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   Glyn Moody (glynmoody@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Feb-2026 08:43:06 JST Glyn Moody

   Why #AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation - https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/semantic_ablation_ai_writing/ "The result is a "JPEG of thought" – visually coherent but stripped of its original data density through semantic ablation." #creativity

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     Keith Wansbrough (kw217@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Feb-2026 08:43:05 JST Keith Wansbrough

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     @glynmoody see also @WeirdWriter https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/ which describes the same phenomenon in a very differently unique way.

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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Feb-2026 08:47:40 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     wow, this was a wonderful piece to read, thanks for sharing, and for introducing me to this great artist
     
     I was so moved that I cried with joy at various passages. thank you, Robert, for writing it
     
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     Robert Kingett (weirdwriter@caneandable.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Feb-2026 09:11:57 JST Robert Kingett

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     @lxo @glynmoody Thank you! I cried while writing it! Sean is recording the audio version but I hope the RSS feed makes it into your reader or the podcast feed in your podcast player. here is my follow page at https://sightlessscribbles.com/follow but if you don’t like reading, my podcast is https://weirdwritings.pinecast.co/ where you can find narrations of my blog posts, and all of my audiobooks, serialized

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     Robert Kingett (weirdwriter@caneandable.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Feb-2026 09:14:55 JST Robert Kingett

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     @lxo @glynmoody Forgot to add this but If you need an intro of sorts, https://sightlessscribbles.com/about/

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     Iron Bug (iron_bug@friendica.ironbug.org)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Feb-2026 04:53:39 JST Iron Bug

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     @glynmoody @WeirdWriter @lxo yes, I noticed the tag after I read the text. I thought it was fiction too. but it's not. and this makes it even more amazing.
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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Feb-2026 04:53:42 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     oh, nonfiction? I had assumed beautiful plausible verisimilar first-person fiction, but if it's nonfiction, that makes it even more awesome! please, please, pretty please, goddesses whose powers make the universe a more tolerable place, let it be nonfiction! 😉
     
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     Iron Bug (iron_bug@friendica.ironbug.org)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Feb-2026 04:53:43 JST Iron Bug

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     @glynmoody @WeirdWriter @lxo you've got a talent.
     the Colonization is the most vivid English nonfiction I have read around in a long while. a blind person painting the brightest pictures of the world, described in words.
     this reminded me Samuel Beckett in some sense. and this is amazing.
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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Feb-2026 05:29:57 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     I particularly loved the imagery of a blended salad. I've seen people refer to LLM slop as word salad, and adding the notion of blending to it makes it even more appropriate. and you know what, Blended Salad has the same initials as Bull Shit, which gives a new twist to BS generators (GenBS for short)
     
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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Feb-2026 05:34:31 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     Ablated Imagination may also work as a parody backronym
     
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     Robert Kingett (weirdwriter@caneandable.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Feb-2026 05:50:16 JST Robert Kingett

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     @lxo @iron_bug @glynmoody That was the word/image play I was aiming for. I got to admit, I never even considered the BS side effect acronym until just now! Who knew that I would get to experience death of the author on my own work!

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