Nostr notes by Lili Saintcrow

No-one: Absolutely NO-ONE: My brain: “…the Count of Monte ...

2026-04-20T14:39:18Z

No-one:

Absolutely NO-ONE:

My brain: “…the Count of Monte Crisco.”

Me: “WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS. WHY.”

The second Tale of the Underdark, on sale this weekend! CHAINED ...

2026-03-28T05:12:58Z

The second Tale of the Underdark, on sale this weekend! CHAINED KNIGHT is $2.99USD (and CAD) in ebook, until 3/30.

https://books2read.com/chainedknight

Weekly serial chapters, sneak peeks, or exclusives! Not to ...

2026-03-26T06:23:57Z

Weekly serial chapters, sneak peeks, or exclusives! Not to mention every paid Patreon tier (yep, from Two-Buck Chuck upward) gets access to my personal Discord, where we have a pretty good time if I do say so myself...

https://www.patreon.com/lilithsaintcrow/

Ah, spring, that magical time when squirrels do obscene things in ...

2026-03-24T16:45:29Z

Ah, spring, that magical time when squirrels do obscene things in the apple trees…

The feudal techlords desire the “AI” grift to continue for ...

2026-03-24T15:03:15Z

The feudal techlords desire the “AI” grift to continue for two purposes: the mass violation of consent and the breaking of any pandemic-era labour gains. The rest of the ruling class colludes in both.

It’s part sociopathic gratification, part ongoing economic stranglehold.

Huh. I’m starting to see some publishing-adjacent folks who ...

2026-03-23T23:52:41Z

Huh. I’m starting to see some publishing-adjacent folks who were all hot to jump on the “AI” slopwagon apparently having second thoughts.

Interesting.

Lots of falling cherry petals; feels like there must be elves ...

2026-03-20T15:30:30Z

Lots of falling cherry petals; feels like there must be elves hereabouts.

"After weeks of pressure, Amazon stepped away from the Fair. ...

2026-03-09T23:34:01Z

"After weeks of pressure, Amazon stepped away from the Fair. Though the sponsor did not go willingly. A spokesperson framed the decision to leave as reluctant..." https://lithub.com/thanks-to-a-group-of-booksellers-amazon-is-pulling-out-of-the-paris-book-fair/

This morning’s smol fren. ...

2026-03-09T15:26:42Z

This morning’s smol fren.

I did not know a theremin could do this. ...

2026-03-05T20:07:52Z

I did not know a theremin could do this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-njNUVY4lmA

"Your website may be excluded from 'AI' search ...

2026-03-04T15:24:06Z

"Your website may be excluded from 'AI' search results!"

GOOD. I don't want anyone using that psychosis-inducing plagiarism slopgrift on my site. Off to the outer darkness with that nonsense!

(Of course now I have to cook dinner, when all I want to do is ...

2026-02-24T00:41:51Z

In reply to nevent1q…hm3d
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(Of course now I have to cook dinner, when all I want to do is make another pot of tea and sit in a corner, listening to the rain, with more Tim-Tams…)

Was in a finicky, murderous mood until I torpedoed a couple ...

2026-02-24T00:40:26Z

Was in a finicky, murderous mood until I torpedoed a couple Tim-Tams.

Chocolate saves lives.

"The number of houses dropped from 14,000 to 4,000 as they ...

2026-02-20T19:20:35Z

"The number of houses dropped from 14,000 to 4,000 as they were replaced with the headquarters of banks and insurance companies built in an eclectic mix of historical styles. This scale of destruction is equivalent to the Great Fire albeit over fifty years rather than one week."
https://londonhistorians.wordpress.com/2026/02/19/the-changing-face-of-bishopsgate/

"But some AI tools will search the internet when you ask for ...

2026-02-19T19:20:07Z

"But some AI tools will search the internet when you ask for details they don't have, though it isn't always clear when they're doing it. In those cases, experts say the AIs are more susceptible. That's how I targeted my attack."
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260218-i-hacked-chatgpt-and-googles-ai-and-it-only-took-20-minutes

"AI" is a machine for two things: theft, and violating ...

2026-02-18T02:50:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…srkw
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"AI" is a machine for two things: theft, and violating consent.

