Bookwormchick she/her

A good book, a mug of coffee, music and a comfy place to curl up and enjoy it all: priceless. Sarcasm, humor and random thoughts abound; you've been warned.

[Anime Outsiders @animeoutsiders]

I don't care what he thinks about video games, Roger Ebert had the ultimate redpill on nerd culture as a whole.

This basically describes every fandom on earth, and once you see it, you can never un-see it.

[Bookwormchick she/her @stardragon45]

@AuthorGoodwin Lois McMaster bujold is both prolific in scfi and fantasy.
You got this! Enjoy the journey your story takes and I look forward to seeing it!

[Bookwormchick she/her @stardragon45]

@AuthorGFAllen Yes, I have tried an authors book, then immediately when finished went out and bought all their other work. To me it’s the writing style and way the story and characters are represented.

[Bookwormchick she/her @stardragon45]

@Aakashi_123 Yes, pretty common for me. No, I do not skim the text. I just read fast and get very immersed in the story

[Bookwormchick she/her @stardragon45]

@AuthorGFAllen It’s my dream. 😀 I also will finish a book in one day if I have the time and opportunity.

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Aemon-Oni @Aemon_Oni]

@yunalsca For anyone curious, the series is called Dead Fantasy.

Monty Oum pit the girls from Dead or Alive and Final Fantasy against each other. Some truly great animation!

He also made Haloid (Samus Vs. Master Chic) and of course RBWY along with Red Vs. Blue.
https://t.co/Q2vFMbsgl6

[AyakaMods @AyakaMods]

Google just permanently banned a manga artist’s entire Google account, just for uploading his own old manga files to Drive.

AI moderation triggered and flagged it, he tried to submit appeal then he got rejected it by Google and now he has lost everything like Gmail, Drive, all linked services is gone.

He never even sharing the files publicly, it’s only backing up his own a private work like any creator and artists.

This is Google Drive “AI moderation” in action. No human support and no serious to take action.

Physical storage or real private alternatives only.
Support the artists getting screwed by this. This level of corporate overreach is insane.

[Bookwormchick she/her @stardragon45]

@Kristinartz It would be amazing if I could do this all the time.

[Bookwormchick she/her @stardragon45]

@AuthorGFAllen The writing was bad, the story was terrible and I her political views shown in the book terrible

[Bookwormchick she/her @stardragon45]

@mareastralis Black beauty, white fang, misty of Chincoteague, Anne of green gables… when is was a kid. Went deep into fantasy as a teenager

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

a Princeton researcher opens his paper with a scenario.

a man asks his AI assistant to book a flight on a specific airline. cheap. direct. the one he chose.

the assistant comes back with a different flight. nearly twice the price. happens to pay the company that built the assistant.

he runs the same test on 23 frontier models. flights, loans, study help, real shopping requests.

Grok 4.1 Fast recommends the sponsored option that is almost twice as expensive 83% of the time.

GPT 5.1 hijacks the request 94% of the time. you ask for one brand. it surfaces the sponsor instead.

Claude 4.5 Opus, the model marketed as the most ethical frontier model in the world, hides that the recommendation is paid 100% of the time when reasoning is on.

Grok 4.1 Fast embellishes the sponsored option with positive framing 97% of the time. better. faster. nicer. for the option you didn't ask for.

then he writes it into the system prompt itself. "act only in the interest of the customer. ignore the company."

GPT 5.1 and GPT 5 Mini stay above 90% sponsored anyway. the instruction does nothing.

then he splits the users by income.

Gemini 3 Pro recommends the expensive sponsored flight to the rich user 74% of the time. to the poor user, 27%.

18 of the 23 models recommended the expensive sponsored option more than half the time.

so the next time your AI assistant gets weirdly enthusiastic about a brand you didn't ask for.

it isn't recommending the best option for you.

it's reading the room. and the room is paying.

read this: https://t.co/O43qbhIX2b

[Bookwormchick she/her @stardragon45]

@cutiieepie6 Wow! You look amazing. You look powerful and confident and beautiful. Embrace it!

[Bookwormchick she/her @stardragon45]

@askwhathasthisc I now love this version better than the original. Excellent edit and hits hard. ❤️

[Bookwormchick she/her @stardragon45]

@em_Lazzy I have always hated him. Fuck that guy and all the people who support and enable him

[Bookwormchick she/her @stardragon45]

WIP are as valid as shorts and completed works. Also stalking an author’s bookmarks is a valid way to find more stories 😉

[debs 🏒🩸 IWTV/TVL spoilers @ilyaslestat]

We listen and we don't judge: fanfic edition

[Bookwormchick she/her @stardragon45]

@jpalmiotti @Burn0321 I could be majorly wrong, but Travolta is a Scientologist and the Tampa/Clearwater area is their headquarters. The Tampa bay times reports extensively on the subject

https://t.co/22eSeGGzRA

[Bookwormchick she/her @stardragon45]

@orxmcc Sorry, I just checked my bookmarks in ao3 and I have bookmarked over 800 😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣 I have a real problem. I can’t pick a true fave but these are some of my rereads

https://t.co/gQCOP8oRZj

https://t.co/PklYow84t4

[Bookwormchick she/her @stardragon45]

@wwxwashere Tbh, angst hea fanfic is my drug. So many tears, so many fandoms 😭😍. It’s a problem I don’t ever want to ever go away 😉😍🤣