Jody DiPerna

@jodydiperna.bsky.social

Lovechild of the Rust Belt & Appalachia. Reprobate reader. Rogue writer. Blow up the Data Centers. This is a no AI Zone.

I wrote about a frustrating, brilliant novel that deals with how devoid of connections and curiosity the world has become, and then, fittingly, I wrote (again) about how AI is ruining the book publishing industry. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

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The theme of the week is how AI is making the world (more) stupid What I read this week The Vivisectors by Missouri Williams What to do with this frustrating, brilliant novel! I almost wanted to t...

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Pittsburgh peeps, come to Stay Gold Books on Sat, Aug. 15 to hear Natalie Sypolt read from her new novel "If Only the Rain Would Come." Dave Newman will read from, "Dope and Vodka and Cigarettes, and Not Shaving Her Legs." I'll be there to oversee the fun. You don't want to miss this one.

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Fannie Lou Hamer was a Southern civil rights activist and community organizer who was beaten by the police for sitting at a whites-only bus stop after completing a voter registration program. She sustained lifelong injuries to her legs, kidneys, and eyes.

Yellow graphic with stars on the side in the colors of the Disability Pride Flag, green, red, white, yellow, and blue. A black and white photo of Fannie Lou Hamer is on the graphic with black text reading "Disability Pride Month" and a quote: "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired." The quote is attributed to Fannie Lou Hamer, civil rights activist who became disabled after being beaten by Mississippi police

Trump/GOP is causing Americans’ price pain with costly tariffs, reckless war of choice in Iran pushing up gas prices & inflation, Big Ugly Bill stripping Americans’ healthcare subsidies to give billionaires tax cuts, massive incompetence, rampant corruption, & DOGE gutting national science & safety!

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Things CHATGPT cannot do for you: > cook you dinner > clean your cat's litterbox > vacuum > massage your feet > change your sheets Things ChatGPT can do: > funnel money to billionaires > slurp potable water from living creatures > give you bad advice Enjoy this photo of two delicious spritzes

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Dear Everyone using AI to write flattering emails about my books, which you clearly have not read, in order to sell me on some marketing scheme: May your lawns wither and your water cut out in the middle of a shower, you lazy, gormless phish.

“Writing was basically how I found my way out of [a] very narrow form of faith. I don’t know that I would have done that if I’d had an institutional subscription to ChatGPT, as many college students do today.” —an interview with Meghan O’Gieblyn

Against Slop | Meghan O’Gieblyn, Lauren Kane

“The whole field of AI alignment—ensuring that machine intelligence can peacefully coexist with humanity—grew out of the pervasive anxiety that we might

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