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It's one thing if mankind is hunted to extinction by ChatGPT, but I really do object to being executed by Bing.

(https://secretfanspace.dreamwidth.org/2511.html?thread=3169743#cmt3169743 )

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Re: Books - mad honey (Jodi Picoult, Monsieur Boylan)

[(Anonymous)]

I was bad and just looked at an interview, I only looked at the first question and closed it, so no spoilers, but OMFG:

Literary Hub: Who do you most wish would read your book?

Jodi Picoult: J.K. Rowling. She is one of the most vocal trans-exclusive radical feminists, and she seems to be using her platform these days to exclude trans women from the overarching category of “women”—claiming that being inclusive somehow diminishes women. She also, as a victim of abuse, points to trans women and alleges that too many are really just men hoping to get into women’s safe spaces to hurt them… when in reality, a trans woman is far more likely to be hurt than a cisgender woman. One of the reasons for making Olivia a former victim of abuse in Mad Honey was to give an example of a battered women who can still choose compassion and understanding, when it comes to gender identity.


These people are such fucking morons.

That said, I wonder what it's like, to be Picoult? To be a being that has a mind that can be held entirely within the average dan's? Does time seem to pass faster for her, as her brain makes its calculations at leisurely pace? Does she hear as many sounds, see as many sights, taste as many tastes? When I try to picture the inner landscape of the being that could author this book, the images I get are of stones sinking into muddy ponds-- silently, and without trace. But then, I think of the sort of person who could be overwhelmed at the thought of counting in German backwards, and I think, perhaps the world is an assault on her senses after all.

Re: Books - mad honey (Jodi Picoult, Monsieur Boylan)

[(Anonymous)]

(you may wonder why I ignore agp author. The answer is that I assume he did barely any work and just left it to her.)