Annie Q. Syed
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i tell stories. i also write them. i masquerade as a lawyer w/o practice who reads, writes, and teaches. be all your infinite selves. expect eclectic tweets.
bicoastal & transcontinental
Joined June 2009
Writers, I can’t possibly recommend @GlenstalAbbey enough. I hope to write a proper post about my experience writing in this space. I ended up here thanks to recommendation by a friend because residency slots at Tyrone Guthrie were full this summer.
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Catherine O'Hara has died. She was 71. The beloved actress, known for her roles in "Schitt's Creek," "Home Alone," "Beetlejuice," and more, passed away on Friday. There are no further details at this time. Our hearts go out to her loved ones. 💔
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For those of you who follow Paul Kirschner (and those of you who don't, but should), his account was hacked and he no longer has access to it. Please follow his new account @New_Old_Paul and unfollow and report @P_A_Kirschner PLEASE RT
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Wishing everyone a wonderful Lá Fhéile Bríde weekend. May the light of the Celtic Saint and Goddess bring renewal, creativity, and warmth as the days slowly lengthen. Quay Books is OPEN today Saturday and on this Bank Holiday Monday.
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You cannot understand how a piece of writing works—structurally, spatially, temporally, linguistically—by reading on your phone (or on a laptop). You can’t see patterns, how one sentence or section relates to another. It’s a disaster for students to learn this way.
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I believe in decorum. A lot goes to hell without it.
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Gorgeous
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what I really appreciate about this account is facts and then “takes”….
🦔 Court filings unsealed last week reveal Anthropic ran a secret project called "Project Panama" to "destructively scan all the books in the world." An internal document stated: "We don't want it to be known that we are working on this." The company spent tens of millions buying
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Seeing this happening in real time is quite something…
You do all realize that increasingly intelligent technology—like LLMs and other AI—will actually make being deeply knowledgeable, smart, hard-working, curious, and intellectually, humble MORE important, right? But not in the way you can fake with a fancy degree you phoned in. It
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So many things not on my bingo card and it’s still January. 🤔
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Last year at Cal, Fernando Mendoza was knocked out on a controversial hit by Wesley Bissainthe in a crushing loss. In last night’s national championship…Bissainthe was the last defender Fernando ran through on that 4th down TD. This movie will have to be a trilogy to properly
The Fernando Mendoza arc is beyond storybook. Heartbreak at Cal, glory in Indiana.
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.@AMCTheatres @Cinemark @RegalMovies etc, you have the control of theater distribution. Take control of the production pipeline as well. Make deals directly with filmmakers for production of films with exhibition window lengths you dictate. Do with theater distribution what the
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Have you heard about TEDA? The funding steam for translating and publishing books from Turkish? We have 5Turkish titles on our list, two translated by Feyza Howell: ‘The Highly Unreliable Account of the History of a Madhouse’ by Ayfer Tunç and ‘Snapping Point’ by Asli Biçen
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Everything old is new again. The U.S. and Soviets vie over the Arctic. (Newsweek January 1984)
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I’m sorry, that position has been filled.
Rename the semicolon: Supercomma.
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Well, you will find me with Montag & Granger et al. at the end of Fahrenheit 451 ...
People sound like chatbots not just because they’re using chatbots, but also because they’re subconsciously adopting the linguistic mannerisms of chatbots. We're now witnessing humans being trained on LLMs, becoming ever more average & predictable. The autocompletion of the soul.
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spring soon? :)
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I am really hopeful this will create a revival for independent films à la @JustineBateman -- because this is ridiculous. Netflix also at times has to create "ending explained" due to no critical thinking & imagination.
Matt Damon says Netflix wants movies to restate "the plot three or four times in the dialogue" to account for viewers being on their phones: “The standard way to make an action movie that we learned was, you usually have three set pieces. One in the first act, one in the
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