Miranda Dubner
@mirandadubner.bsky.social
Made of words, mostly. Developmental editor, copy editor, author of THE SPARE. No, not that one. she/her.
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Starbucks employees escalated their strike on Black Friday, expanding to 120 stores and 85 cities.
Their CEO took home $96 million while refusing to negotiate a living wage for workers.
Boycott Starbucks. Stand with the employees.
Support local independent coffee shops:
Their CEO took home $96 million while refusing to negotiate a living wage for workers.
Boycott Starbucks. Stand with the employees.
Support local independent coffee shops:
Starbucks workers' union escalates strike on Black Friday
() -The Starbucks workers' union said on Friday it is escalating an indefinite strike to more than 120 stores and 85 cities, demanding higher pay and staffing levels at the coffee chain. The walkout,...
www.yahoo.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Starbucks employees escalated their strike on Black Friday, expanding to 120 stores and 85 cities.
Their CEO took home $96 million while refusing to negotiate a living wage for workers.
Boycott Starbucks. Stand with the employees.
Support local independent coffee shops:
Their CEO took home $96 million while refusing to negotiate a living wage for workers.
Boycott Starbucks. Stand with the employees.
Support local independent coffee shops:
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An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
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on top of everything else, nuzzi has the sensibilities of your most embarrassing friend. a guy alternates between saying he wants her to have his children and ghosting her, and she's wringing her hands trying to figure out if they're really in love
November 27, 2025 at 1:47 AM
on top of everything else, nuzzi has the sensibilities of your most embarrassing friend. a guy alternates between saying he wants her to have his children and ghosting her, and she's wringing her hands trying to figure out if they're really in love
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i guess one thing we can all be thankful for this year is not having "i know if this man is confirmed by the senate it will have explosive global health ramifications and kill unthinkable numbers of people, including children. but more importantly, my ex-girlfriend wounded my ego" on our conscience
November 27, 2025 at 2:49 AM
i guess one thing we can all be thankful for this year is not having "i know if this man is confirmed by the senate it will have explosive global health ramifications and kill unthinkable numbers of people, including children. but more importantly, my ex-girlfriend wounded my ego" on our conscience
All my relationships improved when I stopped using search engines and went back to asking people questions about things. Including the "stupid" qs. There are no stupid questions, just people who are jerks when you ask them things. Find people who are not jerks, or tell the jerks to stop doing that.
This is so soulless, I can't stand it. We have BRAINS. We can USE THEM.
November 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
All my relationships improved when I stopped using search engines and went back to asking people questions about things. Including the "stupid" qs. There are no stupid questions, just people who are jerks when you ask them things. Find people who are not jerks, or tell the jerks to stop doing that.
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There’s a lot not to like about this administration, but I really appreciate its bursts of incompetence
November 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
There’s a lot not to like about this administration, but I really appreciate its bursts of incompetence
If you have to *say* it.
A major company claiming it's "not Enron" seems pretty sus to me.
Nvidia Says It’s Not Enron in Private Memo Refuting AI Accounting
In a private memo to Wall Street analysts, Nvidia says its business “does not resemble historical accounting frauds.”
www.barrons.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
If you have to *say* it.
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Isn't it so weird to deeply know in your bones something obvious with no equivocation, for years and years, and then to one day see articles about people wondering if maybe the incredibly obvious thing you've known this whole time might be happening, as if the media is discovering it now??
“This is total armageddon for the online right. It’s looking like half of their large accounts were foreigners posing as Americans all along.”
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Isn't it so weird to deeply know in your bones something obvious with no equivocation, for years and years, and then to one day see articles about people wondering if maybe the incredibly obvious thing you've known this whole time might be happening, as if the media is discovering it now??
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I wrote 12 novels.
Hit #2 on the NYT bestseller list.
Optioned three works for film and TV.
Have close to 20 short fiction works in anthos.
I have 35,000 BSky followers.
Have you seen my jewelry shop that keeps my lights on.
www.peculiarityshop.com
Hit #2 on the NYT bestseller list.
Optioned three works for film and TV.
Have close to 20 short fiction works in anthos.
I have 35,000 BSky followers.
Have you seen my jewelry shop that keeps my lights on.
www.peculiarityshop.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I wrote 12 novels.
Hit #2 on the NYT bestseller list.
Optioned three works for film and TV.
Have close to 20 short fiction works in anthos.
I have 35,000 BSky followers.
Have you seen my jewelry shop that keeps my lights on.
www.peculiarityshop.com
Hit #2 on the NYT bestseller list.
Optioned three works for film and TV.
Have close to 20 short fiction works in anthos.
I have 35,000 BSky followers.
Have you seen my jewelry shop that keeps my lights on.
www.peculiarityshop.com
Amazing. THE SPARE is on that piracy site from that last repost. I pretty much never talk about this stuff anymore, because it's been a long time, but I dropped the US price to $2.99 in *checks notes* 2021 and just forgot to ever raise it again. It costs less than most things.
