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Chris Campbell@chriscampbell.bsky.social · 3d ago

My story, The Lure, is this month's featured free story in The Sunday Morning Transport. www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/the-lure Discover what secrets wait beneath the surface at the island of Saint Helena: "For hunger, like justice, only waits so long."

Mistakes have been made. This is where to go to watch me self-combust at Worldcon this year.

It's official! SING THE DOWNED BIRDS has been announced!

FINAL WEEK! Submit by Friday the 31st!

Annalee Newitz@annaleen.bsky.social · 3w ago

Only two more weeks to enter your sci-fi stories for the Protopian Prize, given to works that imagine positive futures for humanity, w/tech that serves the public interest. (I'm one of the judges!) Two winners get $5000 US each, and publication in an anthology from MIT Press! protopianprize.com

Constructing counter-examples is "easier" than developing new theoretical frameworks, but I'll admit this prompt still took the air out of my lungs.

mr. TIM@timkellogg.me · 2w ago

the Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture, a graph theory problem that’s gone unsolved for 30 years, was solved with this prompt

OpenAI is doing this because Mythos got airtime thanks to the media that does press-release-as-aservice. So now, as one security engineer put it, “something which would have been an embarrassment ten years ago is now repackaged as a capability demo, a heroic AI-vs-AI story and a marketing pitch"

Richard Meredith@rtm223.me · 2w ago

It's totally unprecedented, nothing like the same marketing hype cycle Anthropic did around their model "going rogue" and "breaching containment" recently. Not like that at all

Legend. Added to personal vocabulary.

I accidentally got a 30min 1-1 interview with Will Wright during the pre-release of Spore. I am not a journalist.

Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 2w ago

Okay, my QUESTION OF THE DAY is… What is your weirdest actual accomplishment? Not the biggest necessarily…but the weirdest?

July 14th's disabled writer is A. T. Greenblatt! Also known as @atgreenblatt.bsky.social Deets at atgreenblatt.com Award-winning writer of richly imagined worlds & amazing characters, Greenblatt has been publishing extraordinary work since 2010. More links in replies. 1/3 #DisabilityPrideMonth

Curiosity Sometimes Pays Off

The Domain of A. T. Greenblatt

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I gave out way more marketing business cards than I was expecting at #Readercon so for those who missed it, yes! In addition to writing spec fic, I also coach writers on book marketing. That means I help writers pick the best strategies to promote their work and learn the jargon to self-advocate!

Note it’s höfrungur and in Icelandic ö and o are considered to be entirely different letters. I think the goat etymology is very speculative / uncertain, and might at best refer to the way each creature is capable of leaping? per wiktionary en.wiktionary.org/wiki/h%C3%B6...

Dolphins: * Greek -- delphis -- "fish with a womb" Sure, makes sense * French -- marsouin -- "sea pig" (lots of other languages too) Naturally * Indonesian -- lumba-lumba -- "the racer" They're fast, I get it. * Icelandic -- hofrungur -- from hafur, "billy goat" What the hell, Iceland?

I have heard the best possible dramatic reading tonight of Raymond S. Chandler's letter absolutely demolishing science fiction of the 1950s. Here is the text of a letter to his agent : "Did you ever read what they call Science Fiction? It’s a scream..." (1/n)

You will genuinely make my day by asking.

Dr David S Anderson@dsaarchaeology.bsky.social · 4w ago

New Short Story Alert: Right now in the ebook edition of @lightspeedmagazine.com, you can read my "The Assumption of Maria". A maybe-next-week detective hunts for a vanished megachurch accountant. If you want to find someone in the LLM-poisoned Dead Internet future, you best lace up your gumshoes...

We have decided to remove a short story from Issue 153 of Apex Magazine. After meeting with our reading and editorial teams, we'd like to share with you what happened, and importantly, how we plan to move forward from here. Thank you for sticking with us. 💜👽

There has been some talk about writing with a fully preserved edit history, but without necessarily putting your writing in the cloud. This is one of many reasons I've been building my own web-based word processor: wordperfector.org

Baudrillard spinning in his grave so fast he torpedoes out of the hillside and remains airborne, lasers shooting out of his eyes with such force earth is cleanly cut in two

'viktor shtrum'@viktorshtrum.bsky.social · last mo.

Ok wait NOW he really is watching himself watch himself on Fox News.

I don't need Disability Pride Month. I need building codes to reward barrier-free home construction. I need it to be illegal to keep lifts locked where stairs are not. I need venues to not move concerts upstairs last minute. Advocate for equality even if you don't need it yet!

1/2 If data about the natural world lives in a low-dimensional hyperbolic space, then a large number of measurements embedded in a high-dimensional Euclidean space can preserve info. about the “curved inner world," said Tatyanna Sharpee, @salkinstitute.bsky.social, at the Simons Institute

"Cry for me, America"

“I have done all of the things that one is supposed to do to earn a tenure-track position. And I have done approximately 85% of them by typing prompts into a large language model and then moderately editing the output.” 🤣🤣🤣 brilliant 👌🏽 open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...

Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination

By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University

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"They learn the statistical residue of human discourse" is a lovely phrase that I intend to steal when I talk about what LLMs are and are not good for.

Thaddeus Howze@ebonstorm.bsky.social · 2mo ago

GAI-LLMs are not search engines. They are compression engines. They learn the statistical residue of human discourse. If a culture under-recognized women, marginalized scholars, or minority voices, the model will reproduce said imbalance because the source is biased. #BiasLearned #BiasRepeated

Frontiers emails are going on my block list.

Michael Okun@michael-okun.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

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Happatai - Yatta (better quality)

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The first two volumes of my husband Emmet O'Brien's Vega Victrix series are now available as ebooks "Spiritually Canadian borderline transhumans solve mysteries, meet aliens and bring the benefits of peace, order and good government across human space." www.amazon.com/dp/B0H3JCNPS...

Vega Victrix

Visit Amazon's Vega Victrix Page and shop for all Vega Victrix books. Check out pictures, author information, and reviews of Vega Victrix

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Inspired by a question tonight from @sarahgailey.bsky.social : what is a thing you were not expecting to like, but liked anyway? My most recent 2 are Dungeon Crawler Carl and K-Pop Demon Hunters.

If you are in the SF Bay Area and can show me a pneumatic tube system in action (the bigger the better), please get in touch! I am writing a story about a future pneumatic tube system and need to experience how they sound and smell and everything else.

Left my lei with the Storyteller to mark the beginning of my sabbatical of writing. I have no idea what I'm doing, but I'm ready to go!