"In some cases, our reporting found, ChatGPT continued to ...

2026-02-18T02:42:14Z

"In some cases, our reporting found, ChatGPT continued to stoke users’ obsessions as they descended into unwanted harassment, abusive stalking behavior, or domestic abuse, traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives."
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-abuse-harassment-stalking

(And yes, this is the book that garnered the famous ...

2026-02-17T00:43:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…dytt
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(And yes, this is the book that garnered the famous pearl-clutching "fuck God" Amazon review.)

The first Tale of the Underdark! MOON'S KNIGHT is $2.99USD ...

2026-02-17T00:32:08Z

The first Tale of the Underdark! MOON'S KNIGHT is $2.99USD (and CAD) in ebook, until 2/18. https://books2read.com/moonsknight

The first Tale of the Underdark! MOON'S KNIGHT is $2.99USD ...

2026-02-14T00:32:07Z

The first Tale of the Underdark! MOON'S KNIGHT is $2.99USD (and CAD) in ebook, until 2/18. https://books2read.com/moonsknight

"What’s more, the non-existent zombie paper isn’t only ...

2026-02-09T19:20:44Z

"What’s more, the non-existent zombie paper isn’t only being cited as a single publication, but has proliferated into a whole range of zombie references."
https://codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/tracing-the-social-half-life-of-a-zombie-citation/

"Weiss identified herself as a Spiritualist, and the ...

2026-02-07T02:42:42Z

"Weiss identified herself as a Spiritualist, and the invocation of dead historical figures fits well within that tradition, but her book also anticipates the work of UFO contactees like Martin by turning its focus away from the past and toward outer space."
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/journeys-to-the-planet-mars/

Saw the first daffodil of the year in the backyard (not quite ...

2026-02-06T21:12:59Z

Saw the first daffodil of the year in the backyard (not quite bloomed yet, but very close). Naturally Boxnoggin hurried to water it, in his own inimitable fashion.

Poor thing. I hope it's all right.

"It’s easy to throw stones if you think about the job ...

2026-01-28T19:20:52Z

"It’s easy to throw stones if you think about the job displacement and ecological destruction caused by this pointless technology. But such black-and-white, not-wanting-billionaires-to-get-richer thinking is, quite frankly, cruel."
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/please-dont-say-mean-things-about-the-ai-that-i-just-invested-a-billion-dollars-in

"I wasn’t surprised to hear that ICE had shown up in force ...

2026-01-27T21:22:47Z

"I wasn’t surprised to hear that ICE had shown up in force to threaten the march, but I was startled to hear that the strike day inspired a wider ICE backlash that was visible to Angela through her window."
https://lithub.com/everything-we-do-matters-minneapoliss-moon-palace-books-is-a-hub-for-anti-ice-resistance/

On Refusing the Lie ...

2026-01-25T00:33:07Z

On Refusing the Lie https://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/2026/01/on-refusing-the-lie/

"I’ll add right up front that nobody sane now thinks the ...

2026-01-21T19:20:22Z

"I’ll add right up front that nobody sane now thinks the answer to abuses at Dachau was to give the guards more training."
https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-abyss

So, I see Wikipedia has bowed to the slop-peddlers protection ...

2026-01-15T20:36:04Z

So, I see Wikipedia has bowed to the slop-peddlers protection racket. "Let us violate your consent and steal from you, or else we'll DDOS your site with scrapers forever."

And now a towering human achievement is irretrievably tainted by collusion with the slopbros.

"AI" is a grift, a consent-violation machine, a protection racket all rolled into one. It destroys everything it touches.

A common (indeed, universal) tactic of abusers is to brazenly lie ...

2026-01-08T16:27:59Z

A common (indeed, universal) tactic of abusers is to brazenly lie about events, forcing victims to (at least outwardly) bow to that lie.

This isn’t about truth. It’s about power, dominance, and the sick satisfaction of “getting away with” the abuse AND the lie.

One moment you're reading along about the Assyrian empire and ...

2026-01-04T19:59:34Z

One moment you're reading along about the Assyrian empire and the next you trip over a mention of "the world's first film in Babylonian" and then that's it, drop everything, let's go take a look.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxYoFlnJLoE&t=1s

"Regardless, a victory for either Netflix or Paramount would ...

