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walrusmagazine · 7 months

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How ChatGPT Is Putting College Ghostwriters Out of Work

The custom essay-writing business is worth billions. Will AI bring it to an end?

Paying third parties to complete your coursework is called contract cheating. While it seemingly represents a breach of academic integrity, it is technically legal in Canada—and data suggests it’s become prevalent across post-secondary institutions. According to academic ghostwriters like Ross, their work is fair game in a world where post-secondary institutions are failing their students with false promises of prestige following the completion of their degrees. “Colleges are basically businesses,” he says. “People look at what we do as a ‘no-no’ in a moral sense, but they don’t really question the ethics of what the school system is doing to a lot of the students, making these promises to them.”

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#Technology #AI #ChatGPT #College #Writing #illustration #Katrya Bolger

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secretmarial · 1 year

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vote miss piggy or else....

For context

Listen they both deserve it (Jessie my beloved) but I actually DID vote Miss Piggy like a solid minute after I reblogged. She just felt like more of a sexual icon

Tho if I had seen this I can’t tell you how it would have influenced my vote b/c someone I’m following is doing this big push to have Vriska win on one of the other polls and said ‘Katya isn’t even a real character or something’ and up until then I hadn’t voted because I know nothing about Homestuck, and even less about Goncharov the meme movie but I was so amused by the argument that I voted for Katya out of (loving) spite after like the third post I saw saying they were 50/50

#I misspelled Katya as Katrya until I went to get the poll’s link btw #I was convinced I was spelling Vriska wrong to but apparently I got that one #I know this had little to nothing to do with you yaddle but this was just my first thought #listen I freaking never get submissions or asks and now this tumblr polls business got me TWO from Star Wars blogs specifically #so I think I personally am winning #my stuff #tumblr sexywoman poll #tumblr sexywomen

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fareeda-zsc · 5 months

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cljordan-imperium · 1 year

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FLASH FRIDAY FICTION

Prompt posted by @flashfictionfridayofficial

THE IMPERIUM CHRONICLES TAG LIST - @ceph-the-ghost-writer @kjscottwrites @writingpotato07 @saltysupercomputer @careful-pyromancer @late-to-the-fandom @autumnalwalker @perasperaadastrawriting @fearofahumanplanet @jessica-writes22 @dogmomwrites @mjjune @verba-writing

Let me know if you'd like +/-

Now…to see who from Imperium is having fun in the sun….hint...you've met him, but she hasn't come in yet...can you guess before you look??

The sun glinted off of the water, diamonds glittering across the small waves that were lapping at the white sand. There was hardly a sound other than the soft whoosh of the water and the birds overhead. It was a far cry from the demands of court, the battles against the Princes, and even the seeming constant commotion within the Palace with all the newest residents. The breeze coming off of the water was soft, caressing the skin of the couple lounging in the hammock and bringing the scent of the fresh salty air to them under the shade of the palms. The sight of the scene as a whole would have shocked, yet amused, most who knew the powerful male and thought him never to relax.

“Do you want to go for a swim?” The heavily accented voice of Katrya was low and soft, barely raising above the ambient sounds of the beach they were just off of.

“No, I’m enjoying relaxing here in the shade with you. Why do you want to go in the water?” His lips caressed the curved shell of her ear as he spoke low next to her ear, his deep voice making her feel like her skin was vibrating. At the same time, his arm tightened around her waist where he was holding her against him. She couldn’t deny that she was enjoying being in the arms of the large male as they just relaxed and looked out at the sea.

“When was the last time you took a vacation?” There was tease in her voice, a lightness that caused his heart to skip.

“Middle Ages? Early Renaissance?” There was humor in his deep voice and she let out a light laugh. Would anyone believe her normally stoic love could be humorous? She doubted it. When in the Palace he could almost be a statue, at least when around others…

She rolled over in his arms, her body awakening at the feel of his hard and muscled body rubbing against hers. Looking up into his sky blue eyes that were slightly creased with amusement, she let her fingers run through his jet black hair. “Well, Cruz, we are going to have fix that more often, aren’t we?” There was a mischievous smirk on her lips. While she would not try to change him one lick in front of others, she did want him to learn to relax and realize he deserved to be happy. The weight he carried for an almost two millennia old mistake was foolish.

