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Dialogue writing examples from top books vs AIFrom Now Novel: Read dialogue writing examples from diverse genres as we compare them to examples AI gave given the same scenario, for seven...
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Help! My Political Beliefs Were Altered by a Chatbot!From The Wall Street Journal: When we ask ChatGPT or another bot to draft a memo, email, or presentation, we think these...
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We didn’t take Charlize Theron seriouslyWe didn’t take Charlize Theron seriously until she did ‘Monster’ and became physically ugly. I would love to see women be able...
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So why are algorithms still so bad at recommending books?From The New Publishing Standard: Over at Book Riot, Arvyn Cerezo takes us through the process and then explains why they will...
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Converging Lenses: Issues in Contemporary PhotographyFrom The Jewish Museum: On the evening of April 23, a diverse crowd gathered in the Jewish Museum’s Scheuer Auditorium for the...
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Google’s new Magic Editor pushes us toward AI-perfected fakeryFrom The Verge: One of the most impressive demos at Google I/O started with a photo of a woman in front of a waterfall. A presenter onstage...
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An Extraordinary Mission to Find an American WWII Bomber Crew at the Bottom of the PacificNot necessarily about books and writing, but an interesting story about the credo of those who fight our wars. Tennyson crew photo taking...
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I may be compelled to face dangerI may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them. Clara...
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Think Differently We Must! An AI Manifesto for the FutureFrom Springer Link: Abstract There is a problematic tradition of dualistic and reductionist thinking in artificial intelligence (AI)...
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A manifestoA manifesto is different from a magazine. Charlotte Casiraghi
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Google’s AI pitch is a recipe for email hellFrom The Verge: Of all the emotions I expected out of this week’s Google I/O keynote, “dread” was not on my short list. Google has spent a...
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Manifesto fictionFrom Nathan Bransford: Over the past few years I’ve noticed a substantial uptick in novels crossing my desk that have an extremely overt...
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The fun and the fury of a rattlesnake derbyOn occasion, PG posts items that are not strictly about books, but which may show visitors to TPV from outside the US aspects of culture and...
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The Soviet CenturyFrom The Wall Street Journal: We have had reason of late to think anew about the Soviet Union and the legacy of the Cold War—the fighting in...
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They hear nearly every sound, notice every movementThey hear nearly every sound, notice every movement, and process the expression on every person’s face. And that means that simply walking...
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If personality is an unbroken series of successful gesturesIf personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the...
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Good Intentions and the Pathway to Hell, Part 2: Sensitivity ReadersFrom Writer Unboxed: Last month’s post on book bans opened with a quote from historian Thomas Zimmer, which I’ll repeat here for reference:...
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Forget artificial intelligenceForget artificial intelligence – in the brave new world of big data, it’s artificial idiocy we should be looking out for. Tom Chatfield
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Reactions to ‘Artificial Intelligence’: Scribd Alters Its TermsFrom Publishing Perspectives: In a statement issued from San Francisco today (May 9), the subscription service Scribd has “clarified how its...
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BBC to tackle high proportion of women prosecuted for licence fee evasionFrom The Guardian: The BBC has set out plans to reduce the high proportion of women being prosecuted for licence fee evasion, after...
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Jealous LaughterFrom Granta: A friend of mine used to joke that women writers discovered friendship in 2015, when the last volume of Elena Ferrante’s...
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Busy DayLight blogging. More blogging tomorrow.
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The evolution of watches reflects changing relations with timeFrom The Economist: U nder fire over his pension reforms, in March President Emmanuel Macron incurred more French ire by surreptitiously...
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The Last Secret of the Secret AnnexFrom The Wall Street Journal: After two years in hiding in Amsterdam, 15-year-old Anne Frank was arrested in August 1944, along...
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Why would they have book coversWhy would they have book covers if we aren’t supposed to judge the book by them? It makes no sense. Ingrid Weir