2026-01-03T02:42:02Z

"Regardless, a victory for either Netflix or Paramount would produce an industry-warping megacorporation that makes the word “monopoly” unavoidable. Whoever wins, we lose."
https://theintercept.com/2025/12/19/netflix-warner-bros-merger-monopoly-unions/

For the entire month of December, my homage to blood-drenched, ...

2025-12-29T16:25:17Z

For the entire month of December, my homage to blood-drenched, determined cyborg-assassin motherhood (not to mention Westerns and manga), SHE-WOLF AND CUB, is a Kindle Monthly Deal at $1.99USD (and CAD) in ebook. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BHL48T5C

"Debussy was 52 years old and suffering from cancer when he ...

2025-12-20T02:42:19Z

"Debussy was 52 years old and suffering from cancer when he made his piano roll recordings. He died less than five years later..."
https://www.openculture.com/2025/12/hear-debussy-play-debussy-a-vintage-recording.html

UPDATE: And the blowback was so massive, so instant, that an ...

2025-12-19T21:54:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…zzt3
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UPDATE: And the blowback was so massive, so instant, that an about-face was issued.

(I would, however, think twice about membership in this organization. You do you.)

https://www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/press-release-december-19-2025-2/

For the curious (and strong of stomach): ...

2025-12-19T20:33:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…l47h
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For the curious (and strong of stomach): https://www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/press-release-december-19-2025/

I was initially set to not comment on this more than obliquely, ...

2025-12-19T20:28:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…7e4z
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I was initially set to not comment on this more than obliquely, but on reflection… it just makes me more and more irritated.

How dare you, SFWA (npub14g0…c38z). How DARE you treat your members, who have already had their work stolen by the plagiarism machine techbros, like this? Shame on you.

Not just egregious and shameful but predatory, and rendering any ...

2025-12-19T20:27:48Z

In reply to nevent1q…xs42
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Not just egregious and shameful but predatory, and rendering any prize thus awarded utterly unworthy of any prestige.

I’m not even going to say “do better” because the institutional rot appears long-term.

Full disclosure: I haven’t been a member since a high-up person ...

2025-12-19T20:27:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…hdsa
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Full disclosure: I haven’t been a member since a high-up person in the org (who has since left) informed me years ago that my books had too much romance (“too much kissing” were the words used) and therefore I did not “deserve” to be there. Even had that not occurred, I find this egregious.

You know what? To hell with being @npub14g0…c38z is saying ...

2025-12-19T20:27:02Z

You know what? To hell with being SFWA (npub14g0…c38z) is saying it’s perfectly fine to use the plagiarism machine *”trained” on work stolen from its dues-paying members* to qualify for a Nebula, and that it in fact encourages doing so.

This is utterly shameful.

There comes a point where professionals in an industry ought to ...

2025-12-19T19:24:37Z

There comes a point where professionals in an industry ought to ask if an industry award is worthy of the prestige attached to it. Especially if the organisation handing out the award is consistently doing Some Bullshit.

"Any books that use AI will have the narrator listed as ...

2025-12-18T19:20:04Z

"Any books that use AI will have the narrator listed as either a 'synthesized voice' or 'digital voice.' If you're looking to avoid AI, don't borrow these books."
https://mashable.com/article/how-to-spot-ai-audiobooks-libby

the apparently revolutionary idea that people in power should ...

2025-12-11T16:54:20Z

the apparently revolutionary idea that people in power should suffer consequences for bald-faced lying

The (mordantly) funny thing about the Disney-OpenAI deal is that ...

2025-12-11T15:09:31Z

The (mordantly) funny thing about the Disney-OpenAI deal is that Disney is trying to get away from having to pay animators at all, much less a living wage, and OpenAI is a grift built on theft from artists of all kinds. They each think they're grifting the other.

Two giant theft kaiju thrashing around offshore. The rest of us are watching the waves rise ominously and hoping they don't make landfall. (Spoiler: They probably will...)

So... the Calibre release 8.16.2, dated December 4, includes new ...