“Is that so, little queen? Are you going to try to make a decree on me?” One brow rose as humor still continued to dance in his eyes, grabbing the light glinting off of the water and putting it to shame in the process.

“I have been dethroned, remember? Unless…” she let her nose rub against his as her lips just barely ghosted over his, “you are planning to dethrone your sister. I prefer being the King’s Consort. All of the benefits, none of the responsibility.” She kissed him lightly, the taste of him only making her desire him more. “Except making sure the King is well taken care of, of course.” Her deep brown eyes swirled with seduction and it dripped from her voice like honey.

“Oh, I think he is very, very well taken care of…” Now he claimed her mouth possessively, his fingers fisting in her hair as his fingers of other hand deftly undid the strings on the side of her suit. “But he can always use more care…”

#the imperium chronicles #my writing #writeblr #flash fiction friday #flash fiction #my ocs #not storyline #fiction #fantasy #web of lives #fluff #slightly spicy #just fun #sun sea and sand

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amnikkiroyals · 1 year

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Friday, October 1

6:26 PM - Wilekshire One News and Weber Estate

*Note: I tried something different with my news anchor's background. I hope y'all like it. Also, this post refers to my recent adoption of Katrya from @rainbowflowersadoption (Instagram) and an upcoming collab with @simskingdoms (Instagram).

News Station credit: Sims News Station by nanahlucky

Estate credit: Chateaux DuPont by MissCookieDoee

#sims 4 royal family #sims 4 royalty #ts4 royal simblr #sims 4 royal legacy #sims 4 royal story #ts4 royal family #ts4 royal story #ts4 royalty #the sims 4 #ts4 royal legacy #WildenfordRoyals #WRCHAPTER3

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lovesongofjrrtolkien · 1 year

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Bloodmade, by L.M. Fern

I’m so grateful for the response to my book so far. People have come out of the woodwork to support me, and it’s been kind of surreal.

Here is the book jacket copy:

Katrya Millor’s dream of running her own steam-powered airship – and following her father’s memory over the mountains – is within reach. The only thing standing in her way is a man with a grudge… and a justice system that seems to want to lock up her Navigator no matter what they do.

In this world of airships and magic, the ships are kept afloat by the powers of tattooed criminals looked down upon by the true citizens of the realm—men that have been forced into servitude in order to pay for their crimes. When Ree’s Navigator, Ien, the tattooed man whose powers of wind fly her ship, is arrested in Briia, she doesn’t hesitate to bust him out. However, a strange encounter with a disturbing man leaves both of them unsettled. They flee across the range to the capital, Praan.

When the unthinkable happens in Praan and Ree is forced to look inside her own memories for answers to both her father’s past failures and her present concerns, how far will she go to see that dream fulfilled? What is waiting beyond the mountains? Is it worth her best friend’s life?

In the great city of Praan, a breeze kicks up. It is spurred by magic, by people with color-shifting tattoos that can tell the wind to dance. The breeze whips around the tall standards lining the edge of the city perched on the mountainside. It swirls out into the Void, the great chasm between mountains. The valley floor is so, so, so far below. Ree has to make a choice: her own dream, or her Navigator’s freedom. The wind howls down the mountainside. Hopefully she makes the right decision.

Pick up your copy here! Support indie authors!

#mine #indie publishing #books #bookblr #fantasy

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galaglowdream · 1 year

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⋆⁺₊✧ VTRAL ♡

やあ！やあ！✧

✧ ¡Bienvenidos de vuelta!⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡

En el blog de hoy voy a hablarles de una de las cosas más hermosas de mi vida, vtral ✩ Si estás aquí probablemente conozcas el proyecto, pero si no es así… ¡Ven te las presento! ♡〜٩( ˃▿˂ )۶〜♡

*ੈ✩‧₊˚ ¿Qué es vtral?

vtral es una banda musical compuesta por 5 chicas VTubers de distintos lugares de América Latina ☆ ¡Ahora vamos a conocerlas! (૭ ｡•̀ ᵕ •́｡ )૭

✩ Katrya Desybell ￫ guitarra principal, ruber ✩ Slachu Kawauso ￫ bajo, purpureus ✩ pupa aemilia ￫ guitarra rítmica, medium slate blue ✩ Cinnamon Pan ￫ batería, mustard ✩ Gala Glowdream ￫ teclado, flamingo pink (That's me!!! ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝ ) (+ ¡Todas cantamos!✩)

