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Here’s some nice news to start the week: The Shattering Peace is a finalist for the Dragon Award this year, in the category of Science Fiction Novel. Also in the category: The Faith of Beasts by James S.A. CoreyRadiant Star by Ann...
If you have followed this blog long enough you will know that I am an unabashed fan of the life and work of Nassim Nicholas Taleb, pugilistic social media presence and all. There is no simple way to summarize why — this post from the...
The four-post thread starts here. The article that was linked in the second post isn't quite a gift link because you need to have a Washington Post account to read it, and Jeff Bezos sucks. Thankfully, archive.ph exists, so if you want...
@cheriecreationstruck This is just absolutely stunning.
Two friends, upon learning that I wanted to get into Clarice Lispector, advised me not to start with Near to the Wild Heart. Having now finished the book, I think I understand why. The two parallels that come to mind — less in terms of...
Being honest, last week was a mostly uneventful one. I continued reading "The Last Continent" by Terry Pratchett. This is one I've been looking forward to for a long time and it hasn't let me down. Strewth, the parody of Australia is...
Brennan wrote about phoneblogging and I have thoughts! Mostly: If you took away my tablet and laptop so I had only my phone it would make no difference to my blogging or any other writing output. I almost exclusively phoneblog. If I'm on...
Words: Chris Arnsby 25/07/1991 Mark Goodier: “Hi. Good evening. Welcome to the UK’s number one hit music show, Top of the Pops with stereo sound on Radio 1FM. We’ve got Danni Minogue on tonight, we have Cher, we also have OMD, and we...
Packing, step 1: remove all the TSA-unsafe stuff from my backpack while still at home.
by ell Play a different hole of mini-golf in your browser every day. You can see other people playing as well, and share your play with friends if you’re into that.
These are some of the questions I’ve been asked when I’ve talked to friends and family about my researching into asking AI/LLM chatbots for advice. A repository contains not only the paper’s rough draft, but the whole workflow and...
Over the last week, I designed and performed a small pilot experiment looking at how the generic chatbot AI interfaces handled people asking for the kinds of advice they might otherwise ask their therapist. I created it as a...
The media keeps pushing this narrative that the crypto industry “won” or “bought out” democracy, despite every shred of evidence showing otherwise. For example, Richard Hanania wrote, “The crypto industry is taking regulatory capture to...
If you can't tell, I've been trying to scratch an itch. What is this itch exactly? To be honest with you, I don't know the specific answer to that. I just know what I've been orbiting and circling: I love trying to solve the existential...
i've noticed that some people are genuinely able to celebrate their achievements, both the big milestones and the small moments: graduations, marriages, anniversaries, reaching a goal... for me, it's different. when i finish something,...