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Writer of Weird Things Leading proponent of techlash Find my work in Sanitarium, Twisted Fairy Tales Vol. 2 from the Sheffield Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Group, and DRANG https://edwinblack.itch.io/ #horror #indiepublishing
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I am not a legal bod by any means, but I imagine that it exists in the same legal realm as you not having to read your contract.
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For context - it sounds as though the KMT have been up to procedural shenanigans. This chap is from the DPP, and was acting to make sure that "certain measures" would not come into affect. I cannot find particulars, sadly.
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In their parlance it is because they have turned onward, away from the righteous path and toward Perdition. Trump embodies the wolves in sheep's clothing and forms the cadre.
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People cannot wrap their heads around cooperatives, mutuals, and work owned enterprises it seems. A pity, really.
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PS: Look these people up. Obverse publish some genuinely interesting things, especially for those of us who delve too deep into the lore of Doctor Who. If you know who Iris Wildthyme is, or what the above refers to, they are not to be missed.
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5) The apocalyptic quest is still on the back burner, but I do look forward to returning to the land of Bek when I can.
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4) The Faction Paradox piece is coming along. The first draft is going well, and I hope to have something to pitch the chaps over at @obversebooks.bsky.social sooner rather than later. Yes, I am calling attention to myself. I hope it is not too unprofessional to do so, I am just excited.
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If he keeps my countrymen's boots off the ground I will take the gormless prick over the demented twit who made an already terrible situation worse.
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And my dad is bigger than your dad.
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You needed a comma before "honey", sunbeam. Mother machine is not great on grammar, apparently.
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Ahhh, so she is also working on some complete garbage is what you are saying. Bugger me for hoping that someone actually had some sense.
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Typical AI user - no originality, no imagination, only the ability to create an inferior copy. Did mother machine tell you that this was the best way of going about a response?
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LLM's are merely parrots which cannot even discern garbage from actual data. If the severe lack of funds do not kill them, then GIGO certainly will.
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I mean, you left out the part where she deals in Brain and Computer Interfaces - a very different kettle of fish to LLM's! A gross misunderstanding of the woman's work at least.
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I dIdN't MiSs It At AlL. Create your own banner, then we will talk like adults.
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"LLM's are AI" Good Lord.
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If she thought that LLM's held anything of value she would not have gone out of her way to trap them, would she? One can be a proponent of transhumanism without the veneration of LLM's.
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I have no problem with AI's using image modelling to detect cancer. I have a problem with people using generative AI to create a fake day trader to advertise a fake trading platform on YouTube.
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I see. This is the result of a struck nerve, I think - you are tagged with having an "AI Picture or Banner" so I am not surprised that you would think me lacking. Your critical thinking skills are so superior to mine, in fact, that you completely missed my specifying "generative" AI.
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A very different matter, I think. She is mocking the limited capabilities of LLM's as they represent a faux version of that vision.
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I prefer calling people who routinely use AI generators twits.
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Indeed. I genuinely do not mind that sort of thing. "Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so."
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I think that is the issue I had with Lust. It is not as intimate. Mircella is just going to casually feed on all the others in the finishing school, turning into a purely predatory entity having been shorn of her inner torture. And, as I have mentioned, The Gaze is real. It felt a bit skeevy.
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The woodcutter's daughter (Who has the most implied cunnilingus I have ever seen in British film) and the blacksmith's wife are victims of that desperate passion - she cannot bring herself to hurt Emma, but cannot help but hurt others in the same way.
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Perhaps I am a sentimentalist, but there is a definite personal drama happening in front of us in Lovers. Mircella spends much of the film trying so hard not to feed on Emma, feeding on others first as much as she could. Consuming Renton serves the purpose of taking Emma to the castle.
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The two films have very different aims, I suppose. The former is telling a genuinely Gothic tale of lust, desperation, desire, and the fear that comes from that. The latter is not, outside of aesthetics. I simply feel as though Lust is lacking where Lovers prevails.
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Lust For a Vampire, by contrast, got a resounding "oh dear" from me. I see why people would like it but, to me, it felt like an excuse to put boobs on the screen in great abundance. Now, there is nothing wrong with that, but the male gaze is just so damned heavy. Good to snub the censors, though.
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No problem Mr Hendy! It is a subject of personal fascination, so I am glad that a book like it exists at all!
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Seconded.
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Every time.
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Excellent choice. Having finished Alice Isn't Dead by Joseph Fink, I am now reading The BBC: A People's History by David Hendy. Hendy tells the story of the Corporation with great enthusiasm, with a clear love of the subject. He is not afraid of pointing out its foibles as well as its achievements.