¡Aquí puedes ver nuestro último cover! ￫ UNIVERSAL BUNNY by VTRAL ✩

Todo el contenido de la banda puede encontrarse en sus redes sociales, twitter (4komas, updates & more!), youtube (covers & more!), instagram y tiktok ! ♡ Les recomiendo mucho que nos sigan tanto en vtral como individualmente, siempre damos todo de nosotras para darles lo mejor✩

⋆ ˚｡⋆୨୧˚ ¿Qué es vtral para mi?

vtral es un sueño hecho realidad, como lo dije antes, una de las cosas más hermosas de mi vida, me siento completamente feliz, orgullosa y bendecida de estar en un proyecto tan hermoso con personas super talentosas que admiro muchísimo, que veo crecer cada día más y más, sin dudas vtral (incluído el staff) es mi familia, es mi orgullo y espero poder seguir estando con ellas creciendo paso a paso y dando lo mejor de mi por mucho tiempo más♡ Por muchos años, desde niña, soñé con estar en una banda o un proyecto como este, y que sea con estas 4 chicas increíbles y nuestro staff tan talentoso y genial, es la mejor manera en la que pudo haberse hecho realidad, ahora tengo muchísimos sueños nuevos junto a vtral y me esforzaré mucho para que podamos hacerlos realidad.

¡Espero haber podido transmitir todo lo que siente mi corazón por medio de esta entry! ♡ Acompáñennos en este camino, les prometo que vamos a llenarlos de alegría, sorpresas y van a sentirse orgullosos de nosotras con cada paso que demos porque estaremos siempre dando lo mejor de nosotras♡

#vtral #virtual idol #virtual band #band #vtuber español #vtuber #vtuber band #blog #idol #cover

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pan-sonliviy · 1 year

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My daughter (⁠.⁠ ⁠❛⁠ ⁠ᴗ⁠ ⁠❛⁠.⁠)

She's magical girl yeah

Katrya/Katerina/Katrusya ( Катря/Катерина/Катруся ) ( НІЯКИХ КАТЬ , КАТЬОК І Т.Д )

#my art #original art #original character #painting #my oc art #artists on tumblr #art #madoka magica #madoka magika oc

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asma2-abdulrhman · 2 years

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cyberbenb · 9 months

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The Hunger Issue: The Story of a Ukrainian Sourdough Starter in Exile

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As Katrya Kalyuzhna fled her hometown of Kherson due to the Russian invasion, she grabbed the things most precious to her in the world: her two cats, of course; the keys to her van…

… and her precious, five-year-old sourdough starter.

Katrya’s sourdough starter .

For non-bakers: the starter is a paste which is necessary for the making of bread, a living blend of naturally-occuring bacteria and yeast that, when treated well, will help sourdough rise.

"It was 12 hours of horror, rage, danger and fatigue", she says of her departure, "going through so many Russian checkpoints, their questioning and other disgusting things: driving through the gray zone, the no man’s land between occupied and Ukrainian held territory, we heard the sound of artillery shelling, it was endless."

In the relative safety of western Ukraine, Katrya slowly began to recover from the trauma of that journey, processing the loss of her hometown and its violent seizure by invading forces.

About a week after arriving in Lviv, she tried to do what had always made her calm: baking. Using the sourdough starter which she had brought along for the 600 mile journey, she made what she dubbed her “bread in exile.”

Baking, it turned out, was incredibly healing. She even posted the brief recipe on her Instagram, and other people started using it. The social media app led her to a new friend, a woman named Vasylyna, who also lived in Lviv.

Vasylyna offered Katrya a job at her microbakery, a one-woman business making small amounts of bread and other pastries out of an apartment on the outskirts of the city. There, Katrya could carry on cooking dishes from Kherson, and they soon found they were able to learn a lot from each other, sharing recipes and ideas.

Vasylyna and Katrya at the bakery.

Nowadays, regular customers just come and knock on the window to order things – soups, pastries and dumplings, and getting involved with a 'no-knead' bread dough which they had adapted from a Tartine Bakery recipe, including a particularly delicious beetroot pizza.

While their story is heartwarming, wheat in Ukraine has a dark history too. During the Soviet-made famine known as Holodomor in the 1930s, millions of Ukrainians lost their lives after the USSR confiscated grain and food, trapping people in their homes to die of hunger.

