Marie

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 13:59 UTC

Often these papers are couched by researchers with language that is like "actually doing this research for real is too hard, but LLMs enable us to parse lots of information so we just asked one to do it for us, and that's our paper" and then it's like, published in a journal or by some institute

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Marie @blammarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:08 UTC

Like, you need a place to efficiently communicate your book informations and updates -> facebook hasn’t been useful for that in a long time. And groups are hit and miss at the best of times, but for covers??? The peers who also need design help… are not usually qualified to GIVE design help.

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Marie @blammarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 14:06 UTC

I am losing my mind at every “marketing for authors” guru that instruct people to make author facebook pages and join groups and shit. I especially loathe the “help me design my book cover” groups, which always result in worse covers -> this is my professional opinion as a graphic designer btw

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Marie @blammarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 13:58 UTC

And like I do have a FB account. But I nuked the app from my phone, and it's not like a social media feed is a great way to organize and present crucial information about your business anyway... the layout sucks. The info gets pushed off page by new posts. Just make a website ffs!

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Marie @blammarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 13:55 UTC

And yet! SEO poisoning has not even infected businesses in a useful manner! I have lost count of the amount of businesses whose opening hours and even basic details of who they are I cannot access because they only have facebook pages, not websites. A whole festival I'm tabling at soon, for example.

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Marie @blammarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 13:19 UTC

Litérallement la seule bonne update que Adobe a fait en une décennie????

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Marie @blammarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 13:11 UTC

Like that dude really hired a graphic designer student as his (only) retail employee and expected me to be manager (I was not paid manager I was paid cashier so I gave cashier effort) and to organize and execute whole marketing campaigns 🙄

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Marie @blammarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 13:08 UTC

I used to work retail and my boss wanted me to go out and meet like, the owners of local restaurants to convince them to carry our products or whatever, and was like. I'm your only employee you do realize that if I'm not in the store, the store is closed, right??

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Marie @blammarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:52 UTC

I'll be honest with you guys I do not have the chops for book marketing. Ppl keep asking me why I don't go tradpub and the truth is, publishing houses would take away a lot of parts I love doing (cover design, page layout) and they wouldn't even do the part I hate (marketing) in exchange...

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Marie @blammarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 16:59 UTC

I had a knee-jerk reaction of “omg the bbq and furniture aren’t chained to the deck???” Before remembering that pretty much only be & my parents do this… 🫣

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Marie @blammarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 16:56 UTC

Reblogging this to add that I am still miffed that most people focused on literally every other part of that leak but that bit. To me it was the part that made me feel the most used and dehumanized. Anyway someone stop me from going on my “why I hate the word content” rant (or plz encourage me?)

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Marie @blammarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 16:51 UTC

Also it was a stark reminder that social media accounts are no longer supposed to be about people. They’re supposed to be “containers” for “content”. And it’s easier for the algo to know who to show your posts to if your account contains only one type of content… urk.

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Marie @blammarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 16:50 UTC

It explained a lot of things for me, mainly why my posts almost never had likes or even more than 1-2 views. I can’t consistently stick to one lane (even if I just post abt work.. I’m an illustrator & graphic designer & comic artist & novelist! That’s a lot! And my genres are also very diverse!)

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Marie @blammarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 16:46 UTC

Remember when there was a leak about some of twitter’s algorithm and in there was a bit about how if you posted abt more than one subject, your account and posts would be shown less often… I think about that often.

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Marie @blammarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 16:41 UTC

Same… if something happens to me I really hope nobody in my life says “we warned her!” Because if they did I almost certainly didn’t get it.

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Marie @blammarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 16:35 UTC

These whisper networks euphemisms always trouble me because 1) I never get the subtext and 2) how many people I have said “I wouldn’t want to be on a project with them” about meaning exactly what I said, and did ppl misinterpret that as me warning them of something more???

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Marie @blammarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 16:31 UTC

It irks me even more when people say shit like “we’ve been saying for years!” When the things they have been saying are the most vague unintelligible euphemisms, like “I hear some find collaboration with him difficult” or smtg. Like oh is THAT what that meant??? Gee great job sounding the alarm

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Marie @blammarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 16:19 UTC

Oooh what a lovely cover

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Marie @blammarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 01:50 UTC

I really love that poster!

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Marie @blammarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 01:49 UTC

Interesting… I love learning more abt translation

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Marie @blammarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 01:36 UTC

Frequent migraines (less now that I am and adult & I can control my environment to avoid my most common sensory triggers, but until basically college I got sick a LOT, the kind of sick where you either lay down in the dark somewhere confortable w/ bowl, or you lay down in the dark on bathroom floor)

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Marie @blammarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 01:32 UTC

I’m almost finished decorating my swtor umbara stronghold and these are the moments where I’m sad I have no other friends playing the game 🥲 wish I could show it off to someone

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Marie @blammarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 05:36 UTC

Yeah and then these entitled users come on tumblr or ao3 and they start their tag spamming behaviour and oooooooh boy do they get taught a lesson fast about tagging etiquette.

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