Every deep insight, every cunning turn of phrase, every moment of poetry that LLMs deliver was strip-mined from an actual human being who laid their heart bare in prose.
So how do the best human writers stack up against their own plagiarized work?
Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.
Honoured to have my name/contribution included in this timely and powerful book.
May generative AI rot forevermore.
This is the most important book my name has ever appeared in, along with almost 10,000 other writers.
www.dontstealthisbook.com
A sheet of stickers warning about choking hazard for small kids. There are 29 stickers in different languages.
Don't want to brag about my thrill-seeking lifestyle, but I just played a board game that could have choked me in 29 different languages. Lucky I'm well past the age of three.
True story
As the newest war drags on with promises of more to come, this old bit of brilliance from The Police becomes relevant again www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUq9...
Yesterday, two boys raced past me down a hill on electric scooters. When I got to the top of the hill, I found a third boy sitting on his own scooter, arse on footboard, arms stretched out to reach the handlebars.
"Is this a bad idea?" he asked.
That was the firmest YES I've given this year.
One of those adjustable letter boards where someone has spelled out, "IT HAS BEEN 0 DAYS SINCE SOMEONE POOPED IN THE LOBBY"
Sign in the vet's office yesterday
*In some better world, Ukrainian women aren't getting blasted from the sky for ten years, but are just having kids while doing lots of award-winning math about extradimensionality #autoformalization
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryna_...
With energy prices set to rise, it's almost as if the family's toddler used our collective credit card to order a war on Temu.
Does anyone know if the Epstein files were destroyed in the bombings?
Runder Straßenlampenkörper aus der Froschperspektive, von mehreren gespannten Kabeln gehalten, vor blauem Himmel mit weißen Wolken; klare geometrische Symmetrie.
'Im Mittelpunkt' #FotoVorschlag
Eine Straßenlampe in Kopenhagen, ganz im Sinne des „Bluesky“ 😉
My new Strange Horizons essay is up! With a deliberately provocative title!
WHY ALL SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY WRITERS ARE HISTORIANS
Yes, *all*
And, no, it isn't just for the reason you think...
I've been working toward this one for a while, very excited to share it!
Two people cleaning windows on a glass-facade office building. They're hanging from wires, one about 10 floors up, the other about 5 floors up.
Writers aren't the only ones who don't get paid enough for their work...
Noticed that the latest update on my writing website was a '2024 in review' kind of post.
Now I just want to skip 2025, give 2026 a hopeful rave review and get on with my writing.
"Persona Identity, Inc. is a Peter Thiel-backed venture" etc etc
News item: "new SpongeBob movie streaming now." Photo of a live action blond lady in winter clothes with a sniper rifle in a snowy tundra looking bleak.
Wow that franchise took a dark turn
You know that healthcare i Greenland is free, right?
edition.cnn.com/2026/02/21/p...
Headline: "Worcester scientist uses organism from space to create skincare line"
IN SPACE, NOBODY CAN SMEAR YOUR CREAM
Because life becomes so much less complicated when you reach puberty...
The Jacques Cartier of robins.
My 9th grade physics teacher would have found a way to mess up the experiment.
A seagull on a rock by the seashore. The rock is covered in icicles of frozen seaspray.
A rock in the sea encased in icicles. Behind it the waves are sluggish and foggy with frost.
The cold has a grip on the seashore here in Aarhus. The waves are sluggish close to land.
Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)
The Fluffmaster General teaching the household how to relax.
