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Locker Room. AI-Generated.
I found it on a Tuesday, which feels like the right day for something like this. Not a dramatic Friday. Just a Tuesday, the kids overtired, the house in its usual state of managed chaos, me borrowing my husband's phone because mine had stopped cooperating.
By Bertyl Kently5 months ago in Journal
I Said No Twice. She Came Back a Third Time. AI-Generated.
It was an ordinary Sunday morning, which is the kind I like best. My wife was laughing at something our daughter had said, one of those small jokes that only makes sense inside a family, and for a few minutes the world had narrowed down to a plastic table and paper cups and the particular warmth of people who are comfortable together. We weren't doing anything remarkable. Just eating breakfast, being easy in each other's company. Those moments are rarer than they should be, and I've learned to notice them when they arrive.
By Bertyl Kently5 months ago in Journal
The Kindness That Became a Cage. AI-Generated.
For years I told myself we were helping. That's the story I kept returning to whenever the doubt crept in — we were good people doing a good thing, and eventually it would work out. Generosity has a way of feeling like its own justification, right up until the moment it doesn't.
By Bertyl Kently5 months ago in Journal
Where I'm at...
I feel like I should say something... Over the years of writing both here and on other web sites, I became convinced that I was one of those people who was not meant to win any major awards for my work, at least for the writing that seemed to come naturally to me, especially when I had a Challenge in front of me. I even wrote about my dilemma:
By Kendall Defoe 6 months ago in Journal
The Price of a Break. AI-Generated.
I have spent thirty years in the classroom. I know what it means to be tired. I'm fifty-three, a full-time professor, and the two months between June and July are not a vacation so much as a different kind of work — training, professional development, the reading and recalibrating that makes the other ten months possible. I guard that time carefully. I've had to learn how.
By Bertyl Kently6 months ago in Journal
What I Owe. AI-Generated.
I have never borrowed money from his grandparents. That's not an opinion — it's the shape of what happened. Dominic and I have been together since we were teenagers, which means his grandparents have had years to decide what they think of me. What they think, in short, is not much. There's been name-calling, steady criticism, the particular cruelty of people who make clear they consider you a problem someone else imported into their family. I learned early to keep my distance and my composure. I got good at both.
By Bertyl Kently6 months ago in Journal
Plagiarism and Copyright
An Introduction The image above is from Slideshare Here There has been a lot posted about plagiarism recently and it is quite right that it is brought to the forefront and action taken where it occurs. The thing is that it has made me feel like the world’s biggest plagiarist because of the nature of my writing and has made me feel like I should drop out of the various Facebook Vocal groups because I am an effective writing criminal, though I will not leave unless asked to go or am actually removed. So here are a couple of definitions that I will work within this article which hopefully doesn’t get reported for plagiarism itself
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 6 months ago in Journal
Authorship vs Refinement
Much of the confusion surrounding artificial intelligence and writing comes from a failure to distinguish between two fundamentally different acts: originating ideas and refining their expression. These acts are often treated as interchangeable, as though whoever touches the final form must also be the source of the thought itself. That assumption does not reflect how writing has ever worked, nor does it reflect how human thinking actually unfolds.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast6 months ago in Journal
Institutions Fear Inference More Than Lies
Institutions are often willing to tolerate isolated falsehoods, minor inaccuracies, selective framing, and even outright contradictions. A single lie can be corrected, buried, explained away, or isolated from the larger structure. What institutions consistently resist is not merely factual disagreement. They resist inference. They resist the moment when separate observations are connected into a pattern, and the pattern begins to imply responsibility.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast6 months ago in Journal
Immunity and Practical Unaccountability
In theory, no one is above the law. This phrase is repeated often enough that it functions as a civic mantra, a reassurance that power is ultimately constrained and that authority remains accountable to the same moral and legal standards imposed on everyone else. On paper, police officers, prosecutors, and government agents are subject to the law just like any citizen. They can be investigated, disciplined, sued, or prosecuted when misconduct occurs.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast6 months ago in Journal