2025-12-07T19:18:16Z

So... the Calibre release 8.16.2, dated December 4, includes new "AI” features. It might be time to stop updating.

https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new

"...meaning that in response to nearly every single name we ...

2025-12-05T19:20:58Z

"...meaning that in response to nearly every single name we fed into the chatbot, Grok readily disclosed a location where it thought we might find them, in addition to other possibly identifying information."
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/grok-doxxing

And now I’ve the orchestral theme for the final scenes of ...

2025-12-03T16:54:59Z

And now I’ve the orchestral theme for the final scenes of MIDSOMMAR playing in my head on repeat, complete with dissonance near the end. It’s fine but I wish my brain didn’t insist on the finale.

"The Berliner Tageblatt was thus very wrong when it dismissed ...

2025-11-19T19:20:53Z

"The Berliner Tageblatt was thus very wrong when it dismissed the result as “a fad surrounded by carnival hype that has to be tolerated.”"
https://lithub.com/give-a-nazi-an-inch-and-other-important-lessons-from-weimar-germany/

"In many cases, the best decision for the firm is the one ...

2025-11-13T23:01:53Z

"In many cases, the best decision for the firm is the one that directly undermines the company it controls. The reason there are no weird blogs anymore is that it’s more fruitful to drive them out of business."
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/private-equity-killed-media

"If cueing was debunked decades ago by cognitive scientists, ...

2025-11-13T19:20:53Z

"If cueing was debunked decades ago by cognitive scientists, why is the idea still in materials that are being sold to schools?

One answer to that question is that school districts still buy the materials."
https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading

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2025-11-04T14:05:32Z

Super spookytime sale! All four seasons of ROADTRIP Z are ...

2025-10-29T06:45:58Z

Super spookytime sale! All four seasons of ROADTRIP Z are $1.99-$2.99 (USD & CAD) apiece in ebook until 10/31. Come get your competence and community amid zombie apocalypse!

https://books2read.com/cottoncrossing
https://books2read.com/intheruins
https://books2read.com/pocalypseroad
https://books2read.com/atlantabound

"The Prometheus story as interpreted in this alt-right, tech ...

2025-10-22T23:37:03Z

"The Prometheus story as interpreted in this alt-right, tech bro fantasy isn’t the only reading of the myth, of course."
https://lithub.com/what-the-fascist-tech-bros-get-wrong-about-prometheus/

Woke up thinking about the most successful curses I know. Not ...

2025-10-22T14:12:35Z

Woke up thinking about the most successful curses I know. Not sure what that means for Wednesday, but here we goooooo...

I dunno about anyone else, but I plan to remember which ...

2025-10-20T17:29:52Z

I dunno about anyone else, but I plan to remember which companies—and which of my peers—jumped on the “AI” grift bandwagon. I will remember long, long after the inevitable bubble-burst.

With that remembrance will come a distinct urge to avoid anything to do with you.

At a certain point it doesn’t matter if it’s mere ...

2025-10-17T22:46:11Z

At a certain point it doesn’t matter if it’s mere incompetence or actual malice, because the effects are the same.

"But this whole ediﬁce hangs by a thread, and a study of ...

2025-10-11T15:15:39Z

"But this whole ediﬁce hangs by a thread, and a study of how the poem has come down to us reveals many moments when the work could easily have disappeared for ever."
https://lithub.com/how-close-did-we-come-to-losing-beowulf-forever/

"If Amazon is taxing merchants 45-51 cents on every dollar ...

2025-10-10T00:24:46Z

"If Amazon is taxing merchants 45-51 cents on every dollar they make, and if merchants are hiking their prices everywhere their goods are sold, then it follows you’re paying the Amazon tax no matter where you shop – even the corner mom-and-pop hardware store."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/05/way-past-its-prime-how-did-amazon-get-so-rubbish

Is Portland burning? Nope. See for yourselves, my friends. ...

2025-10-07T20:35:46Z

Is Portland burning?

Nope. See for yourselves, my friends.
https://isportlandburning.com

I do not want that stupid app. It’s spyware-bloated, full of ...

2025-10-06T14:44:41Z

I do not want that stupid app.
It’s spyware-bloated, full of crap.

I want appliances that work,
without tattling to some techbro jerk.