Katrya feels there are echoes of that time in today’s war. She describes recent attacks on grain infrastructure in Odesa as “horrible and devastating.” A year ago, she watched as wheat fields burned near her hometown.

“I was overwhelmed by a panic attack, then I burst into tears. I felt helpless. It was totally shocking!” she said. She says her understanding of history taught her that Russia had deliberately destroyed Ukrainian food resources in the past.

But Katrya, who had her own home-based bakery business back in southern Ukraine, insists that she will continue to bake no matter what: “no Russian will stop me,” she says, as she nurtures her precious starter, watches it grow, shapes it into loaves.

Vasylyna packing up bread.

The pair have managed to keep on working despite many winter days in the blackout of electricity cuts, many hours taking shelter from air raid sirens and missile or drone attacks on the city. Now, they even have a market stall at weekends in central Lviv – and everything always sells out.

Occasionally Katrya talks of those dark days of living in occupation in Kherson at the start of the war, and the time it took to recover from the trauma of seeing their home town overrun by Russian troops, until the moment they seized the chance to escape.

"We lived under that stress for forty days", she says, "and afterwards, it took forty days to get over it. My mother was under occupation for six months and it took her that same amount of time to recover."

And cooking, the rhythmic making of dough, the folding of dumplings, the stirring of soups, has been one route back to humanity.

Katrya wanted me to take some of her starter back to the UK so that her friend, the chef and cookbook writer Olia Hercules, could bake with it too. She carefully dried it out by adding flour and wrapping it in a plastic tub, the better to survive the journey.

Katrya taking buckwheat and rye loaves from the oven.

I took that precious starter to Olia, along with some rose petal jam and pickled walnuts which I had bought in southern Ukraine.

Katrya says she wants people to keep baking her recipe "to honor all Ukrainians alive and dead, those who are resisting! In bread we trust."

Sourdough made with ‘Bread in Exile’ starter.

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Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

Russian military forces hit Ukrainian grain facilities for a fifth day this week, its latest usage of hunger as a weapon. The overnight attacks in Odesa killed at least one person. Meanwhile, 22 were injured, including four children -- and at least six residential buildings were damaged.

The strikes damaged some 25 architectural monuments in Odesa, according to United24, a Ukrainian government-linked group which shared this photo.

In addition an Orthodox cathedral was struck. Rescuers pulled an icon devoted to the patron saint of the city out of the rubble, according to the NYT.

VIDEO: Odesa residents clean the wreckage left behind by Russian attacks overnight:

Moscow withdrew from a UN-brokered grain deal that allowed the export of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea earlier this week.

Ukraine's exports are a major source of food throughout the world, meaning that the expiration of the deal -- and Russia's apparent warning that Ukraine ought not to try to continue exporting grain -- will lead to price shocks across the developing world.

The grain destroyed by Russia this week could have fed tens of thousands of people for a year.

"Some will go hungry, some will starve, many may die as a result of these decisions," UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths told the Security Council.

Olga Skabeyeva, a prominent Russian television presenter, rejoices over the attacks in Odesa this week.

But the war has had a prolonged impact on Ukrainian food production. Ukraine’s battered agricultural sector is thought to have lost around $34 billion since the full scale war began. And Russian forces have destroyed farming infrastructure and grain storage facilities worth billions more - while vast swathes of farmland are heavily mined.

LATEST ON THE COUNTEROFFENSIVE: Ukraine and its western allies knew that Kyiv didn't have the necessary training and weapons to dislodge the Russians from the front even as they started the counteroffensive this Spring, the WSJ reports.

"They hoped Ukrainian courage and resourcefulness would carry the day. They haven’t. Deep and deadly minefields, extensive fortifications and Russian air power have combined to largely block significant advances by Ukrainian troops. Instead, the campaign risks descending into a stalemate…"

But Ukraine has still not committed the vast majority of its reserves to the cause. Speaking at the Aspen Security Forum on Friday, Zelenskyy said that there may be an increase in the tempo of the counteroffensive soon, and that the delay was due to, as ISW put it, a “lack of munitions and military equipment, such as mine-clearing equipment, and continued Ukrainian training abroad.”

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Hi, it’s Felicity here.

