France to require all large car parks to be covered by solar panels Legislation approved by Senate will apply to existing and new car parks with space for at least 80 vehicles

Source (from 2022): www.theguardian.com/world/2022/n...

Oh, hell. Yes, Stars first, then Gravity. Is there an edit button on this thing?

Of course, that should be Tea or Coffee, Gravity AND Stars!

Congrats to my fellow Tea or Coffee, Gravity, or Stars anthology authors. Looking forward to reading the other stories this summer!

You can’t be taking first and last names and and locations and consider yourself a serious resistance movement. People should not be asked to put identifiable information in data bases that can be compromised.

Cover for the Air and Nothingness Press anthology, Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity, featuring a spacesuited astronaut stepping into the universe.

I was excited enough about the premise of the upcoming anthology, Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity, from @aanpress.bsky.social to join the Kickstarter campaign as a backer. Now, I find myself included as one of the authors (no, I don't think my measly 25 bucks influenced the decision)!

“The age of denial seems to be coming to an end. It's hard to tell people that the climate isn't changing when it's so very obvious it is.”

This is from September. Any stats from this year?

What, exactly, is the point of the Holocaust museum if not to remind current and future generations about how racist demagogues come to power? There nothing special about 1930s Germans. What an utter failure of leadership at the museum when it’s needed most.

Great. Source? Link?

I’m curious about why this lengthy report is missing interviews with the two named student groups. The reporter was on campus, as shown by her photos of protesters. The omission undermines otherwise excellent reporting.

Not always. But you do need to check everything AI does, and the greater the importance of accuracy, the more cautious you need to be. Hence, more suitable for some things than others.

You’re getting at an important point, that AI isn’t suited for all types of writing (i.e., many types of journalism, where personal experience is paramount, vs, say sports roundups), but can be useful for others (i.e., some types of marketing content, and, I would add, non-public summarization).

Yes. No longer a legitimate political party, at least as far as democracy is concerned.

So much for the military not following illegal orders.

Yep. He’s the symptom, not the cause.

Jeez, you weren’t kidding. I’m old enough to remember the outrage over synths and sampling in music. This era feels similar for writing, with emotion also running hot.

I wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence – but we are as valuable as ever | Stephen Marche Mastery of banal style is losing its usefulness – but language is more powerful than ever. It’s up to the writer to do what machines can’t

The article by @stephenmarche.bsky.social on AI for writing is worth a read. No, I don’t think a machine wrote it for him.

“Thinking, creating, understanding – these cannot be replaced, certainly not by artificial intelligence. Trust me. I’ve tried.”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I agree the tools and marketing are problematic. And conscious or not, the person using the automation is ultimately responsible for the results.

The key phrase being “clicked to authorize.” In other words, the author likely, in whatever way, added the other article to what should have been a highly personal writing process.

The large LLMs’ training data has a cut off date before a new model is released. For example, Anthropic’s latest Claude Sonnet model (4.6), released in Feb, has a cut off date in May 2025, before the plagiarized article (Aug). That’s why I think the author added the article to his tool himself.

The author probably dropped the Guardian review into his AI app as part of his “research” for the review. Not a great move for a highly personal and creative piece of writing. I think the author is probably more at fault here.

Just submitted! Looking forward to reading the anthology regardless of whether I'm in it!

Personal rejections are good things. Keep it up!

Nice. Where is this?

Plug-in solar that can go on apartment balconies gets renters on board with renewable energy. It's spreading across Europe and growing here in the US.

More like this.

"As the Director of the Rutherford County Library System (RCLS), I am professionally and ethically bound to uphold the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution."

Despite the incessant pull of big tech towards large walled gardens on the web rather than free spirited individual content, there are those who push back. Kagi (the search engine folk) have a Small Web initiative - a catalogue of smaller scale human content
blog.kagi.com/small-web-up...

Still better than US media. I just set up a recurring donation. I canceled The NY Times years ago.

Love it. But where’s the source for this attribution?