Ellen Datlow @EllenDatlow]

An excellent thread.

[Julian Gough @juliangough]

Hmmm. I just had a bizarre experience, involving a global news organisation and a trillion dollar corporation. (I got caught in the middle, so... owch.)
It’s not the sort of experience the people involved usually talk about in public… so I think I’ll talk about it in public.
🧵

[Sofie Bird @sofie_bird]

Good 🧵

[Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen]

Something I notice about twitter: how much people dunk on one another. Certainly far more than in my e'day life. I've worked hard to remove it from my feed, muting & unfollowing people. And yet I still see it a lot. I wonder how much it's due to design decisions about the medium?

[Kingfisher & Wombat @UrsulaV]

So I was on Tumblr and saw a post go by about how TERFs keep getting worked up about, say, intersex chickens, and someone else commented not to tell them about white-throated sparrows, and being me I immediately launched into OMG LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE SPARROW WITH FOUR SEXES

[Anthony Hopkins @AnthonyHopkins]

Wishing everyone a healthy 2023.

[Sofie Bird @sofie_bird]

@LaurenThemself Okay, now I know you're trolling.

[Wesley Chu @wes_chu]

Finally we have a pizzagate sex trafficking story....

[Cat Rambo @Catrambo]

Normally I put a little money into advertising on Twitter for this, but for some reason this year I didn't feel like it. Go figure. Accordingly, please RT if you think $5 for an on-demand writing workshop is a decent value! :)

[Claire Lamman @ClaireLamman]

For this year's gingerbread, I made @MarsCuriosity!

[Raz Burgundy: Rising @BurgundyStriker]

This is all gold but this one in paticular.

Sometimes I wanna shake some of you, for the love of god /check your damn sources/. Stop being so damn guillible and find a primary source, learn the whole story. Don't parrot things without confirming them first.

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Goddamn, this is good advice: "How to have a good internet experience in 8 easy steps" by Tumblr's ghostonly:

https://t.co/1gU0juozZ6

[Sofie Bird @sofie_bird]

@Niefsck Wait what, I always have to nag people for shit.