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Not a great time to be bloodletting the CDC.

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A Devil for a Buck! For the next few days, A Devil in the Donations, the first book in The Admiral Inn Mysteries series, is available for download for 99¢ on Amazon. Pick up a copy, grab your reservation, because once you book a visit at The Admiral, there are eight (8) more mystery/adventures…

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We live in the ✨ world of tomorrow ✨

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Dead of Winter Taking a break from writing, I was out wandering in my woods in a fairly cold winter for Connecticut when I came across an array of life running full length of a log. This is the Dead of Winter, right? Feeling admonished, I hurried back to my desk because if nature can still create…

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18 Days in December: The Cedar Post, Part II A gift for yet another nephew, the cedar fence post holds special meaning for anyone from a rural background or those who have seen the high plains of the American West. The piece is called "Sentry." Enjoy while I go back to writing The Wolf in the…

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Core idea.

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18 Days in December: The Log Book With the launch of the 9th book in The Admiral Inn series, The Witch in the Mill has flown and the 10th book is under my pen, well, keyboard, as it were. And while I type, take a gander at the a little eye candy below and catch up with the Moorewicks Bay gang.…

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The great truth of mass communication: The audience is ESSENTIAL. You can have the greatest message, the spiffiest tech with which to share it. It doesn't matter if the audience isn't having it. If you haven't reached the audience, you haven't communicated. You've just made noise.

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What AI can't do is extrapolate the real story of you and your chair. It can't say why you sometimes eat cilantro even though cilantro tastes like soap to you. It can't credibly recite the story of how you know soaps taste. That is why both the hopes and fears surrounding AI are a bit overblown.

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AI is only a file cabinet with a probability algorithm filled with what you pause for, buy, post and like on social media. AI can't extrapolate the real story of you and your chair.

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Continuing yesterdays posts for writers: AI doesn't know if your chair was a Christmas present to yourself that you think of every time you finish a story without that shooting pain down your left leg courtesy of your old broken chair.

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More on AI phobia for writers tomorrow.

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The file cabinet can tell you how much you paid for the chair and when and who sold it to you and whether you took a chair deduction when you did your taxes. It can't tell you why you bought that particular chair or if your partner agreed or an argument ensued leaving some lingering resentment.

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If you are like me, you have a file cabinet or drawer. Some of us don't have a great system, some of us do. The strength of the system dictates how long it will take to produce a receipt for your new writers chair after you wore out the last one 15 short stories and 5 novellas ago. (3/4)

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The mathematicians offered 150 questions and only allowed the machines between 20 seconds and a minute to solve them. No AI system scored better than 2% and several offered wrong answers. Why did Open AI, Deep Mind and four others do so poorly? Stories about AI minimize the limits of LLM (2/4)

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Recently Science.org reported on a test set up to see how well AI systems can compete with human mathematicians on problems above High School or undergraduate math. www.science.org/content/arti... says 60 experts concocted a test of facility with research level math. (1/4)

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Mountain bluebird (Sialia currucoides)

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@chrischiller.bsky.social exciting to think there is another one. I have been the solo Chris Chiller my whole life.

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The divisions between people in western nations are impeding decisive action to constructively address threats to our collective future. I believe we need to understand why these divisions exist, mindful that they can only be exploited if they exist within populations before bad actors appear.

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Nobody could have predicted this. "Healthcare workers masking makes a difference, study found..." Medsky www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

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#Measles is one of the leading causes of death among young children globally. In 2023, an estimated 107 500 people died from measles, mostly children under age 5. bit.ly/48SAtkf

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It’s the International Day to End Violence against Women and Girls! 1 in 3 girls and women around the world experience physical and/or sexual violence by: A husband A boyfriend An intimate partner A lover A parent A relative A colleague A boss A stranger bit.ly/3gy8pfq #NoExcuse

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Other corvids are nice too. 🪶

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via @LloydLegalist on Twitter.

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When almost all the basic activities of living that produce dopamine & serotonin have been moved online & made insubstantial, removed from physical interaction, stripped of context, company, & consequence, the only thing left that makes some people feel real & alive is constant, gamified fury.

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Sage Journals The Emerging Science of Interacting Minds journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Good morning #BlackSky Here’s your daily dose of Blue Sky and a reminder that you hold the key to unlocking all you see in the world.

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