Author of SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER from @TorNightfire. Pubbed by @DelReyBooks, @WritersDigest, @NightmareMag, @RDSPress, etc. 🌈💀🎃 Rep'd by: @NewLeafLiterary
Joined September 2009
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Bluesky seems to be really taking off! If you'd like to follow me there:
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I delivered the follow-up novel to Sister, Maiden, Monster to my editor this morning. 92,000 words. I've been working hard on it since January.
My editor will read it and send back her revision requests. If all goes well, the book will be on shelves in October 2027.
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For the love of God, bring back fact-checkers. Bring back copy editors. Bring back public editors. Bring back standards. Everybody tighten TF up.
Jun 4
“It’s okay to get some facts wrong,” one writer said. “It’s honestly refreshing.” gq.com/story/at-the-substack…
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May 29
Guys. Can we just go back to humans creating posters on Canva.
I can’t do these AI posters anymore…. please stop. Honestly.
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May 26
It never stops cracking me up when people ask "why aren't kids unsupervised today like they were in the 1980s?" and older people answer "well, there was just hardly any crime then!"
There was *so much more crime* in the 1980s, you guys. You were just kids and no one told you.
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May 27
RT @RubaAlHassani: The more I read about this stuff, the more I'm convinced AI is designed to not only steal academics' intellectual proper…
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May 27
“I can’t give honest feedback when it is not honest work. I can’t help you work out how you want to think about something, how you want to be in the world, if you are not using your own brain to tell me where you are.” 👍
Any educator defending the use of AI is a scab.
May 27
A theatre professor has begun to fail his students for using A.I. in his classroom. “I’ve stopped being a collaborator in these intro courses and started being a plagiarism cop.”
newyorker.com/news/fault-lin…
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May 24
So, speaking as a professor, 9 times out of 10 we DID read your paper. We're asking YOU to tell US what it's about because it's:
a) of PhD/expert quality when it wasn't before
b) worded in a way completely different than you usually write
c) got the ChatGPT prompt at the top.
May 22
Asking a student to make time to come to office hrs to tell you what a paper is about (when they don’t need or want your help) is nuts when you could do your job and just read the paper…
This is why so many ppl are turning away from traditional school. Who has the time?
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Yes, I have read every single source I’ve ever cited. I was explicitly taught that if you have not read it, you should not cite it, and I maintain that those who taught me thus were correct.
May 17
Have you read all the sources you ever cited? During my PhD we, along with dozens of other papers, cited a paper that I later found did not contain the result for which it was commonly cited. I should be banned I guess.
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There's no pearl-clutching about it. This is the norm: read sources and cite them. I've read papers whose chief value was in the citations. With no concern for the accuracy of sources, your work is garbage.
May 19
The pearl-clutching exposes an apparent divide between humanities scholars - who insist that everything in their papers is correct and true - and social science and natural science researchers who recognize that in collaborative projects, mistakes will be made.
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May 20
Spoiler: if the citations are fake, the data are probably fake, too, and that’s a lot harder to check.
May 20
I don’t mind if STEM papers cite imaginary sources, so long as they stop using imaginary data.
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May 20
Academic Twitter is having a meltdown because some people have just learned that you should actually read the sources you cite. This really shouldn't be as controversial as it appears to be.
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May 20
Very strange that it seems some people see citations as essentially flavour text to puff up your credibility and not a mechanism to provide crucial context and foundational information which your work relies on
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May 20
terrible. 20 yrs ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely ppl will create free, public info
May 20
Google announces it will now prioritize AI-generated answers in search results over human-written website articles
• Search will be centered around a reimagined ‘intelligent search box’
• Starts next Tuesday
(via @TechCrunch)
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May 19
This is extremely stupid because if you’re citing a paper, you should HAVE the paper and have READ the paper.
You don’t need a database to cite a paper properly.
You need the actual paper, and if you don’t have it and/or haven’t read it, you have no business citing it.
May 18
Getting citations right:
(1) There’s no central repository of bibliographic data. Google Scholar is terrible, I used it in my first ever paper, and got an angry email from a Professor. Apparently the GS record scanned the front page of his paper and added the editors in,
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May 18
still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them
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May 18
I’m discovering that AI defenders believe they are the first college students to ever exist.
“Write it all yourself is outdated, college students nowadays have family issues, multiple classes, and part time jobs.”
wtf do you think life was like 10 years ago? Lmao
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There is so much to read. There’s so much I want to learn about politics and anthropology and folklore and herbalism and medieval history and the natural world. I could spend my life reading & never come to the end of learning. How is it that some people don’t read at all?
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When historians in the next century attempt to study the present era, they won’t be able to access our internet. A quarter of all the sites that existed from 2013 to 2023 are gone. There are well-funded efforts to destroy the Internet Archive. All that knowledge will be lost.
May 15
ABC News has now taken all FiveThirtyEight articles completely offline. They now redirect to abcnews dot com/politics. A needless erasure of thousands of pages of knowledge.
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May 13
got a framed copy to hang by the ai team
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May 14
Imagine back in the heyday of online essay mills, if the push had been to teach students to use essay mills ethically and to develop essay mill strategies. Or if we had accepted that essay mills were okay for grammar and organization but taught Ss to make the essays their own.
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