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Annette J. Hallie

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✍🏾 Story crafter 📚 Book Lover ✨ Zero time award-winning author of zero books. Check out my short stories on Reedsy 👇🏾 https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/author/annette-hallie/

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Annette J. Hallie @authoredbyhallie.bsky.social · Jan 23

🫶🏾 Welcome new friends 🫶🏾

I typically don’t do new follower posts (I always assume new people are 🤖), but I wanted to say hi 👋🏾

I’m Annette, lover of books, chronically blocked writer of short stories, and hater of climate- & society-destroying tech. ⚔️

I don’t post on weekends. 🌻

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Annette J. Hallie @authoredbyhallie.bsky.social · 17h

I hope my people hold me down like this.

Annette J. Hallie @authoredbyhallie.bsky.social · 17h

TIL that Jane Austen’s sister burned a significant portion of Jane’s letters after her death, and I just wanna say Cassandra is a true ride or die.

I’m sure she could’ve gotten some nice coin from publishing those personal letters, but keeping her sister’s private life private was worth more.

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Annette J. Hallie @authoredbyhallie.bsky.social · 17h

Found The 3 A.M. Epiphany by Brian Kiteley at the library. Loved the first few pages enough to check it out. Now I have to be brave enough to do the exercises.

#booksky #amwriting

Annette J. Hallie @authoredbyhallie.bsky.social · 6d

I can’t even find the words.

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Annette J. Hallie @authoredbyhallie.bsky.social · 6d

I get Monk Manual’s Monday Momentum emails, and your advice relates to this week’s guidance. A quote from Oct 20:

“Sometimes what we need is the patience to recognize that the way we experience something in the beginning, may be very different from how we experience it later on in the process.”

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Annette J. Hallie @authoredbyhallie.bsky.social · 6d

Maybe I should’ve said in the modern era. I can’t remember the last time I heard about a robbery. Lately, it’s been activists throwing paint.

Annette J. Hallie @authoredbyhallie.bsky.social · 6d

We never get quality because we’re not of the mindset to produce quality.

Collectively, that is. Not each individual.

Annette J. Hallie @authoredbyhallie.bsky.social · 6d

I think turning the crank and producing more, cheaper, faster has been the method of operating for years. It’s just that now the technology allows us to move much faster.

The problem isn’t the tech itself, but our thinking. With each new invention, we produce more junk.

Annette J. Hallie @authoredbyhallie.bsky.social · 8d

Yikes! I’ll be thinking of you. 🫶🏾

Annette J. Hallie @authoredbyhallie.bsky.social · 8d

Hoping you’re okay. 🌷

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Annette J. Hallie @authoredbyhallie.bsky.social · 9d

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Annette J. Hallie @authoredbyhallie.bsky.social · 9d

I am in awe of the songwriters.

Annette J. Hallie @authoredbyhallie.bsky.social · 9d

You did an amazing job. I love how glowy you look. 💛

Annette J. Hallie @authoredbyhallie.bsky.social · 9d

This song has me in shambles. Please tell me the feels eventually let up. 🥹

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Annette J. Hallie @authoredbyhallie.bsky.social · 9d

I thought museum heists only happen in movies. Life imitating art?

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Annette J. Hallie @authoredbyhallie.bsky.social · 10d

Ok, I’ve been trying to resist admitting this, but 😮‍💨

This KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack goes in. When is the tour?

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Annette J. Hallie @authoredbyhallie.bsky.social · 11d

The influx of AI slop has me looking for more analog things to do. If I have to be a detective every time I watch a video, I’m just not doing it. I will go out in the real world where AI hasn’t invaded (yet).

Annette J. Hallie @authoredbyhallie.bsky.social · 11d

I heard there are apps that remove it for you. They don’t make it hard to do (from what I’ve heard).

For a while, I didn’t know OpenAI was launching a social media platform but the uptick in bogus videos was wild. It all made sense when I learned what Sora was.

Annette J. Hallie @authoredbyhallie.bsky.social · 11d

I’m familiar enough with stories where I don’t have to work at it as much (when reading, I still struggle to right).

tldr: my brain is lazy 🙂‍↕️

Annette J. Hallie @authoredbyhallie.bsky.social · 11d

This is why we click. I connect much better with stories as well. I think it’s because I need time to build connection/feel invested and poems are on the short side.

Also, I don’t always get the references and subtext. The hints are also kind of too subtle for me too at times.

Annette J. Hallie @authoredbyhallie.bsky.social · 11d

OpenAI was adequately warned about the harms of AI by multiple engineers. They do not care. Banning things on the backend is a sloppy way to save face with the masses.

Think of all the everyday people who aren’t famous or historical. What will they do when their loved ones image is used for trash?

CNN @cnn.com · 12d

OpenAI announced that it has "paused" users' ability to generate videos of Martin Luther King Jr. on its artificial intelligence video tool Sora, following backlash over "disrespectful depictions." https://cnn.it/4qxP0KX

Annette J. Hallie @authoredbyhallie.bsky.social · 11d

Most of the fake/AI videos I see don’t have logos. Maybe people are using other platforms to make them. I’ve seen a huge uptick in them though. To the point where, whenever I see an animal, I assume it’s fake.

Annette J. Hallie @authoredbyhallie.bsky.social · 11d

Don’t worry. I’m sure Sora is going to cure cancer any day now. We just have to be patient.

Annette J. Hallie @authoredbyhallie.bsky.social · 11d

Video killed the radio star, and Sora killed the video.

Annette J. Hallie @authoredbyhallie.bsky.social · 11d

I have a hard time connecting with poems the way I do other types of writing, so whenever I find one that stirs something in me, I’m always excited.

Reading poems is part of how I’m expanding my knowledge base as a writer.

But beyond that, I felt her sentiment. I too want high on the hog.

Annette J. Hallie @authoredbyhallie.bsky.social · 11d

High on the Hog by Julia Fields had me reading and rereading, and I love that for me.

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