st3phvee

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by st3phvee 4mo ago
Via Substack's own recommendation algorithm, Substack Notes, and by perusing the leaderboards, both of which have been a thing on the platform for a while now. Substack's social media side is very Twitter-esque. Writers you follow
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by st3phvee 4mo ago
The author has since changed it, but seems to have made it even smaller, for some reason? Guess I'll just crank my zoom up to 150%...
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by st3phvee 4mo ago
The author has since changed the main body font to a slightly more readable serif, but decided (for some reason) to make it comically tiny compared to the size of his headers.
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by st3phvee 4mo ago
The author admitted to using AI.
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by st3phvee 4mo ago
> but substack is mostly just another twitter low-engagement farm That, plus it's also full to the brim with LinkedIn-esque AI slop. There are still some decent writers there, for sure, but Substack is going downhill fast as more gr
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by st3phvee 4mo ago
... then they find out that the golem is actually just outsourcing all the "work" to a small army of pissed off, underpaid, chain-smoking imps. The punchline being that GolemAI is "actually imps."
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by st3phvee 4mo ago
I also suspect Terry Pratchett would have had a lot to say about this sentence: "Pratchett’s [pocket editions] were small, fat, slightly battered, and printed on a kind of paper that already looked guilty." And this one: "It
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by st3phvee 5mo ago
Thanks for understanding. I never implement blocks on my site lightly.
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by st3phvee 5mo ago
Apologies. :( Since you say you've never visited the website before, then that means you're either in one of the countries or in one of the residential IP ranges that I've had to block. I had to do that a while back, as I&#x2
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by st3phvee 5mo ago
That is a standard Cloudflare response when a URL is blocked. It was a temporary block affecting ALL traffic to the URL while I updated the post, not a block targeted at anyone in particular.
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by st3phvee 5mo ago
Sorry, I am the author: that block was just temporary and affected ALL traffic to that URL while I updated the post. The block was not targeted at anyone in particular. I never intended for that post to reach as many people as it did. :&#x2