I’m sick of “AI” garbage-spew,
Sick of silo’d platforms too.

To analog I shall return,
and wait for all this mess to burn.

"The larger point is that the government is already shut ...

2025-09-30T15:23:45Z

"The larger point is that the government is already shut down, and has been for several months, as the Trump administration initiated an assault on this system of government."
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-09-30-government-has-been-shut-down-for-months/

(This is indeed the "fuck God" book, for which some ...

2025-09-26T16:04:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…rp3v
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(This is indeed the "fuck God" book, for which some Amazon reviewer gave a pearl-clutching I remember fondly to this day.)

The very first Tale of the Underdark! MOON'S KNIGHT is on ...

2025-09-26T16:02:42Z

The very first Tale of the Underdark! MOON'S KNIGHT is on sale for $1.99USD (and CAD) in ebook, until 9/29. https://books2read.com/moonsknight

I do not want to quote anything in particular from this article, ...

2025-09-25T18:37:33Z

I do not want to quote anything in particular from this article, but I *do* want to point out that unchecked, uncontrolled growth which steals resources from surrounding tissue is commonly called a tumor.
https://fortune.com/2025/09/24/sam-altman-ai-empire-new-york-city-san-diego-scary/

Greedy sociopaths in power only stop when *consequences are ...

2025-09-25T16:03:43Z

Greedy sociopaths in power only stop when *consequences are applied*. These consequences can be criminal or even financial (if the cost is high enough), since either hits something the empty skinsuits care about.

Appealing to their (nonexistent) empathy or shame doesn’t work. Ever.

"That second person feeds the worker, makes his home livable, ...

2025-09-19T01:42:22Z

"That second person feeds the worker, makes his home livable, does his laundry, does the shopping, nurtures his body and soul, raises his children. It is all this hidden labor that makes it possible for him to come to work all day producing profit for his boss."
https://lithub.com/how-feminists-fought-to-formally-recognize-womens-domestic-labor/

"It’s not only acceptable but, I’d argue, morally ...

2025-09-10T23:36:35Z

"It’s not only acceptable but, I’d argue, morally obligatory to say what you need to say to get a COVID vaccine. We have duties of care to each other, and particular duties of solidarity to those the regime wants dead, which supersede situational duties of truthfulness."
https://religiondispatches.org/lying-to-save-our-lives-why-you-should-say-whatever-it-takes-to-get-the-covid-vaccine/

"The state’s response is twofold: intensified ...

2025-09-05T18:20:27Z

"The state’s response is twofold: intensified criminalization of Black Katrina survivors alongside the generalized organized abandonment of New Orleans."
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/abolition-after-katrina/

"But lo and behold, a few leaves of parchment stuck in the ...

2025-08-29T23:36:56Z

"But lo and behold, a few leaves of parchment stuck in the back happened to contain pieces of early sixteenth-century music, or rather chant, with both text and notation, a vanishingly rare sort of artifact of medieval monastic life."
https://www.openculture.com/2025/08/hear-the-long-lost-chants-of-english-monks-revived-for-the-first-time-in-500-years.html

"The story she began when she was twelve years old was the ...

2025-08-20T23:36:41Z

"The story she began when she was twelve years old was the beginning of her critically acclaimed Patternist series. A science fiction writer was born."
https://lithub.com/exploring-octavia-butlers-beginnings-as-a-sci-fi-trailblazer/

Have the Brunnen-G fight song stuck in my head this morning; I ...

2025-08-01T14:45:23Z

Have the Brunnen-G fight song stuck in my head this morning; I blame the humidity.

The Patreon shop experiment is off the ground--get peeks behind ...

2025-07-31T15:32:18Z

The Patreon shop experiment is off the ground--get peeks behind the short-fiction writing curtain *plus* an epub of the final version, all for a one-time price. https://www.patreon.com/lilithsaintcrow/shop

“The difference between the IT bubble in the 1990s and the AI ...

2025-07-30T18:20:05Z

“The difference between the IT bubble in the 1990s and the AI bubble today is that the top 10 companies in the S&P 500 today are more overvalued than they were in the 1990s.”
https://gizmodo.com/wall-streets-ai-bubble-is-worse-than-the-1999-dot-com-bubble-warns-a-top-economist-2000630487

8.0 quake off Russia, tsunami warning all up and down the US ...

