Holy crap this story knocked me over.

[missconstrue@mefi.social]

@mttaggart I literally burst into tears, multiple times. The emotional arc was astonishing.

[redoct@infosec.town]

@mttaggart That was one of the more moving things I've read in a bit. Seems that whole 'making community' theme that's been going around for a little while can actually be pretty damn good.

I definitely wish I had a friend that would offer "book or body buried?" When i needed something.

Thanks for sharing.

[aakl@infosec.exchange]

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[nopatience@swecyb.com]

@mttaggart It's... so sad.

[nopatience@swecyb.com]

@mttaggart The article inspired me of to allow for imperfection. I got this feeling of wanting to spend more time writing again.

Creating, thinking, learning. All those things entirely absent from LLM use.

[mttaggart@infosec.exchange]

@nopatience Love this. The power of human stories!

[barberousse_bin@todon.eu]

@mttaggart You should also read this one then
https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-bookstore-hope/

[steveroy@mstdn.ca]

@mttaggart Thank you so much for sharing that.

[mike805@noc.social]

@mttaggart There needs to be a no-AI writers' group. Producing spammy how-to content to sell on Amazon is one thing, and creative writing is another. "Chad" has no business in that group.

Someone should also point out to "Chad" that the spammy how-to content market is not going to last: the customer can ask the bot directly.

When AI use is clearly causing pain, "Chad" is being sadistic by continuing to do that. He sounds like the normal sociopath marketing guy who has taken over the Internet.

[arnebab@rollenspiel.social]

@mttaggart @WeirdWriter I laughed and cried -- not only in that order.

And am still crying now, even while I smile.

Thank you so much.

And I’m recording that filk song I promised a friend this week. And maybe next week again. Fuck all else.

[tante@tldr.nettime.org]

@mttaggart it is fucking fantastic. The author is also on fedi @WeirdWriter

[faoluin@chitter.xyz]

@mttaggart @WeirdWriter "I fucking hate the Tech Bros. I hate the hype. I hate the Bros wrongly claiming LLM's will turn us all into toast. I hate their never-ending quest to make their investments have a return. I hate the venture capitalists in their Patagonia vests who talk about "disruption" while they burn down the library of human experience and fuck over workers. I hate them with the specific, intricate hatred of a survivor who knows exactly how the grift works."

[weirdwriter@caneandable.social]

@ArneBab @mttaggart I hope more do this! Continue to make things organnically. Thank you again! There is another story about me verbally bashing a Tech Bro that invaded an indie bookstore and my offline life. More to come so thank you! Click the Narrative tag

[weirdwriter@caneandable.social]

@tante @mttaggart This means a lot coming from you! For others reading this thread, here is my follow page at https://sightlessscribbles.com/follow but if you don’t like reading, my podcast is https://weirdwritings.pinecast.co/ where you can find narrations of my blog posts, and all of my audiobooks, serialized

[mezzodrinker@social.mezzo.moe]

@WeirdWriter I am at a loss for words after reading this, but I loved every bit of it. Thank you for sharing your work

[weirdwriter@caneandable.social]

@mezzodrinker Yay! I’m so glaad you liked it! I penned similar long form stuff so I hope my feed makes it to your reader but https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/tags/narrative/

[mezzodrinker@social.mezzo.moe]

@WeirdWriter I'm at work right now, but I'll bookmark the post so that if I don't remember to add the feed after work I can at least find your post again easily.

[lunareclipse@snug.moe]

@mttaggart learning some chilling historical facts

The unraveling doesn't happen all at once. It is a slow rot, a decomposition of confidence that the Germans call Zersetzung. Psychological decomposition. It was the method the Stasi used to break dissidents not with torture, but with gaslighting, with subtle alterations of reality until the subject lost faith in their own mind.

and from wikipedia

Zersetzung […] is a psychological warfare technique first used by the Ministry for State Security (Stasi) to repress political opponents in East Germany during the 1970s and 1980s. […] The Stasi used operational psychology and its extensive network of between 170,000 and over 500,000 informal collaborators (inoffizielle Mitarbeiter) to launch personalized psychological attacks against targets to damage their mental health and lower chances of a "hostile action" against the state. Among the collaborators were youths as young as 14 years of age.

[arnebab@rollenspiel.social]

@WeirdWriter I found The Bookstore of Hope. Part one feels so much of the drab and harsh and exhaustion I know too well that I feared it would continue hardening and draining, but part two made it wonderful. Strengthened life, as if it formed a root that flowered into a new reality.

/cc @susankayequinn
@mttaggart

[arnebab@rollenspiel.social]

Aside: for anyone else reading, this is the link to the story: https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-bookstore-hope/

@WeirdWriter @mttaggart @susankayequinn