Katherine Argent

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Katherine Argent

@effthealgorithm

Writer. Avid reader. Coffee drinker. SWANA/SEA. Reading for @fracturedlit. May/may not be writing a manifesto. Definitely petting all the dogs.

Kansas City Katılım Mayıs 2012
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Katherine Argent
Katherine Argent@effthealgorithm·
Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???
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Katherine Argent@effthealgorithm·
@aw_labs I’m sorry if I misunderstood. My coffee is not properly coffeeing this morning.
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Abstract Warlock
Abstract Warlock@aw_labs·
@effthealgorithm I never said what you quoted me saying? It's used by writers, as you said, so a very small percentage of normal people. Also never said it proves anything, infact i said decent indication... You are taking offense for no reason, simply put "the general public dont use it".
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Katherine Argent
Katherine Argent@effthealgorithm·
Please stop pointing at the rhetorical use of three things or em dashes as proof something’s written by AI. I’m begging you, in the name of the Father, Son, and…
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Katherine Argent
Katherine Argent@effthealgorithm·
Do you realize how ridiculous that is? “It’s used in writing we read but people who write don’t use it.” Pointing to an em dash as “proof” someone used AI to write is as intellectually lazy as using AI to write. And to answer your implied question : Mac it’s Option + Shift + Hyphen. Windows Windows: Press Alt + 0151
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The Illusion Exotic
The Illusion Exotic@IllusionExotic·
I haven't queried in many years. The process clearly different now than over a decade ago. I observe female authors on social media discussing querying at length, yet notice few male authors in these discussions. Is this only my perception?
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Bertie Woostersauce@BWoostersauce·
I suspect male authors view querying as a transactional process and obsessing over its aspects is not a feature for daily discussion. Grumbling about it over a beer? Sure. Seeking advice on improving one’s odds? Of course. But the patience to bang the drum, followed by banging one’s head, runs thin rather quickly.
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Fafafa 🌱
Fafafa 🌱@FafafaFella·
Why I Plan to Become (Even More of) a Hermit
Katherine Argent@effthealgorithm

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

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Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates@JoyceCarolOates·
@DanielGalef Life in prison without parole is a most unusual sentence today. What on earth is in that children’s book?
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Katherine Argent@effthealgorithm·
@JTentako I don’t know either, but convenience sings a damn fine siren song. (And the corollary: all of these things they said would save us time just leave us with less of it, making us their prey.)
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JΣƬ ƬΣПƬΛKӨ@JTentako·
@effthealgorithm I mean it seems really simple to draw the line between mass surveillance, data sales, data centers, ect. Idk how people aren’t seeing it.
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Katherine Argent
Katherine Argent@effthealgorithm·
It’s the danger of quantifying human behavior so you can extrapolate data points from it. Other humans are no longer humans, they’re sources. They’re not people with backstories, they’re people producing behaviors. And those behaviors? They’re signals of future actions. Signals you can harvest. Harvests you can sell. That’s how everything online became addictive: they analyzed our behaviors to figure out how they can produce more of the same. Then they fertilized the harvest so all we want to do is live online, producing for them. They don’t need to care. To them, we’re not human, remember? We’re of interest only as long as we can be studied. Quantified. Sold.
curio drome@smashsharp

@effthealgorithm That’s them. You hit the metaphors right on the head.

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Katherine Argent@effthealgorithm·
@glitcherverse @Liskribbles Wow, I hadn’t thought about it from the perspective of someone who has grown a fandom but you’re right. At some point, people feel like they have more rights to the creation than the person who created it. Where’s Mary Shelly when we need her?
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Katherine Argent
Katherine Argent@effthealgorithm·
This. This is what humanity is up against: people behind the programs who think everything in life should be the way they want it. It’s all programmable, right? Tailor that show to your preferences: delete the scenes you don’t like. But why stop there? Delete the ugly people. The old ones. Delete the races you despise, the genders. It doesn’t matter if the story no longer makes sense, though I’m sure you’ll complain about that and insist AI should rewrite what’s left so it does. But why stop there? Do it with books. Delete the words you don’t understand. The characters that confront you with yourself. The plot lines that challenge your beliefs. Why not, they’re doing that in libraries. This is more efficient. But why stop there? Delete the people who don’t think like you. The people with interests other than yours. The people with opposing political beliefs, with religious views unlike yours, with jobs you don’t understand. The people who make art and music and poetry and literature because they enjoy it. The people with illnesses, physical or mental. The people with disabilities. There’s something familiar about that, isn’t there? There’s a name for that, isn’t there? That’s where you’re going. That’s where this line of thought leads. There are no other destinations, it all winds up at the same place. Look in the mirror. See what you are. We do.
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Jenni@inrotandindecay·
@effthealgorithm That's the thing. Social media with its algorithms, cognitive impairment and the general decline in empathy have lead people to think everything in this world is/should be catered to their needs. It's a stupid, narcissistic main character syndrome playing out in real time.
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Katherine Argent
Katherine Argent@effthealgorithm·
@brecht_dp This is every story I have in Submittable right now. Plus, “Please send us your future work.” Like, why?
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Today I discovered, much to my great surprise and disappointment, that book’s not going to write itself.
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