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Melinda Salisbury

@melindasalisbury.com

Athos in the streets. Aramis in the sheets. Porthos in the skeets Author. she/her https://linktr.ee/melsalisbury

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Melinda Salisbury@melindasalisbury.com · 11h ago

Do the "authors" using AI and LLMs not understand they're also making themselves obsolete because why the fuck would publishing pay a human being to "write" a book with AI and LLMs, when they could just generate the prompts inhouse, slap a pseudonym on it, and build their catalogue that way?

John Self@john-self.bsky.social · yesterday

I know we attribute a lot of wrong to social media but I’m pretty sure there was once a time when someone apologising was grounds to sheathe your weapons, not stick the boot in.

Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · yesterday

Apologies: I’m not online much, I haven't paid any attention to Rod Liddle for a long time, I didn't really know his extremes. I do now: I wouldn’t have posted if I'd known. I’ve seen death of difficult people up close (and its impact on others): that’s the only reason it was on my mind as an issue.

Melinda Salisbury@melindasalisbury.com · yesterday

The audacity to ask a working professional to undertake a 3 hour round trip to then read and talk to children for 1-2 hours--ON A SUNDAY--and then be snippy when the subject of payment is raised! Lady, that's a whole day! Are you being paid/compensated for your work there? Then why wouldn't I be?!

Simon Bisson@sbisson.com · yesterday

"Today is August 4, 2026," said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, "in the city of Allendale, California." It repeated the date three times for memory's sake. There Will Come Soft Rains, Ray Bradbury's melancholy obituary for a dead world, is set today.

Lou Morgan@lmorgan.bsky.social · 2d ago

You will have to prise my em-dashes from my cold, dead hands. I won’t give up a single thing available to me in the toolbox I’ve built as a writer just because of a glorified pocket calculator and its acolytes.

weeder@weeder.bsky.social · 5d ago

Friend, who chose The Amulet of Great Wealth: Haven't seen you since The Choosing, how's life? Me, who chose The Amulet of Creativity: I'm great man yeah all good super good

Alex von Tunzelmann@alexvont.bsky.social · 4d ago

I’m not sure whether this is just a psychological difference or AI bros fundamentally don’t understand the nature of an artistic experience, but: I don’t want a personalised film/book/podcast. I want to see/read/hear the same one as everyone else, so I can read reviews or discuss it with my friends

jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 5d ago

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
Melinda Salisbury@melindasalisbury.com · 4d ago

I think my favourite thing about The Odyssey--and especially the discourse around it--is that if feels like one of the few times we've had a return to something like monoculture since social media algorithms and streaming platforms began fragmenting us

Śéáń@fiercemilder.com · 7d ago

Pitching my Backrooms sequel "Frontrooms" featuring that never-used living room at Nana's house where the furniture is covered in plastic and the air smells forbidden.

Hannah Strong@hannahstrong.co.uk · last wk.

there's such little value placed on film (and art more widely!) by the government and businesses. it's becoming the reserve of posh kids and nepo babies now more than ever and it's going to be the death of us