Jed (@elysdir) profile picture

Editor, writer, generalist, logophile, paronomasiac, ludophile. Bi, poly. Pronouns: he/him. Mastodon: @elysdir@mastodon.social. I don’t speak for my employer.

Mountain View, CA
Joined November 2008
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me: correct me if I’m wrong- the internet: sir, we will correct you even if you’re right
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Hi @Adobe just curious, what is this page full of hideous AI imagery "in the style of Abigail Larson" that's obviously not my work doing on your site?
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Crazy times! It looks like people are already selling AI-produced children's nonfiction books. We'd ordered two titles from "Bold Kids" publishers around the same time. I ordered "Rabbits: Children's Animal Fact Book" wanting books about pets that weren't cats or dogs 1/x
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Interesting fact: t-shirt is actually short for “Tyrannosaurus Shirt”
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barbie’s wheelchair vs my actual wheelchair: a critical comparison aka the best twitter thread i will ever post strap in #Barbie
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A tool to automatically turn your archive of tweets (that you’ve exported from Twitter) into a set of HTML pages that you can post on (for example) your website. tinysubversions.com/twitter-…
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Sorry The list was not final and has no direct link from the official website but was exposed during its webpage construction. Thank you for all fan’s concern and yes, the Hugoteam is reaching the final line and will release the official list any minute. Sorry for the mistake!!
Tammy Coxen relayed a request to me from Hugo Administrator Dave McCarty to remove the post with the finalists released on the Chengdu Worldcon website today because "it was released in error and not correct."
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My paper with @DanTGilbert is out today in Nature: people believe that people are less kind than they used to be, they're probably wrong about that, and we have an idea where this illusion comes from. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Okay, @60Minutes is saying that Google's Bard model "spoke in a foreign language it was never trained to know." I looked into what this can mean, and it appears to be a lie. Here's the evidence, curious what others found. 🧵
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The NLRB just counted our votes and it’s official!! We are UNIONIZED!! We did it!!! 🙌🥹
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In honor of stupid Christians pretending that women's leggings are too revealing, each day I will be posting a photo of a man, exercising in almost nothing, in public spaces. Pt 3: Justin Thoreau jogging in public with his bulge bouncing. Who told him to cover up? Nobody.
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I've had represented parties lose at trial against self-represented litigants, always because they lied to their lawyers. My favorite was an old divorce case where the husband had a lawyer and the wife didn't. He brought a lawyer. She brought receipts. (A fun story 🧵.)
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Every now and then it’s nice to pick your head up from your book, reacquaint yourself with the world around you, take a hard pass, and immediately go right back to reading
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THERAPIST: and what do we do with those negative emotions when they get to be too much? ME: put them in my feelings wallet because that’s what I buy books and cheese with THERAPIST: what? ME: what?
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I would be terrible at laundering money because I would just never remember to move it to the dryer
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*gestures to my unmown yard* "I'm choosing to let my yard grow wild, to help the pollinators." *waves at a stack of dirty dishes* "This, too, is for the pollinators." *trips over a pile of dirty laundry" "Pollinators."
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PSA: The WGA strike may mean that novelists & authors get approached for screenwriting. While this may seem like a perfect opportunity, please note that the WGA does strongly enforces its right to prevent non-members who have engaged in scabbing from ever becoming members.
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As 2023 begins, I want to share a list of speculative fiction about #abortion published in 2022. Let 2022 go down as a historic year for storytelling, especially by those who can become pregnant. Because imagining the future is the first step toward taking it back.
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#PowerPost🙌🏻🙌🏼🙌🏽🙌🏾🙌🏿™️ Over 30 years ago, Donald Trump took out full page ads calling for my execution. On the day he was arrested and arraigned, here is my ad in response.
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While playing around with hooking up GPT-4 to the Internet, I asked it about myself… and had an absolute WTF moment before realizing that I wrote a very special secret message to Bing when Sydney came out and then forgot all about it. Indirect prompt injection is gonna be WILD
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