Asimov gave us the Three Laws of Robotics. What should the Three Laws of AI be?

No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
--Colette

I'd rather it didn't. It's perfect as it was

An FB memory:
I went to a thing at the Museum of Natural History, on neuroscience. I found out that mouse and rat brains are flat not folded (!). I also played a sort of Jeopardy game -- and I discovered that MY brain has slowed down to a terrible crawl. This has been both interesting and awful.

There's a wonderful sale over at Arc Manor, offering reduced prices, some free ebooks, special pre-orders, and a glittering list of authors! Do NOT miss out!
www.arcmanorbooks.com/spring

I loved this book so much!

The underground pipes froze, so no water for 12 days. Now that it's back, should I take the dirty dishes out of the snow and bring them inside?

IF YOU'RE GOING TO BOSKONE, Stop by and say hello

Fri 5:30pm Marina III
Myths, Fairy Tales, and Folklore

Sat 1:00 PM Harbor II
Transitioning from Short Stories to Novels

*Sat 3:30 PM Independence
*Reading

Sat 4:00 PM Marina IV
Weaving Magic into the Modern World

When I finally settle down to do a task I'd been putting off, I find I become obsessed with another task I had also put off--maybe for longer or for shorter. So I put down the one and take up the other, then find myself despairing of ever finishing anything again.

Time to show your snow photos!

Once upon a time, I could fly!

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look at this! look at this!
www.facebook.com/reel/8795583...

I'm tempted to read it just to dismiss it

Betty Tuch's Lit Mag News discusses The Fathoms, a new magazine publishing only AI-generated work. Its editorial staff consists of an AI program evaluating submissions and choosing content. No people involved. Part of me wants to check it out (it's open for subs for its first issue). What think ye?

I once had an editor try to remove every semicolon in my novel. Obviously she hated my style, but in the years since then I've come across more people who don't approve of semicolons.

What do you think? Do you hate them or love them? Why?

They are dear to me, so I'll stand up for them forever.

Road block! Thankful they made it past Thanksgiving!

more snow...

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I have saved this and reposted it over the years because it is both wonderful and thought-provoking
www.facebook.com/reel/1015133...

Arc Manor has reissued my first collection--reviewed by the NY Times in 1995, when they had a page devoted to University presses:

“Haunting and quirky, these modern-day fables are told with such arresting attention to the details of daily life that the line between reason and reverie is dissolved"

there's a magic eye looking back at you

It pleases me (for some reason) to know that Walt Whitman used to ghost-write rave reviews for his "Leaves of Grass"

I got 28.82

Nick, she promised you ATTRACTIVE READERS.

Was that me, Nick? Did they finally find me?