(The book has two problems for me, 1 that the geography is out of whack and 2 that i had to read it under a teacher i hated [evidence suggests she felt the same]. Have tried to read since to no avail. I can appreciate the impact etc, it's just skunked for me personally.)

You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you. Defend the em dash.

Why do we even have a government if they're not making sure people are housed, clothed, fed, and protected from corporate overreach.

friend described being calm dealing with post-house-fire insurance/relocation fuckery as "whatever, this is what it always feels like in my head, let's deal with literal fires for once, sure"

Friend, the existence of and reason for IVF is not germaine to the point of the joke of this post.

An LLM does not know a citation needs to be real. It only "knows" the statistical pattern. If you ask about chimps, "Goodall, Jane; 'higher order emotions of chimpanzees,' Smithsonian Magazine; nov. 1988 pp. 66-72" statistically resembles other citations.
(Also why ai recipes are bad!)

I mean, I know about *me* but maybe this is why my mom, per her recollection, never went "my kids are really weird, dang" but just "i should get these kids into team sports or something with other kids their age"

On one hand, definitely re: women lite,
but OTOH cis, trans, "and nonbinary if you want in anyway" is at least closer in spirit than "and nonbinary AFABs" ? Suppose that depends on whether someone more presenting more masculine-of-center is actually welcomed.

My grandfather went deaf toward the end of his life and he was probably thinking "oh thank fuck"
... I just had a flash of insight about my relation to the man who enforced the one quiet room at thanksgiving and now I'm wondering how else he was weird.

I saw one recently "cis women, trans women, and nonbinary people who feel comfortable in a setting focused on women" and I'm going back and forth on how I feel about it.

When you see a convenience store sign "we will not accept money with blood on it" you understand SOMETHING happened. And yet people can't/won't extrapolate that to EVERY OTHER REGULATION.