In 2012 I took a comp ling course that went deep into language models as AI. The professor dropped a quote that I think about probably once a week now: “building a computer model of language and expecting intelligence is like building a computer model of the ocean and expecting to get wet”

Ikaros was never meant to survive his curse. An unholy union of man and magic, he's on the run from his own people in search of a cure. To survive the hostile wilds, he's forced to ally with the recruit who ruined everything - but the secrets she's hiding might unravel everything he thought he knew.

The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

Some of my favorite high school memories were from my term as the book room aide. It was just me, the compact shelves, and a printer the size of a sedan. When things were slow I’d grab one of the 50+ copies of a classic and sit on the floor between the shelves

alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · 3mo ago

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

Highly recommend this enchanting debut horror short 💛

Noor Lovelace@noorlovelace.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I’m TRULY thrilled to share my ✨debut✨ short story with you all. My zoomies are 15/10. Do Not Walk Near the River, published at Gavagai, inspired by the terrifying Egyptian folktale of the river djinn En Naddaha. Free to read, no account required. ✨ Read here ✨ gavagai.com/posts/6199

I’ve been laboring over a simple writing task for HOURS which feels bad, but I’d rather spend a whole day trudging through the thick sludgy cement of my ADHD brain than to let some algorithm hork out a soulless pastiche of human thought!

Mariners Father’s Day Game Welcomes Dads to Walk on Field and Admire Well Kept Lawn: tinyurl.com/afm2mvs9

I think all writers are just trying to explain something they don't fully understand yet. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerslift

My brother and mom have started alpha reading my novella and the difference in their opening comments is sending me 😂

My husband and I are commiserating about how much we love the word “milquetoast” because it’s not what it sounds like but it’s also exactly what it sounds like

Seattle is pretty chill about this, but if you were born on the eastside then you’re only “from Seattle” when out of state On the other hand, no one is actually from Bellevue, and the ones who really are don’t want to talk about it

Jason Kirk@jasonkirk.fyi · 5mo ago

What is the least culturally powerful city where people do the "you're not a real [local]" thing, because New York is very very far from the only one

The way these "AI checkers" work is very, very simple. It feeds part of the text into an LLM. If the LLM predicts, correctly, the missing text, it scores that as proof the LLM produced the text. And LLM's literally stole *every fucking book and forum post ever fucking written* to train on.

Martin Paul Eve@eve.gd · 5mo ago

Big let down, to be honest

65 degrees and sunny, hell yeah we are writing outside today #writersky #authorsky #westernwa

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

It’s time for the people who haven’t said much about trans rights because it’s a bit inconvenient and might cause tension with gender critical colleagues to actually say something btw

Had a phenomenal call with my editor this morning. Very fired up to take this book to the next level and get it onto people’s shelves 🥰 I hope I can put it in front of the audience that wants to read it as badly as I did when I wrote it #fantasy #romantasy #booksky #writersky #amediting

My documents are back from the editor and I have over 40 pages of feedback to comb through!! Very reassured by the amount and type of positive feedback, and beyond excited to start tightening these loose screws. Publication is coming… #amwriting #booksky #writersky

You’re not violating a "reading rule" if you opt not to finish a book that's not resonating with you. Life is finite and we thus have a finite number of books to read. Reading shouldn’t be a chore, and you needn’t feel guilty for ensuring that your time reading is spent reading things that you love.

"none of us can cancel everything but everyone can cancel something" is the heart of this. Sometimes it feels like folks on here are more interested in yelling at each other over the ways we're all struggling to navigate this system instead of figuring out what parts we can do.

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 6mo ago

None of us can cancel everything. But all of us can cancel SOMETHING. One eminently practical suggestion: Does your family have more than one Amazon Prime account? You absolutely don't need more than one! Cancel one of those tonight!

In light of the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Black Flag re-release I’d just like to know if they fixed (see: dismissed with prejudice) the bayou ship stealth mission

It would be impossible for me to be more stoked for this OMFG

Kingfisher & Wombat@tkingfisher.com · 6mo ago

ChatGPT is a website. Claude is a website. I will never respect a website. You cannot convince me to treat LLMs as anything different to any other technology. If a website only gets things right sometimes, it's a bad website. I will not be told otherwise. www.wheresyoured.at/i-will-never...

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 7mo ago

Today's free newsletter is about the dangers of treating AI as being more than it is - a website or app built on expensive technology, with dubious reliability and inherently unsustainable economics. The rhetoric from AI labs has to change. www.wheresyoured.at/i-will-never-respect-a-website/

Girlhood means coming up with specific and odd titles for each of your best friends I don’t have *A* best friend, I have a bestie and a wife and a sister-in-law (no actual relation) and two Sarahs of equal but opposite energies

Turnstile is getting the Nutella promo package right now

Reminder that in this house we do not trash other genres of books to support the genre we like the most. One, come on, we're grown ups. Two, the bottom line is people reading and loving books. Three, every writer you know has friends working other genres, don't trash their friends, thanks.

And now I’m crying over a crater on the moon

Astronomy 🔭@astronomy.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The Artemis 2 crew name a new crater on the moon after Reid Wiseman's wife Carroll. One of the most beautiful videos you’ll ever see 🥹

Honestly I can’t even be mad at Jo Adell. Our guys played great, but he was having the game of a lifetime. Can’t help but respect it

I posted one marketing video to tiktok so it’s time for a nap and a treat #writergram #indiepub #selfpromo 🪐📚

If you think this won’t be used to indiscriminately pull out anyone who looks like they might vote blue, I have a bridge to sell you.

The War Monitor@warmonitor.net · 7mo ago

There it is. They’re openly talking about using ICE at airports as a “test run” for the midterms, with calls to put agents at polling places next.