Miranda Dubner
@mirandadubner.bsky.social
Made of words, mostly. Developmental editor, copy editor, author of THE SPARE. No, not that one. she/her.
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There’s a lot not to like about this administration, but I really appreciate its bursts of incompetence
November 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
There’s a lot not to like about this administration, but I really appreciate its bursts of incompetence
If you have to *say* it.
A major company claiming it's "not Enron" seems pretty sus to me.
Nvidia Says It’s Not Enron in Private Memo Refuting AI Accounting
In a private memo to Wall Street analysts, Nvidia says its business “does not resemble historical accounting frauds.”
www.barrons.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
If you have to *say* it.
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Isn't it so weird to deeply know in your bones something obvious with no equivocation, for years and years, and then to one day see articles about people wondering if maybe the incredibly obvious thing you've known this whole time might be happening, as if the media is discovering it now??
“This is total armageddon for the online right. It’s looking like half of their large accounts were foreigners posing as Americans all along.”
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Isn't it so weird to deeply know in your bones something obvious with no equivocation, for years and years, and then to one day see articles about people wondering if maybe the incredibly obvious thing you've known this whole time might be happening, as if the media is discovering it now??
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I wrote 12 novels.
Hit #2 on the NYT bestseller list.
Optioned three works for film and TV.
Have close to 20 short fiction works in anthos.
I have 35,000 BSky followers.
Have you seen my jewelry shop that keeps my lights on.
www.peculiarityshop.com
Hit #2 on the NYT bestseller list.
Optioned three works for film and TV.
Have close to 20 short fiction works in anthos.
I have 35,000 BSky followers.
Have you seen my jewelry shop that keeps my lights on.
www.peculiarityshop.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I wrote 12 novels.
Hit #2 on the NYT bestseller list.
Optioned three works for film and TV.
Have close to 20 short fiction works in anthos.
I have 35,000 BSky followers.
Have you seen my jewelry shop that keeps my lights on.
www.peculiarityshop.com
Hit #2 on the NYT bestseller list.
Optioned three works for film and TV.
Have close to 20 short fiction works in anthos.
I have 35,000 BSky followers.
Have you seen my jewelry shop that keeps my lights on.
www.peculiarityshop.com
Amazing. THE SPARE is on that piracy site from that last repost. I pretty much never talk about this stuff anymore, because it's been a long time, but I dropped the US price to $2.99 in *checks notes* 2021 and just forgot to ever raise it again. It costs less than most things.
November 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Amazing. THE SPARE is on that piracy site from that last repost. I pretty much never talk about this stuff anymore, because it's been a long time, but I dropped the US price to $2.99 in *checks notes* 2021 and just forgot to ever raise it again. It costs less than most things.
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I'd never heard of this site until tonight. Both my books are on there. Did you know my publisher offers one of three lowest royalty rates in the entire industry? And that I didn't get an advance? Literally all I make is from royalties. Royalties I don't earn when you pirate my book.
I posted a buy link here to "A Magical Inheritance" a few days ago, and 24 of you immediately went to Anna's Archives and fucking stole it from me.
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
🖕
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
🖕
November 24, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I'd never heard of this site until tonight. Both my books are on there. Did you know my publisher offers one of three lowest royalty rates in the entire industry? And that I didn't get an advance? Literally all I make is from royalties. Royalties I don't earn when you pirate my book.
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Anyway, do not help the Sam Altmans of the world steal Machine Learning valor to prop up a bunch of gross plagiarism machines that have all our worst biases and failings baked in.
November 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Anyway, do not help the Sam Altmans of the world steal Machine Learning valor to prop up a bunch of gross plagiarism machines that have all our worst biases and failings baked in.
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Lumping them together as “AI” gives readers the impression that a single class of tool is discerning novel protein structures, teasing subtle patterns out of mountains of LHC data, writing a student’s History 101 paper, and arguing a ketamine-addled billionaire could post up Shaq in his prime. No.
November 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Lumping them together as “AI” gives readers the impression that a single class of tool is discerning novel protein structures, teasing subtle patterns out of mountains of LHC data, writing a student’s History 101 paper, and arguing a ketamine-addled billionaire could post up Shaq in his prime. No.
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Machine learning (umbrella term, I know) is a useful, sometimes transformative tool in the hands of trained researchers who understand how to deploy it and critically assess the results.
A chatbot is not useful in the same ways (though underlying technologies may be, in other contexts).
A chatbot is not useful in the same ways (though underlying technologies may be, in other contexts).
