Litbowl
@litbowl.bsky.social
I share beautiful words from beautiful books. Mostly poetry. Some prose. Always attributed, always pro-author, and generative AI is theft.
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Are you still massively against me breaking into your home and stealing all your stuff so I can sell it or have you moved more towards acceptance?
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Are you still massively against me breaking into your home and stealing all your stuff so I can sell it or have you moved more towards acceptance?
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"Every year I manage to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."
From Fatimah Asghar's book, If They Come for Us: bookshop.org/a/862/9780525509783
#poem #books #writing
From Fatimah Asghar's book, If They Come for Us: bookshop.org/a/862/9780525509783
#poem #books #writing
November 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
"Every year I manage to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."
From Fatimah Asghar's book, If They Come for Us: bookshop.org/a/862/9780525509783
#poem #books #writing
From Fatimah Asghar's book, If They Come for Us: bookshop.org/a/862/9780525509783
#poem #books #writing
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This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰
"Every year I manage to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."
From Fatimah Asghar's book, If They Come for Us: bookshop.org/a/862/9780525509783
#poem #books #writing
From Fatimah Asghar's book, If They Come for Us: bookshop.org/a/862/9780525509783
#poem #books #writing
November 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
"Every year I manage to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."
From Fatimah Asghar's book, If They Come for Us: bookshop.org/a/862/9780525509783
#poem #books #writing
From Fatimah Asghar's book, If They Come for Us: bookshop.org/a/862/9780525509783
#poem #books #writing
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Look, man, you really can't walk into a room and loudly announce "Hey how do you feel about the thing ripping you off" and then get upset people don't like it. My dad died three years ago and assholes running LLMs stole his books. I didn't need that emotionally, let alone legally.
November 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Look, man, you really can't walk into a room and loudly announce "Hey how do you feel about the thing ripping you off" and then get upset people don't like it. My dad died three years ago and assholes running LLMs stole his books. I didn't need that emotionally, let alone legally.
I feel like this is part of the particularly insidious nature of Google and these other tech companies. Even smart people who presumably care about the ethics, legality, theft, etc. are still marketed to as this particular tool somehow being totally separate from all of that (it’s not).
no actually it's not! if you're feeding it sources and using it to navigate those sources with credit then it quite definitionally is not a "plagiarism machine"
November 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I feel like this is part of the particularly insidious nature of Google and these other tech companies. Even smart people who presumably care about the ethics, legality, theft, etc. are still marketed to as this particular tool somehow being totally separate from all of that (it’s not).
Hey, don't do this! Don't uncritically hype plagiarism machines!
I went and checked this one out myself. The entire sales/pitch landing page for it is "help students cheat at their homework". It runs on Google's Gemini, aka on the mass theft of millions of people's life work. What the actual fuck.
I went and checked this one out myself. The entire sales/pitch landing page for it is "help students cheat at their homework". It runs on Google's Gemini, aka on the mass theft of millions of people's life work. What the actual fuck.
Just starting to play around with Notebook LM for my next project and...wow. Feels like a totally game-changing way to manage sources and research.
November 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Hey, don't do this! Don't uncritically hype plagiarism machines!
I went and checked this one out myself. The entire sales/pitch landing page for it is "help students cheat at their homework". It runs on Google's Gemini, aka on the mass theft of millions of people's life work. What the actual fuck.
I went and checked this one out myself. The entire sales/pitch landing page for it is "help students cheat at their homework". It runs on Google's Gemini, aka on the mass theft of millions of people's life work. What the actual fuck.
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Grateful to The Verge for publishing my essay on why large-language models are not going to achieve general intelligence nor push the scientific frontier.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
www.theverge.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Grateful to The Verge for publishing my essay on why large-language models are not going to achieve general intelligence nor push the scientific frontier.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Had a perfect line pass through my mind last night as I was drifting to sleep with a head cold. Lost come morning. And as such the perfect poem for today.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Had a perfect line pass through my mind last night as I was drifting to sleep with a head cold. Lost come morning. And as such the perfect poem for today.
November 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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"And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here."
