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Marii Freire

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Falar sobre família é sobretudo, falar de um investimento; um investimento que custa caro, leva tempo, e a prole é a única certeza que fica disso na maioria das situações, já que a garantia da felicidade, não é um ganho previsto, mas ” contemplado” ou ” sonhado ” por fazer parte do pacote” , vou falar assim para muitos curiosos. Apesar de família ter um conceito bonito e bastante amplo, quando se tira esse olhar da paixão sobre ele, vemos que a coisa ganha um gancho diferente.
Ora, o conceito de família na prática é diferente do que se idealiza ( a perfeita só existe em pote de comercial de margarina, ou em outdoors para vender plano de saúde) minto? Não. Família em geral, traz uma relação explosiva, interesses distintos e vários detalhes que geram desconforto, desconfiança e em muitos casos, a distância entre seus membros. Você nota que, o…

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POLLINIS: Les lobbys agro-industriels

Stella, oh, Stella

Ich veröffentliche dieses Mal nur die französische Originalversion, denn da kam auch noch etwas Interessantes vom Umweltinstitut München, ein wenig geballt im Moment, aber es geschehen ja viele Dinge und die Themen CO2 und Krieg in Ukraine sind ja herrliche Ablenker von der Vergiftung unserer Lebensmittel. 😉 Aber ich habe ja den Übersetzungsknopf auf meiner Seite. 🙂

… I will post this only in the French original version for once, as there came also something interesting from Umweltinstitut München. There is so much at the moment, but many things happen and the topics CO2 and war in Ukraine are wonderful distractions from the poisoning of our basic food. 😉 But I have the translation button on my page. 🙂

Le moment de larévolteest venu contre les lobbys agro-industriels qui manœuvrent dans l’ombre pourblanchir leurs substances criminellespour les abeilles et les pollinisateurs…

… contre les représentants anonymes des États…

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Writing Process Wednesdays, and An Abysmally Planned Novel — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

This is the set of ideas I had to rush to get down, which is taking a third year, now, to get written.    Also, trying to put too many scene notes in too many spreadsheets and online reminders, as well as on paper, is not helpful! Shira Action Items: 1.) Share your thoughts, please. […]

Writing Process Wednesdays, and An Abysmally Planned Novel — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

♫ American Pie ♫ (Redux) — Filosofa’s Word

I went in search of a song that I hadn’t played in the past two years, and one that also had meaning.  This is what I decided on for today’s song, as we are coming up on the 64th anniversary of “The Day the Music Died”. “The Day The Music Died” is February 3, 1959, […]

♫ American Pie ♫ (Redux) — Filosofa’s Word

Me and My Shadows

NANMYKEL.COM

I like being me inside my head
and never want to empty out
leaving my cavern of echoes.

What’s it like inside your head?
I wonder and wander–
can we try to compare?

Show me yours I’ll show mine.
Hear me think–no not that
I don’t smoke, snort, sniff or shoot

I’d choose psychotic
over robotic
any day or night.

Please! I don’t want to be a robot
instead of being me–not that
being me’s so hot but inside I can see

Pictures dancing in my head–
Metaphors chasing similes.
Feeling nothing’s what I dread.

I want me inside, not that.
Me and my shadows feel less lonely
than nothing and nothing.

Nan, about 2018

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My Fellow Writers, What in the GPT is Going On?

From Behind the Pen

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Should we panic yet? Oh, my dear writers, while I am all in for technological advancements to a degree, are we inviting technology to grab our last bit of human creativity by replacing us in pivotal areas of communication? Exploring ideas, collaborating with other creative minds, and using our human senses, make us wonder if the latest language models will affect our intelligence vs. that of the artificial. Don’t think the idea of replacing writers and their livelihoods is off-limits or farfetched when it comes down to the invasion of the so-called human-like intelligence known as GPT.

For you writers making a living from your writing can you imagine being replaced by GPTs? I’m sure by now you have heard of those text generators, the AI chatbot known as a Generative Pre-trained Transformer. It is the latest addition already infiltrating many curricula and writing communities based on…

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