Had a registrar check my broken wrist. He asks if I work. 'Yes, I'm a book editor!' The consultant comes in (a woman). When she asks what my job is, he waves a hand and says, 'She does a bit of typing.' She looks at me, I repeat myself, we share a look 🙄 #AmEditing (slowly) #EverydaySexism

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✨ Freedom to read is freedom of speech.✨ Book bans are nothing new, and they’ve long been used to silence stories about race, gender, sexuality, and injustice. When books by and about marginalized communities are pulled from shelves, it’s censorship, not "protection."

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Well put. I have used AI (in various guises), but not for writing or other creative work. “Find me these addresses,” for example. Grunt work you’d give to an assistant. You make a great point that LLM prose is flat in a peculiar way.

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N.K. Jemisin is the first author to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 3 consecutive yrs for her Broken Earth series & first to win for all 3 novels in a trilogy. Recipient MacArthur Genius Grant, 2020. She was born #OTD in 1972. Happy Birthday @nkjemisin.bsky.social 🎈 #SciFi #Fantasy #BookSky

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Editing Query Closers: A poem, by James Fraleigh Will this work? Please advise. Correct? Thoughts? OK?

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