@talithablackfyre.bsky.social
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Actually I think you'll find it's Boris Karloff's Monster.
Boris Karloff in a publicity still for Frankenstein (1931)
October 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Actually I think you'll find it's Boris Karloff's Monster.
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I call this the reverse Turing Test. If an LLM is producing something passable, it doesn't mean the tool is intelligent, it means humans were being asked to write something meaningless
ChatGPT is spitting out mostly meaningless fluff that kind of sounds like polished copy to someone who’s not a skilled writer or editor. I admit that’s enough to get by in a lot of email jobs, but I don’t believe you when you say ChatGPT is good at writing.
August 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I call this the reverse Turing Test. If an LLM is producing something passable, it doesn't mean the tool is intelligent, it means humans were being asked to write something meaningless
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Girls of all races and children of color of all genders get diagnosed later and get fewer academic and social supports because poor impulse control, disorganization, anger management, and low social acuity are simply *not tolerated,* let alone accommodated or lauded as signs of genius.
August 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Girls of all races and children of color of all genders get diagnosed later and get fewer academic and social supports because poor impulse control, disorganization, anger management, and low social acuity are simply *not tolerated,* let alone accommodated or lauded as signs of genius.
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What it Takes to Forget
If memories were ink
If these pages could think
Then I would burn it all
Then I would rather fall
-Part of my Wings of Pages series
If memories were ink
If these pages could think
Then I would burn it all
Then I would rather fall
-Part of my Wings of Pages series
August 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
What it Takes to Forget
If memories were ink
If these pages could think
Then I would burn it all
Then I would rather fall
-Part of my Wings of Pages series
If memories were ink
If these pages could think
Then I would burn it all
Then I would rather fall
-Part of my Wings of Pages series
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Poet: Everything hurts me
Novelist: I hurt all my characters
Essayist: The lobster feels hurt
Novelist: I hurt all my characters
Essayist: The lobster feels hurt
August 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Poet: Everything hurts me
Novelist: I hurt all my characters
Essayist: The lobster feels hurt
Novelist: I hurt all my characters
Essayist: The lobster feels hurt
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Happy Murderbot May! A little over 2 weeks to the premiere!!
May 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Happy Murderbot May! A little over 2 weeks to the premiere!!
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Stimulants slow my brain down enough so I can speak to you at a rate that is feasible to comprehend, otherwise i skip 26 steps ahead and you want to murder me.
Anyone who thinks stimulants are uppers for most ADHD people haven't done the homework.
Anyone who thinks stimulants are uppers for most ADHD people haven't done the homework.
There’s an awful NYT article about ADHD going around. I’m not going to signal boost it, but I want to say one thing: Raising the specter of “addiction” with regard to people with ADHD using stimulants always makes me laugh. Most of us have trouble even remembering to take and refill our medications.
April 15, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Stimulants slow my brain down enough so I can speak to you at a rate that is feasible to comprehend, otherwise i skip 26 steps ahead and you want to murder me.
Anyone who thinks stimulants are uppers for most ADHD people haven't done the homework.
Anyone who thinks stimulants are uppers for most ADHD people haven't done the homework.
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Reading for the Hugo Awards?
Try the short story "Three Faces of a Beheading" by Arkady Martine! @byzantienne.bsky.social
It is on the Locus Recommended Reading List!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/DMu9bIL
Try the short story "Three Faces of a Beheading" by Arkady Martine! @byzantienne.bsky.social
It is on the Locus Recommended Reading List!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/DMu9bIL
March 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Reading for the Hugo Awards?
Try the short story "Three Faces of a Beheading" by Arkady Martine! @byzantienne.bsky.social
It is on the Locus Recommended Reading List!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/DMu9bIL
Try the short story "Three Faces of a Beheading" by Arkady Martine! @byzantienne.bsky.social
It is on the Locus Recommended Reading List!
You can read it here!
buff.ly/DMu9bIL
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When conversations about fairness in sports come up, I am always baffled.
Not the transgender of it all, so much as the idea that there’s fairness in sports. They’re arbitrary rules we made up to celebrate the people who can do them better and deride the folks who can’t.
Fun, sure. But fair?
Not the transgender of it all, so much as the idea that there’s fairness in sports. They’re arbitrary rules we made up to celebrate the people who can do them better and deride the folks who can’t.
Fun, sure. But fair?
a man in a suit and tie talking on a phone with the words " i don 't understand any of this " behind him
ALT: a man in a suit and tie talking on a phone with the words " i don 't understand any of this " behind him
media.tenor.com
March 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
When conversations about fairness in sports come up, I am always baffled.
Not the transgender of it all, so much as the idea that there’s fairness in sports. They’re arbitrary rules we made up to celebrate the people who can do them better and deride the folks who can’t.
