kbrenchley.bsky.social
Living in Silicon Valley with my British writer husband, a turtle, and cats
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I worked in Silicon Valley first as a programmer then as a product manager. I have a patent for a real AI program, and majored in math. I know this stuff. I’ve also had SFF stories published by myself and with my husband Chaz Brenchley. A lot of other writers are friends, too. I’m real. :-)
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I love @kateelliottsff.bsky.social ‘s books.
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All these sites have underlying algorithms for feeding you posts, so it could be that.
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That’s so unfair. Our beverages should not betray us, yet they do.
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Ow. Clever, though.
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Yup. The Ukrainians caught them with their pants down.
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Cool! (I’ve been there.)
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And this ai doesn’t work very well.
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And that’s horrifying. I have been vaccinated against all of them, though I wonder about the older ones. I caught chicken pox before there was a vaccine and got it on a trip to England. I was covered with it from my knees up.
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The only job I could get as a young teen was taking care of other people’s kids. In Idaho, there are a lot of other people’s kids. Sigh.
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A Hugo finalist is a Hugo finalist. Stop overthinking and run with it.
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She is still in custody www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...
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Plans are underway to fly approximately 60 Afrikaners to Dulles International Airport on a State Department-chartered plane Monday, with federal and Virginia officials preparing to receive them in a ceremonial news conference, according to documents and emails obtained by The Post.
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I highly recommend (not just because it's by my husband) Rowany de Vere and a Fair Degree of Frost by Chaz Brenchley. www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...
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You win Best Husband this week. You and Krissy are both lucky.
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What a good kitty…
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They want only rich white men to go to college.
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A magat (rhymes with maggot)
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I’m looking forward to this. I adored the books.
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What this is leaving out is all the work that was done by actual humans that was used, without permission and without paying for it, to train the LLM that “created” this.
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It sure looks like it.
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Fighting isn't a tincture of some rare and irreplaceable mineral that you can only use three times and then it's gone. Fighting is a muscle. Fight these cowardly fucks and get better and better at fighting while they learn they aren't going to get anything for free.
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The first time I saw you/spoke to you (at a con) I had no idea who you were. You were talking to a friend of mine, who introduced us. (I don’t expect you to remember me.)
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The important thing is that you get paid, whether they ultimately film it or not.
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That’s gorgeous.
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She’s gorgeous, and looks wise.
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He’s not going to step down in four years.
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Or so they say.
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He’s beautiful.
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I love those tiny KitKats, particularly ones with interesting flavors.
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I hate it that so many programs have been updated with “ai” (which is actually guess-the-next-word data science). No, I don’t want my software changing my words underneath me.
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I’ve found it interesting to dig in a little bit when people want something I don’t agree with. Their “why” can be eye opening.
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Wow.
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I hear the cuckoos singing in the cuckooberry tree.
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I don’t think it’s a fad. I’m hoping the steep costs for training will cause it to whimper out.
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I keep having to scrape off unwanted changes to my words all over the place.
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At the moment it’s sucking mightily (I have the MS hug for the first time), but I see hints that it’s going to improve. Just very slowly, while we’re packing up the house to move. Thanks.
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I had HSCT in 2017, after 8 years of MS. I was taking Gabapentin for a long time, but I’ve been having memory issues lately so I’ve gone off it, and now my legs are numb (but my memory seems better). I se my doctor tomorrow and will ask about dalfampridine. Thanks for the tip.
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I had HSCT, so I have old nerve damage but not MS anymore. If anyone has ideas on what gets rid of numbness without causing memory issues, I’d love to know.