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Grace Loh Prasad @gracelp.bsky.social · 11h

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

"consuming AI art is like eating styrofoam"

The always brilliant The Oatmeal on the emptiness and sadness of AI art

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A screenshot of the Oatmeal comic, featuring a colorful meal on a plate with emojis around it, the text reads: "Someone once told me that art is like emotional nutriton. That made sense to me. Art feeds my feelings (accompanied by a smiley face and sad face emoji). And if thats the case, consuming AI art is like eating styrofoam"

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020.

$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.

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Grace Loh Prasad @gracelp.bsky.social · 1d

I also visited CPH recently & totally agree—they have much more welcoming public spaces, better transit, incredible bike infrastructure/culture, and seemingly a much safer & healthier society. Excellent museums too. Cost of living is high but many of the worst problems of American cities are absent.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

as always, the most accurate summation of modern politics ever created

comic from webcomicname.com, "different"

panel 1: pink blob creature: "I want things to be different"

panel 2: creature smashes everything

panel 3: creature stands in wreckage: "oh no"

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Grace Loh Prasad @gracelp.bsky.social · 3d

Also I LOVE maps and it’s sad that so few people use them now

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Grace Loh Prasad @gracelp.bsky.social · 3d

We’ll work our way up to that 🙃

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Grace Loh Prasad @gracelp.bsky.social · 3d

My kid’s turning 18 & I’m teaching him how to drive. I was explaining that it’s important to have a mental map of the places we go frequently. We’ve lived in the same city since he was born but he has NO sense of direction or knowledge of the roads we take bc he’s always looking at his phone.🥺

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Grace Loh Prasad @gracelp.bsky.social · 3d

Remember when we used to go to college to get expensive degrees so that we could become “knowledge workers” 😂😳😭

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 3d

"I prompted the AI to devise a lesson plan that explains why students need to become proficient in prompting AI—so they can land writing jobs in the future, where they will spend their days prompting AI."

I Need AI to Write Better Lesson Plans So My Students Stop Using AI to Write Their Papers

I care deeply about my students’ learning, but with all the new technologies available to help them cut corners, I worry that they’re not doing the...

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Grace Loh Prasad @gracelp.bsky.social · 5d

5 yrs ago I wrote about my mom’s favorite flower, ways of knowing & the mystery of how & why we grow for Issue 1 of KHÔRA. I was honored to be one of the 1st writers to contribute to KHÔRA & wrote some of my best essays for them which are now part of my book. www.corporealkhora.com/issue/1/a-se...

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 7d

Donald Trump shut down the government because he doesn't want you to have healthcare.

But this isn’t just on him. Democrats MUST use their leverage to protect our rights, but it can’t end there.

Schumer and Jeffries can’t just go on TV or write letters, they need clear demands. We need action now.

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Grace Loh Prasad @gracelp.bsky.social · 7d

One of the great pleasures of reading is coming across an artful metaphor. Describing AI as a “single-use plastic of the mind” is just 🤯 It’s also a perfect example of what AI is not capable of. AI is about shortcuts & optimization whereas a powerful metaphor creates understanding through detours.

Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 9d

"single-use plastic of the mind" had me GAGGED

But a still graver scandal of AI— like its hydra-head sibling, cryptocurrency-is the technology's colossal wastefulness. The untold billions firehosed by investors into its development; the water-guzzling data centers draining the parched exurbs of Phoenix and Dallas; the yeti-size carbon footprint of the sector as a whole—and for what? A cankerous glut of racist memes and cardboard essays.
Not only is the ratio of Al's resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, Al-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.

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Grace Loh Prasad @gracelp.bsky.social · 7d

Same, can’t get over that sentence. Perfect.

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Grace Loh Prasad @gracelp.bsky.social · 7d

Yay, hope to see you! 🙌🏽

Grace Loh Prasad @gracelp.bsky.social · 7d

SAVE THE DATE: It’s October in the Bay Area and that means it’s @litquake.org season!!! My amazing AAPI writers collective 17 Syllables is back this year to do a reading and collaborative poem on Between Borders & Belonging—come join us at Red Poppy Art House on Sat, Oct. 25, 5-6pm. See you there!

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Grace Loh Prasad @gracelp.bsky.social · 9d

If it’s a whole book I will procrastinate 🙃

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Grace Loh Prasad @gracelp.bsky.social · 9d

I’m Team Article

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 9d

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

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Grace Loh Prasad @gracelp.bsky.social · 9d

When you try to fix something but unintentionally make it worse: a memoir

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AHHH! real meghan!! 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 10d

here’s korean protesters throwing their shoes at a likeness of netanyahu

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Grace Loh Prasad @gracelp.bsky.social · 11d

Bla bla bla self-medicating bla bla

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Grace Loh Prasad @gracelp.bsky.social · 12d

Great observations. I’m teaching a class on Building Your Author Platform this weekend and will share this essay with my students 🙌🏽

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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 12d

For @electricliterature.com, I wrote about milk, marketing, and making art (or boobs, books, and being a product):

electricliterature.com/artists-shou...

Artists Shouldn’t Need to Become Content Creators to Get Fair Pay - Electric Literature

Under capitalism, those of us who want a career in the arts feel pressured to sell ourselves. But making art and marketing it are very different skills

electricliterature.com

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Grace Loh Prasad @gracelp.bsky.social · 12d

Register for BUILDING YOUR AUTHOR PLATFORM, Sunday, Sept. 28: www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-...

Building Your Author Platform with Grace Loh Prasad

SUNDAY, Sept. 28th| To succeed in publishing, authors today are expected to have a platform. But what exactly is a platform and how do you go about building one? This session will help to demystify wh...

www.writersgrotto.org

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Grace Loh Prasad @gracelp.bsky.social · 12d

Do you love doing bookish things? Are you ready to talk about your forthcoming book? Want to get invited to conferences, libraries & more? This Sunday, Sept. 28, 10am-12pm PT, I’m doing a Zoom session on BUILDING YOUR AUTHOR PLATFORM at @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social. Link below ⬇️

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sarah mccarry @sarahmccarry.bsky.social · 14d

CHOTINER: And what's this big pile here
ME: Books I haven't read yet
CHOTINER: But you're at the bookstore buying more?
ME: The other ones weren't the right ones
CHOTINER: And these books you're buying now, they're the right ones?
ME: That's complicated
CHOTINER: In what way?

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