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In 1924 Weird Tales published seven issues. The first five were edited by Edwin Baird; Farnsworth Wright began his editorship, which would endure into the year 1940, in November. I can now announce that I have read at least one story from each of these seven issues--see links to my blog posts on those stories below....
I enjoying walking. I enjoy just moving my legs, one at a time. A while back, I realized (don’t we all at some point in our lives) that I may not be able to walk well in the future. So, while I still can, maybe I should do more walking. In an unrelated event, I’ve also decided to eat less daily. I am ‘old’ now, and...
Winfrid, son of Warnefrid, was born about 720 in the Duchy of Friuli, the northern part of the Italian Peninsula that was the kingdom of the Lombards. His parents, Warnefrid and Theodolinda, were well-to-do, and Winfrid grew up well-educated, knowing some Greek along with Latin.Winfrid decided that rather than...
If, however, prose is LLM-generated, this social contract becomes ripped up: a reader cannot assume that the writer understands their ideas because they might not so much have read the product of the LLM that they tasked to write it. If one is lucky, these are LLM hallucinations: obviously wrong and quickly...
I take a lot of pleasure in running my own services. Self-hosting is a lot of fun and I keep accumulating more and more things on my server, from a feed reader to uptime monitoring (as backup to larm.dev), not to mention all of my toy projects. I’ve been writing a lot about atproto recently and it’s frankly a very...
Emily Wilson on the Odyssey Nolan’s Odyssey lacks many of the elements that make the poem great. It has nothing convincing to say about time, memory, history, war, or about the relationship between one warrior’s glorious return and the lives of his family, adversaries, comrades, friends and neighbours. It lacks...
It wasn’t so long ago that the most intense arguments in wine were about aesthetics. They were philosophical, occasionally personal, and often quite nasty. But at least everyone was arguing about what wine ought to be. Today, those disputes seem to have been pushed aside by more immediate questions about declining...
Like we said before, LLMs are tools. They have some impressive functionality and can be highly useful if you understand them and know the job that needs to be done. Cory Doctorow has done a fine job over the years explaining this distinction, as well as the fundamental misalignment of incentives between what LLMs...
This week’s prompt for Top Ten Tuesday is about series you want to catch up on and… uhoh. So many! Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch books. I haven’t read Radiant Star yet, despite having a review copy. Ugh. I’m sorry. I also haven’t read Leckie’s short story collection, Lake of Souls, which I’d love to catch up with....
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