Caitlin Walsh
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@caitliniwalsh
Mother, cartoonist, Christian. Chief artist for Son of Silvercon, July 17-19, 2026 in Las Vegas, NV! https://t.co/7lxYWkfttB…
While I generally agree with Cynical Publius on this, the AI detectors are risible. No, seriously. They identify old works of literature as AI. For the love of heaven, DON'T USE THEM. On the other hand, if we're now considering vivid imagery and well chosen words as AI slop it's time to reconsider the meaning of "slop." That's just good writing. Ascribing good writing to AI automatically, as CP says, says more about you than about the writer. Also do consider that some writers -- me! No, seriously. The anthropic lawsuit confirms this -- had our entire work used as the basis of AI training. So, of course some of my rhetorical tricks and moves are reflected in AI. (From what I've seen, fortunately (?) mostly my early in-love-with-words phase, so my current writing is not the same. OTOH I apologize for anyone who gets pseudo-Shakespearean spew from Claude.) I have a proposal for this: STOP HUNTING FOR AI. Slop is slop no matter who writes it, human or clanker. And heaven help us, there's enough slop to go around. Instead of hunting AI writing, which tells me mostly you're terrified of being "fooled." Enjoy writing or don't. Critique it on its own methods or don't. YOU'RE NOT A CLANKER. Engage with writing as a human, on the writing's merits. Stop reducing yourself to an AI program. Refuse to BECOME sloppy AI. (@J_Von_Random @esrtweet )
My husband, 7 days before our autistic son graduates high school, has, for reasons unknown, picked a “Ben Affleck as an autistic Secret Agent Man” double feature.
Rereading Peter Grant's prison chaplain memoir, "Walls, Wire, Bars and Souls: A ChaplainLooks at Prison Life." Last read it like ten years ago, enjoying it again. Highly recommended.
Years ago I had an admin walk in during a read aloud. She asked if I frequently read books for “no reason.” 😒
average library experience: hey, looking for a book about a bear for my daughter, she’s 2. “we have narcan”. uh no just need a book about a bear. “we have a book about depression”. anything with a bear. “stinky toilet monster?” any bear. “uhh well heres bears first depression”
@makebelieveleaf The weird part of “boy vs girl autism” discourse is that most of the “autie-biography” writers in the 90s and 00s were… women
the number of people invoking cps every time they hear about a parenting choice that they wouldn’t make is really disturbing. do you understand what claim you’re making when you say someone should have cps called on them? you’re saying that you believe their child would be better off ripped from the only home they’ve ever known and put in the care of strangers. moreover, you’re saying you believe the median foster parent is a better parent than their current parents. you’re also saying you think we should dedicate state resources to carrying out this process. social workers already have caseloads too big to manage dealing with kids in homes with serious drug addiction, abuse, neglect and often fail to successfully intervene when it’s desperately needed. you want these same social workers to spend time taking kids away from parents who leave them in a locked and air conditioned car for 2 minutes while they run into the store, or who watch them on the baby monitor while they catch up with the neighbors? really? if you were in charge of society this is what you’d do?
