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@manton This the service… www.yourcloudlibrary.com/en/home.h… . Would be great to get it working with micro.blog.

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@manton Is CloudLibrary integration a thing/going to be a thing? It’s a common Libby alternative in Canada.

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@craiggrannell.bsky.social You wouldn’t want to miss the rock n roll of the abrupt scrolling up and down as the adverts get served to the page in an excitingly random order.

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@rebeccareyeswriting.com … I‘ve been trying to figure out how to do a writerly BTS thing too, and one way could be like a ’director’s commentary’, or like those school book classics with a parallel commentary on the facing page. The writer journals their thoughts on each days’ writing and posts it. Needs forethought though.

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@rebeccareyeswriting.com So good to have a social media exchange that’s actually sociable… My point was along the lines of: an artist and a writer side by side beside a river. The crowd will look over the artist’s shoulder, not the writer’s. Says nothing about the work itself, just writing is boring to watch. But…

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@rebeccareyeswriting.com I’m curious. Which bit do you actually disagree with?

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@rebeccareyeswriting.com So my half-arsed draft of a scene is an invitation to be stolen in a way that a pencil sketch of a painting isn’t. Our words are symbols for ideas, and everyone thinks they can steal the ideas, or the ideas are easy. Plus people enjoy the visuals of art. Words are dull to look at, in themselves. 2/2

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@rebeccareyeswriting.com It would be great to do that. Maybe one of the obstacles is that it’s physically easier to copy written work than drawings, both technically, and in the sense that most people can put words on paper or screen, and most people can’t draw. 1/2

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@chadstanton.blacksky.app It’s a development of everything being ironic if you want it to be, which is a useful tool of bullies: ‘it was just a joke, lighten up’. Narcs in particular are adept at deniable viciousness. Add in quantity of people/bots happy to pile-on the victim, and good faith debate is impossible.

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@maxjlhardy.bsky.social I for one would pay to see the massed Coldstream guards doing the Time Warp.

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Thea Gilmore vs The Algorithm: matthewhurst.micro.blog

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The Cold Cold Ground by Adrian McKinty: matthewhurst.micro.blog

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@nameshiv.bsky.social This is about 80% of social media, from what I can see.

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@sloanelysbeth.bsky.social Ah. No true Scotsman.

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@sloanelysbeth.bsky.social You don’t need an algorithm to create an echo chamber and Bluesky is an echo chamber like all other platforms. It’s not good or bad, it’s just their nature.

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Read: Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway 📚Le Carre’s son picks his father’s Smiley/Karla rivalry. Superb. Enough to make me reconsider my proscription on works that fills in holes in the canonical texts. #booksky #sky #readingcommunity

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@authorizedmusings.bsky.social This season is definitely leaning into the comedy. It’s very silly, but entertaining enough when you want to switch your brain off. Different beast to the Lee Child books though.

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@ivanasstaircam.bsky.social What word would you use?

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@mcopelov.bsky.social Pre Adam Smith. They literally don’t understand anything involving ‘international trade’ not being long words for ‘theft’, apparently.

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@beebrookshire.bsky.social It’s a confusing nest of negatives, but to be fair, it is the active voice. Passive would be ‘X paused in blocked of Y’.

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@lukelebrun.ca Doug is bad enough, but to be fair, he’s also less of a crackhead than his brother was.

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Want to read: The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin 📚\n#litfic

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@davidhamer1951.bsky.social Why does anyone on any social media think anyone else cares about anything they say about anything? It’s genuinely puzzled me for years.

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Review: Rothstein - The Criminal Genius Who Fixed The World Series: matthewhurst.micro.blog

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@codybrom Not sure I see the connection with what you linked to? My point was about creative prose. Writers choose words to cast a new light on the subject: LLMs choose the most used words for that subject, so they deaden whatever they describe.

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@codybrom This falls into my General Theory Of Why LLM Writing Is Face-Eatingly Bad. LLMs are purposely set to favour the most common next word in their pools and every degree beyond the most common makes them sound more nonsensical, so they will always err toward tired, bland words.

