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My job is just "Book."
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In the absence of people, a thriving spambot ecosystem emerges on Threads. Nature is healing

Screenshot of my Instagram Threads feed, which contains nothing but spam posts by presumed bot accounts. For instance: "Faris sent you a private message! Tap Profile to follow and open message request". All the posts have a depressingly high number of likes and replies
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Heads up, if you're on Linkedin you've been automatically opted in for generative ai training - on everything you have ever posted, including personal data! Opt out: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

Screenshot of the page on LinkedIn for generative ai. It reads:
Data for Generative AI Improvement
Can LinkedIn and its affiliates use your personal data and content you create on LinkedIn to train generative AI models that create content?

Use my data for training content creation AI models


This setting controls the training of generative AI models used to create content. When this setting is on LinkedIn and its affiliates may use your personal data and content you create on LinkedIn for that purpose. Learn more.
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I believe he has previously described the NYer as having "a house style that's visible from space" so take that as you will

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I think the true value of MFA programs is making budding writers read so many stories about writers that they realize they never want to read or write another story about writers

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I've been thinking about this strip all day, can I buy a print?

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Slacking with Cormac

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Still a more intuitive concept than Mastodon

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This is how you do it

Acknowledgments to Red Pine’s translation of “Poems of the Masters,” in which he thanks food stamps and food pantries and the Earned Income Tax Credit
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The boomer office drone urge to add a literary quote to your email signature

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So she is, in fact, learning

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Brenton
@thatbrentonguy.bsky.social
My job is just "Book."
30 followers78 following40 posts