November 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Amazing. THE SPARE is on that piracy site from that last repost. I pretty much never talk about this stuff anymore, because it's been a long time, but I dropped the US price to $2.99 in *checks notes* 2021 and just forgot to ever raise it again. It costs less than most things.
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I'd never heard of this site until tonight. Both my books are on there. Did you know my publisher offers one of three lowest royalty rates in the entire industry? And that I didn't get an advance? Literally all I make is from royalties. Royalties I don't earn when you pirate my book.
I posted a buy link here to "A Magical Inheritance" a few days ago, and 24 of you immediately went to Anna's Archives and fucking stole it from me.
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
🖕
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
🖕
November 24, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I'd never heard of this site until tonight. Both my books are on there. Did you know my publisher offers one of three lowest royalty rates in the entire industry? And that I didn't get an advance? Literally all I make is from royalties. Royalties I don't earn when you pirate my book.
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Anyway, do not help the Sam Altmans of the world steal Machine Learning valor to prop up a bunch of gross plagiarism machines that have all our worst biases and failings baked in.
November 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Anyway, do not help the Sam Altmans of the world steal Machine Learning valor to prop up a bunch of gross plagiarism machines that have all our worst biases and failings baked in.
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Lumping them together as “AI” gives readers the impression that a single class of tool is discerning novel protein structures, teasing subtle patterns out of mountains of LHC data, writing a student’s History 101 paper, and arguing a ketamine-addled billionaire could post up Shaq in his prime. No.
November 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Lumping them together as “AI” gives readers the impression that a single class of tool is discerning novel protein structures, teasing subtle patterns out of mountains of LHC data, writing a student’s History 101 paper, and arguing a ketamine-addled billionaire could post up Shaq in his prime. No.
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Machine learning (umbrella term, I know) is a useful, sometimes transformative tool in the hands of trained researchers who understand how to deploy it and critically assess the results.
A chatbot is not useful in the same ways (though underlying technologies may be, in other contexts).
A chatbot is not useful in the same ways (though underlying technologies may be, in other contexts).
November 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Machine learning (umbrella term, I know) is a useful, sometimes transformative tool in the hands of trained researchers who understand how to deploy it and critically assess the results.
A chatbot is not useful in the same ways (though underlying technologies may be, in other contexts).
A chatbot is not useful in the same ways (though underlying technologies may be, in other contexts).
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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Looking the financial indices out of the UK and apologies if this has ever come up before, but have they considered reviving the economy by joining a large economic and political consortium of countries nearby, say in Europe?
November 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Looking the financial indices out of the UK and apologies if this has ever come up before, but have they considered reviving the economy by joining a large economic and political consortium of countries nearby, say in Europe?
All I can read in Brooks's manner of expressing himself is him cringing away from the idea that people he knows are *in* that class, and that he might be a key player in the protective shell that surrounds them.
Someday you, too, could have the moral fortitude to look upon a years-long rape circus organized by the nation's most powerful elites and declare, "The people upset about this are speaking about it the wrong way."
November 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
All I can read in Brooks's manner of expressing himself is him cringing away from the idea that people he knows are *in* that class, and that he might be a key player in the protective shell that surrounds them.
If Mamdani had spent any more time in the Oval, Trump would have tried to give him Ivanka's phone number.
November 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
If Mamdani had spent any more time in the Oval, Trump would have tried to give him Ivanka's phone number.
Another day, another ten minutes wasted attempting to understand and disable the ways AI is being foisted on me.
November 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Another day, another ten minutes wasted attempting to understand and disable the ways AI is being foisted on me.
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People using Chrome may want to know about this.
To disable the new default AI mode. Type chrome://flags in your address bar. Search for AI mode in the search box below and disable the three options displayed.
To disable the new default AI mode. Type chrome://flags in your address bar. Search for AI mode in the search box below and disable the three options displayed.
November 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
People using Chrome may want to know about this.
To disable the new default AI mode. Type chrome://flags in your address bar. Search for AI mode in the search box below and disable the three options displayed.
To disable the new default AI mode. Type chrome://flags in your address bar. Search for AI mode in the search box below and disable the three options displayed.
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Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener does not use AI in any way. However, if you’re on a Mac, you may see an AI prompt.
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Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
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Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener does not use AI in any way. However, if you’re on a Mac, you may see an AI prompt.
.
Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
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Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
Ah, yes, "thirst" as a metaphor for sexual interest. Really breaking new ground there.
November 18, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Ah, yes, "thirst" as a metaphor for sexual interest. Really breaking new ground there.
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“you two—get a LiveJournal” except that’s super unfair to LiveJournal
November 18, 2025 at 1:47 AM
“you two—get a LiveJournal” except that’s super unfair to LiveJournal
What's so great about this particular situation is that all of these people long to be talked about as much as they are currently being talked about. And I, for one, am *delighted* to help.
November 18, 2025 at 2:04 AM
What's so great about this particular situation is that all of these people long to be talked about as much as they are currently being talked about. And I, for one, am *delighted* to help.