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"Crosstalk" by: Connie Willis
In the not-too-distant future, a simple outpatient procedure to increase empathy between romantic partners has become all the rage. And Briddey Flannigan is delighted when her boyfriend, Trent, suggests undergoing the operation prior to a marriage proposalβto enjoy better emotional connection and a perfect relationship. But 'things' donβt quite work out as planned...
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Crosstalk
Science fiction icon Connie Willis brilliantly mixes a speculative plot, the wit of Nora Ephron, and the comedic flair of P. G....Bookmark Day
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Shameless promo. π
Have you ever wondered what it is to live on a cube world?
Kai Wolffe finds out when she pulls a woman from under a tree in the garden of her new house. Curious and interested in #fantasy ?
Check it out on my own store: payhip.com/b/9znKF and get 25% off with coupon XXX6SW9JEV (valid until tomorrow) , or go here to find all the other options: paulkater.com/the-glass.html
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The Glass
Moving house is always a strenuous task. Just when Kai Wolffe is about to settle into her new home, things start to get weird. She pulls a woman from the ground in her garden.Paul Kater
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@veronicawilliams Thank you. (I always hope they are also good reads! π )
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storyoriginapp.com/swaps/e18ddβ¦
#books #Romance @bookstodon
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Yeah, it seems like these anti-trans laws always forget that there are, like, transmen with full beards out there who certainly would make most women feel uncomfortable being in "women only" spaces.
Finally got my own physical box of the @oblique_strategies set. It's from 1975, and it feels like that, too. In the best possible way.
As serendipity wants it, I came across a study today that compared LLMs with Oblique Strategies set as creativity support tools (CSTs)
"The use of an LLM as a CST [makes] the LLMβs users feel more creative, and even broaden the range of ideas suggested by each individual user, but also homogenize the ideas suggested by different users."
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3635636β¦
In other words, while LLMs might help individual users to become more creative, it does so for everyone in the same way. Thus, collectively, creativity is diminished.
This finding at the group level has been repeated a few times now in different studies.
This is not the case with the Oblique Strategies. Perhaps because applying these strategies is hard and requires the examination of one's own position and process.
Thanks to @remixtures for the pointer to the New Yorker article which contained the pointer to the cited study.
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got a physical set a year or two ago. Theyβre great for sure.
Interesting on the study results!
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Sorry for the late reply but the driver stuff was me trying out proprietary vs community Nvidia drivers and then just weird things that would happen on restarts after switching/updating drivers. I have an intermittent issue where the primary monitor (I have two) alternates being entirely light grey, red, blue, and green upon startup I haven't researched it yet because I just restart the computer and it is fine. And it has happened maybe 3 times over the last month (amongst dozens of restarts). There are a few things like that that only happened once so I wrote off the occurrence.
I have had the most luck with the proprietary Nvidia driver so far.
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It is so sad America has come to this. Republicans have learned nothing from history.
I suspect they don't care much about the history of the world outside the USA.
So sad.
The one or two things they didn't learn is that there will always be resistance, no matter how hard the boot stomps, and they didn't realize that there's been a lot of organizing.
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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If you enjoy the things I post.
Can I suggest you try therapy?
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in reply to geekysteven • • •I like this, it is easy to understand.
βDue process isn't as exciting to talk about, but it's a load-bearing right. If you don't have that one, you don't have the other ones eitherβ.
Thanks! ππ»