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Last Notes npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow (now realising I should've called myself Ol' Lili Yaga in a previous post, just for the fun of it) npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow There's no benefit trying to pass yourself off as ol' Lili, scammers. I am very small, very weird potatoes so far as publishing is concerned. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow I have been alerted to (very poorly written) impersonation scam emails involving a Gmail address, which purport to be from Yours Truly. Please rest assured that if you get a gushing email trying to bait you into a correspondence, it's a scammer, not me. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow All this makes me think Nolan shot “The Odyssey: Bourne Goes Swimming”, and honestly I’d rather spend my movie money on tickets to local community college productions of Euripides instead. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow (The best Clytemnestra I ever saw was in one of those.) npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow Well, I'm vertical, enduring some simulacrum of consciousness, and attempting to absorb enough caffeine for neuron jump-starts. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow @nprofile…c86p That's the article writer's phrase, not mine. I wish I'd written it, though, it so very beautifully expresses a great route to healing. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow @nprofile…cm0q I don't really think people are fatigued by superhero stories, as those are perennially interesting to humans. I think people are fatigued by huge, transparently greedy franchises--and the use said franchises are put too by regressive asshats who coincidentally happen to loathe and fear female-led stories. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow @nprofile…h04g Yeah, they've profited short-term, at the cost of completely destroying any image of their company as anything but a greed-laced shitheap that happens to have a product people currently need. Once there's a reasonably available rival product, well… npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow "Maybe that was just where I saw the movie and the time I chose, but it worries me that women aren’t going to see this movie because this film is about a woman refugee dealing with trauma, isolation, and grief." npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow Been banging my head on wordcount all afternoon, and getting almost nowhere. At least there's a dog to pet, and birds outside my office windows. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow @nprofile…knv0 I didn't find it particularly scathing--rather, careful and well-researched, especially since Wilson's lifework is classical Greek. I think the reaction to the movie *and* the review shows a lot about where we are as a society right now. (Homer would be proud…) npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow "Multiple people I spoke to who were in or around Pittsburgh DSA between 2017 and 2020 described hearing about “plans” for what to do if Moraff showed up at one of his past partners’ homes." npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow Grief, growing up, and a singing cult--HARMONY is $2.99USD (and CAD) in ebook until 7/31. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow @nprofile…k3yl The exact dynamic, repeated over and over by greedy grifters. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow @nprofile…8t6y npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow @nprofile…weq5 Wilson's prose is always a ding-dang delight. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow Below Floor Level npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow Now we've got: tradpubs who won't reply on submissions for *over a year*, editors who can't or won't provide even basic editorial support for longer; "marketing" departments who shuffle off all the actual publicity work onto authors; C-suites and shareholders stuffing their pockets with any money coming in, starving other departments of the funds to function; and widespread royalty fraud. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow “It happens slowly, then all at once…” npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow I’ve noticed lately that though Google still accounts for the most search traffic arriving at my site, other search engines—especially those not overly infested with “AI”—are taking increasing bites out of that primacy. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow COYOTE RUN is part of the Horned Lark Press Summer Sale! This means you can pick up a paperback for $10USD (and shipping) until 7/31; other paperbacks are $10USD as well. A great time to stock up, especially if you love punching fascists. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow Time Well Spent npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow Horned Lark Press is doing a Summer Reading Sale; you can get several paperbacks (including of COYOTE RUN) for $10USD apiece (plus shipping) until 7/31. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow "Have we evolved much since Telemachus told his mom to shut up?" npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow @nprofile…679n One would think shame would keep such people off the road, but anyone who would buy such a thing is clearly indecent enough not to care. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow "Most unforgivable in the capitalist society Musk champions, it hasn't sold well." npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow Grief, growing up, and a singing cult--HARMONY is $2.99USD (and CAD) in ebook until 7/31. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow "Why do the rich have such low migration rates? And why is common intuition about elite migration so wrong?" npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow Grief, growing up, and a singing cult--HARMONY is $2.99USD (and CAD) in ebook until 7/31. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow In which tacos return me to coherence, Boxnoggin hardly moves all night, and walkies may be energetic. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow For the afternoon crowd: Dangerously Like Rest npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow ...I've finished the revision, I could just go to bed. Nobody's stopping me, I'm an adult. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow In which the mercury mounts, the mercy's duration is questioned, and I tend to write in reverse seasons. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow Not Quite Dispirited npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow To hell with it. Am knocking off for the rest of Friday. The couch (and a history book) are better for me than anything else, at this point. