New initiative:

Instead of saying places aren't accessible I'm going to start just saying I'm not allowed to go there because I'm disabled.

It's the same thing.

Her: do you want to go to the haunted house?

Me: I'm not allowed to go because I'm disabled.

Edit: another useful phrase "They deny access to disabled people."

Hell yes, Nick Cave. "That ‘songwriter ‘you were talking to, Leon, who is using ChatGPT to write ‘his’ lyrics because it is ‘faster and easier ,’is participating in this erosion of the world’s soul and the spirit of humanity itself and, to put it politely, should fucking desist if he wants to continue calling himself a songwriter."

https://www.theredhandfiles.com/chatgpt-making-things-faster-and-easier/

Get a sense of scale for computer storage...

Byte of data: a grain of rice
Kilobyte: a cup of rice
Megabyte: 8 bags of rice
Gigabyte: 3 container lorries
Terabyte: 2 container ships
Petabyte: covers Manhattan
Exabyte: covers the UK (3 times)
Zettabyte: fills the Pacific Ocean

Original source of the comparison, for the record: https://www.slideshare.net/dwellman/what-is-big-data-24401517

Back in Feb, when Grammarly said they were going to think about incorporating AI, I immediately canceled my account and uninstalled. And now they've actually done it.

I'm sharing because with everything going on, writers might not realize this is happening.

#AI #writing

From 2022 but relevant: https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/grammarly-writing-assistants-ai-data