AlmaAlexander
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Duchess of Fantasy (http://www.AlmaAlexander.org)
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Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AlmaAlexander
browse my books: https://shorturl.at/t00Mw
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Tomorrow marks three years precisely since my White Lady came to live at my expense. That's ridiculous. I mean, it's just, well, she's ALWAYS been here...
December 11, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Tomorrow marks three years precisely since my White Lady came to live at my expense. That's ridiculous. I mean, it's just, well, she's ALWAYS been here...
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TLDR is the mark of the beast. FFS read. Learn. Go down the rabbit holes (and not on Tik Tok or YouTube, but at the library...
December 11, 2025 at 4:35 AM
TLDR is the mark of the beast. FFS read. Learn. Go down the rabbit holes (and not on Tik Tok or YouTube, but at the library...
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Currently reading Moby-Dick by Herman Melville for the first time. Killer line from Chapter 9: The Sermon that still resonates today: "In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers."
December 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Currently reading Moby-Dick by Herman Melville for the first time. Killer line from Chapter 9: The Sermon that still resonates today: "In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers."
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here are Ranganathan’s 5 Laws of Library Science.
1. Books are for use.
2. Every reader their book.
3. Every book its reader.
4. Save the time of the reader.
5. A library is a growing organism.
they can be read as a directive for technical efficiency. i read them as an ethical commitment. 📚
1. Books are for use.
2. Every reader their book.
3. Every book its reader.
4. Save the time of the reader.
5. A library is a growing organism.
they can be read as a directive for technical efficiency. i read them as an ethical commitment. 📚
December 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
here are Ranganathan’s 5 Laws of Library Science.
1. Books are for use.
2. Every reader their book.
3. Every book its reader.
4. Save the time of the reader.
5. A library is a growing organism.
they can be read as a directive for technical efficiency. i read them as an ethical commitment. 📚
1. Books are for use.
2. Every reader their book.
3. Every book its reader.
4. Save the time of the reader.
5. A library is a growing organism.
they can be read as a directive for technical efficiency. i read them as an ethical commitment. 📚
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“The male loneliness epidemic“ is actually just a “men don’t want to make an effort to human epidemic”.
December 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
“The male loneliness epidemic“ is actually just a “men don’t want to make an effort to human epidemic”.
Yeesh. I would like to know this too please. In the meantime, Maria, the last time I put up an ebook it was through Draft 2 Digital and they produce the ebook - have you tried them?
For now, I'll not be updating my Calibre to avoid the AI slop, but would be grateful for other easy to use and AI-free ebook format converters... (I need something that easily converts pdfs and docs into epub).
December 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Yeesh. I would like to know this too please. In the meantime, Maria, the last time I put up an ebook it was through Draft 2 Digital and they produce the ebook - have you tried them?
I... identify with this to a scary degree...
I ate a salad today.
I actually do enjoy salad.
I don't know why I have to psyche myself up to eat one rather than going for a sandwich.
My brain just sees green and assumes it tastes like ass.
Why is being healthy so much fucking effort
Raging my way to health.
I actually do enjoy salad.
I don't know why I have to psyche myself up to eat one rather than going for a sandwich.
My brain just sees green and assumes it tastes like ass.
Why is being healthy so much fucking effort
Raging my way to health.
December 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I... identify with this to a scary degree...
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"We need to go back to the good old days, women shouldn't be allowed to work." Women always worked. WOMEN ALWAYS WORKED. WOMEN ALWAYS WORKED.
December 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
"We need to go back to the good old days, women shouldn't be allowed to work." Women always worked. WOMEN ALWAYS WORKED. WOMEN ALWAYS WORKED.
You. Yes, YOU.
December 5, 2025 at 11:39 PM
You. Yes, YOU.
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If we ever get Medicare for all, can we actually get health care for everybody without this absurd annual ritual of trying to guess which plans are best and decide which ones we can afford?
Especially since anybody can get injured or seriously ill in ways they can't anticipate.
2/2
Especially since anybody can get injured or seriously ill in ways they can't anticipate.
2/2
December 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
If we ever get Medicare for all, can we actually get health care for everybody without this absurd annual ritual of trying to guess which plans are best and decide which ones we can afford?
Especially since anybody can get injured or seriously ill in ways they can't anticipate.
2/2
Especially since anybody can get injured or seriously ill in ways they can't anticipate.
2/2
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Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...
December 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...
Ooh I may go to this and pretend I am fifteen again...
Also, as expected, a newly restored version of the classic Star Wars (1977) theatrical release will play in theaters on February 19, 2027, for a limited time. 🤗
Yes, it's the original version of the movie, not one of the Special Editions 🫡
Yes, it's the original version of the movie, not one of the Special Editions 🫡
December 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Ooh I may go to this and pretend I am fifteen again...
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Somehow, this line hits very differently in 2025 than it did back in 2017...
