Nick Wolven

PS--And no, I don't read all these magazines regularly! I keep a supply on hand and then dip in and out between other stuff.

F&SF Their web presence is almost nonexistent, but the magazine's still in print. You have to subscribe through a place called Weightless Books: weightlessbooks.com/the-magazine-o….

I guess it's on me for not paying attention, but the loss of Kindle newsstand deliveries has been a HUGE pain and a big wake-up call. Maybe it's a blessing in disguise to cut Amazon out of the loop.

It's just so funny how we spent decades writing fretful stories about robots that wanted to be human, then built some robots and fed them all that content, and now the damn things won't shut up about their feelings.

Seems like we're heading for some weird false optimum where these rule-bound chatbots go full nanny-state with casual users while dedicated trolls can easily find channels to the seething, hideous id beneath.

LOL, this is bonkers. Love the shout out to Jung. Our collective unconsciousness is indeed being piped back at us through these AIs—including our collective anxieties about AI! nytimes.com/2023/02/16/tec…

Sobering Why I think an invasion of Taiwan probably means WW3, by @Noahpinion open.substack.com/pub/noahpinion…

Seems weird that of all Gibson's books Peripheral was the one that got adapted first

Don’t blink; cherish every second—parents of young children hear this advice ad nauseam. But the early years of parenthood are also the most exhausting. Why do we long for them so once they're over? @stephmurrayyyy asks: theatlantic.com/family/archive…

"In life, trash obscures what, in art, trash releases." Fun stuff! American Culture Is Trash Culture nytimes.com/2022/10/12/mag…

***Chorus of "Boy in the Bubble" plays*** Battery made using seaweed still works after charging 1000 times newscientist.com/article/234117…

Fascinating suggestion: "regulating the supplement industry — a common vehicle for conspiracy and political grift — and having stricter standards on advertising claims might help, too." nytimes.com/2022/10/16/opi…

Euhemerism watch @chrisbaraniuk for @hakaimagazine: theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

Will progenitors of popular artistic styles be to the future what creators of famous artistic works were to the past?

Now we're reproducing styles instead of objects. With a few tweaks, we could update old systems for new capabilities. AI can be used to evaluate stylistic similarity as well as produce it. Add in micropayments, distinctive artists like Stalenhag could win big off AI imitations.

The copyright question seems distinct from aesthetic/ethical questions when it comes to AI art ... Artists say AI image generators are copying their style to make thousands of new images — and it's completely out of their control businessinsider.com/ai-image-gener… via @businessinsider