What if... writing the “wrong” thing is what leads you back to yourself? In our newest guest contributor's blog post, Blackbird writes about burnout, creative pressure, first-time fanfic, and the unexpected side quests that can help us rediscover the joy in creating things.

Solidarity is a weird thing... all of a sudden you’re reading the Pope and the tea is… piping hot? Disagreements with his Holiness aside, it’s great to see such a powerful figure power taking the side of the people... (1/2)

Pope Leo XIV wrote 42.3K words on human dignity in the age of AI. We at @ellipsus_writes have written over 65K words on the topic since 2023...

I have been converted to our lord and saviour Ellipsus. It's just that good.

the pope wrote a 42,000 word manifesto declaring war on AI. we are so freaking back.

I always love a good typo nowadays. But fuck that company that's trying to co-opt that, too!

Ahead of the curve

🎉📄 New in Ellipsus… Pages! 📄🎉 See what your work would look like in print with the new, page-based view of your docs!

"More than anything [...] Grammarly’s Expert Review feature serves as a case in point for how people feel about generative AI at the moment. Superhuman ingested countless subject matter experts’ work then used it to generate writing suggestions with AI, put those experts’ names on those suggestions, offered the feature to paying subscribers, and didn’t get consent from the people whose names were the main draw for the feature, let alone compensate those people. It’s a clear-cut example of the extractive nature of AI." 💯💯

Hey everyone—the coast is clear. Our iconic developers have resolved the issue and Ellipsus should now be running as normal. Thank you for your patience!

This popped off (and burned our servers a bit)

Import your your docs quickly (one by one, or a bunch at once!), or export your Ellipsus docs to .docx whenever you want. Keep your formatting and images as they are! Keep on writing like humans! <3

For all their articles on generative AI, the media miss one simple point about generative AI: it's built to control us. 🧵

huffpost.com/entry/opt-out-g… Here we go again 🙄 Google has granted itself access to your private messages & attachments on Gmail to train its AI models. Here's how to turn it off. 👇

‘Tis the season for avoiding your relatives while furiously typing your yuletide fic on your phone, using family drama as real-time reference material, and decking your doc’s halls with so many festive em dashes...

artshub.com.au/news/opinions… The thing is, short of consulting the metadata, there's really no way to tell what's gen-AI and what's not. Trying to 'sniff out' gen-AI like this is problematic at best; at worst, it does harm to writers 🧵👇 [1/10]

Excited to share Apple is featuring Margins, the app for book lovers, as App of the Day! #OnTheAppStore @AppStore @readwithmargins

Ho ho ho! We’ve left a few gifts under the Ellipsus tree... 🌌 Aura: An aurora borealis gradient to light up the long dark night. 🥂 Fête: A sparkly fizzy champagne gradient. 🎄 Jolly: Classic ugly sweater red-and-green. ❄️ Icicle: Brrr! Frosted winter wonderland blues. Haaaappy #ThemeThursday! 🎁

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