Susanna Forrest
@susannaforrest.bsky.social
Writer The Age of the Horse (AtlanticBooks/GroveAtlantic) & If Wishes Were Horses. Essays for Paris Review Daily, Long Reads, Lit Hub, Perspective & more. Amazons of Paris on Substack. Exberliner from 🇬🇧living in 🇸🇪 & married to a 🇬🇷.
Writers of Bluesky, who is running good pitching workshops?
May 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Writers of Bluesky, who is running good pitching workshops?
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I know the right wing media finds it all very difficult so, in an attempt to be helpful, this is what an actual interference with free speech looks like.
March 30, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I know the right wing media finds it all very difficult so, in an attempt to be helpful, this is what an actual interference with free speech looks like.
Farewell, Threads account.
January 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Farewell, Threads account.
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Hope you enjoy not having air conditioning next summer so that incels can generate unlimited big titty anime girls on demand
December 26, 2024 at 1:20 AM
Hope you enjoy not having air conditioning next summer so that incels can generate unlimited big titty anime girls on demand
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can't believe the latest elon musk crazy shit is not trending here. TF;DR: he deleted that far-right terrorist account, then reactivated it but without its history and with search and translate deactivated.
December 22, 2024 at 10:35 PM
can't believe the latest elon musk crazy shit is not trending here. TF;DR: he deleted that far-right terrorist account, then reactivated it but without its history and with search and translate deactivated.
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This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?
December 11, 2024 at 10:43 PM
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
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For readers' reference, here are the two court cases. Hundreds of documents, more than five years. Even if you just scan the list, it's a chilling insight into what a corporate predator can put an artist through.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/15766...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/67399...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/15766...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/67399...
Norris v. Goldner, 1:19-cv-05491 - CourtListener.com
Docket for Norris v. Goldner, 1:19-cv-05491 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.
www.courtlistener.com
October 24, 2024 at 9:51 AM
For readers' reference, here are the two court cases. Hundreds of documents, more than five years. Even if you just scan the list, it's a chilling insight into what a corporate predator can put an artist through.
www.courtlistener.com/docket/15766...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/67399...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/15766...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/67399...
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Have you ever seen or shared an 'oh no' cartoon?
Did you know the creator is a queer Welsh artist?
Did you know they're being agressively pursued & harassed w/lawsuits from a US organisation trying to steal their intellectual property?
Did you know you can donate to cover the horrific legal costs?
Did you know the creator is a queer Welsh artist?
Did you know they're being agressively pursued & harassed w/lawsuits from a US organisation trying to steal their intellectual property?
Did you know you can donate to cover the horrific legal costs?
Donate to Legal fund for Alex Norris "oh no" comics, organized by Alex Norris
I am Alex Norris, creator of the webcomic Webcomic Name. I am here to ask for he… Alex Norris needs your support for Legal fund for Alex Norris "oh no" comics
www.gofundme.com
October 23, 2024 at 8:39 PM
Have you ever seen or shared an 'oh no' cartoon?
Did you know the creator is a queer Welsh artist?
Did you know they're being agressively pursued & harassed w/lawsuits from a US organisation trying to steal their intellectual property?
Did you know you can donate to cover the horrific legal costs?
Did you know the creator is a queer Welsh artist?
Did you know they're being agressively pursued & harassed w/lawsuits from a US organisation trying to steal their intellectual property?
Did you know you can donate to cover the horrific legal costs?
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Orca also used to team up with humans to hunt whales. Random but interesting orca fact
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/kil...
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/kil...
The Killer Whales of Eden and the 'Law of the Tongue'
Orcas and humans once hunted together in southeastern Australia, until their millennia-old relationship broke down.
www.atlasobscura.com
November 27, 2024 at 4:57 AM
Orca also used to team up with humans to hunt whales. Random but interesting orca fact
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/kil...
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/kil...
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One man's echo chamber is another man's Social Science Genetic Association Consortium
November 22, 2024 at 10:09 PM
One man's echo chamber is another man's Social Science Genetic Association Consortium
We’re already in a hybrid war with Russia. Have been for years. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
What is hybrid warfare, which some fear Russia will use after Ukraine’s strike?
Strike with US-made missiles has prompted fears of Russian reprisal that would broaden the scope of a frontline
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2024 at 4:53 AM
We’re already in a hybrid war with Russia. Have been for years. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
In the mailbox today from the Swedish government: “If Crisis or War Comes,” our guide to surviving war, nukes, terrorist attacks, climate-change freakeries, propaganda, and cyberwarfare. And explaining it to our children. First published 1961. #lifeinsweden
November 18, 2024 at 7:30 PM
In the mailbox today from the Swedish government: “If Crisis or War Comes,” our guide to surviving war, nukes, terrorist attacks, climate-change freakeries, propaganda, and cyberwarfare. And explaining it to our children. First published 1961. #lifeinsweden
Feeling less invested in Bluesky since learning it’s owned by bitcoin people and that EM is being encouraged to buy it.
November 18, 2024 at 4:44 AM
Feeling less invested in Bluesky since learning it’s owned by bitcoin people and that EM is being encouraged to buy it.
