weronika mamuna
@weramamuna.bsky.social
a literary project that got out of control. currently thinking about: enchantment, alternative ontologies, weak subjectivity
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This is going to sound conspiratorial, but it is serves the LLM techbros for the 'em-dash = AI' lay-belief to persist.
While em-dashes are diagnostically unreliable, it undermines the legitimacy of real writing/scholarship. And when real can't be discriminated from false, the false can thrive.
While em-dashes are diagnostically unreliable, it undermines the legitimacy of real writing/scholarship. And when real can't be discriminated from false, the false can thrive.
I don't doubt this—but it does bug me that em-dashes are used as a heuristic to spot LLM-generated text.
Fortunately I can point to my 2020 doctoral thesis and show that I was overusing and abusing ems well before el el ems.
Fortunately I can point to my 2020 doctoral thesis and show that I was overusing and abusing ems well before el el ems.
The US National Security Strategy seems to be—at least in part—written/edited by AI.
There are hallmark AI em dashes in nearly every other paragraph — shocking but unsurprising.
There are hallmark AI em dashes in nearly every other paragraph — shocking but unsurprising.
December 5, 2025 at 8:48 AM
This is going to sound conspiratorial, but it is serves the LLM techbros for the 'em-dash = AI' lay-belief to persist.
While em-dashes are diagnostically unreliable, it undermines the legitimacy of real writing/scholarship. And when real can't be discriminated from false, the false can thrive.
While em-dashes are diagnostically unreliable, it undermines the legitimacy of real writing/scholarship. And when real can't be discriminated from false, the false can thrive.
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If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.
December 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.
sure the book is good, but is it gonna awake libidinal joy inside me?
December 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
sure the book is good, but is it gonna awake libidinal joy inside me?
i'm gonna have to have a think about what philosophy i actually wanna read and what philosophy i'm happy to get the gist of via podcasts
December 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
i'm gonna have to have a think about what philosophy i actually wanna read and what philosophy i'm happy to get the gist of via podcasts
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romantasy fans, meet romorror. meet romience fiction. meet surrealmance. meet postmoderomance. meet tom clantasy
December 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
romantasy fans, meet romorror. meet romience fiction. meet surrealmance. meet postmoderomance. meet tom clantasy
winter is for magic
(contemplating a Jonathan Strange re-read in addition to this)
(contemplating a Jonathan Strange re-read in addition to this)
December 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
winter is for magic
(contemplating a Jonathan Strange re-read in addition to this)
(contemplating a Jonathan Strange re-read in addition to this)
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microblogging platforms are for making little posts that later you go on your actual blog, your macroblog, and write a proper post about, to get it out of your system. y'all's problem is you don't have blogs so you're all clogged up. that's how you get cancer
December 22, 2024 at 2:59 AM
microblogging platforms are for making little posts that later you go on your actual blog, your macroblog, and write a proper post about, to get it out of your system. y'all's problem is you don't have blogs so you're all clogged up. that's how you get cancer
Writing Room
December 2, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Writing Room
shy, nerdy, insanely talented girls* who will go on to do cool things with their life after we break up
I have a longish train ride. Please entertain me by telling me what your “type” is, if you have one (or more!). How did you discover you had a “type” and/or how do you think that happened?
November 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
shy, nerdy, insanely talented girls* who will go on to do cool things with their life after we break up
i think my tentative fantasy essay series is growing another essay.
possibly two.
possibly two.
November 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
i think my tentative fantasy essay series is growing another essay.
possibly two.
possibly two.
literally suggested this to my girlfriend yesterday
ortolan mcnuggets
November 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
literally suggested this to my girlfriend yesterday
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Is Opheliac a perfect album? Maybe not but it is perfect to me.
Putting on Emilie Autumn at the gym so I can feel cunty on the treadmill
November 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Is Opheliac a perfect album? Maybe not but it is perfect to me.
what if i re-read Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell this December?
November 28, 2025 at 11:31 AM
what if i re-read Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell this December?
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kicked out of the party because i wouldn't stop describing things as "aickmanesque"
November 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
kicked out of the party because i wouldn't stop describing things as "aickmanesque"
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They say nothing good comes from hate, but when I see artists hating on AI, it makes me immediately like them and want to check out their work.
November 26, 2025 at 9:11 PM
They say nothing good comes from hate, but when I see artists hating on AI, it makes me immediately like them and want to check out their work.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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One of the things that I've been writing and researching over the past year is how people are neurologically, psychologically and systematically primed for political cruelty, and one of the only heartening things is this - that it would disappear if it wasn't maintained by massive effort.
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
One of the things that I've been writing and researching over the past year is how people are neurologically, psychologically and systematically primed for political cruelty, and one of the only heartening things is this - that it would disappear if it wasn't maintained by massive effort.
oooooh there's a copy of the out-of-print Polish edition of Male Fantasies available
November 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
oooooh there's a copy of the out-of-print Polish edition of Male Fantasies available
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That short stories exist in the cracks and interstices of the capitalist system is how you know they’re the superior form
Yeah, unfortunately. Outside the world of magazines, anthologies, and small presses sustained by obsessive volunteer labour, the capital-I industry rather does seem to find short stories an unwanted form electricliterature.com/i-love-short...
I Love Short Stories. Do I Have to Write a Novel? - Electric Literature
The publishing world’s insistence on the novel as default fails to imagine what a book can do
electricliterature.com
October 3, 2024 at 3:11 PM
That short stories exist in the cracks and interstices of the capitalist system is how you know they’re the superior form
i'm gonna read and write so much weird stuff when i'm finally done with this review
November 23, 2025 at 10:34 AM
i'm gonna read and write so much weird stuff when i'm finally done with this review
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Met a woman walking through Tokyo last night, must have been a seamstress or something because she was holding a big pair of scissors. I think she asked me something but it was hard to make out from under her mask. I just said, “Sorry, I don’t speak Japanese!” and walked on. Hope she got home safe
June 2, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Met a woman walking through Tokyo last night, must have been a seamstress or something because she was holding a big pair of scissors. I think she asked me something but it was hard to make out from under her mask. I just said, “Sorry, I don’t speak Japanese!” and walked on. Hope she got home safe
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My marbling texture pack is up for sale! 180 HQ scans, 600 dpi, three different methods of marbling🎨
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November 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
My marbling texture pack is up for sale! 180 HQ scans, 600 dpi, three different methods of marbling🎨
purenonsens.gumroad.com/l/marbling
purenonsens.gumroad.com/l/marbling
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