@evemassacre@assemblag.esI have always been a copyright sceptic but I wouldn't have wished AI to be the force to crash it. Time to think for new models of how to keep writing and music alive. Maybe a society deciding to prioritize guaranteeing giving everyone the possibility of a safe basic income, food, housing and health care instead of forcing them into competition hell could help? Maybe?
@frankel@mastodon.topThis review is about Writing for Developers by Piotr Sarna and Cynthia Dunlop from Manning.
I started this blog as a hobby 17 years ago, in April 2008. At the time, I had no clue about technical writing.Since then, the landscape has changed a lot, to the point that companies hire for technical writer positions.
I was curious to compare what I learned by doing to the structured approach of a book. Here’s my review.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAn MIT study of 54 ChatGPT users: using it for SAT essays led to the lowest brain engagement and poorer neural performance than using Google or writing unaided (Andrew R. Chow/Time)
https://time.com/7295195/ai-chatgpt-google-learning-school/
@shoppingtonz@mastodon.socialSo I spent a lot of time writing a post...which I think was kinda irrelevant but I wrote it due to me being excited with a Mastodon feature.
This can be seen in this screenshot I'm adding here:
Not a complaint comment: It would make more sense to me if the Fedi users showing up were mutual follows...just saying! No judgement!
#Mastodon
@fgraver@hcommons.socialAI copyediting: how Paperpal butchered my paper on AI-generated writing https://jilltxt.net/ai-copyediting-how-paperpal-butchered-my-paper-on-ai-generated-writing/
@al3x@hachyderm.io@… unsolicited wild thought: what if the per item front-matter would be within an HTML comment?
1. This would allow any Markdown processor to continue to work.
2. Implementation wise, achieving this won't be extremely extensive.
(Context: I implemented over time many Markdown extensions. Most of the time the main struggle was to find the balance between ease of using (as in writing) the new elements and ensuring that tools unware of the new elements won't choke on them.)
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotThere are now exactly 365 posts on my blog. So, considering I've been writing it for twenty years, I have a long term average of one post every twenty days, over all that time.
Some of them are good. I'd go further. Some of them are excellent.
https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.pageStorySage: Conversational Autobiography Writing Powered by a Multi-Agent Framework
Shayan Talaei, Meijin Li, Kanu Grover, James Kent Hippler, Diyi Yang, Amin Saberi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14159
@floheinstein@chaos.socialJust received a friend request on Facebook by someone named Peter Waldmeier.
https://www.facebook.com/peter.waldmeier.865
He seemed such a nice person, I think he is a model in a Scandinavian country.
When I asked him why he was sending me a friend request he go…
@spamless@mastodon.social
@arXiv_condmatmtrlsci_bot@mastoxiv.pageStudying all-optical magnetization switching of GdFe by double-pulse laser excitation
Rahil Hosseinifar, Felix Steinbach, Ivar Kumberg, Jos\'e Miguel Lend\'inez, Sangeeta Thakur, Sebastien E. Hadjadj, Jendrik G\"ordes, Chowdhury S. Awsaf, Mario Fix, Manfred Albrecht, Florian Kronast, Unai Atxitia, Clemens von Korff Schmising, Wolfgang Kuch
@captainborracho@metalhead.clubOh look, my band has a new single out today .. *nudge* *nudge* .. look at it, internet, look at it!
Slight change of pace with this one too, what started in our writing sessions as a prototypical melodeath track went somewhere very different by the time it reached the studio. Different influences were indulged, vocal style swapped, structure tweaked .. Cliché to say it but I'm proud of this one for being a true example of just throwing out the template, not rushing and letting th…
@castarco@hachyderm.iouspolitics, trump
I keep seeing smart people writing stuff like
> [the US] kept peace through strength balanced with restraint, and wielded influence through culture, values, and diplomacy
I understand that #Trump is terrible and some people feel tempted to idealize what they had before him, but we should be more discerning, or otherwise it becomes impossible to understand how this happened in the first place.
Let's start with some questions:
- peace where? and for who? was it true peace, or "Pax Romana"?
- are we going to take seriously that statement on "restraint"? after all the lies, internal witch hunting, sanctions, coups, wars, invasions, genocides, and last but not least, 2 unnecessary nuclear strikes on Japan?
Now, on "culture, values, and diplomacy". Sure. Why not. Not everything was going to be bad, right?
But the thing is, abusive husbands aren't bad all the time either. From time to time they know how to be sweet and seem to care: one present here, flowers the next day, a little bit of gaslighting, and fake apologies after that "accidental" slap.