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Every time I get a website asking ‘are you human?’ I need them to offer a tickbox for ‘no, I am dancer’. Even though I’m one of the least dancey people known to mankind.

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Yesteryear review: matthewhurst.micro.blog

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@aaronblackshear.bsky.social I disagree. Unused solutions are almost never easy. There’s generally a reason they’re not being used. You can disagree about the validity of that reason, but it will have some rationale and force.

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@aaronblackshear.bsky.social Yes, I understand the word ‘desert’, and that’s bad for environment. But I treat glib, easy solutions for anything with suspicion.

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@aaronblackshear.bsky.social I’m no lettuce expert, but maybe the trade off here might be that the lettuce will cost more to produce?

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@bookspotlight.bsky.social Nothing to get bothered about then.

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Read: Calling by Inger Ash Wolfe 📚Scandinoir in central Ontario. Scanadia-noir? Jaded small town detective catches a religious nutjob serial killer. Thoughtful and atmospheric. #booksky #books #readingcommunity

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Read: Next of Kin by Kia Abdullah 📚Aunt kills toddler nephew. It’s and accident. Or is it? Kinda courtroom, kinda psychological, thriller. Fast, tropey read, which is not a bad thing. #booksky #books #readingcommunity

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Read: The Age of Wonder by Holmes, Richard 📚British scientists and breakthroughs in the wider culture where they happened, from about 1760 to 1830. Sounds pedestrian but it’s rivetting storytelling. #books #readingcommunity #booksky

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Read: Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 📚Gleefully weird and Vonneguts gonna Vonnegut. He seems to slip under the ‘problematic’ radar with some of his language. He’s using it to making a point, but that doesn’t always stop the Bad Word Police. So it goes. #books #readingcommunity #booksky

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Read: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 📚Very, very belatedly read this and remembered how weird and good Vonnegut is. Grim, black humour and immensely readable. So it goes. #books #readingcommunity #booksky

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Graham Greene made spy novels respectable, but he (probably) never stopped spying himself. I interviewed the director of the Graham Greene Festival about Greene’s writing, spying, and friendship with Kim Philby.

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#books #booksky #readingcommunity

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spybrary.com/graham-gr…

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Quick question. What does ‘the privilege of my life’ actually mean?

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Read: Agent Sniper by Tim Tate 📚Real life Zelig-esque Polish spy/defector (and massive fantasist) in the Cold War, clearly written and researched. A good read.#booksky #books #reading

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Pulp Asylum has just published my latest short story, The Man Who Said Too Much, which features an ice storm, stealing old chairs, and a Russian genius. Read it here: bit.ly/4y6ypBF #crime #thriller #amwriting #writingcommunity #writersky

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Read: Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum 📚 on audiobook, which came out two years ago. So much of what @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu says about countries run by greedy narcissistic bullies could now be said about the US. #booksky #books #reading

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Read: Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark 📚 One of those ‘how autobiographical is this?’ games about a struggling 1940s writer. Snarky and funny and far more tricksy than I expected. #reading #books #booksky

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Read: The Pretender by Jo Harkin 📚Peasant Pretender puppeteered by powerful Plantagenet proponents. Wolf Hall minus the portentousness. #booksky #reading #books

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Read: London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe 📚As in his ‘Say Nothing’, Keefe clearly disentangles a lot of complicated world views and confabulations to illuminate a particular world, though the overarching story isn’t as sharply defined. #reading #books #booksky

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Read: The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt 📚Cormac McCarthy with a sense of humour and optimism, and also an editor, and all the more likeable for it. #books #reading #booksky

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Read: Last One Out A Novel by Jane Harper 📚Her usual territory: resident returns to Australian small town and insular relationships (often between 3 male friends) which led to a tragedy a few years before. Realistic characters, well observed interactions, but nothing new. #booksky #reading #books

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