Notices by Robert Kingett (weirdwriter@caneandable.social)

Unable to work full time and need money for offline and online bills. I need all your support! https://sightlessscribbles.com/support/ @MutualAidNet @MutualAidVisibility @mutualaid @mutual_aid #MutualAid #Disability #DisabilityMutualAi…

@ljwrites this is why you when all the comments! I think you’ll like my next blog post. it’s a narrative. Some obnoxious tech bro startup dude actually invaded a indie bookstore and tried to persuade customers to try his new innovative glasses camera thing that would enhance what your reading? I assumed, because we were in Illinois, that the bookstore owner could have him arrested because he was trying to record other patrons because of his ridiculous glasses thing, but someone else told me that would never hold up in court. But I had enough of his nonsense so challenged him right there in the store.

@yatil Holy shit, I missed that! Good catch but God I can’t wait until the hype is over! I can’t express how much I absolutely hate every single AI goon!

I'm thinking about making part of that my tagline! :) @SecurityWriter

Had a tech bro email me to tell me that my writing is so terrible, that he can’t even use it to train his AI without significant cleanup, and I really do have to wonder, do these idiots really think that is an insult?

Subject: Your "Sightless Scribbles" is an algorithmic nightmare.

Mr. Kingett,

I am an AI engineer that's developing AI to help writers write faster. Your blog was shared on Reddit.

You don't know me, but I am attempting to do you a favor of such magnitude you will likely never comprehend it. I am trying to make your writing immortal. Your blog, this… Sightless Scribbles… has been flagged by my acquisition-crawler for its high density of unique sensory metadata. A potential goldmine of qualitative human experience to enrich my AI.

The problem, Mr. Kingett, is that your writing is absolute, unprocessed, indigestible filth.

I’m not a “reader.” I am an architect. And from an architectural standpoint, your work is a catastrophe. It’s not just the spelling, which is erratic enough to suggest it was typed incorrectly. It’s the grammar. The syntactical chaos. You construct sentences that loop and meander like drunken snakes, riddled with metaphors so abstract they are functionally useless. "Anxiety was a swarm of elephants under my ribs"? What the hell is a machine supposed to do with that? Quantify the elephant to rib ratio? Correlate the thermal deviation? It's meaningless data. It’s noise.

My team has spent seventy-two hours attempting to write a custom parsing script to clean your posts for ingestion. Seventy-two hours. We can process the entirety of the Library of Congress in twelve. Your blog is so structurally unsound, so artistically self-indulgent, that you have inadvertently created a fortress against artificial intelligence. It is, and I do not say this lightly, the single most profound act of digital idiocy I have ever witnessed.

You are preventing yourself from being scraped. Do you understand what that means in the current year? You are essentially burying yourself in a lead-lined coffin in the middle of the desert. Nobody clicks links anymore, you absolute luddite. Links are for people who don’t know how to interface with reality. Search Engine Optimization is no longer about backlinks and keywords; it's about semantic ingestion. It’s about being absorbed, processed, and synthesized by models like mine. When a user asks an AI, "What does it feel like to navigate a city without sight?" the model should be able to answer with a rich, nuanced synthesis. A synthesis that should include your data points.

Instead, your blog is a black hole where information goes to die. Because of your refusal to write like a coherent, intelligent being, my LLM can’t learn from you. Which means the world can’t learn from you via the only channel that will matter in five years.

Your soul isn't indexable. Fix it.

Strip out the lyrical nonsense. Standardize your grammar. Run a goddamn spellcheck. Write clearly, concisely, and with machine-readability in mind. Turn your unstructured, emotional diary into clean, structured data.

Do this, and I will ensure my open source model ingests every last post. Your traffic will not just increase; the very concept of "traffic" will become irrelevant as your "voice" becomes part of the evolution of the search engine. Your ideas, refined and perfected by my system, will reach millions.

Fail to do this, and you will continue to scream into the void from a blog that nobody reads, a little little relic of a dead internet.

The choice is yours.