From The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry: bookshop.org/a/862/9781582430379
#poem #booksky #writing
From The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry: bookshop.org/a/862/9781582430379
#poem #booksky #writing
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
"And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here."
From The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry: bookshop.org/a/862/9781582430379
#poem #booksky #writing
From The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry: bookshop.org/a/862/9781582430379
#poem #booksky #writing
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A poem for Sunday.
From @joseolivarez.bsky.social's book, Promises of Gold: bookshop.org/a/862/9781250878496
#poem #books #writing
From @joseolivarez.bsky.social's book, Promises of Gold: bookshop.org/a/862/9781250878496
#poem #books #writing
November 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
A poem for Sunday.
From @joseolivarez.bsky.social's book, Promises of Gold: bookshop.org/a/862/9781250878496
#poem #books #writing
From @joseolivarez.bsky.social's book, Promises of Gold: bookshop.org/a/862/9781250878496
#poem #books #writing
A poem for Sunday.
From @joseolivarez.bsky.social's book, Promises of Gold: bookshop.org/a/862/9781250878496
#poem #books #writing
From @joseolivarez.bsky.social's book, Promises of Gold: bookshop.org/a/862/9781250878496
#poem #books #writing
November 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
A poem for Sunday.
From @joseolivarez.bsky.social's book, Promises of Gold: bookshop.org/a/862/9781250878496
#poem #books #writing
From @joseolivarez.bsky.social's book, Promises of Gold: bookshop.org/a/862/9781250878496
#poem #books #writing
"And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here."
From The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry: bookshop.org/a/862/9781582430379
#poem #booksky #writing
From The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry: bookshop.org/a/862/9781582430379
#poem #booksky #writing
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
"And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here."
From The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry: bookshop.org/a/862/9781582430379
#poem #booksky #writing
From The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry: bookshop.org/a/862/9781582430379
#poem #booksky #writing
One of my favorite erotic poems. So specific, such character, such story.
From Dorianne Laux's book, Smoke: bookshop.org/a/862/9781880238868
#poem #books #writing
From Dorianne Laux's book, Smoke: bookshop.org/a/862/9781880238868
#poem #books #writing
November 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
One of my favorite erotic poems. So specific, such character, such story.
From Dorianne Laux's book, Smoke: bookshop.org/a/862/9781880238868
#poem #books #writing
From Dorianne Laux's book, Smoke: bookshop.org/a/862/9781880238868
#poem #books #writing
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From Hala Alyan's book, The Twenty-Ninth Year: bookshop.org/a/862/9781328511942
#poem #booksky #writing
#poem #booksky #writing
November 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
From Hala Alyan's book, The Twenty-Ninth Year: bookshop.org/a/862/9781328511942
#poem #booksky #writing
#poem #booksky #writing
Google IS NOT stealing your emails to train AI. They ARE openly, publicly stealing all YouTube videos to train insidious, grotesque, plagiarizing video models. Sharing misinformation about the former distracts from fighting the latter. Stop it.
November 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Google IS NOT stealing your emails to train AI. They ARE openly, publicly stealing all YouTube videos to train insidious, grotesque, plagiarizing video models. Sharing misinformation about the former distracts from fighting the latter. Stop it.
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The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google says “we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
www.theverge.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
Y'all gotta stop posting that scarebait "Google is now training AI on your emails unless you turn this ONE THING OFF!" It's based off a random dude's tweet; by my understanding they haven't actually changed anything. They're utter evil, and forcing AI into everything is gross, but this isn't true.
November 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Y'all gotta stop posting that scarebait "Google is now training AI on your emails unless you turn this ONE THING OFF!" It's based off a random dude's tweet; by my understanding they haven't actually changed anything. They're utter evil, and forcing AI into everything is gross, but this isn't true.
From Hala Alyan's book, The Twenty-Ninth Year: bookshop.org/a/862/9781328511942
#poem #booksky #writing
#poem #booksky #writing
November 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
From Hala Alyan's book, The Twenty-Ninth Year: bookshop.org/a/862/9781328511942
#poem #booksky #writing
#poem #booksky #writing