Instead of defending the use of LLMs for polishing up your writing, we could be advocating for unpolished writing. Blog posts with spelling errors and awkwardly repeated words. Emails that sound a bit less warm and professional because you forgot the preamble of "Apologies for the late reply, hope you're well! Thanks for the thing last week".

If there's no budget for a human editor, why should the text meet a "professional" (middle class, formally educated) standard? Dyslexic people can just write how they write and people can deal with it. Autistic people can just say what they mean to say and not waste energy on the double empathy gap.

We can learn to read for a more inclusive world, instead of wasting the planet's diminishing resources masking our differences.

@zoy

"we could be advocating for unpolished writing"

There is a wonderful true story by @WeirdWriter which does this beautifully:

https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/

The Colonization of Confidence., Sightless Scribbles

A fabulously gay blind author.

@FediThing @zoy @WeirdWriter

☝️ Such a great and memorable piece.

@FediThing@chinwag.org

mid way, and I love it so much I can't wait but thank you for sharing.

@zoy@merveilles.town @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social @tiotasram@kolektiva.social
@giacomo @FediThing @zoy @tiotasram Thank you for reading! The audio version is actively being recorded at the moment, but just in case you haven’t come across my blog previously, I write nonfiction and fiction. I have a podcast with narrations of my blog posts for those that are illiterate or choose not to read, but you can learn about me and the things I write at https://sightlessscribbles.com/about/
About Sightless Scribbles and about Robert Kingett, Sightless Scribbles

A fabulously gay blind author.

@WeirdWriter it's a wonderful piece. As a musician, it hits me. I felt the anger of being alone in a room of people thinking easy digesting is better then having to chew.

@FediThing @zoy @WeirdWriter oh wow this is something special. and real.

reading this was cool water in the desert sun

Thank you! I hope my feed makes it to your reader, but for an intro to everything that is me and the blog, https://sightlessscribbles.com/about/ @swordlace @FediThing @zoy
About Sightless Scribbles and about Robert Kingett, Sightless Scribbles

A fabulously gay blind author.

@FediThing @zoy @WeirdWriter I just finished this masterful piece of work. I was supposed to take a nap but forgot I was drowsy after the first paragraph! Ironically enough, this is a galaxy away from "unpolished work". Thank you *a lot* for that link.
@quiou HAH! Thank you! In truth, there are spelling and grammar errors in there, like with my wrong use of the em dash, and someone pointed out my "whine" VS "wine" and I corrected that in early January but thank you! :) I hope my feed makes it to your reader at some point. https://sightlessscribbles.com/about/
About Sightless Scribbles and about Robert Kingett, Sightless Scribbles

A fabulously gay blind author.

@WeirdWriter the points you allude to are mere details, really πŸ™‚ I'm seriously thinking about including your blog in my feed (need to choose an rss feeder before that) 😁
hah! Thank you! I also offer ways to get the posts via email, too, just go to my /follow page, but I personally use Miniflux, but I've been hearing fantastic things about https://artemis.jamesg.blog/features @quiou
Artemis: A calm web reader

Artemis is a calm web reader.

@WeirdWriter No worries πŸ™‚ I''ll use rss, thanks πŸ™‚