Emma's field notes

Finding the balance between chaos and consistency • persistence and perseverance • micro-blogging like it's the '90s

[academic-vampire]

𝔴𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔯 𝔴𝔬𝔫’𝔱 𝔩𝔞𝔰𝔱 𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯

[denhams-lilliesofthefield]

"I asked chat gpt" well I asked a moldy old skull and he told me to beat you over the head with that laptop

[fuckyeahfightlock]

I feel like I'm the last person alive writing in Word, but wanted to share this because it might save someone some heartache.

I am used to Word autosaving relentlessly; for the last few years it didn't really even have a "File>Save" command that I could see--it just autosaved like every five seconds or something. It took me a long time to get used not clicking File>Save at the end of every writing session, and I never really trusted it--with good reason, it turns out.

Apparently, when you turn off Word's new ai features, AutoSave is disabled and cannot be turned back on. There is toggle button in the upper left for it, but when I try to toggle it on, it says "Autosave is not available because of your privacy settings." I worked in my document yesterday, put my computer to sleep with the doc still open on the taskbar (my usual habit), and when I opened it today, the new work I did yesterday was gone.

This time I only lost about 300 words, which I had typed into my document from my longhand-writing in a notebook (so I guess I kind of autosaved them that way!), but if I'd really been on a roll, this could have been a disaster.

Be careful out there. Everything is terrible!

[helloliriels]

Yeah, they're baking it into essential compontents now so we'll stop turning it off. Noticed that in several programs. FFS I hate all of these tech bros.

[professionalintrovert]

Gustave Flaubert, from a letter to Louise Colet

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

just some of the the changes in design for the Penguin Symbol on old Penguin Paperbacks 

[dinkywinks]

he did a little dance and for this crime he was imprisoned in a bubble

[luxflora]

They liked his little dance so much they gave him a spotlight

[anasandorpygoscelis-deactivated]

family album

[delgrosso]

[sensationaltrainreading]

[internetgreatesthits]

[lauralot89]

if you ever feel incompetent just remember that Dracula was a military leader who graduated from wizard school and yet his best plan to break into a house was to throw a wolf through a window

[theonlydrewboo]

Yes it is! 🎃🍂

[thebelchers]

[honestlyspookymagazine]

This or nothing 🖤

Art by Cookiekappa

[sosuperawesome]

Cécile Berrubé on Instagram

[heretherebebookdragons]

@vhagar-balerion-meraxes, @dr-aegon bat & fox friends ❤

[petaltexturedskies]

Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

[thedeadpoets-blog]

“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are October’s.”

[welcomedtonewyork-deactivated20]

I’ve been trying this out and it’s been quite helpful 🤗

[amazing-amilia]

Room clutter in studio ghibli films.

[brigantias-isles]

January  

Shell Guide ~ other work by the Ladybird artists.

  illustrated by S.R .Badmin

[huariqueje]

Gnarly Winter Oak - Oscar Drouge , n/d.

German , 1898 - 1983

Colour woodcut (woodblock print) on Japan paper, 15 3/4 x 11 5/8 in. Edition unknown.