Fun, sure. But fair?
Not the transgender of it all, so much as the idea that there’s fairness in sports. They’re arbitrary rules we made up to celebrate the people who can do them better and deride the folks who can’t.
Fun, sure. But fair?
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Until further notice all LOLs are now WTFs
March 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Until further notice all LOLs are now WTFs
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OK this is beautiful. *blows nose, wipes eyes*
Also re-upping this for no reason (one reason, which is that the bottle looks like an ink bottle to me and I keep thinking "We cannot hide in stories forever, but we can write them both before and after we come out of hiding")
psychopomp.com/everyone-kee...
psychopomp.com/everyone-kee...
Everyone Keeps Saying Probably - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Publisher's Note: Please enjoy this short story by Premee Mohamed, who, coincidentally(!!), has a book out from Psychopomp on February 11th. It's called One
psychopomp.com
February 25, 2025 at 10:29 PM
OK this is beautiful. *blows nose, wipes eyes*
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for @sarahgailey.bsky.social’s Love Letters: Reasons to be alive, I wrote about one of the best things the world has to offer: the sound of a party going on in the other room after you’ve gone to bed (and parties, and houses, and calling your apartment your house and, I guess, love)
The Party Downstairs
A Love Letters Feature by Helena Fitzgerald - January 2025
stone-soup.ghost.io
January 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM
for @sarahgailey.bsky.social’s Love Letters: Reasons to be alive, I wrote about one of the best things the world has to offer: the sound of a party going on in the other room after you’ve gone to bed (and parties, and houses, and calling your apartment your house and, I guess, love)
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OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product.
On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.
On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.
January 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product.
On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.
On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.
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I mean if it isn’t actually set in some version of the historical Middle Ages then it’s just… what? Sparkling feudalism? Idk.
January 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I mean if it isn’t actually set in some version of the historical Middle Ages then it’s just… what? Sparkling feudalism? Idk.
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January 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Space Unicorns, do you love Uncanny Magazine stories and ticky boxes?!? Today is your lucky day! The Uncanny Magazine 2024 Favorite Fiction Reader Poll is OPEN! Choose your favorite 3 Uncanny stories from last year! https://www.uncannymagazine.com/uncanny-celebrates-reader-favorites-of-2024/
January 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Space Unicorns, do you love Uncanny Magazine stories and ticky boxes?!? Today is your lucky day! The Uncanny Magazine 2024 Favorite Fiction Reader Poll is OPEN! Choose your favorite 3 Uncanny stories from last year! https://www.uncannymagazine.com/uncanny-celebrates-reader-favorites-of-2024/
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No, I don't need a bloody copilot for this document, thank you.
Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.
Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.
January 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
No, I don't need a bloody copilot for this document, thank you.
Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.
Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.
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Well… science is already gone…
January 22, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Well… science is already gone…
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There are so many huge things to fear and discuss that I've found myself taking refuge in minor complaints, like "I can't find the precise kind of herbal tea that I want," or "These tomatoes are slightly too fibrous." There's something so satisfying about a minor gripe.
January 18, 2025 at 3:05 AM
There are so many huge things to fear and discuss that I've found myself taking refuge in minor complaints, like "I can't find the precise kind of herbal tea that I want," or "These tomatoes are slightly too fibrous." There's something so satisfying about a minor gripe.
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Your path in life is not a straight line. You will overcome many challenges, but there is no inherent virtue in hardship. Sometimes it is worth struggling to get through an obstacle in your way, and other times the honorable thing is to veer away before you crash into it.
December 19, 2024 at 10:48 PM
Your path in life is not a straight line. You will overcome many challenges, but there is no inherent virtue in hardship. Sometimes it is worth struggling to get through an obstacle in your way, and other times the honorable thing is to veer away before you crash into it.
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The idea that those on the left will ever agree enough to be an “echo chamber” is rather funny to me.
We couldn’t even agree whether to refer to Kamala Harris by her first or last name.
We couldn’t even agree whether to refer to Kamala Harris by her first or last name.
November 24, 2024 at 1:22 AM
The idea that those on the left will ever agree enough to be an “echo chamber” is rather funny to me.
We couldn’t even agree whether to refer to Kamala Harris by her first or last name.
We couldn’t even agree whether to refer to Kamala Harris by her first or last name.
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“The value of art is not how much it costs and how little effort it requires. It’s how much would you risk to be in its presence.”
- @realgdt.bsky.social, regarding AI
- @realgdt.bsky.social, regarding AI
October 30, 2024 at 4:20 AM
“The value of art is not how much it costs and how little effort it requires. It’s how much would you risk to be in its presence.”
- @realgdt.bsky.social, regarding AI
- @realgdt.bsky.social, regarding AI