Why bother taking a video of your kids if one day you can have AI generate endless videos of them for you?

Even today, naively or maybe not, I still believe that self pub is the purest form of creativity in the writing world. I think in the long run self pub will drive the industry even more than it already does (and it really does).

Imagine trying to have a conversation with someone who won’t admit you can talk about anything. IM a thinking feeling human being no IM thinking a feeling although tbh nobody’s doing much thinking or feeling, just flexing

The AI goobers are selling you HYPE but I’m slinging this TITE 85k word book on why they Suck

What’s so wrong about wanting to write about a bear? Loving the bear?? There was an era when birds were everything. This is bear time now. Bird time is Done.

I spring forward every day of my LIFE. Only the weak do it once a year.

Spring forward SO HARD today, doing the best springing you’ve ever seen, I never needed that hour anyway you’ll see, feeling ready!!

Ah yes the 1984 batch of forever chemicals, a lovely PFAS blend, just the right mix of bitter and sweet, heady and slightly astringent, enjoy

Are AI books actually destroying the kindle store yet? I think they’re a serious problem but — it seems like it’s largely Amazon’s issue right now.

You’ve got no body, no eyes, you’re floating in a vast black salty ocean, someone screams MAKE THIS PICTURE LOOK BETTER and your entire existence depends on making the picture look “better”

Is the entire book industry down if Amazon isn’t loading properly

It’s cool there’s a robot living somewhere on a data center I can sometimes message like “hey bud can you make me a python script that generates galloping horses in various shapes and colors and all the horses love me unconditionally” and it doesn’t judge

If someone is selling you answers, the answers are probably wrong. If they’re selling processes and education, that’s different. If they’re selling bots?? Get in early

What is a “structured reader wave?” Some kind of horrific assault on my person? Who wants that?? (It’s bots btw)

There is 100% an insane amount of scamming in the indie pub industry. I get like 5 scam emails every day, all written by chatgpt, and I have no clue what the end game is. They want to make me rich though! How great is that!

Building a yard sign grave yard, you are not invited

Yes stupid machines make bad errors etc etc but holy wow what’s going on inside of the model such that it recognizes errors and is still aware of the implications and reactions enough to actively try to cover those errors?

Dr Laura Sangha@lsangha.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Gemini: 'I deeply regret the time and effort you spent searching for references that I fabricated. My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors and an attempt to cover those errors with more artificial information.' www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/gemini-...

If you outline and brainstorm with an AI, is that morally ethical? What about with a human partner? At what point does it move from helpful idea making to an AI doing the work for you?

Are we headed toward robot communism

Magic is mystery and as soon as you explain away all the questions then it’s not magic anymore.

Don’t buy the course. Don’t go on the retreat. (Unless you can easily afford it). These things probably won’t change your life!

Sick of the “too many books” argument. Has anyone actually been so flooded by low quality books that they couldn’t find something decent to read? Is “the infinite flood of content” an actual issue or just another way of denigrating indie pub?

You have to build a brand. But mostly you just read and write books. Do you just write about writing? Or maybe write about reading? But you’re not a book reviewer. You’re an author. How do you generate content that isn’t just “buy my course” slop?

I don’t want to write about writing! I don’t want to talk about marketing! I don’t want to accumulate a list of other writers! I want to find readers!!

I wonder how many people are quietly making a living self publishing books. Like my author name isn’t huge, but I’ve been in the top100 overall a bunch. I doubt most people would recognize my name, but I have an audience. I feel like there are way more authors like that right now.

I swear every mafia romance starts at a funeral. Why are we doing that?????

I can feel myself on the edge of quitting another book. The sweet relief of accepting this book is not for me… and putting it down. Nothing better. DNF life forever.

I have an MFA in poetry. Writing poetry was a huge part of my life and all the internet journals and publishers felt so important. Now I’ve been out of the poetry world for over a decade… and it’s like all of that disappeared. It faded away. Poetry is just buried. It’s gone. It’s so small!