My reading time is worth something too, and I use it to get spark and insight and emotion of other people. People are weird and passionate and have points of view that differ from mine. LLMs are central-tendency token-predictors. They don't do what I value in a newsletter, article, or story.
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Ooh, this looks fascinating! Marking for Reading the Weird.
This is excellent. Plan to read it in one sitting (rather than starting it the night before you have a morning meeting, like I foolishly did)!
On Kinward Moves, I talk about social technologies and open futures: kinwardmoves.substack.com/p/technologi...
If your latest thoughts-about-technology newsletter argues that we shouldn't distinguish between human- and LLM-written material, and shouldn't care what tools writers use to "save labor," I will unsubscribe. Not because I can't handle disagreement, but because I valued your *thoughts*.
Anyway, I write things myself. WITH MY BRAINNNNNNN. And I'm helping run a contest for other people to do that too, thinking with their own brains about better AI futures! www.protopianprize.com
On @solarpunkpresents.bsky.social this week, @glichfield.bsky.social and I talked about the Protopian Prize and the importance of imagining reachable futures: shows.acast.com/solarpunk-pr...
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“The deskilling occurs at the level of the community, not only the individual.” @aworkinglibrary.com aworkinglibrary.com/writing/ten-...
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"I believe in story. It helps us make sense of the world in all its messiness, glories, mismatches, and marvels."
- Jane Yolen, 1939-2026
