Sasha Brown

One time I thought I'd try one of my kid's ADHD pills and by 4am the next morning I had written this.

@StanchionZine I WAS KIDDING

@DantonSix Huh?

I'm BEGGING you to stop paying submission/reading fees, in general, but especially ESPECIALLY to faceless, nameless online lit mags. Jesus fucking christ just don't do it.

@BurialMagazine FUCK YEAH GET IT

@xavier_agarcia FUCK YEAH GET IT

Ya boy got a second interview!!!! Gah, let’s goooooo!!! The summer is mine!!!

The latest collection from the indomitable @AuthorPLM is MINE ALL MINE. PLM's stories are deeper than most. Emotion and her own wild imagination twist into a rope that'll get you, y'know, some of the way down. Near the end, though, you're gonna have to drop. badass cover too

@AlexC730 @GeoDev1962 @TriciaDearborn Nicely said, Alex

@GeoDev1962 @DantonSix @TriciaDearborn ayn rand was a cunt and her writing is beloved only by those who believe themselves to be much smarter than they actually are

If you're thinking about using gen-AI to "write" books, this 🧵 is for you. I’m a highly experienced editor who’s been in the biz a long time. Recently I’ve had manuscripts come to me where the author has used gen-AI – not for writing, I’ve been assured, but for

@GeoDev1962 @TriciaDearborn Bro Ayn Rand can't write for shit

The style that AI has is AI style. Yes, I know that's circular, but I don't have a better phrase. I think in terms of the simplicity of Scott Adams' style, the clarity and low cognitive load of Isaac Asimov, or the precision of Ayn Rand. I'm not a professional. And you are correct, you can't trust AI to organize your work - it requires micro-management and heavy editing. Occasionally, it comes up with a good phrasing.

@cowboy_postbop that's a cool post, man thank you for making it

@xraylitmag @TylerPlofker Terrible! was one of my favorite parts of this story because it reminded me of another great story which is ALSO BY A GUY NAMED TYLER (@tylercdempsey), spoooooooky, and also features dudes yelling Terrible! anyways cool story here's the other one maudlinhouse.net/i-went-in-my-t…

i love this weirdo story Tyler Plofker @TylerPlofker ! it's blog posts by a man who either invented a board game, or is having a manic break with reality, or both. a very funny story. i love writers who experiment with voice. read it ! xraylitmag.com/the-board-game…

I love this piece

In my life I have written dozens of stories and one masterpiece. Here is that masterpiece. Quit your jobs; divorce your spouses; abandon your children. Turn off the lights. Light candles. Pour a glass of wine. I give you: Pee Seat. ratbaglit.substack.com/p/pee-seat

@deanwball my theory about you is that you're a vapid moron

My theory about why so many on the left remain in denial about AI is that their worldview rests on a load-bearing notion of “the tech industry” as being composed of vapid morons whose accomplishments will always be superficial, never “real,” always based on some grand theft. With social media and search, the theft was manipulation of people’s minds. With Amazon it was worker exploitation. With Apple, it was a mix of these. In the left retelling of the story, no value whatsoever was created from these technologies. All a trick. With AI the “grand theft” in the telling of the left is the use of copyright-protected data in pre-training. This one is a particularly dangerous mindworm for them, since they identify with the “artists and writers” from whom they imagine this training data was “stolen.” This is why things like “mode collapse” from synthetic data, stochastic parrotry, “it can only mimic things it has seen on the web” and similar are so core to the argument for the left: it supports the notion of “tech bro” thieves—who lest we forget, and they never will let us, have no “liberal arts” training!—continuing their unbroken string of robberies. Of course the “grand theft” notion is an old motif on the left, relating as it does to a zero-sum mindset about economics, business, and growth that is. more traditionally associated with the left, though the lines have always been blurry, since the zero-sum mindset is above all else a *human* fallacy and thus a useful tactic in mass politics of all valences. The lines have become especially blurry lately, as has been widely observed. Anyway, the notion that AI *is* a genuinely world-changing technology, that it can “go beyond” its “stolen” training data, breaks this load-bearing conception of the tech industry as vapid and superficial and, more importantly, of the people within it as blood-sucking thieves.

@CosmicHorrorMo IVY GRIMES AND NOTHING ELSE

I need your best recent horror novel recommendations... for personal reasons. Here's a couple that I'm looking forward to reading. What else do I need on my list?

March brings the desnowing of my gardens, and also my most anticipated collection of the year: Gore Poetics by the unmatched @spicycloaca. Samir Sirk Morató is the most important thing happening in horror right now. Morató and nothing else.

unfortunately it cites it right under the far superior title "I Thought I Gave Up My Virginity to a Pretty Ricky Song But That’s Not the Point" but can't win 'em all also btw a very dope piece: splitlipthemag.com/memoir/0424/m-…

My cover letter is just "here's some more bullshit" but this is also good advice and, more importantly (for my ego), cites my own "Catching Babies" as an example of a good title. Woo! splitlipthemag.com/flash/0125/sas…

@tylercdempsey this book fuckin RULES

Lonesome Dove 1st ed from the thrift store lfg 🔥

We're still celebrating ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY during our issue drop! Contributor @DantonSix's story “We All Thundered” is published in Issue 21 of @StanchionZine 🥳 Get your copy now! buff.ly/kUzkSvJ

Here, pictured with the guitar I've been playing since college, is @StanchionZine's gorgeous music issue. I have a story in it! It's about a band; everyone in the story sucks and they're all me. stanchionzine.com/product-page/s…