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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 22m

The money must really be running out

Axios @axios.com · 2h

Sam Altman says OpenAI will allow erotica for adult users

In a post on X, Altman also said ChatGPT will engage more personally.

www.axios.com

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 25m

The new draconian citizenship test is to use this to buy the *correct* ticket for your journey in under 5 mins.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 1h

Take your AI generated dead celebrity video and

Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 1h

Languages and arts education can shrivel and die because we’ve got AI now. Also it’s completely unacceptable not to be able to write an essay about dialects in a novel.

Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 1h

If an English A Level is so important to being a British citizen, I assume the government are going to stop prioritising STEM subjects and increase funding to school English departments.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 1h

Autumn has appeared with the tedious inevitably of an unloved Bond film

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 5h

"make sure you negotiate toy and merchandising rights to your world though, that's the most profound bit"

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 7h

You can get ‘clinical grade’ arsenic. I wouldn’t want a subscription to it though.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h

“Initially, Lyra AI will be available to a subset of its users who are being coached for mild to moderate “challenges” like burnout, sleep, and stress, said the company’s chief clinical officer…”

Lyra launches ‘clinical-grade’ chatbot amid growing concern about mental health and AI

Lyra Health has launched a "clinical-grade" chatbot amid growing concern about mental health and artificial intelligence.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 8h

It’s natural for the brain to reject Four Seasons tribute acts. It’s a phenomenon known as “Uncanny Valli”

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 8h

A lot of people worrying about how we treat books, but that shit works both ways. What about how the book treats *me*? Some of these stories leave me pretty broken and dogeared.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 12h

I love it!

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 12h

Also, read Sydney Padua’s The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage!

Photo of the thrilling adventures of Lovelace and Babbage book

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 12h

As it’s Ada Lovelace day, I’m reposting this about her correctly predicting AI techbro hype

Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · May 12

A lesson from history about AI:

Ada Lovelace nailed the limitations and hype of generative AI when she wrote about the 1st computer - The Analytical Engine - 180 yrs ago

“It is desirable to guard against the possibility of exaggerated ideas…[It] has no pretensions whatever to *originate* anything”

It is desirable to guard against the possibility of exaggerated ideas that might arise as to the powers of the Analytical Engine. In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable; and, se-condly, by a sort of natural reaction, to undervalue the true state of the case, when we do discover that our notions have surpassed those that were really tenable.
The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with. This it is calculated to effect primarily and chiefly of course, through its executive faculties; but it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal infiuence on science itself in another manner.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 13h

Ah very sad this isn’t in the Incomplete Framley

Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 13h

This is a good point. I always thought it might have been better if Mr Shepard had helpd Tolkien

Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 13h

Every book should have an endpaper map drawn by the author.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 1d

My hot take is that none of these are structure. These are all recipes that describe structure.

Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing.

3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes.

You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.

Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 2d

So #WritingCommunity how do we feel about structure?

Do you use the 3 act structure? The 5 act?

Hero's Journey? Save the Cat? Super Structure Method? Story Genius Method?

Something else?

What have you got?

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 22h

Doyle, in his lawyers office:
MONK⃫E⃫Y⃫GOOSE

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 23h

It was also a legal requirement to say the name of the exchange and number when you picked up.

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 23h

Bart Simpson watching Lisa reject Ralph on tv, pausing the footage and saying

YOU CAN ACTUALLY PINPOINT THE SECOND WHEN HIS HEART
RIPS IN HALF

Except Ralph has been replaced with kier Starmer looking sad at the press conference with Trump

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 12d

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 1d

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 1d

I once taught a student who was a wealthy American who just spent his time travelling the world doing interesting MAs. I think he was on his fourth. This instantly became my lottery win plan (along with funding other people to do their own)

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 1d

This is good.

Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 1d

My hot take is that none of these are structure. These are all recipes that describe structure.

Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing.

3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes.

You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.

Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 2d

So #WritingCommunity how do we feel about structure?

Do you use the 3 act structure? The 5 act?

Hero's Journey? Save the Cat? Super Structure Method? Story Genius Method?

Something else?

What have you got?

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · 1d

In my mind the Marmite product development lab is a wing of Arkham Asylum