December 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Somehow, this line hits very differently in 2025 than it did back in 2017...
That's just...fully and completely BAD...
Giving the world Dinesh D'Souza and Laura Ingraham is no longer the worst thing Dartmouth has ever done.
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 4, 2025 at 11:48 PM
That's just...fully and completely BAD...
Oh dear god. I'm sorry it's horrible and I hate the crap out of the fact that THIS IS HAPPENING but I'm sorry I ended up just laughing helplessly at Wendig's rapidly-deceasing menagerie of nonexistent pets and the kids in the cellar and all the deathless stuff he (never) wrote...
December 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Oh dear god. I'm sorry it's horrible and I hate the crap out of the fact that THIS IS HAPPENING but I'm sorry I ended up just laughing helplessly at Wendig's rapidly-deceasing menagerie of nonexistent pets and the kids in the cellar and all the deathless stuff he (never) wrote...
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"Hugo was on vacation when Les Misérables was published. He queried the reaction to the work by sending a single-character telegram to his publisher, asking ?. The publisher replied with a single ! to indicate its success."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_...
Victor Hugo - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
"Hugo was on vacation when Les Misérables was published. He queried the reaction to the work by sending a single-character telegram to his publisher, asking ?. The publisher replied with a single ! to indicate its success."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_...
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December 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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December 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
'tis the season, so I'm going all Hobbit like and offering a gift - three gifts in fact - a 6-month gift trial basic membership on my Patreon, for three people if you so choose. Go here for more - www.patreon.com/AlmaAlexande... The link is valid until the end of the month or all the gifts are taken
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This is a big fucking deal. I’m so sorry. Anyone using AI/chat gpt to ghost write a book while passing it off as a famous person’s original work should be called out loudly and publishers should not work with ghostwriters who do this.
Ghost writers using AI to create a “book” of wildly plagiarized quotes that allows a famous person to call themselves an author is so fucking depressing I’m going to have to log off for the rest of the day 😞
Here's something weird my neighbor Cassie pointed out: Chapter 42 of Cynthia Erivo's recently released book "Simply More" is almost verbatim words spoken by Ariana Grande in an interview a year ago. Grande is not cited or listed as a contributor or attributed in the book in any way. Weird!
December 2, 2025 at 11:15 PM
This is a big fucking deal. I’m so sorry. Anyone using AI/chat gpt to ghost write a book while passing it off as a famous person’s original work should be called out loudly and publishers should not work with ghostwriters who do this.
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I promise you that when low income folks are telling you that gimmick boycotts interfere with how they schedule their purchases of essentials, the answer is not to preach to them about the existence of thrift stores
November 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I promise you that when low income folks are telling you that gimmick boycotts interfere with how they schedule their purchases of essentials, the answer is not to preach to them about the existence of thrift stores
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I can’t believe you idiots are still arguing with me about this. Idc what your job is paying you now, you still have to labor for your money. You’re working class.
All it takes is an unfortunate accident or illness for you to be in the poor house. Medical debt and fallout would cripple you. Stfu.
All it takes is an unfortunate accident or illness for you to be in the poor house. Medical debt and fallout would cripple you. Stfu.
All of you are poor. These hypothetical poor people everyone is discussing are us. We’re poor. Idc if you make 6 figures or not. You’re poor too.
November 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I can’t believe you idiots are still arguing with me about this. Idc what your job is paying you now, you still have to labor for your money. You’re working class.
All it takes is an unfortunate accident or illness for you to be in the poor house. Medical debt and fallout would cripple you. Stfu.
All it takes is an unfortunate accident or illness for you to be in the poor house. Medical debt and fallout would cripple you. Stfu.
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Google's "AI Overview" invents essay I've never written, about a book published two years after I was supposed to have written it, while claiming the book was published six years before it was published. For gifts like these, the global economic teeters on the verge of collapse.
November 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Google's "AI Overview" invents essay I've never written, about a book published two years after I was supposed to have written it, while claiming the book was published six years before it was published. For gifts like these, the global economic teeters on the verge of collapse.
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November 29, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Three times now I’ve had the pleasure of listening to @maryrobinettekowal.com read first pages of writers’ work at different retreats. Watching her discover the work’s cadence and adjust accordingly, in real time, was a testament to the skill it takes to be a good narrator.
Text can be read an infinite number of ways, and these are acting choices that AI won't make, and simple prompts can't patch over.
Human narrators who understand the work they are reading elevate it into a dramatic performance that is more than just vocalizing text, it's a new work of art.
Human narrators who understand the work they are reading elevate it into a dramatic performance that is more than just vocalizing text, it's a new work of art.
November 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Three times now I’ve had the pleasure of listening to @maryrobinettekowal.com read first pages of writers’ work at different retreats. Watching her discover the work’s cadence and adjust accordingly, in real time, was a testament to the skill it takes to be a good narrator.