The Antenna

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writing 2023.52

An experiment in personal news aggregation.

writing 2023.52

(date: 2023-12-25 14:37:16)


@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2023-12-25, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)

Unbelievably proud to be listed here for the album FourPlay String Quartet and I made. www.theguardian.com/music/2023/d…

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Robert J. Sawyer: A Cryonic Murder

date: 2023-12-25, from: Locus Magazine

Robert James Sawyer was born April 29, 1960 in Ottawa, Canada. His fam­ily moved to Toronto when he was a baby, and he has lived there ever since. He earned a bachelor’s in radio and televi­sion arts (broadcasting) from Ryerson Poly­technic University, Toronto in 1982. After graduating, he briefly worked at SF spe­cialty store Bakka-Phoenix Books before spending most of the ’80s as a freelance non-fiction writer, doing journalism for …Read More

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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2023-12-24, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)

A case of Covid in the family (not me) means I’m on my own tonight. I get Ash tomorrow. I guess I will write tonight and walk the dog, and not really know quite what to do with the Xmas dinner I cooked. Here is a dog picture.

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AI News

date: 2023-12-24, from: Locus Magazine

The US Copyright office has solicited comments on ‘‘copyright law and policy issues raised by artificial intelligence systems,’’ drawing thousands of responses. Comments from many authors, and organizations including the Authors Guild and the Association of American publishers, argue that Large Language Models rely on mass copyright infringement in order to function at all. The Authors Guild said,

The leading LLMs today were ‘‘trained’’ on datasets of ap­proximately 200,000 books, …Read More

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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2023-12-24, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)

When I write comics I always ask the artist what they like to draw and what (more importantly) they don’t like to draw. And then i do my best. But the story may have its own ideas.

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@Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky (date: 2023-12-24, from: Neil Gaiman @ BlueSky)

Fascinating article. (But “sister-and-law”?)

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Niall Harrison Reviews The Future by Naomi Alderman

date: 2023-12-24, from: Locus Magazine

The Future, Naomi Alderman (Simon & Schuster 978-16680-25680, $28.99, 432pp, hc) November 2023.

Early in Naomi Alderman’s latest novel The Fu­ture, the protagonist, Lai Zhen, falls in lust, and perhaps love. A sardonic survivalism vlogger who escaped ‘‘the fall of Hong Kong’’ and then did a significant amount of growing up in an offshore British refugee camp, she finds herself at a confer­ence in London a couple of …Read More

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