November 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Machine learning (umbrella term, I know) is a useful, sometimes transformative tool in the hands of trained researchers who understand how to deploy it and critically assess the results.
A chatbot is not useful in the same ways (though underlying technologies may be, in other contexts).
A chatbot is not useful in the same ways (though underlying technologies may be, in other contexts).
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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Looking the financial indices out of the UK and apologies if this has ever come up before, but have they considered reviving the economy by joining a large economic and political consortium of countries nearby, say in Europe?
November 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Looking the financial indices out of the UK and apologies if this has ever come up before, but have they considered reviving the economy by joining a large economic and political consortium of countries nearby, say in Europe?
All I can read in Brooks's manner of expressing himself is him cringing away from the idea that people he knows are *in* that class, and that he might be a key player in the protective shell that surrounds them.
Someday you, too, could have the moral fortitude to look upon a years-long rape circus organized by the nation's most powerful elites and declare, "The people upset about this are speaking about it the wrong way."
November 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
All I can read in Brooks's manner of expressing himself is him cringing away from the idea that people he knows are *in* that class, and that he might be a key player in the protective shell that surrounds them.
If Mamdani had spent any more time in the Oval, Trump would have tried to give him Ivanka's phone number.
November 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
If Mamdani had spent any more time in the Oval, Trump would have tried to give him Ivanka's phone number.
Another day, another ten minutes wasted attempting to understand and disable the ways AI is being foisted on me.
November 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Another day, another ten minutes wasted attempting to understand and disable the ways AI is being foisted on me.
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People using Chrome may want to know about this.
To disable the new default AI mode. Type chrome://flags in your address bar. Search for AI mode in the search box below and disable the three options displayed.
To disable the new default AI mode. Type chrome://flags in your address bar. Search for AI mode in the search box below and disable the three options displayed.
November 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
People using Chrome may want to know about this.
To disable the new default AI mode. Type chrome://flags in your address bar. Search for AI mode in the search box below and disable the three options displayed.
To disable the new default AI mode. Type chrome://flags in your address bar. Search for AI mode in the search box below and disable the three options displayed.
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Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener does not use AI in any way. However, if you’re on a Mac, you may see an AI prompt.
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Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
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Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener does not use AI in any way. However, if you’re on a Mac, you may see an AI prompt.
.
Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
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Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
Ah, yes, "thirst" as a metaphor for sexual interest. Really breaking new ground there.
November 18, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Ah, yes, "thirst" as a metaphor for sexual interest. Really breaking new ground there.
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“you two—get a LiveJournal” except that’s super unfair to LiveJournal
November 18, 2025 at 1:47 AM
“you two—get a LiveJournal” except that’s super unfair to LiveJournal
What's so great about this particular situation is that all of these people long to be talked about as much as they are currently being talked about. And I, for one, am *delighted* to help.
November 18, 2025 at 2:04 AM
What's so great about this particular situation is that all of these people long to be talked about as much as they are currently being talked about. And I, for one, am *delighted* to help.
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I would like to say something: American canto is the stupidest fucking name for a book about a reporter sleeping with a guy who looks and sounds like wile e coyote after he gets run over by an 18 wheeler
November 18, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I would like to say something: American canto is the stupidest fucking name for a book about a reporter sleeping with a guy who looks and sounds like wile e coyote after he gets run over by an 18 wheeler
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We have to outlaw wildfire and invasive plant metaphors until someone can figure out what the hell is going on
November 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
We have to outlaw wildfire and invasive plant metaphors until someone can figure out what the hell is going on
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to have an affair with one longshot presidential candidate twice your age that you’re profiling may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks like carelessness
November 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
to have an affair with one longshot presidential candidate twice your age that you’re profiling may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks like carelessness
The face of a woman hearing one (1) Hanukah song at the middle school "Holiday Music" concert.
In a highly unusual move, the magistrate looking over the grand jury indictment of James Comey has asked the prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan, to share her indictment materials with the defense because she may have committed misconduct
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
Judge Says Justice Dept. May Have Committed Misconduct in Comey Case
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The face of a woman hearing one (1) Hanukah song at the middle school "Holiday Music" concert.
I began IN MEMORIAM yesterday, a book so finely written, so beautiful, and so exactly designed to pulverize my heart into a thousand glittering shards that I had to start rereading JURASSIC PARK as a form of self-care.
November 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I began IN MEMORIAM yesterday, a book so finely written, so beautiful, and so exactly designed to pulverize my heart into a thousand glittering shards that I had to start rereading JURASSIC PARK as a form of self-care.