floot the gender woo gerbil 🇵🇸

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Great piece.

"Anti-authoritarianism cannot be optional. Internationalism cannot be reduced to when the baddies are easily identifiable within a traditional anti-imperialist mindset that limits itself to Western forms of imperialism."

Oh, and by the way? That whole "making six figures" thing?

I fully believe that she is earning six figures in revenue. I also suspect that has to burn a chunk of that on things like Amazon advertising and fake reviews just to get her pitiful 250 in sales.

Absolutely batshit, I salute your ambition and success 🙇🏻

Labour Friends of Israel reported to election watchdog Exclusive: Complaint centres around concerns that the pro-Israel ‘lobby group’ should have declared its donors

Lobby group Labour Friends of Israel has been referred to the Electoral Commission over concerns about its opaque funding.

Andrew Feinstein, who filed the complaint, says he's concerned the pro-Israel group “may have breached electoral law”.

www.declassifieduk.org/labour-frien...

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

can i offer you a free browser game in this trying time?

The British people must demand full transparency into all the funding behind Labour Together and Friends of Israel parliamentary groups.

That is truly an incredible and somewhat batshit number of words in one day 🙇🏻 I salute you!

Saaaaaame

This is what politics should feel like: thoughtful, honest and shaking things up.

Hannah Spencer is going to be a brilliant MP for Gorton & Denton.

It's time to stop Reform in their tracks:

Watch online this Wednesday.

Your party has aided and abetted genocide.

Its already ruined. The PM has been an active participant in a livestreamed genocide and Parliament has done nothing.

For the vast majority, genocide is a red line.

You can not care if your neighbor prefers decaf or whatever, that's fine because it doesn't fucking matter. Who gives a shit.

AI pollutes, it robs, it SUCKS. It affects EVERYONE.

Every time someone tells me, a disabled artist & writer, that AI is making it so that I can write & make art, they are so fucking lucky they're in the other side of a computer screen & I unfortunately cannot kick them. (& it is always, always able-bodied people making excuses for themselves 😡)

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum.

Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

If stories like this don’t make the Democrats want to abolish genuinely nothing will. That really is it. I’d say I don’t know how they sleep at night, but their healthcare is so much better than the rest of us, they can afford all the sleep medication you can’t. So they’re probably well rested.

A little brown and black cat with little ears and big green eyes.she is sitting among spider plants and lemon grass in pots. She was munching on them frequently.

Went to the nursery for plants. Found cat. She has a daisy on her collar.

We’re at the “villainize authors in articles for not guzzling down A I and incorrectly using “ableism” and “privilege” to scream at real artists” stage of A I and I just want anyone doing that to know you’re a soulless lackey doing the fash’s work and I hope you have exactly the life you deserve.

✨the internet is often an ALL or NOTHING hellscape so here are some things I’d like to share ✨

-Boycotts! Boycotting remains one of the most effective ways to stand against ~the bastards~ money talks louder than anything else. That’s just facts. But if you’re a poor and/or disabled person who’s 1/?

This is a scam.

She's tricking readers into downloading "books" that the readers don't realize are slop until they start reading.

You know it's a scam because she's using ever-changing pen names and not disclosing the AI usage because doing so would tank downloads.

this article’s a psyop, its sole purpose is to convince all writers they have to use AI or else

When you don't read romance and assume no one who's any good at writing writes romance. If harlequin novels are the be all and end all of your knowledge of romance novels, maybe don't try and talk authoritatively about romance novels.

"More than 200" AI slop novels collectively selling "around 50,000 copies" proves that not one of them was actually good enough to create any organic interest. The entire business model is scamming people looking for something fun to read, thereby polluting the same waters where real books are sold.

Like, if you have to run from pen name to pen name to escape a rep, and subsist on quantity of low-quality crap shoveled out... you're a scammer. That's scam behavior.

'Who's going to win," she says after explaining that she can't even mention the pen names producing books because it will tank what pitiful sales she gets if people know she's using AI to produce them.

LOL. Hear yourself.

So what's gonna happen there? She's going to have to constantly cycle through pen name after pen name, regurgitating books in different formats, and she'll be joined by thousands of other content extruders all fighting over the same "we fooled you" dollars.

Literally I would read someone's unpolished first draft they wrote in a coke fuelled haze before I willingly read AI slop.

And also, just like all fucking generative AI, this is just massive, scaled-up theft. This woman is functionally stealing money out of the KU pool from authors who are writing and publishing their own original works USING A TOOL that was itself built on stolen works.

most of all, fuck everybody who sees romance as a cash register rather than a genre worthy of respect. the booktok to AI slopfest pipeline has been the most grim, depressing downward spiral. it sucks.