Andy of Autumn
@andysmaps.bsky.social
Mapmaker. Scribbler. Yeller. Painter now?
Following me is a poor life choice. Sorry.
Following me is a poor life choice. Sorry.
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Donald Trump has destroyed the economy and set American science back 15 years. But I heard my liberal neighbor said "Latinx" yesterday. I have never felt more politically homeless.
December 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Donald Trump has destroyed the economy and set American science back 15 years. But I heard my liberal neighbor said "Latinx" yesterday. I have never felt more politically homeless.
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Now, using an LLM to get past the point where you feel like you’re chiseling the words out of stone tablets located inside your ribcage is still a terrible idea, don’t get me wrong. I just worry that in the haste to condemn LLMs, we’re over-romanticizing the human creative process.
December 20, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Now, using an LLM to get past the point where you feel like you’re chiseling the words out of stone tablets located inside your ribcage is still a terrible idea, don’t get me wrong. I just worry that in the haste to condemn LLMs, we’re over-romanticizing the human creative process.
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So, since we have Yet More Discourse going on, I wanna toss out a thing because I keep seeing it come up.
Writing is not always fun, and that’s actually pretty normal.
Writing is not always fun, and that’s actually pretty normal.
Same. Frankly, I can’t imagine any situation where using an LLM to generate text would not make writing the book take ten times as long.
In case it doesn't go without saying: I have not used gen AI to create text in any of my books. I have not used Grammarly etc to "clean up" the text. I have not used it to research any of my books, except where it might be built into search engines under the hood (I do not use labelled AI results).
December 20, 2025 at 10:11 PM
So, since we have Yet More Discourse going on, I wanna toss out a thing because I keep seeing it come up.
Writing is not always fun, and that’s actually pretty normal.
Writing is not always fun, and that’s actually pretty normal.
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A history thing I think about a lot is that the Easter Rising was deeply unpopular, even among Catholics in Ireland, but then the British basically created a republican majority by their incredibly brutal response
December 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A history thing I think about a lot is that the Easter Rising was deeply unpopular, even among Catholics in Ireland, but then the British basically created a republican majority by their incredibly brutal response
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There’s room for somebody on the left to wrap themselves in the flag a little & make a point that the right’s rejection of America as a creedal nation—and their ad hoc, ahistorical effort to make it an ethnonationalist project instead—is distinctly *unamerican,* a rejection of the national project.
If immigrating from England makes you a "heritage American" then I guess I'm one too.
December 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
There’s room for somebody on the left to wrap themselves in the flag a little & make a point that the right’s rejection of America as a creedal nation—and their ad hoc, ahistorical effort to make it an ethnonationalist project instead—is distinctly *unamerican,* a rejection of the national project.
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Ban this sick filth.
also, as is tradition, we will be soliciting some unsolicited solicited duck pics on Tues 6 Jan for next year's #InternationalUnsolicitedDuckPicDay. so, see you then. if you give a duck
December 20, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Ban this sick filth.
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The GOP, much like the DNC ten years ago, has greatly overestimated the left’s opinion and love for the Clintons.
“Bill is in the files!”
Yeah, we know. We’re completely aware. Throw him on the fuckin fire too. We’re fine with that. Just right there on the flames. Now, about those redacted areas…
“Bill is in the files!”
Yeah, we know. We’re completely aware. Throw him on the fuckin fire too. We’re fine with that. Just right there on the flames. Now, about those redacted areas…
December 20, 2025 at 11:37 AM
The GOP, much like the DNC ten years ago, has greatly overestimated the left’s opinion and love for the Clintons.
“Bill is in the files!”
Yeah, we know. We’re completely aware. Throw him on the fuckin fire too. We’re fine with that. Just right there on the flames. Now, about those redacted areas…
“Bill is in the files!”
Yeah, we know. We’re completely aware. Throw him on the fuckin fire too. We’re fine with that. Just right there on the flames. Now, about those redacted areas…
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Oh wow they put your mom in the crossword
December 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Oh wow they put your mom in the crossword
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If you slept on DJT’s monologue to the nation yesterday, here’s the short version.