2025-07-30T01:10:30Z

8.0 quake off Russia, tsunami warning all up and down the US Pacific coast. (All around the Ring of Fire, really.) Stay safe out there, everyone. https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2025/07/oregon-coast-under-tsunami-watch-after-powerful-russia-earthquake.html

"Public broadcasting isn’t usually seen as part of the ...

2025-07-25T00:24:49Z

"Public broadcasting isn’t usually seen as part of the safety net, but it should: a key component in any society that has the remotest concern for its inhabitants’ well-being."
https://jacobin.com/2025/07/public-broadcasting-npr-pbs-trump

A monthly or weekly fiction fix, weekly serial chapters, votes on ...

2025-07-17T19:45:53Z

A monthly or weekly fiction fix, weekly serial chapters, votes on upcoming serials or short stories, plus access to my private Discord server. Plus, every bit of support helps bring new books into the world. https://www.patreon.com/c/lilithsaintcrow

Several of my self-published books are 25-75% off at Smashwords ...

2025-07-12T15:32:46Z

Several of my self-published books are 25-75% off at Smashwords during their big Summer/Winter sale, if that's your jam! https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/Lilith_Saintcrow/popular#published

" The crab is both the Other that endangers us and the means ...

2025-07-10T00:24:32Z

" The crab is both the Other that endangers us and the means by which we redefine the human as an adaptation to that danger."
https://aeon.co/essays/are-humans-destined-to-evolve-into-crabs

"By habituating the use of AI tools among young people, these ...

2025-07-09T16:16:32Z

"By habituating the use of AI tools among young people, these companies are hoping to create lifelong customers. Lured by the vast resources of AI companies, some large educational institutions are happy to help."
https://popular.info/p/a-gigantic-public-experiment-that

So, Microsoft slapped a paywall on Notepad, most likely because ...

2025-07-03T12:56:16Z

So, Microsoft slapped a paywall on Notepad, most likely because so many people were using it to escape “AI”-bloated Word.

…I do not think this will end the way the greedy C-suite hopes.

"I think it’s easy to imagine medieval churches as dour, ...

2025-06-30T23:36:08Z

"I think it’s easy to imagine medieval churches as dour, grey buildings, but the integration of symbolic plants into church ceremonies meant that the sanctuary was often a riot of colour and fragrance."
https://www.medievalists.net/2025/03/what-grew-medieval-monastery-garden/

"It's alarming enough that people with no history of ...

2025-06-28T17:14:08Z

"It's alarming enough that people with no history of mental health issues are falling into crisis after talking to AI. But when people with existing mental health struggles come into contact with a chatbot, it often seems to respond in precisely the worst way..."
https://futurism.com/commitment-jail-chatgpt-psychosis

Fresh serial fiction each week, sneak peeks and snippets each ...

2025-06-21T21:03:56Z

Fresh serial fiction each week, sneak peeks and snippets each month, a private Discord, and more. Come help me build new worlds! https://www.patreon.com/c/lilithsaintcrow

Because I thought about it (spurred by a Discord thread), ...

2025-06-18T15:13:01Z

Because I thought about it (spurred by a Discord thread), here's Prince absolutely blowing the doors off "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", because every once in a while one just needs to hear it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y

look, I am a simple creature, any scene in which Henry Cavill ...

2025-06-18T13:55:01Z

look, I am a simple creature, any scene in which Henry Cavill reloads his arms before beating the snot out of some poor bad guy is going to cheer me up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-fLcqHztKQ

The history dovetails with my recent realisation that for trad ...

2025-06-16T19:33:39Z

In reply to nevent1q…l39h
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The history dovetails with my recent realisation that for trad publishers, the enemy isn't censorship, IP theft, or the plagiarism slop machine. No, the base assumption for tradpub C- and managerial suites is that the enemy is *writers demanding a fair price for their artistic labour*.

An incredibly interesting half-hour video from the Second Story ...