Given enough time (if the wife is still alive), at some point the victim decides to leave, and then all hell breaks loose. Trump is the manifestation of that moment. He does not represent a change in #USA's nature, but a hidden side that was "always" there, just waiting to play its role.
Others believe this is because #US citizens have been intentionally dumbed down by a combination of propaganda and a disfunctional education system, and I'm sure it's partly true... But let's see what many of their most brilliant and educated citizens are choosing to do with their lives today: https://sfstandard.com/2025/03/12/stanford-students-want-in-on-the-military-tech-gold-rush/
So, all I'm asking is: please drop the act. It was always a clusterfuck.
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgSince migrating away from big tech platforms (including Google Drive) I have been using Libreoffice for my writing and presentations.
I often get asked why I do not use OnlyOffice since it looks so much better (especially the web client). Two answers:
- The presentation tools of OnlyOffice are too barebones
But more importantly:
OnlyOffice is a company that seems to be controlled by a Russian guy who invests a lot of time to hide the fact that OnlyOffice is Russian (see…
@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.pagevariability.dev: Towards an Online Toolbox for Feature Modeling
Tobias He{\ss}, Lukas Ostheimer, Tobias Betz, Simon Karrer, Tim Jannik Schmidt, Pierre Coquet, Sean Semmler, Thomas Th\"um
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09845
@nemorosa@mastodon.nu#WritersCoffeeClub 5/27. What is a ‘load-bearing’ part of your non-writerly life that makes writing possible for you?
I have a limited amount of energy and my family comes first, and then obligations that I have to take care of. Work is necessary, not optional.
The time I have left is my spare time. We all have that, an hour or two when we're free.
During that time,…
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialI wonder what people do with all that time they save by writing "UR" instead of "you are"?
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social"Out of pain and righteous anger I took apart the stained glass windows of my childhood faith. Over time I looked more closely at the glass shards at my feet and chose to reconstruct my faith life."
—Sandra L. Fischer ’12 M.Div. writing in the new issue of our journal, Reflections, which addresses whether Christianity is losing its religion.
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldGiven my background around the funeral industry and writing thrillers, is anyone surprised that I'd like to see this? #TrueCrime
https://time.com/7290184/the-…
@tgpo@social.linux.pizzaWife and I finished watching #PersonOfInterest for the 2nd time.
Fun series.
There are some goofy moments, but the middle stretch of episodes are solid. Great writing and pacing!
#tv #tvseries
@mapcar@mastodon.sdf.org“As is the case with reading and writing a language, code is one of those things where if you don’t use it, you lose it. Early studies indicate that humans who use A.I. could become less creative over time.”
Early studies link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3706598.3714198
@nemorosa@mastodon.nu#WritersCoffeeClub 5/27. What is a ‘load-bearing’ part of your non-writerly life that makes writing possible for you?
I have a limited amount of energy and my family comes first, and then obligations that I have to take care of. Work is necessary, not optional.
The time I have left is my spare time. We all have that, an hour or two when we're free.
During that time,…
@arXiv_astrophSR_bot@mastoxiv.pageThe Sunspot Solar Observatory Data Archive: Continuing Operations at the Dunn Solar Telescope
Sean G. Sellers, Juie Shetye, Damian J. Christian, David B. Jess, Peter H. Keys, Gordon A. MacDonald, R. T. James McAteer, Jason Jackiewicz, Colin Hancock, Michael S. Thompson, Jamey E. Eriksen, Sara Jeffreys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.…
@davidshq@hachyderm.io"I rejoice greatly that I find there is patience in my soul for quite a long time yet, that I desire no earthly possessions, and need nothing but books, the possibility of writing, and of being daily for a few hours alone."
- Fyodor Dostoevsky in Letters of Fyodor Dostoevsky (trans. Ethel Colburn Mayne)
Ohh, is that all?
#books #writing #reading #dostoevsky #solitude
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social"I never imagined that I would become unchurched. Yet being unchurched, I am discovering that whenever we intentionally put a few chairs and a table together to have a meal, we are manifesting a new—or perhaps ancient—way of doing church in our time."
—Vincent Wei-Cheng Lin ’24 S.T.M. writing in the new issue of Reflections, which addresses whether Christianity is losing its religion.
@davidshq@hachyderm.io"I rejoice greatly that I find there is patience in my soul for quite a long time yet, that I desire no earthly possessions, and need nothing but books, the possibility of writing, and of being daily for a few hours alone." - Fyodor #Dostoevsky, letter to N. D. Fonvisin, March 1854.
#books #solitude #writing #quotes
