Divorce is crying in the antiques store,
then laughing,
because it made you fart.… Read More
There are so many “good” reasons not to write. Today I’d like to challenge those reasons and encourage you to keep going.
“If only I had… (time, money, support, etc.)”
Our egos exist to protect us. It’s safer to fantasize about being a writer than it is to try. If … Read More
There are as many paths to becoming an author as there are people. You don’t need an MFA to become a good writer or get published. You need: critique partners, to be constantly reading, and the mindset of being a perpetual learner. Improve your craft, read your genre, and find … Read More
What is LaMDA
LaMDA is, according to Google, “a family of Transformerbased neural language models specialized for dialog.” Blake Lemoine, the Google engineer who claims LaMDA is sentient, says LaMDA is “not a chatbot. It is a system for generating chatbots … LaMDA is a sort of hive mind … Read More
Retrofuturism: the future as envisioned by the past
Cyberpunk tech is dated, like the steam and clockwork in Steampunk, and the dystopia it warned us against already arrived.
When writer Bruce Bethke coined the term cyberpunk in the ’80s, it marked the beginning of a predictive genre that speculated on … Read More