December 19, 2025 at 10:05 AM
If you slept on DJT’s monologue to the nation yesterday, here’s the short version.
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I've already been hearing faculty discussion adapting to this policy by basically writing stripped down syllabi that include *only* the required boilerplate and nothing else, with things like course themes, reading schedules and such kept in separate documents to avoid the university owning them.
The UNC system just released its final policy on mandatory syllabi disclosure, stating that syllabi are university (not faculty) IP and certain course info must be posted on new, publicly searchable databases before every semester.
A thread about what's changed from the draft I reported on earlier:
A thread about what's changed from the draft I reported on earlier:
NEW: Public universities in red states, from Texas to Florida, are increasingly required to make their syllabi public. The University of North Carolina may be next. Does "syllabi transparency" help combat distrust in higher ed, or feed ill-informed suspicions of it? www.chronicle.com/article/when...
December 20, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I've already been hearing faculty discussion adapting to this policy by basically writing stripped down syllabi that include *only* the required boilerplate and nothing else, with things like course themes, reading schedules and such kept in separate documents to avoid the university owning them.
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Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
December 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
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we have always been here (from Italo Calvino’s ‘The Baron in the Trees’)
December 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
we have always been here (from Italo Calvino’s ‘The Baron in the Trees’)
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It is hilarious that people managed to confidently say “there is no point in objecting to this” in the few hours between when the initial rules were announced and when they were taken back because people didn’t sit there limply insisting there was nothing to be done. Looks good on you, goobers.
And just like that, SFWA capitulates. Keep fighting. It works.
December 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
It is hilarious that people managed to confidently say “there is no point in objecting to this” in the few hours between when the initial rules were announced and when they were taken back because people didn’t sit there limply insisting there was nothing to be done. Looks good on you, goobers.
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Wow, okay, just watched someone flatten “you have to tolerate discomfort when learning how to create” to “gatekeeping”.
It’s not gatekeeping. It’s realistic. If you want to produce an evocative image quick without going through the process of practicing, you license stock art.
It’s not gatekeeping. It’s realistic. If you want to produce an evocative image quick without going through the process of practicing, you license stock art.
December 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Wow, okay, just watched someone flatten “you have to tolerate discomfort when learning how to create” to “gatekeeping”.
It’s not gatekeeping. It’s realistic. If you want to produce an evocative image quick without going through the process of practicing, you license stock art.
It’s not gatekeeping. It’s realistic. If you want to produce an evocative image quick without going through the process of practicing, you license stock art.
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the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024
December 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024
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the number one requirement for the next Dem president is that they are willing to look back
with a flamethrower
with a flamethrower
There's a series of things (like the ballroom, Gulf of America) that we're going to have to *undo* the moment this guy is out of office.
And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.
And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.
The president's name was added to the sign outside the performing arts center.
December 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
the number one requirement for the next Dem president is that they are willing to look back
with a flamethrower
with a flamethrower
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Some of these redactions are almost like modern art
December 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Some of these redactions are almost like modern art
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When Rubio went to State there was a small but vocal minority of people who called him "the adult in the room" and said maybe I'd better shut up about him, hadn't it always been overstated anyway?
I could tell you to kiss my ass. But that would be wrong.
I could tell you to kiss my ass. But that would be wrong.
December 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
When Rubio went to State there was a small but vocal minority of people who called him "the adult in the room" and said maybe I'd better shut up about him, hadn't it always been overstated anyway?
I could tell you to kiss my ass. But that would be wrong.
I could tell you to kiss my ass. But that would be wrong.
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Anyone in a rush to see things named for themselves has a foot out the door in some sense.
December 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Anyone in a rush to see things named for themselves has a foot out the door in some sense.
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this is actually kind of a shit argument because many of the most lethal types of firearms are heavily restricted or outright illegal to own while every year we make deadlier cars and sell them to whoever
December 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
this is actually kind of a shit argument because many of the most lethal types of firearms are heavily restricted or outright illegal to own while every year we make deadlier cars and sell them to whoever
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This entire thread is cursed
December 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
This entire thread is cursed
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Majestic. Regal. Thought-free.
December 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Majestic. Regal. Thought-free.