Hi! Epidemiologist here! Don’t do this. In the 80s and 90s this was done by Depts. of Health during the HIV/AIDS epidemic. “Somehow” the lists they created found their way into the hands of cops, landlords, & job sites to deny people human rights. It’s partly WHY HIPAA exists

“Covid is here to stay. No need to continue avoiding it.” “AI is here. We better accept it being integrated into everything.” Stop treating avoidable things as inevitable.

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

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If you write ‘unalive’ in prose or character dialogue, in your NOVEL - which I have seen TWICE NOW - I will immediately wince and full body cringe. The TikTokification of words has to stop. Your character almost DIED or was KILLED in your novel. They were not almost ‘unalived’.

can’t believe we opted for 1984 dystopia (surveillance and denial of historical fact) and Fahrenheit 451 dystopia (erosion of literacy) instead of Brave New World dystopia (everyone gets fucked up on government-sanctioned drugs and goes to the movies all the time)

Ta-Nehisi Coates

You need to read to your kids. They need to know the joys of reading. People think this isn't a huge deal but I'm serious: you don't want to live in a world where no one reads. There's a reason all the great dystopian novels involve a world without books.

Remember when I tweeted about people not knowing the difference between peak and pique anymore and people refused to believe it was a thing

Keep in mind that Christopher Columbus was a human trafficker (including of children sold into sexual slavery) who's cruelty was so abhorrent (even for the time) that he was eventually imprisoned for it

no it doesn't, theyre just going to a place that's not pornhub and isn't asking them to verify id

touching grass is not enough sometimes you need to run off and grow a forest inside your ribcage

The Matrix (1999), dir. Lana and Lily Wachowski

People are reading AI-generated synopses of books and then claiming they read 100 books in a book. This is how the abolition of books began in Fahrenheit 451: classics were condensed into five-minute summaries for those too busy to do the reading. Later came the burnings.

Reading isn’t about the number of books you can consume, but about the experience they offer. It’s about immersing yourself in the narrative, feeling the emotions it stirs, and letting the words sweep you into different worlds.

Note how the rainbow panic has moved on from telling people they can't change their sex to telling people that they can't enjoy and excel at activities associated with another sex

Great job team, I know we can get it to 100% if we work hard enough.

You'll basically never meet an Oscar award winning director, screenwriter or actor who doesn't read novels but you'll meet a bunch of 25 year old film graduates who don't

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