Daniel Khent
danielkhent@nostrplebs.com
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#writing, #AI, #bitcoin, #transhumanism, #postscarcity, #solarpunk, #lunarpunk, #ecopsycology
On the Disappearing of Joan Vollmer Burroughs. "After William Burroughs killed his wife Joan Vollmer, he threw away all her possessions."
#writing #beats
Literary Hub
On the Disappearing of Joan Vollmer Burroughs
After William Burroughs killed his wife Joan Vollmer, he threw away all her possessions. Their son, Bill Jr., never saw a photograph of her. When B...
OpenAI and Meta being sued for copyright infringement. #chatgpt #llm
The Verge
Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement
She says the companies’ chatbots were trained on her book.
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Google Duet has some editing / proof reading capabilities in Documents.
"Google Duet also accepts customized prompts that it applies to existing text. Some common uses for this function include rewriting text specifically, proofreading your text for grammar mistakes, checking for plagiarism, and analyzing style and other factors."
#writing #chatgpt #bard
https://www.lifewire.com/use-google-bard-in-docs-7499168#toc-what-can-google-duet-do-in-google-docs
Pig free bacon #renewablefarming #solarpunk
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johncumbers/2023/06/09/the-startup-bringing-home-the-400b-baconminus-the-pig
Aldous Huxley and Brave New World: The Dark Side of Pleasure
"If the current trends continue, humanity may soon be divided into two groups. There will be those who welcome their pleasurable servitude, and those who choose to resist it for the sake of retaining not just their liberty, but their humanity." #writing #postscarcity
Academy of Ideas | Free Minds for a Free Society
Aldous Huxley and Brave New World: The Dark Side of Pleasure
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” (Goethe) These words were written by Goethe nearly 200 years ...
zero emission farming tractor #renewableenergy #renewablefarming
Mashable
The world's first commercially available fully electric smart tractor
You can finally farm with a zero emissions vehicle.
"Nobody tells people who are beginners — is that all of us who do creative work … we get into it because we have good taste. But it’s like there’s a gap, that for the first couple years that you’re making stuff, what you’re making isn’t so good, OK? It’s not that great. It’s really not that great. It’s trying to be good, it has ambition to be good, but it’s not quite that good. But your taste — the thing that got you into the game — your taste is still killer, and your taste is good enough that you can tell that what you’re making is kind of a disappointment to you."
"And the most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work — do a huge volume of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week, or every month, you know you’re going to finish one story. Because it’s only by actually going through a volume of work that you are actually going to catch up and close that gap."
#creativity #art #writing
The Marginalian
The Taste Gap: Ira Glass on the Secret of Creative Success, Animated in Living Typography
“The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.”
A simple mechanical system built from aluminum rods uses vibrations to encode information, mimicking #quantumcomputing in a non-quantum system.
New Scientist
Sound vibrations can encode and process data like quantum computers do
A simple mechanical system built from aluminium rods uses vibrations to encode information, mimicking quantum computing in a non-quantum system
#Ruin in #Ireland
Fonts and #scifi
Science Fiction Movie Lettering
#LLMs are hugely helpful for research and editing. Hopefully this turns into a more centaur approach like in chess.#writing
https://nofilmschool.com/how-sudowrite-story-engine-already-creating-issues-ai-generate-prose