Alexandra likes books
@aocwrites.bsky.social
I try to be attentive to my own writing, but mostly I'm attentive to other ppl's. Indie book editor, language nerd, outdoors enthusiast, novice potter.
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Hello, world! 👋🏼 New here, having fled the wreckage of another site. Interests include, in no particular order:
-books
-nature
-cats
-linguistics
-creativity
Happy to hear recs of accounts / topics to follow!
-books
-nature
-cats
-linguistics
-creativity
Happy to hear recs of accounts / topics to follow!
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There is a word for this...
my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI
Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother
November 30, 2025 at 4:52 AM
There is a word for this...
Oh, this is my vibe!
there are so many great things about generative AI! here are some of my favorites <3
November 29, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Oh, this is my vibe!
I can't help thinking about The Future by Naomi Alderman, tbh
(and yes I also enjoyed it as a book! And no I don't get commissions 😆)
#booksky
(and yes I also enjoyed it as a book! And no I don't get commissions 😆)
#booksky
New study finds that down-ranking hostile political content in people’s social media feeds decreases political polarization.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization
Today, social media platforms hold the sole power to study the effects of feed-ranking algorithms. We developed a platform-independent method that reranks participants’ feeds in real time and used thi...
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November 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I can't help thinking about The Future by Naomi Alderman, tbh
(and yes I also enjoyed it as a book! And no I don't get commissions 😆)
#booksky
(and yes I also enjoyed it as a book! And no I don't get commissions 😆)
#booksky
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Reaching the latter stage seasons in my Supernatural rewatch, where unfortunately "episodes I love" get thin on the ground, but I just hit one--maybe my top ep all-time: Baby. I love everything about this. It's such a great example of constraints launching creativity. #amwatching
November 29, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Reaching the latter stage seasons in my Supernatural rewatch, where unfortunately "episodes I love" get thin on the ground, but I just hit one--maybe my top ep all-time: Baby. I love everything about this. It's such a great example of constraints launching creativity. #amwatching
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Happy Thanksgiving!
November 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social I thought you might enjoy some pottery quality control.
November 27, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social I thought you might enjoy some pottery quality control.
Hahaha... I've been very supportive this week! #amreading
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Hahaha... I've been very supportive this week! #amreading
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Taking myself to the museum for an art fix was the best decision I made all week. Saw an incredible exhibition of Andrea Carlson’s work. The detail, wow!
November 17, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Taking myself to the museum for an art fix was the best decision I made all week. Saw an incredible exhibition of Andrea Carlson’s work. The detail, wow!
I vote yes.
I've been obsessed with the fanciful idea of catstronauts for so long. Cats in Space. In cat space suits. Loafing on the moon. And so on.
#pottersofbluesky #pottery #ceramics
#pottersofbluesky #pottery #ceramics
November 13, 2025 at 5:53 AM
I vote yes.
Current #amreading is If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This by Robin Black. I wasn't enamored of the story that starts the collection, but the rest have been wonderful reads. The titular story is incredible. Oof, that hits. 💙📚
November 13, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Current #amreading is If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This by Robin Black. I wasn't enamored of the story that starts the collection, but the rest have been wonderful reads. The titular story is incredible. Oof, that hits. 💙📚
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Flew through Exit West by Mohsin Hamid. I was looking for a change in tone after my last read & it certainly delivers. Overall vibe: contemplative & rather dreamlike. A meditation on human migration posing as spec fic. I enjoyed it & am also ready for more action next! #booksky #amreading
November 8, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Flew through Exit West by Mohsin Hamid. I was looking for a change in tone after my last read & it certainly delivers. Overall vibe: contemplative & rather dreamlike. A meditation on human migration posing as spec fic. I enjoyed it & am also ready for more action next! #booksky #amreading
But it's the future!
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ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.”
That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
November 8, 2025 at 12:20 AM
But it's the future!
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Easy. The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K LeGuin, 1971. Whose publication year is a TIL today!
(Even easier would be the whole Anne of Green Gables series by LM Montgomery 😆)
#booksky
(Even easier would be the whole Anne of Green Gables series by LM Montgomery 😆)
#booksky
— ★°•| November 7 |•°★ —
Name a book you loved that was published before the year 2000!!
☆ Don't forget to include our hashtag, and make sure to use alt-text with any images!! ☆
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Name a book you loved that was published before the year 2000!!
☆ Don't forget to include our hashtag, and make sure to use alt-text with any images!! ☆
[Tags: #booksky 💙📚 #BookishQOTD 📖🦋]
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Easy. The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K LeGuin, 1971. Whose publication year is a TIL today!
(Even easier would be the whole Anne of Green Gables series by LM Montgomery 😆)
#booksky
(Even easier would be the whole Anne of Green Gables series by LM Montgomery 😆)
#booksky
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After a long, unwanted hiatus, I may be getting back to the #pottery studio this weekend. Some stuff on the shelf will be a bust (too dry to trim) which should free me up to try & remember the basics of throwing 😅🤞🏻
November 7, 2025 at 12:54 AM
After a long, unwanted hiatus, I may be getting back to the #pottery studio this weekend. Some stuff on the shelf will be a bust (too dry to trim) which should free me up to try & remember the basics of throwing 😅🤞🏻
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My feelings about the skill behind comedy couldn't be more succinctly expressed! (I haven't read the book, but this piques my interest.)
“If a comedic work is successful, you probably can’t see the effort. If it’s very successful, it will seem almost off-the-cuff, like it was created that moment. This is why a lot of ponderous books end up over-praised." - @somers.bsky.social countercraft.substack.com/p/processing...
Processing: How Erin Somers Wrote The Ten Year Affair
The author on comic writing, reading drafts aloud, and being "lower than a worm" while writing
countercraft.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
My feelings about the skill behind comedy couldn't be more succinctly expressed! (I haven't read the book, but this piques my interest.)
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The #birdoftheday theme is odd angles so here ya go #birds
October 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The #birdoftheday theme is odd angles so here ya go #birds
Currently #amreading Naomi Novik’s Spinning Silver, & I am obsessed. How does she do this? I am totally invested in the characters.
Also love how she manages to create a world that feels simultaneously fantastical and devaststingly real. #booksky
Also love how she manages to create a world that feels simultaneously fantastical and devaststingly real. #booksky
October 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Currently #amreading Naomi Novik’s Spinning Silver, & I am obsessed. How does she do this? I am totally invested in the characters.
Also love how she manages to create a world that feels simultaneously fantastical and devaststingly real. #booksky
Also love how she manages to create a world that feels simultaneously fantastical and devaststingly real. #booksky