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Cars in the U.K are up to 55% larger today than they were in the 1970s and there are twice the number of cars on the U.K's roads as there were 30 years ago, but the media are still running articles claiming that a handful of cycle lanes and LTNs 'cause congestion' in London...🙄
November 16, 2024 at 12:10 PM
Cars in the U.K are up to 55% larger today than they were in the 1970s and there are twice the number of cars on the U.K's roads as there were 30 years ago, but the media are still running articles claiming that a handful of cycle lanes and LTNs 'cause congestion' in London...🙄
If Trump pulls a Truss/Kwarteng/Varoufakis move on the economy can he, like Truss and Kwarteng, be speedily ejected?
November 14, 2024 at 7:23 PM
If Trump pulls a Truss/Kwarteng/Varoufakis move on the economy can he, like Truss and Kwarteng, be speedily ejected?
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This is not a drill, a mummified sabretooth cat has been published from the #Pleistocene permafrost of Russia. It's a Homotherium cub! The team (Lopatin et al.) reckon it's Homotherium latidens. It's too young to have enlarged upper canines. Paper is OA ... www.nature.com/articles/s41... cont...
Mummy of a juvenile sabre-toothed cat Homotherium latidens from the Upper Pleistocene of Siberia - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Mummy of a juvenile sabre-toothed cat Homotherium latidens from the Upper Pleistocene of Siberia
www.nature.com
November 14, 2024 at 6:09 PM
This is not a drill, a mummified sabretooth cat has been published from the #Pleistocene permafrost of Russia. It's a Homotherium cub! The team (Lopatin et al.) reckon it's Homotherium latidens. It's too young to have enlarged upper canines. Paper is OA ... www.nature.com/articles/s41... cont...
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A Tennessee Board of Education has now banned Wicked, Beloved and 35 other books as "pornography."
Under a new TN law, any description of sexual activity is "harmful to minors." Another 150 books have already been flagged for removal.
Sex workers tried to warn you.
www.wsmv.com/2024/11/14/r...
Under a new TN law, any description of sexual activity is "harmful to minors." Another 150 books have already been flagged for removal.
Sex workers tried to warn you.
www.wsmv.com/2024/11/14/r...
Rutherford County faces heated debate over book bans in school as 150 more titles are pulled from library shelves
The book bans were initiated by board member Caleb Tidwell, who flagged the titles as sexually explicit under school board policy and state obscenity laws.
www.wsmv.com
November 14, 2024 at 1:52 AM
A Tennessee Board of Education has now banned Wicked, Beloved and 35 other books as "pornography."
Under a new TN law, any description of sexual activity is "harmful to minors." Another 150 books have already been flagged for removal.
Sex workers tried to warn you.
www.wsmv.com/2024/11/14/r...
Under a new TN law, any description of sexual activity is "harmful to minors." Another 150 books have already been flagged for removal.
Sex workers tried to warn you.
www.wsmv.com/2024/11/14/r...
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Look at me. Listen to me:
If someone is selling you a "search" & "knowledge" "AI" product they claim is smarter & better & faster than you, but it literally cannot be guaranteed to give you simple true facts about consensus reality when asked, then that product DOES NOT WORK and SHOULD NOT BE USED.
If someone is selling you a "search" & "knowledge" "AI" product they claim is smarter & better & faster than you, but it literally cannot be guaranteed to give you simple true facts about consensus reality when asked, then that product DOES NOT WORK and SHOULD NOT BE USED.
First Sundar Pichai, now Tim Cook, both admitting that generative "AI," by dint of its very foundations (cf. "Bias Optimizers"), will not and cannot stop bullshitting (cf. "On Bullshit Engines").
futurism.com/the-byte/tim...
futurism.com/the-byte/tim...
Tim Cook Admits Apple May Never Be Able to Make Its AI Stop Lying
In a new Washington Post interview, Apple CEO Tim Cook admitted that he's not "100 percent" sure the company's AI will stop lying.
futurism.com
June 15, 2024 at 7:37 PM
Look at me. Listen to me:
If someone is selling you a "search" & "knowledge" "AI" product they claim is smarter & better & faster than you, but it literally cannot be guaranteed to give you simple true facts about consensus reality when asked, then that product DOES NOT WORK and SHOULD NOT BE USED.
If someone is selling you a "search" & "knowledge" "AI" product they claim is smarter & better & faster than you, but it literally cannot be guaranteed to give you simple true facts about consensus reality when asked, then that product DOES NOT WORK and SHOULD NOT BE USED.
Starter packs are excellent. On the hunt for book business, EU, Sweden, and archaeology packs. ❤️
November 7, 2024 at 6:32 PM
Starter packs are excellent. On the hunt for book business, EU, Sweden, and archaeology packs. ❤️
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NB someone asked me for a Guardian/Observer starter pack so i can legitimately say THERE IS ONE HERE IT IS go.bsky.app/B6CxPTX PS i absolutely did not make it, credit due to @severincarrell.bsky.social i think
November 7, 2024 at 5:44 PM
NB someone asked me for a Guardian/Observer starter pack so i can legitimately say THERE IS ONE HERE IT IS go.bsky.app/B6CxPTX PS i absolutely did not make it, credit due to @severincarrell.bsky.social i think
Sudden flood of dodgy male catfishers on Blue Sky.
September 16, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Sudden flood of dodgy male catfishers on Blue Sky.
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Oasis reunion announced
August 26, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Oasis reunion announced
Imagine if the media just ignored Elon Musk.
August 19, 2024 at 5:09 AM
Imagine if the media just ignored Elon Musk.