Ashanti Mills
dakotacityrag.bsky.social
Ashanti Mills
@dakotacityrag.bsky.social
Reposted by Ashanti Mills
The point of writing crap is not that you should barf out anything.

It's that you should be aware as you are writing it what the flaws are, and you need to get through it the first time, because the act of doing so informs you what is wrong.
December 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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The entire time I was writing it I was like "oh my god this sucks, I suck, this is terrible" and I was making a list of all the ways it sucked.

That was NECESSARY to the fixing of the goddamn thing.
December 24, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Reposted by Ashanti Mills
Like when people say they are incompetent, at what exactly? They are succeeding at doing exactly what they wanted to do.
December 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
i havent started 🥴 distracted by brokeness and depression
December 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
but i after a bit that line of thinking led me to a concrete answer.

irl and in the short story, accepting AI’s humanity justifies neglecting our responsibility to care for one another. if, instead, there comes a time where treating AI as human justifies treating humans better, then I would
December 19, 2025 at 2:35 AM
and my immediate response is that i can’t imagine a future where i can engage with the question of whether ai is human because what is far more material is the amount of people with material motives to convince me that is true. i’ll always be asking “why do you *want* me to believe ai is smart?”
December 19, 2025 at 2:35 AM