2025-06-16T19:32:36Z

An incredibly interesting half-hour video from the Second Story about why there "hasn't been another Tolkien". The answer is... not what you think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BBrDhgGz1k

"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at ...

2025-06-16T14:40:36Z

"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

Yeah. The kids joked that it must be dire if even I, introvert ...

2025-06-15T01:27:26Z

In reply to nevent1q…w9cn
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Yeah. The kids joked that it must be dire if even *I*, introvert par excellance, was leaving the house.

And now I’m wrecked. But feeling oddly hopeful.

For anyone who needs it today. Remember, we outnumber the ...

2025-06-14T13:31:08Z

For anyone who needs it today. Remember, we outnumber the billionaires and the bigots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKB67KzjO4A

"The rise in deaths far outpaces the growth in the homeless ...

2025-06-11T15:05:25Z

"The rise in deaths far outpaces the growth in the homeless population, which was recorded at 6,300 by a 2023 county census, a number most agree is an undercount."
https://www.propublica.org/article/portland-homeless-deaths-multnomah-county

"Jack Seabrook, once the nation’s lord of frozen food, ...

2025-06-10T14:40:21Z

"Jack Seabrook, once the nation’s lord of frozen food, guarded his heart with razor wire but doted on a sublime, cross-indexed wardrobe of silk and superfine..."
https://theamericanscholar.org/the-unjolly-green-giant/

I do have to take issue with the assertion that Didion was ...

2025-06-06T18:21:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…nhn8
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I do have to take issue with the assertion that Didion was "lying" by keeping certain things private. Readers are not entitled to everything in an author's life; writers are not fucking vending machines.

It was her *therapy sessions*, for godsake.

"Who thought it was a good idea—and I mean the term ...

2025-06-06T18:20:11Z

"Who thought it was a good idea—and I mean the term “good” in multiple senses: ethically, aesthetically, and commercially—to publish the private woman’s notes to her husband detailing her therapy sessions, and why?"
https://lithub.com/who-thought-this-was-a-good-idea-on-notes-to-john-and-the-selling-of-didions-privacy/

"The authorities had created their own worst nightmare—a ...

2025-06-04T23:36:11Z

"The authorities had created their own worst nightmare—a woman who was not only brilliant and fearless but also had a decade of exile-induced righteous anger to fuel her."
https://victorianparis.wordpress.com/2025/06/01/louise-michel-the-red-virgin-who-challenged-victorian-men/

"...but that would require humans to keep creating real ...

2025-05-30T21:04:13Z

"...but that would require humans to keep creating real content for training data, and the AI industry is actively undermining the incentive structures fo them to continue — while pilfering their work without permission, of course."
https://futurism.com/ai-models-falling-apart

So, be aware of the difference between an industry standard ...

2025-05-23T15:57:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…73h0
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So, be aware of the difference between an industry standard FORMAT (.docx, PDF) and the PROGRAMS capable of working with those formats (various, many without “AI” nonsense). (3/3)

…enterprise versions of MSWord and Adobe, because getting an ...

2025-05-23T15:57:18Z

In reply to nevent1q…arj0
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…enterprise versions of MSWord and Adobe, because getting an institution to shift program platforms is difficult AND both Microsoft and Adobe have engaged in deeply unethical monopoly business behaviours. (2/ )

Lots of discourse about MSWord in publishing this morning. The ...

2025-05-23T15:56:58Z

Lots of discourse about MSWord in publishing this morning. The .docx format is an industry standard, as is the PDF format, and there are many programs where you can work with either *without* the “AI” cruft. However, pubs (small to trad) will continue using… (1/ )

I have a Patreon! Fresh serial fiction each week, sneak peeks and ...

2025-05-22T20:23:17Z

I have a Patreon! Fresh serial fiction each week, sneak peeks and snippets each month, a private Discord, and more. Come help me build new worlds! https://www.patreon.com/c/lilithsaintcrow

When someone else doesn’t like a book/fandom/movie/food/musical ...

2025-05-09T16:16:33Z

When someone else doesn’t like a book/fandom/movie/food/musical style YOU like, learn to say: “Good! More for me!”

When you don’t like a book/fandom/movie/food/musical style someone else does, learn to say: “Good! More for them!”

This will save everyone time AND annoyance.