@LiberalLibrarian @kel I was doing some research for a friend using an AI, and I used a mythical world, Darkover. First I made sure that the AI was familiar with the world. It was. But then, all of a sudden, began hallucinating that the Wall Atound The World was a field generated outside the planet, rather than a mountain range.

@kel it is 100% up to the Congress to deal with this. And you know they won’t. Because impeachment has to begin in the House. He gets absolutely no say in bringing anything to the house regarding impeachment.

It is the extremely dysfunctional Congress that has allowed everything to go to hell in a handbasket. And it has been extremely dysfunctional since the freedom caucus.

If he says something people will say he’s trying to deflect from his son. It is a no win for Biden.

@kel not all. Too many. Most of my family is GOP. When I point out fascist statements they are unable to recognize them as such. Sometimes I get them to moderate.

@kel that would be inappropriate. It would be like TFG trying to weaponize the DOJ. We have forgotten what an appropriate president is.

@BeckyWerner719 in Texas the governor will be allowed to overturn elections in the largest Democratic county. Welcome to Russia.

So, today, Facebook advised me that I violated community standards. They refused to tell me what that violation was. If you don’t know what you did that made them unhappy how do you change it? I wrote off and asked. If you’re unwilling to tell me what it is, I’m supposedly doing wrong. How am I supposed to address it?

I bought a new nightstand. Usually the company I get these things from sends things pretty much in one piece. This time it’s like getting something from IKEA.

First, both of my portable screwdrivers are not holding a charge. Now one of the screws refuses to go all the way in in a slider and I know that there is absolutely no wood knot in particular board.

Hmmm… meanwhile, there are pieces all over the place and I’m going maybe I shouldn’t have started this at this time.

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#amwriiting. #WritingCommunity

@pdougmc sadly, not a paid subscriber, so I can’t unlock the article, but I have no doubt that he would say something like that because Abbet is a total jerk

@Tattoomonkey29 in my world, “no” is a complete sentence. And I learned how to exercise that long ago. It’s sort of depends if it’s somebody that really needs help but I frequently say no. As to the wig, are you gonna play that requires you to wear a wig all the time? If not well, I guess you can go bald lots of women do these days . Wigs give me headaches so I don’t wear them.

Hope things get better.

@nnlightsbookheaven I am in a constant struggle with the second law of thermodynamics regarding cleaning. There is no such thing is getting it all clean because by the time you finish, some thing else is out of order. But it was clean enough.😉

@Myana @ianthealy I've had good editors and bad. Mostly the folks at newspapers were excellent. Tech writing, almost all good. The proofreader at the legal company was so horrific I almost withdrew the book because she had no idea about black letter law.

I have a lot of editing skills. Prefer not to self-edit that much. Do have friends with the skills. AI is something I'm exploring but I'm careful with it because it can do wonky things.

@ianthealy @Myana as long as you can financially afford to have an editor then good on you. I am saying that there are a lot of people who absolutely cannot afford an editor. They go to the library and they compose on library computers and they keep their books on USB drives and they live in subsidized housing and they worry about weather next meal was coming from. They are not hiring an editor.

@jaysyn not exactly there will always be editors, because artificial intelligence does not have an endocrine system. And a human editor will see things more easily and be able to guide authors but for simple things such as a proofread I think that will end up going away, and it will be taken over by AI. but for those who have zero income to afford editing, this is better than nothing at all.

@Myana I have learned how to edit over the years. It’s one of those things where I trained on the job essentially and I can do a lot of the elements that are editing. But quite frankly, I am happy enough to have a machine show me your suggestions and then I can shake them or leave them as I choose. Of course that’s pretty much the way I take editors anyway. I have had one editor, but I said I am taking the story away from you if you make me have the character get nude. That’s not the story.

@WestofMars I talk to people who are pensioners and they don’t have the money and they’re never gonna have the money and they’re not gonna save up the money because they don’t have the money to save up. Some of them only get a computer to use at the local library. They’re lucky to have a little USB drive so you’re not losing any money from them because there is no way that they ever going to pay you anything. I know people who are living on $700 a month and it’s all used up.

@nnlightsbookheaven I am cleaning house because my nephew is coming to stay with us for about a week and as I looked at the place, my clutter has gotten out of control. 😱

#WritingCommunity I’m on a fair number of professional Facebook, and other pages for writers, and whenever I mention using AI to help authors, who truly have no budget for an editor, the editors go crazy. I’d like to point out to any here that if somebody absolutely can’t afford you you’re not losing business. I had one editor on Facebook screaming at me telling me that if people couldn’t afford an editor, they should ask a friend. Not everybody has friends who can edit. 😱 😳😮

@Squeezle when I was in employment law, and helping people deal with terminations and getting unemployment, which God, I guess wouldn’t be something high on his list, one of the things that no employee can do is be abusive about the employer, and expect not to get fired once the employer finds out, and there is no defense.

Rolling Stone magazine says that there is oppo research on him that would destroy him.