It's been a while since I wrote something rather tongue-in-cheek…

https://open.substack.com/pub/suswatibasu/p/valentines-day?r=5rxnp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#poetry #ValentinesDay

Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see

1. The data it was trained and evaluated on

2. The code

3. The model architecture

4. The model weights.

DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.

"I’d call my #fanfic writing years a creative career of itself, right down to making no money from it but getting plenty of fulfillment."

"In a way I’ve lost fanfic and #fandom, but in another sense I haven’t lost them at all. I simply moved on and found people and spaces that better fit the shapes I’ve come to take, that allow me to stretch out in ways that make sense to me."

From the thoughts of a (mostly kinda) ex-fan on the #SnowflakeChallenge2025 prompt, "Tell us how fandom has helped you." https://ljwrites.blog/posts/fanfic-writing-history/ This retrospective is fond and personal, but is also critical of Anglophone fandom and takes particular aim at fandom racism. #LjBlogs

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Quick question to ask:

Should old well-known and classic books be rewritten for modern sensibilities? For example, 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' and 'Matilda' by Roald Dahl have been scrubbed clean of words like 'fat' and 'ugly'. Will be adding the final polling result to an article (if people respond) 😂

#books #questions #bookstodon #BookBans