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Robin Marwick

@electricland.bsky.social

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Freelance medical editor, alto, occasional traveller, trying to make things better. The pup is Bunty, an Airedale terrier (🎂2023-05-29), and I regret to inform you she has her own Instagram. 🇨🇦 She/her. Yay for alt text. https://linktr.ee/rmarwick

  1. 🚨 PFB IS HIRING 🚨 (🧵)

    SEEKING: part time (12 hrs/wk) Shelving Monkey.

    Older HS students & post-sec students welcome to apply.

    $27.25/hr + vacation pay.

    Duties: cleaning; boxing & reboxing books; shelving as directed by senior staff; assisting senior staff at both PFBs.

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  2. LLM truthers keep trying different ways of saying "But how do we KNOW that using statistical regression to create a string of tokens that resemble an answer to a prompt is not the same thing as actual thought, though?"

    And the answer is always: because it isn't.

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  3. I've seen every single major US publisher named as failing to register copyright (a contractual obligation for my books with Penguin Random House, of which they only registered 4 out of 7, and I expect for all the others too).

    Nine of my Troubleshooters series books (8 were NYT list hardcover bestsellers from the height of my career!!) and none of my Harlequin/Silhouette books were registered. So nearly 35 of the 60 books that were stolen are just🤷🫠🫥

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  4. ME: The funny thing is, he went through all of this effort to make sure that Ladysmith Black Mambazo got publishing credits, and then he turns around and rips off Los Lobos.

    twenty minutes pass

    KRISTIN: well, he wasn't a very good dad to begin with. and the hotel makes him...

    ME: VERY mean

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