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Clarissa C. S. Ryan

@wintersweet.bsky.social

I guess I'm here now? But also wandering.shop? Where are any of us, really? 🏳️‍🌈🚀 sff writer, artist/designer, former adjunct professor, fan of things, GW2/WWM player, VP20. Forever temporospatially disjointed. Southern Tier NY. She/her, ish. 中文 OK

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Clarissa C. S. Ryan@wintersweet.bsky.social · 6h ago

This was my position on tools like WhiteSmoke for years, and it’s even more true for the terrible LLM interfaces we’re calling AI now!

Trick of the light@trickofthelight.bsky.social · 16h ago

Even if you set aside all the plagiarism and environmental damage, it isn't worth using because it sucks ass. The only things it might be useful for are very entry level. And if you're using it for that you have no business using it at all because you won't be able to tell when it's full of shit.

Olivia Waite@oliviawaite.com · 2d ago

Fae: “Tell us your true name.” Me: “…Just my name? No birthdate, no SSN, no fingerprint scan, no address, no mother’s maiden name? Are you sure you’ve even got the right Olivia Waite? There’s like six.” Fae: “What the hell kind of bargains have you been making?” Me: “They call it health insurance.”

Clarissa C. S. Ryan@wintersweet.bsky.social · yesterday

Someone's doing a bit of research on #WhereWindsMeet players and whether the game has led them to learn more about Chinese history/culture. Direct link to survey if you'd rather skip Reddit: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/CQR1au422c Original post: www.reddit.com/r/WhereWinds...

From the WhereWindsMeet community on Reddit: [Academic Survey] Has Where Winds Meet Been a Gateway to Something New for You?

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Danny Lore@weredawgz.blacksky.app · 2d ago

I love a lot of creators But i really need them to reflect on why they can defend AI in every artform BUT the one you work in Why is every other artform not as personal or heartfelt or needing human touch

Merc Fenn Wolfmoor@mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 6d ago

Thread, and if you are an author who was published by Daily Science Fiction (DSF), which is now defunct, you may want to check if your stories have been scraped and hosted on this new site that is NOT seeking permission and is making itself impossible to contact directly. FINISH THEM. ⬇️

Marie Brennan@swantower.bsky.social · 6d ago

Especially since they say they'll take things down if you ask -- which they shouldn't need to say if they asked for permission in the first place -- and then give you no way to do so! You'll have to contact Cloudflare: www.cloudflare.com/trust-hub/re...

Up On Goblin Hill@upongoblinhill.bsky.social · last wk.

Today I am obsessesing over the covers of E. R. Eddison's "The Worm Ouroboros" and later Zimiamvian Trilogy illustrated by native midwesterner Barbara Remington. Just an absolutely phenomenal house style for Ballantine Books.

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Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · last wk.

This is so fucking invasive and creepy and police statey jesus fucking christ This doesn’t just police children, this tracks and polices everyone and hands ALL of our information over to mysterious “third parties”.

The regulations released Tuesday require large social media platforms to use third-party systems to document age. Government identification documents can be used, but aren't required, according to the regulations. It's still relatively easy to determine whether an Internet user is over 18, said Andy Lulham, chief operating officer of Verifymy, which offers age-verification services. His company does so by scanning someone's face or simply taking in their email address. "It's got nothing to do with the email account or your emails," he explained. "But it can analyze where that email address was previously used. ... So it could be compared on a database where there are mortgage providers or credit card companies or utility providers, and it can build an age profile or a minimum estimated age of the user."
Clarissa C. S. Ryan@wintersweet.bsky.social · last wk.

People have got to learn the difference between “this thing may be objectively harmless but it feels icky to me and I don’t want it” and “this thing is radioactively Bad and everyone who’s touched it must be Punished”

Aimee Cozza Illustration@aimeecozza.com · last wk.

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