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@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-06-30 05:35:37

WGA West report: the number of members reporting earnings fell 9.4% YoY in 2024, while total earnings rose 12.7% to $1.5B in the same period, below 2022's $1.9B (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
hollywoodreporter.com/business

@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-04 08:13:11

How do Software Engineering Candidates Prepare for Technical Interviews?
Brian Bell, Teresa Thomas, Sang Won Lee, Chris Brown
arxiv.org/abs/2507.02068

@aredridel@kolektiva.social
2025-05-02 17:56:39

Let this be a lesson: my point about editing above goes deep. It's not just about writing words and editing words.
It's about decisions of any kind.
While deliberative paralysis is a thing, when you make "do" easier than "deliberate" (and increasingly tip the balance toward "do"), what happens is what's easy, not what's good. It is an accelerator for all kinds of things, a great many of them bad, and even more suboptimal.

@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-26 09:07:20

AI in the Writing Process: How Purposeful AI Support Fosters Student Writing
Momin N. Siddiqui, Roy Pea, Hari Subramonyam
arxiv.org/abs/2506.20595

@tante@tldr.nettime.org
2025-06-16 10:54:42

New study on the effects of LLM use (in this case on essay writing):
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
Quote:
"LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four month…

@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social
2025-06-26 11:59:41

The writing that Creative Commons is also "AI"-pilled has been on the wall for a while, and here we are are, wasting time and money on some useless signalling to "AI" scrapers that already don't care for any existing limitations…
creativecommons.org/2025/06/25

@june_thalia_michael@literatur.social
2025-06-25 05:27:49

#EroticMusings week 4: Is your MC the kind of person you’d want a relationship with? How would they feel about you?
I would love to have Fabiola as a friend (though without the additional benefits - while I enjoy writing about this kind of relationship, it's not something I personally want. What I'm into when writing and outside of it are actually pretty different things). S…

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2025-06-16 10:59:21

"Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task"
doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.08
"[…] While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four mont…

@salrandolph@zirk.us
2025-05-15 15:10:50

After weeks of writing from news and social media, I decided to turn towards art for a while. I thought I’d be able to make an easy trade: from fresh hells to fresh heavens.
#Art
salrandolph.substack.com/p/…

@nemorosa@mastodon.nu
2025-06-10 09:07:35

#WritersCoffeeClub 10: What is the line between homage and theft?
Theft is illegal, a copyright violation. You take someone else's words, paragraph by paragraph, and pass it on as your own. Plagiarism, while not strictly illegal, lands here in my opinion. It's artistic theft.
Homage, in my opinion, is writing something in someone else's spirit, honouring the origin…

@jonpainterphoto@lawfedi.blue
2025-04-05 18:01:35

Fire from The Atlantic.
#USPol #Tariffs

Because Lesotho’s citizens are too poor to afford most U.S. exports, while the U.S. imports $237 million in diamonds and other goods from the small landlocked nation, we have reserved close to our highest-possible tariff rate for one of the world’s poorest countries. The notion that taxing Lesotho gemstones is necessary for the U.S. to add steel jobs in Ohio is so absurd that I briefly lost consciousness in the middle of writing this sentence.
@stargazer@woof.tech
2025-06-20 07:31:07

#WritersCoffeeClub
June 20: Solstice. What’s the most you’ve ever written in a single session? What made that possible?
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I remember writing a story in three pages in a single go. Probably did even more before. Usually happens when I get to a part which I was going to and planning to write for a while - a culmination,a standoff, a cathartic scene, something like that. It l…

@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-13 08:03:20

Prompt Variability Effects On LLM Code Generation
Andrei Paleyes, Radzim Sendyka, Diana Robinson, Christian Cabrera, Neil D. Lawrence
arxiv.org/abs/2506.10204

@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-10 16:37:29

This arxiv.org/abs/2411.03295 has been replaced.
link: scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

@stargazer@woof.tech
2025-06-09 15:53:21

#WritersCoffeeClub
June 9: Have you ever done timed writing sprints? Did you enjoy it?
I did. I did not.
While "The War of Art" by Pressfield recommends treating writing as a craft (arguably that's the whole idea), I cannot produce word count on a short-term schedule. If the setting and characters are not decided, a day or even a week are simply not enough — an…