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Brendan M. Allen @saintamish.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:24 UTC

Those little red clumps on the bottom of fern leaves? Those are sporanges. Sporange. Rhymes with 'orange,' and it's a real word. Good to know, in case you ever find yourself in a rap beef with Eminem.

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:14 UTC

Obvs very pleased for everyone and it wouldn't have happened under the tories, but did that commentator really just say "England have achieved immortality" because

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:58 UTC

Decided to watch the last five minutes of the match. You're welcome.

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:43 UTC

I asked AI to write a travel article for me and finetuned the prompt to say 'please do not include the words tapestry, captivating, buzzing or vibrant' and it had a total meltdown. It could not cope with the concept of a travel article that did not include these words.

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:39 UTC

Huh, and yet contains metaphor, which seems conspicuously absent from most AI I've seen.

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:31 UTC

Run it through GPTZero, which highlights sentences likely to have been written by AI (as you say, sus amount of adjectives and adverbs; deadly earnest; no originality of thought or phrase)

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:27 UTC

I remember the elders talking of us of the drought of 1976, sharing bathwater with siblings and so on.

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 11:32 UTC

One of mine recommended Jonathan Pie to me earlier.

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 11:26 UTC

If you can get past the prompt posts ('reskeet with something from your phone, literally anything will do and might fill the void in our Twitter-starved souls') it's pretty nice.

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 08:11 UTC

Another one I've never heard of. Thank you

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 21:24 UTC

Ah, just bought Drive Your Plow but haven't read it! Thanks

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 21:18 UTC

Thank you, do not know this – just checking whether it needs to have been written in English or not.

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 21:11 UTC

On it

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 21:07 UTC

Don't know it! Will investigate, thank you

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 21:03 UTC

Current front-runner is Never Let Me Go but Ishiguro's protagonists tend to be more deceived than deceiving.

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 21:02 UTC

Needs to be a bit more literary than Gone Girl (it's for a school assignment) and I did wonder about Atonement but we're really after is someone of Humbert Humbert levels of book-long deliberate deception, if that makes sense. Like Tarquin in Debt to Pleasure.

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 18:41 UTC

Anyone any good suggestions for 21st-century novels with unreliable narrators? #booksky

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 12:28 UTC

Trying to figure out which of my neighbours put a vibrator in the recycling so I can advise them on the proper way to dispose of small electronics. *buttons cardigan, checks hair*

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 10:30 UTC

I had IA as an audiobook and also used it successfully as a sleeping aid for weeks. No idea what happens after about p5.

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 07:28 UTC

See Styles here would love it

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 17:06 UTC

Wait, is that a sign of unworthiness? *panics*

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 14:45 UTC

This is a very strong look for summer. Dust it off.

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 11:54 UTC

These I would love to see.

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 10:53 UTC

Can confirm (based admittedly on a 30-second conversation with him but also a gig full of warmth and soul in contrast to the previous act, a petulant Martha Wainwright).

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 10:44 UTC

Until that PE thread I'd never made that connection but you're dead right. My people.

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 07:22 UTC

It's one long Loose Ends

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 19:10 UTC

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 13:39 UTC

As someone who once went to a Halloween party dressed as Julia Worthing I felt quite personally invested in @sannewman.bsky.social’s book about her and it did not disappoint. Loved it.

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 10:54 UTC

There is… wordplay

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 10:06 UTC

Please do. Am enjoying Percival Everett's James, though every time I read one of his books I think this sort of writing is not for me but I instinctively like the author, and buy another one.

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 17:01 UTC

Sorry to report that I have not, no

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 17:29 UTC

Ha ha. So close though

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 16:19 UTC

damn

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 14:07 UTC

Same. I did enjoy Buckland's righteous indignation – in 2018 he told a friend of mine he's known since childhood that they would never leave single market etc because secretly they all knew Brexit was a disastrous idea. But go off on 'cheap populism' Bob, sure.

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 11:44 UTC

It was a long old night. I wanted to make it as far as Rees Mogg, but didn't, quite.

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 08:46 UTC

*taps watch* (but also - same)

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 01:23 UTC

I've run out of crisps, and 30p Lee wins for Reform. This is not nearly as much fun as promised.

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 17:26 UTC

Is everyone aware of the excellent portillogeddon.com?

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:56 UTC

Wastepaper hins

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:55 UTC

Every now and then I while away a boring afternoon by asking AI to do my job for me and then watch it gradually disintegrate like Hal in 2001

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 12:06 UTC

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SaI Cap0ne @salimotxo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 11:34 UTC

Lev.

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