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Cheryl Strayed is the queen of using the word fuck. She uses it sparingly, and when she does, it feels like there’s no other possible word she could have used in its place. I know she did this a bunch in Tiny Beautiful Things, but I don’t have notes on that book. Here’s a quote from her memoir, Wild (Monster is the name she gave her backpack):

"The patches on my hips and shoulders and tailbone that had repeatedly bled and scabbed over in the places where Monster's straps rubbed my body had finally surrendered, becoming rough and pocked, my flesh morphing into what I can only describe as a cross between tree bark and a dead chicken after it's been dipped in boiling water and plucked.

My feet? Well, they were still entirely, unspeakably fucked."

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Fantastic to hear you have found your Flow State 🔥

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...yo droog...what's going to happen to my $%#&ing essay when i put it into you $%^&ing machine?...all in all we're just another $%^& in the wall...

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Maybe I need some filter where if your upload includes +50% cursing, it shifts to some open-source cuss-tolerant LLM that will return the favor ("you call that a $&*#&^ essay you *@&# of #*#& #(*?").

Genuinely curious how your $^$& essay will break my repetition patterns (it's not often you see a single word repeated a thousand times in a row).

BTW - I'd love to have you jailbreak this. I just submitted a "wall of fucks." So far it's scoring a 1 out of 5 on every pattern. Eagerly waiting to see the repetition score. Let's see if my API key gets revoked.

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...i applied to be your defector and nuclear reactor...let me know when i can become a sentient crypto for you...

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Hopefully Michael’s new synthetic mind will exponentially increase the average amount of %^#<¥+ language in your writing brother! 🤣

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That blindspot identifier is awesome.

I'm a wonky writer so would show as a pizza slice.

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Did you make a recording of this? I wanted to see it but something came up at work and I missed it :(.

If not, hope there's more sessions and I get an opportunity to see a future one

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