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow An afternoon of talking to writing friends is healing for the soul (even if all we're discussing is how grim everything is right now). npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow ahahahahaha I’ve reached the bit where Don Quixote’s in a print shop and it’s clear publishing hasn’t goddamn changed since Cervantes’s time npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow Gonna spend a Sunday afternoon winding my way through the last one-hundred fifty pages or so of Don Quixote, because I have *got* to see how ol’ Cervantes sticks this landing. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow "Director Hodges told his cast to play everything completely straight. De Laurentiis expected something loud and macho. The Italian crew and the English crew couldn't communicate clearly with each other." npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow "Oyler points out that Dalí’s “wickedness,” as Orwell put it in his scathing review of the artist’s “autobiography” (a spurious category in the case of serial fabricator Dalí), matters even if it were pure provocation rather than genuine commitment." npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow Punched myself right on the lip while struggling into a shirt this morning, so I suppose we know how Saturday intends to roll. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow "The court’s order—requiring a temporary injunction barring Google from spreading the false claims in any further AI Overviews—may have global implications, as the court seems to be the first to hold an AI firm liable for AI speech." npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow Another Monday, another quad shot, another layer of eyeliner. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow Banana, with gruel, npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow "Nobody, except maybe Barbra Streisand, thinks they are making a movie that’s going to be around forever. Nobody thinks that." npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow "Heroically sized even for a Norse god, Thor's Helmet is about 30 light-years across." npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow The morning is full of a warmish, fragrant summer breeze. It’s like a gatdamn Seals & Crofts song out there. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow I mean, what do I know, after watching wave after wave of empty hype move through. *shrug* npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow It's... interesting, I guess? that articles in the mainstream tech press about the shift to token-based "AI" pricing are grasping so hard at "no, no, users will actually keep using the slopbot even if the prices spike, we just have to convince them hard enough" straws. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow "Like the power looms, automated threshers, and robotic assembly lines before them, platform technologies are not neutral. They are designed to allow management to wield unilateral power over production and scale rapidly to become infrastructural, thereby extracting monopoly rents." https://lithub.com/the-digital-economy-is-destroying-our-lives-and-our-planet-and-ai-is-only-going-to-make-it-worse/ npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow "Yet the footage shot by a traveler in Berlin during the summer of 1989, right there in the vicinity of the wall, depicts a city where events seem to be frozen." https://www.openculture.com/2026/05/take-a-random-walk-around-the-berlin-wall-just-months-before-its-sudden-fall-summer-1989.html npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow "The AI economy is circular: Google funds Anthropic, Anthropic runs on Google Cloud, Amazon funds Anthropic, Microsoft co-invests with OpenAI." npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow Seriously, every ongoing problem I was having with my WordPress install has utterly vanished since I deleted the Jetpack plugin. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow Still kind of gobsmacked at how much better the ol' site runs with the Jetpack plugin deleted. Am feeling a bit silly for assuming that since it was "native" (and the downtime monitor was useful) that it was ergo also helpful. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow Have spent most of the day so far nose-down in a history book, when I haven't been watching the weather attempt to turn to rain. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow "The point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show." https://web.archive.org/web/20260515113210/https://www.vulture.com/article/social-media-feeds-chaotic-good-projects-clipping.html npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow thinking about the startling amount of cannibalism themes and mentions in Victorian literature npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow @nprofile…995k Jetpack seems to be the major attempt to force slop into WordPress sites. There's the new "connections" area in Settings, but thankfully that seems opt-in. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow Welp, finally disabled Jetpack on my site. The update to WordPress 7.0 has added "AI" slop, and that's something I can do without. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow @nprofile…8r6m I’ve had luck with Proton Calendar, actually. The switch was super easy and I don’t miss Google. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow "Every time Sundar Pichai reconfigures Google products to further force generative AI on users he assumes are hopelessly locked in, he increases the risk they finally throw up their hands and go somewhere else. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow "That was the intent, but the decision we made was an abandonment of the core counterculture, f*ck the establishment spirit of Kickstarter, and it left our community vulnerable." https://updates.kickstarter.com/an-apology-rethinking-our-mature-content-guidelines/ npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow (On the one hand, you’re working at Meta, fa cry-eye. On the other, nobody needs or deserves this nonsense…) npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow "The brazen AI-ification of work — and the fact that it’s the workers creating and training the AI who are first on the chopping block — is what makes this moment in tech layoffs different from all those that came before." https://sfstandard.com/pacific-standard-time/2026/05/15/meta-employee-gets-real-horror-working-right-now/ npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow No, we do not have a “male loneliness” epidemic. We have, as so often in history, a male *selfishness* epidemic, and the body count is, as usual, astronomical. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow It's amazing how every paragraph holds progressively *worse* details. Just an absolute dumpster fire of a car, company, and human being. https://www.the-independent.com/tech/tesla-cybertruck-recall-elon-musk-b2975042.html npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow (I've often made this point about genre constraints in fiction; nothing forces one to tweak convention and upend expectation like a set of seemingly unbendable rules...) npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow "That’s the thing about constraints that spur creativity: They shut down many possibilities, but stimulate more varied and novel exploration of those that remain." https://lithub.com/thinking-inside-the-box-how-constraints-can-make-us-more-creative/ npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow For the afternoon crew: Spring Cleaning (And Reading) npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow One-day sale! Cyborgs, murder, and motherhood--SHE-WOLF AND CUB is $1.99USD in ebook today, 5/9. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow @nprofile…2ecd I am now replete but uncertain if stomach upset will follow. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow @nprofile…z80j ahahaha the closest I’ve seen to a chocolate laboratory is Amaury Guichon, who is known in our household as “that fucking chocolate guy (affectionate)”. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow I'm an adult. I can have all the gingersnaps I want and nobody can stop me. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow A good hard run has mostly dispelled a somewhat-foul mood; indeed the only drawback was a selfish git staring at his phone while allowing his poor sweet dog to run loose. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow "They predicted that women would benefit from all-women training groups, but they didn’t expect the percentage gaps would be so large. Their qualitative analysis explains why." https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/why-women-need-other-women-at-work/ npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow "These fucknuts have spent over a trillion dollars on AI and all they have to show for it is either nothing, vague statements about “everything lifting because of AI,” or pathetic revenues that only get worse the more you think about them." https://www.wheresyoured.at/am-i-meant-to-be-impressed/ npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow I know I keep posting articles about Google using Chrome to repeatedly reinstall “AI” bullshit *absolutely without user consent*; it’s just so absolutely gobsmacking. I’m unsurprised, and yet completely aghast. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow @nprofile…zwdg I wouldn’t know, that’s above what little programming knowledge I have. I’m just never going to use Chrome or any derivative thereof. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow "This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking." https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/ npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow @nprofile…9kpe I've had the updater etc. turned off since I *bought* the damn package! It opens a nag each time the program spools up, reminding me that I've done so. I looked in settings and both the autoupdater and license updater were off, can't run in the background. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow @nprofile…9kpe I am just entirely taken aback that the program did that with all the settings turned off. Just a complete violation of user consent. It was fine last week, then it looks like somewhere after Wednesday the version number just... changed. Without me even opening the program. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow I just can't believe that despite having ALL autoupdate options turned off (with a vengeance), MSWord *still* apparently talked to Redmond and changed the version number on my desktop, then tried to force me to buy a 360 subscription. I'm nauseated by this nonsense. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow So it looks like I'm going to be testing LibreOffice this upcoming week, and if it does what I want with a minimum of fuss, I'll probably delete all the MSOffice stuff from my desktop. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow What an *irritating* way to spend a Sunday morning. But I've walked Boxnoggin and done some yardwork, too, so at least there's that. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow @nprofile…gent @nprofile…u76z Good enough for me, I reckon! npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow @nprofile…gent @nprofile…u76z All I’m worried about is if it’ll handle TrackChanges without choking or inconsistencies. All the rest is negotiable—I write and revise in Scrivener, so there’s that at least. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow So APPARENTLY, even though I had autoupdates and everything turned off, the specifically non-“AI” MSOffice version bought last year *still* “spoke to the mothership” and changed version numbers. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow @nprofile…8m4g That's good news--the only thing I'm really worried about is the TrackChanges compatibility. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow @nprofile…u76z It involved Time Machine on Mac and a separate hard drive to take me back to a week ago and a different "version" (while turning the wifi off to force it NOT to talk to the mother ship while rolling back). I'm going to finish and save this damn document, then install LibreOffice instead and start using/learning that. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow Okay. I've found a workaround. But I will *also* be downloading LibreOffice and starting to get acquainted with it. Because trying to *force* me to swallow this "AI" slop (even when I've paid for a non-slop version) is not at ALL cricket. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow @nprofile…u76z No link, I just tried opening a Word doc this morning and it won't even let me type in it (though I have autoupdate etc. turned off, and have ever since I bought the non-"AI" package). Keeps trying to sell me a 365 subscription. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow ...I've reinstalled but it's still trying to force me into an Office 365 subscription. What the absolute *hell*. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow So, uh, is Microsoft now *requiring* an Office 365 subscription even if one deliberately bought an non-“AI” version last year that was supposed to… not require that bullshit? Because if so, I am angrier than a hornet right now. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow I have been fed tacos and told to go to bed. Really this is the ideal way for a Wednesday to end. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow I stopped doing Shuffle Plays for a while since some guy got shirty with me over them, saying he followed me for “other things” and he hated how it filled up his feed. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow And now, Alan Parsons Project with “Days Are Numbers”, which was the closing song for DEAD GOD’S HEART. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow Straight into the Bee Gees. I may be bopping a bit. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow “How Soon Is Now?”, and suddenly I’m a teenager again. npub1vlc9e5hvtawwxqadudvhdy8zcdynxxgqxqe452dyktzre54v7whqvpu5dt Lili Saintcrow Shuffle’s taking me through the Cinema Paradiso theme to the Arctic Monkeys. We’re not fooling about today.