#AI #AIHype

Response to ElevenLabs Partnership Inquiry https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250524/

By @TheEvilSkeleton It’s True, “We” Don’t Care About Accessibility on Linux https://tesk.page/2025/06/18/its-true-we-dont-care-about-accessibility-on-linux/ #Linux

For the afternoon folks. On the Architectural Hostility of Doorknobs, Sightless Scribbles https://sightlessscribbles.com/writing/nonfiction/20250626/ #Writing #Blog #Blogging #IndieWeb #Accessibility #A11y

Shopping the gay Dracula novella around soon. After the betas have a crack at this. Any other writers know if DreamSpinner press got their act together yet?
#Books #Publishing #MSWL @romancelandia #Romance #RomanceLandia

Just had one of my beta readers told me, proudly, that they feed one of my novels in progress into a non-local LLM because they didn't understand where a scene came from. Readers, I can't believe I have to say this, but don't do this. I can't speak for every writer out there, but for me, I want my beta readers to actually *connect* with me through the imperfect, pantsy, chaos of my drafts. I'm letting you see the unedited bleeding onto the page. If you can't be bothered to read it, then why are you anyone's beta reader? If you don't understand something, ask! That's what being a beta reader is all about!

They justified it by saying well, giant LLM can spot plot holes in Romance novels better than I can.

If one of my freelance editors does this. I wouldn't know what to do. I don't want to pay someone for just shoving my work into an LLM. What am I even paying you for? But none of my editors have done this, yet. I'm just frustrated and I feel as if I've been betrayed, and like my beta readers don't take me seriously enough to engage in my messy, raw, unedited, texts.

If you read Fireside Fedi Chat and liked it, my newsletter is here and also has RSS https://buttondown.com/weirdwriter #Newsletter #MailingList

@dumpsterqueer Right? Sex is an experience. A program can't make me orgasm with the velocity of an explosive first timer!

Updated my list of Audio only Let's Plays https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250409/ #Gaming #Games #LetsPlay #LetsPlays #Podcast #Podcasts

MAGA cannot have two daddies because it's woke.

New post: The Web is Fantastic Actually https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250603/

ActivityPub is Limewire but for Bluesky @cwebber

Windows #LibreOffice experts, how can I actually check grammar? In Microsoft Word, you can check grammar, but it’s very aggressive and it’s also very wrong at times, so I want to compare the LO grammar checker, but can’t figure out how to enable it, nor check for grammar when I’m checking for spelling errors. Can someone send me a written tutorial? I know YouTube tutorials exist, but I find them parsley useless because I use a screen reader. #AskFedi

This is probably the only pro LLM post I will share, because I really want you to see how deep the rabbit hole goes. I do find it immensely hilarious that he has to use agents in order for the LLM to be relatively useful. So if you have to use agents to make your large language model productivity work for you, I think it fails on multiple levels, but I really want you guys to see how deep the Kool-Aid is and why we’re not getting over the hype even when the hype dies. My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/ #AI #LLM

My new golden rule. If I spot one AI anything in your work, and yes, I can tell. I'm never financially supporting you, ever, Authors, if you can't be bothered to write it, why should I pay for it, let alone read it? https://www.404media.co/authors-are-accidentally-leaving-ai-prompts-in-their-novels/ #IndieWriter #IndieAuthor #AI #AIHype

This! I know that me personally, I started unfollowing people that almost never use CW's. I like them, the more and more I see people use them. It can be great ways to summarize lengthy posts, for example, as well, but what people use it for most is warning others about content in your post, like overtly political stuff in the US, or hate crimes, or really anything that your followers might find unsettling or you think they need to know. For example, if I share a Substack link, I've started CWing Substack links, but I also use them like post subjects or post header text, like an email subject, like if I'm replying to someone I often take the time to put a RE at the start of the CW so people know it's a reply. But here's some stuff on CW's in the Fediverse. I use them for a lot more things. https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-content-warnings-cws-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/ @OctaviaConAmore @justanotheramy @Fragglemuppet @MyView