P. H. Low
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Anthropic's Mythos created fake identities to fool humans in new cyber incident
Anthropic's Mythos created fake identities to fool humans in new cyber incident
It's the latest cybersecurity incident involving frontier models developed by Anthropic and OpenAI.
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If AI went away tomorrow I could live without it, but every waking second I'd want to scream for joy, and my thoughts would be full of happiness at its absence.
“You can keep tabs on what’s happening in Arkansas, as well as get involved in pushing back, with the help of the Arkansas Right to Read Project. Additional organizations doing essential work in the state include the Arkansas Library Association and the Arkansas chapter of Authors Against Book Bans.
Librarians and Booksellers Will Be Arrested For Doing Their Jobs in Arkansas
A Federal Judge has allowed an Arkansas law to go into effect that will lead to widespread book bans and jail time for librarians.
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Oscar Hammerstein had a terrific 1943, with Oklahoma! opening in March and Carmen Jones opening in December. Finding himself the toast of Broadway again after a long string of failures, he took out a self-deprecating ad in the January 5, 1944 issue of Variety listing his flops. An absolute legend.
Anyone going to Anaheim for Worldcon? Lmk lmk lmk 💫 here are the panels I’ll be on
My god. I couldn't articulate it until this post. LLMs are the final form of expertise denial and devaluation. ChatGPT is the horseman of death - for the planet, for our expertise, for our selves.
Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 2d agoSomeone who has known me for decades (and is not a lawyer) recently told me his understanding of the birthright citizenship case is better than mine because I read it and many of the underlying historical sources with my own two lying eyes and HE had ChatGPT read it to him and so he's not biased
Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West
Sale is live! Get into trouble for only two bucks. Happy Fat Liberation Month😘 bookshop.org/p/books/my-k...
My Kind of Trouble: A Novel
A slick conwoman meets her match in a hot and nerdy small-town librarian in this debut romance, perfect for fans of Spoiler Alert and Act Your Age, Eve Brown.Conwoman Harmony Hale has sold lies up and...
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Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz@schwartzwords.bsky.social · 4d agoFyi it can be a challenge finding copies of My Kind of Trouble in the US but the ebook will be a daily deal this Tuesday (I think like $1-2?) if you’re wanting to check it out💗
yeah. saw that last guy saying "the story, characters, scenes, humour, structure and voice came from me" which sure sounded like an admission that the text did not
T. K. Rex@tkrex.bsky.social · 5d agoAll good points here and I would add that on the other end, it’s a huge fallacy to assume that sloppers can’t explain their creative choices. Explaining is all they’re doing. Writing a prompt is essentially formulating the explanation and often there’s a lot of research that goes into it.
Every writer I know, and for my sins I know a lot of them, is absolutely 100% delighted for you to get their book out from your local library.
"Microsoft warns that consumers aren't buying enough of the thing they don't want."
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 7mo agoAI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
My 30s were when I came to truly understand myself. Enjoy the benefits of aging, my friends!
Sarah Andersen@sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 4d ago
simply love a sentence that improves exponentially word by word
matt demon@ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 4d agoWe were in the sex panel and there was a tornado so we had to move across the hall to the improv panel.
BIG DEAL on voting rights this morning: Governor Spanberger just restored the voting rights of some 60,000+ Virginians. Her move reverses Youngkin's abrupt decision in 2023 to end automatic voting rights restoration, which brought Virginia back to a system of default lifetime disenfranchisement.
Virginia Governor Restores Voting Rights for Thousands With Past Felony Convictions - Bolts
This is the only state that, absent action by the governor, bans people convicted of any felony from voting for life. Virginians have an opportunity to end that system for good in November.
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I was just thinking about how "you need to become an influencer to sell books" is ruining everything
Delilah S. Dawson@delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 5d agoI hate how what I need to do is write books, and yet I keep thinking, "Maybe if I wore increasingly weird glasses and sat in front of my taxidermy with a bubble pipe and did unhinged houseplant reviews I could go viral and sell some books." Doing the work doesn't feel like enough, some days.
this is distressing. as a disabled streamer, my small income from twitch is a big deal for me. hope there's enough outcry to get them to not do this. if not??? I'm honestly not sure what to do, and many people (especially marginalized streamers) will be in a similar situation. fuck this. fuck AI.
Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · 5d agoTwitch and Amazon are apparently planning to use streams to train Generative AI. Multiple sources tell me it will be announced in the coming months, despite some internal friction against it. Creators may be able to opt out of some training data.
So I'm saying, if you're going to go off about AI use by individual authors I'd hope you don't fall for the corporate ploy....where we all do witchhunts on each other only. GO OFF ON THE CORP FIRST ALWAYS and then I can't tell you who to pull or not.
This may seem like me quibbling about something, but I don't think it is, this is how they shift blame and escape culpability. Every single statement about "writers" using AI should contain a mention of how AI companies have promoted this use. Every. Single. One. No escaping blame for them.
If someone is going to post about pulling a multi million dollar book deal where they suspect an author is using AI, then included in that statement should be the corporations who supply AI. Call them garbage and name them too. Go off cuz you got the time to name an individual author. DO IT.
process and ideas of taste, but leaving that aside. I feel like EVERY SINGLE CALL OUT, should include a statement about the companies that made this tech available. I'm sensing a shift. A shift where the tech is available so we only yell at the person suspected of using it. Okay so yell +
Uh yeah I've changed my style because of AI, now every time you see a typo in my stuff, that was, uhm, a rebellion against the oligarchy
Manisha Krishnan@manishakrishnan.bsky.social · last wk.Authors and journalists are doing more first-person (hello 2010s blogging) and embracing "mistakes" in writing to prove they're not chatbots. There's even an “anti-Grammarly" app that leaves in typos and signs off "sent from my iPhone" to create more authenticity: www.wired.com/story/more-t...
Horrific. Also does explain the giant wall of separation between students and faculty at the art camp.
Olivia Messer@oliviamesser.bsky.social · last wk.I’m going to be sick. Even the photo they chose — I painted in that exact spot during a concert one of my summers. From the 1970s to the 2010s, which includes the three years I attended. When my friends were there. Back to when some of their *parents* were campers. www.mlive.com/news/2026/07...
if we try gemini in the sheets what does that imply we are trying in the streets
Max Gladstone@maxgladstone.bsky.social · last wk."Try Gemini in Sheets" Archer, asking if we are not doing "phrasing!" any more
Apropos of too many things lately, here's a spite poem I wrote a few weeks ago **makes unflinching eye contact while jamming more em dashes in** full disrespect to anyone writing with AI and also to the idea that we should change our voices and styles because the plagiarism machine is copying us
I know a lot of y’all had stories in DSF. Do a search on their site for one of your titles, then click on your name to get the entire list, and send takedown notices as the spirit moves you.
Beth Cato@bethcato.bsky.social · 6d agoHey! If you were published at Daily Science Fiction, be aware that a site called Science Fiction Weekly has stolen the entire story database & posted it on their site. All of my DSF stories are there without my permission. sciencefictionweekly.com
it's short story dayyy!! do you want a slightly pensive story about change, giant robot bird watching, and a toxic ex that left you behind in the ruins of civilization? read "If a Discarded God Can Change, So Can I" over at @lightspeedmagazine.com ✨ 🪶 www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/if-a... 🪶
If a Discarded God Can Change, So Can I - Lightspeed Magazine
Green Plumed Orbital Line A; viridis metamorphos A Common sighting; Flies along the forty-fifth latitude every 12 minutes Traveler’s addendum: Last functional line along a northern latitude; southern ...
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new Mini-Space is full of every convention and event attended in July (Readercon, Lavender Con, etc.), as well as virtual upcoming conventions I'll be participating in—like Flights of Foundry! also!! MY SHORT STORY CAME OUT TODAY. pls enjoy (public post!) ✨ www.patreon.com/spacevalkyri...
Mini-Space #40: all the things from july + short story day!! | spacevalkyries - V.M. Ayala
Topics covered in this Mini-Space: July conventions and events, upcoming virtual conventions, short story release day!!, and some speculativ
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