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Stephanie Sylverne

@litmaven.bsky.social

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I👻IWriter. Book maven. Unlikable female protagonist. Aspiring time traveler. Words @electriclit, @crimereads, @Kveller, @mental_floss, etc. @litmaven on Threads.

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Stephanie Sylverne @litmaven.bsky.social · Jan 8

"Instead of the dull morality tale I’d expected, I read about the pain of social ostracization, struggling with bone-deep loneliness and emotional dysregulation, and coping with childhood trauma by escaping into idealized fantasies."
My piece for Electric Lit->
electricliterature.com/sapphic-unde...

Sapphic Undertones Littered L.M. Montgomery’s Fiction, as Well as Her Female Friendships - Electric Literature

The renowned author waged a constant battle between doing what was socially acceptable and being true to herself

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Stephanie Sylverne @litmaven.bsky.social · 7d

"The only way to change these habits is to repeat the truth again and again: social media is rotting our souls from the inside out."
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Truth Hurts: Scrolling at Night Is Cooking My Brain

In this, his first column, John DeVore confronts an ugly truth about bedtime

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Stephanie Sylverne @litmaven.bsky.social · Jul 30

jfc.
www.parents.com/gen-z-parent...

Gen Z Parents Don't Want to Read to Their Kids, New Study Shows

A new study from HarperCollins Publishers shows that parents, specifically Gen Z parents, no longer want to read to their kids. Experts warn that not reading to kids could lead to long term consequenc...

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Stephanie Sylverne @litmaven.bsky.social · Jul 7

see also:

‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley

The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s

www.theguardian.com

Stephanie Sylverne @litmaven.bsky.social · Jul 7

this is the most important thing you'll read all year->
"We are convinced that the more people understand the extent to which the right has succumbed to the Armageddon complex, the more they will be willing to fight back, realizing that absolutely everything is now on the line."

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

www.theguardian.com

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Dixie ☕︎ @dixie13.bsky.social · Jul 5

#booksky

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Jul 6

Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did?

It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.

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Stephanie Sylverne @litmaven.bsky.social · Jul 3

I don't know if he still does it, but GRRM writing his books on an Apple IIe word processor makes more and more sense to me every day

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · Jul 2

How To Be a Writer, #24262111:
Open work-in-progress
No, not that one
Not that one either
Nope. Try another one.
Yeeeeaaahhhhhhhh - no.
Worry vaguely that you might *just* have too many works-in-progress -
But wait, what's this great new idea?
Tea.

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Stephanie Sylverne @litmaven.bsky.social · Jun 29

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, or Marvel

Stephanie Sylverne @litmaven.bsky.social · Jun 29

if there's one thing my dad's gonna do, it's drive exactly the speed limit in the middle of a five lane highway

Stephanie Sylverne @litmaven.bsky.social · Jun 26

one day you're carefree and wild and then suddenly you find yourself scrolling through a podcast called "Boring History for Sleep" but can't choose an episode because they all sound too interesting

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · Jun 21

The electric bills in Pennsylvania have gone up because the state cut a sweetheart deal with AI data centers. Good times out here.

a tweet reading, "It's so cool that cities are like 'pweeease only turn your AC on if you're actively dying and don't go below 79,' while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits."

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · Jun 22

“Many people think that a wealthy man wants to get married”

Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · Jun 21

This article is going to turn me into the Joker. Literary style is not a puzzle you solve to get a little information treat 😩😩😩

But A.I. can also simplify: if you’re struggling with the opening of “Bleak House,” you can ask for it to be rewritten using easier, more modern English. “Gas looming through the fog in divers places in the streets, much as the sun may, from the spongey fields, be seen to loom by husbandman and ploughboy,” Dickens wrote. Claude takes a more direct path: “Gas lamps glow dimly through the fog at various spots throughout the streets, much like how the sun might appear to farmers working in misty fields.”

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Barbara Gordon @thebookwizard.bsky.social · Jun 20

“[I]t’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.”

– Judy Blume

#booksky

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · Jun 5

O Lord, they fight! I will go call the watch.

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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · Jun 5

I will voluntarily disconnect from the Internet and all of the benefits it provides to my life before I will use the world burning plagiarism and lying machine intentionally.

Boogaloubrown @boogaloubrown.bsky.social · Jun 4

40 and up crew please don’t think you you won’t need AI. Learn that shit before you turn into our parents with cell phones!

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Stephanie Sylverne @litmaven.bsky.social · Jun 5

"Writing and reading are not effortless. But, without that effort, we will slide deeper and deeper into inchoateness, darkness, violence, diminished freedom for all and a diminished state of human being."

Opinion | The end of writing and reading will be the end of freedom

Why graduation season is so heartening to me.

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · May 31

Yes, it's long. Yes, it's complex. Yes, it's detailed. And yes, it will make you sad unto nihilistic depression. But it's also necessary to read because AI is going to fuck the planet beyond expression. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.

The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

www.technologyreview.com

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Sarah Ford 🐍🎨🖥️ 🎃👻 @angeloslh.bsky.social · May 31

Streamers can't play music in the background as they talk, can't play games with licensed soundtracks turned on, can't even show a trailer with the sound on without fear but sure let's let Sam altman take everything for free

Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · May 31

Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but.

It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies

But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI

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Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social · May 20

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · May 18

Mantel imagined the politician, writer and best-known journalist of the French Revolution having no doubts about it at all: “I wonder why I ever bothered with sex. There’s nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon.’”

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests

Usage of punctuation down almost half in two decades as further research finds 67% of British students rarely use it

www.theguardian.com

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Stephanie Sylverne @litmaven.bsky.social · May 16

"Tragically for historians and literary scholars, her poetry does not survive today, except for one striking, thought-provoking line: 'I ask your forgiveness and I am a mountain tiger.' These words inspired L.M. Elliott’s 2015 historical novel, Da Vinci’s Tiger."

Meet the Mysterious Renaissance Muse Immortalized in the Only Leonardo da Vinci Painting in the Americas

Ginevra de' Benci was a poet famed for her beauty and intellect. But art historians know little about her beyond the writings and artworks left behind by the men who admired her

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · May 15

the internet drives each person insane a little bit differently. it is beautiful to see

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Adam Morgan @thefrontlist.org · May 15

"Should writers and editors be concerned that AI will soon make them unemployable?"

"Yes! And, therefore, we should exercise our agency and respond to that concern, individually and collectively."

For The Frontlist, I spoke with @vauhinivara.bsky.social about 'Searches,' one of 2025's best books.

Exclusive: Vauhini Vara wants communion, not "content"

Behind the book with the author of 'Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age,' one of Esquire's best books of 2025 so far.

www.thefrontlist.org

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Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social · May 15

Fuck this, absolutely fuck this, everyone who loves audiobooks loves their favourite narrators because they are great at their jobs and interpreting the author's words and they make the experience what it is www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks

Amazon brand will offer more than 100 artificial intelligence-generated voices in English and other languages

www.theguardian.com

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