In my day job I’m a television journalist, and was first based in the former USSR back in 1991/1992. I’m also a keen amateur baker and like to photograph it all on Instagram.

Over the last year, I have traveled many times to Ukraine in support of a non-profit called Bake for Ukraine. It was started by Ukrainian friends who provide financial support for bakeries which give away free bread to people in need.

I have many contacts in the baking world and last summer was able to source new equipment and supplies which we took to Kyiv by convoy. Since then I have managed to travel around the country to meet the bakers the charity supports – as far east as Kharkiv and south to Odesa, and most recently to help purchase a large mobile bakery which can provide a more flexible solution to the food supply crisis.

Let me take you on a journey through the places we’ve been:

All of the bakeries stayed open thanks to volunteers working long hours, raising money, mixing dough and shaping loaves, preparing tons of vegetables, and delivering food parcels to front line villages and troops – often taking considerable risks to get there.

The Good Bread bakery in Kyiv.

The charity has just started sending help to Oksana, an amazing lady who runs a small volunteer bakery in Kherson. She sent word that it had been badly damaged in a rocket strike, destroying one of her two ovens.

Bake for Ukraine managed to get together the money for a new one: then the Russians blew up the Nova Kakhovka dam. Oksana wasn’t in the flood zone but the city became even more dangerous under intense Russian shelling.

Oksana also co-ordinates local aid efforts, so we asked for a list of what they needed. Our friend Sasha took me round the giant DIY and homewares store Epicentre to load up a car with all sorts of supplies, from disinfectant and insect repellent to towels, pillows and sheets for people made suddenly homeless.

Epicentre has everything you could ever want.

For much of the war, Odesa has been a far safer city by comparison, but it's been increasingly targeted by Russian drone and missile strikes in recent days, since Russia pulled out of the Black Sea grain deal.

One night during our stay there, we were jolted awake by some particularly loud explosions: Kalibr cruise missiles had hit a block of flats, along with a McDonalds and a food warehouse, killing three workers inside. All the windows at the polytechnic university opposite were blown out by the blast.

Aleksiy, the farmer we'd had dinner with a couple of nights earlier, who supplies our partner bakery with his organic flour, sent us a video in the morning showing his flat covered in broken glass and shrapnel – he lived in the block which was hit. Fortunately he wasn't hurt, but it must have been absolutely terrifying.

The flats and offices which were bombed in Odesa.

In Bucha, I could see how far rebuilding efforts have come – last summer when I drove through the town, the level of destruction was still very raw. A lot of money has clearly been spent on repair efforts: nothing will bring back those who have lost their lives, but at least there are new homes for people to return to, and green space for children to play.

We visited a small bakery which carried on working through the darkest days of occupation: for months they gave bread away to anyone who needed it. Now they're able to sell their handmade loaves and buns again, from a table outside the bakery – and thanks to continuing charitable support, they can keep donating bread to the local National Guard and Territorial Defense units which keep the area safe.

The Khatynka Pekarya in Bucha

Rebuilding a place like Izyum is another level of challenge. However often you see it, driving across the wooden bridge next to the one which was blown to pieces is still a heart stopping moment.

You pass burnt-out petrol stations, houses without walls or roofs, and a block of flats which has a huge V shaped gash tearing the entire building in two. Here, the Myrne Nebo charity has managed to set up a kitchen and bakery supplying people with fresh bread and hot food.

During last autumn's Ukrainian counteroffensive as the departing Russians bombarded the place relentlessly, people hid in the dark, dank basement which they use as a store room. It was pretty cold down there even in the thirty degree celsius heat of an early summer's day.

With the generosity you see everywhere in Ukraine, they insisted we sit down for lunch, laying a table with delicious soup, bread and salad - and pressing a bag of warm, sweet buns into my hand as we left.

The Myrne Nebo social kitchen in Izyum

Today’s Cat o’ Conflict is this feline who is definitely in charge of this food market stall in Odesa:

Stay safe out there.

Best, Felicity

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walrusmagazine · 1 year

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Textual Healing: The Novel World of Bibliotherapy

How literature is helping people navigate mental health issues

Proponents of bibliotherapy firmly believe in the potential of literature to provide people the language to help them make sense of their experiences. Fiction does this especially well by nudging readers to substitute their sense of self for that of a character. Enveloped in the perspective of another person, the reader can ponder their choices with a greater degree of objectivity.