mashawisotsky

[sourdough-seal]

writing is easy actually. all you have to do is tell people what happened

[enjoylentgreen]

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[reinbachers]

(Through tears) David Reinbacher YOU are a montreal canadiens

[mashawisotsky]

2026 NHL playoff pressure rankings: Which teams can’t afford to lose?

Everyone say thank you Lilly for the payoff access.

[playoffsides]

[xhekajfiles]

LMFAOOOOOOOO

[mashawisotsky]

[mashawisotsky]

Would anyone be interested in being a reader for H&CF?

Not a beta check for spelling and grammar but more someone to pre-read and I can check I’m getting across what I’m looking to do? Thanks.

[mashawisotsky]

the ai detector as defamation machine

> Horror-novel fans had speculated online for months about the book’s authorship, and in January Pangram CEO Max Spero stepped in to validate the chatter. But his evidence was itself authored by AI: Pangram’s namesake product is an AI tool that purports to “detect AI-generated content with 99.98% accuracy.” It classified 78.3% of Ms. Ballard’s book as AI-generated, although if you dig into its analysis you will find that for many passages it indicates only “medium confidence” in that assessment.

> ZeroGPT, another popular detector, flags 96.4% of the Gettysburg Address as AI-written. Lincoln gets credit only for “We are met on a great battle-field of that war.”

[urie]

lets all hold hands and die

[mashawisotsky]

Mood

[mashawisotsky]

What’s great about fiction is you are the master of the universe! Anything you imagine is possible! You just need to write it!

Ew.

[mashawisotsky]

Hi!

First, I am fine. Everything is fine. I’m not very active on social media so apologies for not thinking to write anything until now.

Writing for me has traditionally been a very one-way street so I obviously was not thinking of updating anyone about my work lol. 

Got a lot of messages. There’s a lot of editing going on thanks to my beta readers. I realised as I did editing for a chapter previously lots of people got multiple emails I didn’t want to spam anyone with that.

Also I gave myself v. minor tennis elbow in the gym (so embarrassing). Doing lots of typing is up in the air. I also have time off after my massive work project so will be travelling and planning to enjoy that.

Didn’t mean to scare anybody! I’m also very taken back by the outpouring of support.

[creasecrashing]

Experience Senators hockey

[mashawisotsky]

On Letterkenny, Sidney Crosby and the unusual language of hockey

Two hockey players are standing in an arena parking lot, both wearing tank tops and clearly manicured haircuts, and they address the camera

[mashawisotsky]

Found out today that my senior manager has been using AI to produce all their reports since November. Which means I have spent literally hundreds of hours reading AI material.

Sat with them today and every time they had draft a section would just throw it into a generator. Then I would have to spend 15 minutes re-editing whatever it developed because it was wrong.

Doesn’t matter. They found a solution. I’m gonna be working 10+ hours every day till the project is due because I just have to rewrite it all. 

Plus, I’m in the middle of looking for a new job meaning I have to - it’s so demoralising - write cover letters for every single job description while knowing that everything I submit is also being scanned by AI.