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Lili Saintcrow

lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com

<p>I write books.</p><p>Black sheep of the von Schtupp clan. A crow for a fetch, I&#39;m your huckleberry. (Hint: Like &quot;synchro.&quot;)</p>

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    For the love of every god that is, was, or ever will be, GET OFF SUBSTACK.

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    I&#39;m at the point where I don&#39;t even want opt-in &quot;&#39;AI&#39; capability&quot; in any software I&#39;m forced to use, because the griftslop bastards will absolutely steal everything, nailed down or not, EVEN IF the settings are turned to &quot;no, no, absolutely not, HELL no.&quot;

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    I&#39;m hearing rumbles that even if you load a non-&quot;AI&quot; ad graphic to a Meta platform and turn the &quot;re-generate with &#39;AI&#39;&quot; setting OFF, Meta will sneakily turn it back ON, slopify it, serve the slop version, and flag it as &quot;AI&quot;. If a human sees it, congrats, you&#39;re now branded as a slopmonger.

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    &quot;Once again, a core feature of a major piece of AI technology will actually just be people working in a call center, doing work that a company says AI is doing.&quot; https://www.404media.co/meta-tests-muse-ai-agent-calls-that-are-actually-made-by-humans-in-a-call-center/

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    My daughter was reading the latest Ed Zitron piece (link below) and as an accounting student she just HAD to make a few memes. I am SO PROUD OF HER. https://www.wheresyoured.at/wherere-all-the-ai-chips/

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    Removing the digital asbestos of &quot;AI&quot; will be a growth industry for the next decade at least. Wonder if any techbros are positioning themselves to take advantage of *that*.

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    ...I updated the OS and now Apple has decided to shove its slopbot into individual app settings instead of providing an all-purpose off switch. Attempting to hide how much slop they&#39;re inflicting on customers--and forcing people to go looking to opt out--is not good business practice.

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    &quot;While traditional sex education of the past few decades often failed to address pleasure, consent, communication, and desire, romance novels became an informal education system that helped readers explore sexuality without shame.&quot; https://lithub.com/how-romance-novels-filled-in-the-gaps-left-by-sex-ed/

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    &quot;Republicans have embraced Nazi ideology from the White House to the Florida State House, and it’s difficult to track all of the recent instances of Nazism infiltrating mainstream politics.&quot; https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/republicans-nazi-problem-husted-oberacker-collins

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    &quot;The clearest beneficiary is the MFA programs themselves, which can continue to attract students with wildly diverging goals.&quot; https://lithub.com/who-are-mfa-workshops-really-for/

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    Baba Yaga, the plains of Wyoming, and the perils of growing up--RATTLESNAKE WIND is a Kindle Monthly Deal, $1.99USD (and CAD) in ebook until 9/30. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BHKVR3YR

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    &quot;There was, he put it bluntly, “no way” for the numbers to make sense. And time is short, because the data centers are filled with Nvidia chips that have an estimated shelf life of about five years.&quot; https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2026/09/10/literature-naomi-klein-astra-taylor-end-times-fascism/

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    If you like Westerns, killer cyborgs, and a furious mother, SHE-WOLF AND CUB is Kindle Monthly Deal, $3.99USD (and CAD) in ebook at Amazon until 9/30. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BHL48T5C

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    Please stop saying chatbots &quot;admitted they were wrong&quot; or &quot;talked to&quot; other chatbots. These things are statistical programs *doing what they are programmed to do*. I know humans love anthropomorphising things, I do it at the drop of a hat, but this is NOT the place for it.

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    &quot;But that really is the current state of the tech industry: a death cult obsessed with growth empowered by a media ecosystem obsessed with measuring and celebrating how much it’s growing and might grow in the future, always framed in the terms set by the rich and powerful.&quot; https://www.wheresyoured.at/concentration-risk/

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    Calls for “the public” to “own ‘AI’” are just a transparent attempt to make the general populace hold the trillion-dollar bag for a con game. There is no reason ordinary people need to pick up the tab for this particular Ponzi scheme.

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    I am still utterly gobsmacked by companies who want to pass themselves off as author-centric thinking that being &quot;AI&quot;-friendly is a good thing. Even the *perception* of being &quot;AI&quot;-friendly is enough to make actual authors avoid your services like the plague. (The exception here is, of course, slop-peddlars doing author cosplay. Build your company on those grifters and surprise, surprise, you&#39;ll be even more radioactive to actual writers.)

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    &quot;Meanwhile, the communities of conspiracists function like traditional churches. Fledgling conspiracists are welcomed into the online conspiracy spaces, introduced to the regulars, and shown their way around.&quot; https://therevealer.org/conspiracism-as-religion/

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    It&#39;s not as hot as it *could* be, so I guess the AC isn&#39;t being overworked. But I&#39;m cleaning the filters every few hours. I hate this.

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    Continuing the morning with an, &quot;I&#39;m not upset, I&#39;m deeply disappointed&quot; in a professional email. It really does seem some companies providing services to authors somehow don&#39;t get how damaging the perception of &quot;AI&quot; contamination is. If your company looks like it&#39;s going slopward, customers will jump ship if at all possible. The reputational damage might not immediately breach the wider trust thermocline (thank you, @garius@mastodon.me.uk, for that concept)...

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    A woman on the run, a lightning storm, an abandoned castle--CHAINED KNIGHT is $3.99USD (and CAD) in ebook, until 8/16. https://books2read.com/chainedknight

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    Fellow indie authors, I have a question! I used Canva for marketing images and quickie placeholder covers until they went full-on &quot;AI&quot; slop, then I switched to BookBrush. Now the latter is exhibiting... disturbing signs. Do you have a similar, &quot;AI&quot;-unfriendly service you like?

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    &quot;Seven out of the eight groups took the conscientious objector option and decided not to use generative AI. The eighth group experimented with it but decided they preferred to work without it.&quot; https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/teaching/2026/07/30/students-conscientious-objectors-gen-ai-opinion

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    &quot;As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets.&quot; https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-hide-debt-off-balance-sheet

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    I was convinced grilled cheese would fix me. Havarti, dill, tomato, on nice crispy sourdough, and I am pleased to report I was right. It *did* fix me. Plus, Boxnoggin enjoyed bits of crust. He is quite pleased, and still smacking his lips.

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    “‘AI’ checkers” exist simply and solely to feed and “train” the slop machines further. Do not use them, do not let them near your work. They are just an end-stage fillip of the grift. I cannot state it any more plainly.

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    &quot;The two scholars caution that their theoretical recreations are “not to be understood as the exact reconstruction of a given melody, but as an approach to the technique the Homeric singers used to accommodate melodic principles to the demands of the individual verse.&quot;&quot; https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/homers-odyssey-sung-in-ancient-greek.html

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    I have been alerted to (very poorly written) impersonation scam emails involving a Gmail address, which purport to be from Yours Truly. Please rest assured that if you get a gushing email trying to bait you into a correspondence, it&#39;s a scammer, not me. *sigh* Of all the people to impersonate...

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    &quot;Though switching can be difficult, being rid of Adobe is bliss. To know that your software is either free or buy once feels like walking on solid ground after drowning.&quot; https://aftermath.site/i-hate-adobe/

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    &quot;Maybe that was just where I saw the movie and the time I chose, but it worries me that women aren’t going to see this movie because this film is about a woman refugee dealing with trauma, isolation, and grief.&quot; https://news.chanda.science/archive/you-should-go-see-supergirl/