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Seeing the notes on this talk about all the other careers that I hadn't even considered being affected by this is just depressing. What do you mean you need to be Instagram famous to have a career as a hairdresser?
before you make that post about "the crisis facing men and boys" or "preventing redpill radicalization" stop and check in:
is your proposed solution
if so:
your "solution" to behavioral patterns emerging within patriarchy is more patriarchy.
instead:
try to imagine literally anything else.
Researchers from the Institute for the Research of Male Supremacy did come up with actual recommendations for dealing with incels and it is EXACTLY like this post says.
no, spotify, i don't want to use ai to "turn my ideas into playlists". i already fucking do that with my brain and hands and i do it for fun. what, should i get ai to pet my cat for me? to play my silly games for me? to spend time with my beautiful wife for me? how about i rend you asunder
If you simply become a RWBY fan you will never be hurt again
I don't think that's true. I don't think that's true at all
clammy ganon will become a fixture to my vocabulary now. excellent
Im particularly fond of “splorin”
You guys want to play a game? REBLOG and put in the tags why you follow this person
op turned off reblogs but i wanted this on my blog so i screenshotted it
Yeah.
how i'm handling my students using AI to write papers:
-don't accuse them on using AI from the get-go and instead ask them to informally define all the huge words that they used in their essay which i know they don't know the meaning of
-ask to see their original file where they "wrote" the essay. go to version history to see if it was just copy and pasted and then just edited a bit. i keep an eye out for the shit like "certainly! here's an essay about...."
-if they own up to it, they can re-do the assignment for a higher grade even if there will be an automatic penalty. if they don't, i process it like plagiarism and get my supervisor involved.
And this is much better than the immediate accusations. Some students have a good vocabulary. Stop accusing them of faking their essays without proof, and this is a good way to check.
Fellow students please stop using AI, go back to promising not to kill the school nerd if they do all your homework or something.
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one of my biggest points of advice to other hobbyist writers, as someone who not only sees this a lot but also has to make a point of catching/fixing this in my own writing: don't EXPLAIN your metaphors, EXPAND them
like consider for example the strictly functional line:
Suzi was very nervous.
okay, weak sentence, we all see it. plain structure and plain descriptors. so you spice it up by using some figurative language:
Suzi had butterflies in her stomach.
this is stronger! but still not much better; you write this and can tell it suffers from being an overused idiom. so your next instinct is to say, "well, then i'll just elaborate with some more interesting language!" and so you modify it into:
Suzi had butterflies in her stomach. She was absolutely sick with worry, terrified of what might happen, too frightened to speak— or even breathe.
again, stronger, but counterintuitively, you have made the idiom weaker by explaining it.
"butterflies in her stomach" now does nothing for the experience of the reader but add a cute little touch of aesthetic flair without actually carrying any of the weight of communicating how suzi is feeling, because you immediately told us how suzi is feeling.
try expanding the metaphor instead:
Suzi had butterflies churning in her stomach, crawling up her throat, cluttering her lungs, and sticking all over the inside of her mouth. Forget speaking— she could barely even breathe.
now THAT'S an expanded metaphor! the cliched idiom becomes refreshed with the vivid descriptions, and the gravity/specificity of suzi's tongue-tied anxiety is communicated without being explicitly stated. the idiom may even make the reader vicariously feel what suzi feels with how graphic the description is, intensifying the tone of distress and discomfort.
and this goes for any tone and any metaphor. expand a frightening metaphor by making it gorier and gooier; expand a funny metaphor by dialing up the slapstick. but above all, TRUST your audience. you don't have to say everything perfectly clearly... and sometimes it's more effective just to paint a picture and let that do the talking.
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