@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social2025-07-15 03:00:57
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social2025-07-15 03:00:57
@june_thalia_michael@literatur.social2025-09-15 11:20:49
#EroticMusings 16: Is there a setting or genre you’d like to create in, but haven’t? What’s holding you back?
That would be my idea "kinky science-fiction detective novels". Honestly, the issues the idea has (what is a crime in an utopian world, why would anyone commit it and how do I avoid writing copaganda) would be actually solvable.
But there is so much still to w…
@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-08-15 10:12:52
ComoRAG: A Cognitive-Inspired Memory-Organized RAG for Stateful Long Narrative Reasoning
Juyuan Wang, Rongchen Zhao, Wei Wei, Yufeng Wang, Mo Yu, Jie Zhou, Jin Xu, Liyan Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10419
@gray17@mastodon.social2025-08-08 08:18:56
probing gpt5 (free)
- image of a toaster lying on its side - complete fail
- image of a cereal box fully obscuring a toaster - partial success (no toaster, but no toaster shadow)
- list sci-fi novels with furries - 2/10, the rest hallucinated, or not sci-fi, or not novels, or not furry
- refine to sci-fi only, novels only - 3/10, the rest hallucinated
- remove hallucinations from list - "✅ Verified Sci-Fi Novels with Furry Characters or Species" list is 4/6…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-08-11 04:00:08
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@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-08-19 18:00:49
"Look up: five hopeful novels about the climate crisis"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Books
@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-07-08 13:58:51
Dialogue-Based Multi-Dimensional Relationship Extraction from Novels
Yuchen Yan, Hanjie Zhao, Senbin Zhu, Hongde Liu, Zhihong Zhang, Yuxiang Jia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04852
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-07-04 21:04:18
I am triply cautious of this article from @…:
- OpenAI et al use the supposed danger (and thus implied power) of their own product as a marketing ploy (as the article points out)
- When a product vendor funds their own research about the potential dangers of their product, it’s more likely to be good PR than good research
- Society always engages in moral panics about new things causing addiction and psychological damage (including bicycles and novels!)
With those caveats in mind, I do think this is an issue worth watching closely. And that quote in the post? Chef’s kiss.
https://mstdn.ca/@dyckron/114796898620291517
@lysander07@sigmoid.social2025-06-25 05:00:12
In today's ISE 2025 lecture,, we will introduce SPARQL as a query language for knowledge graphs. Again, I'm trying out 'Dystopian Novels' as example knowledge graph playground. Let's see, if the students might know any of them. Wtat do you think? ;-)
#dystopia #literature
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-08-19 17:00:49
"Blue sky thinking: why we need positive climate novels"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Books
@Archivist@social.linux.pizza2025-09-02 07:24:49
Day 6 of having a BPE tokenizer consume all of Project Gutemberg and my collection of Humble Bundle books and Japanese light novels, it is now compressing things by around 75 to 80% and takes around an hour per pass
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2025-06-26 00:17:02
Asked 5 different local AIs (not internet based nor connecting to the internet):
What is the average airspeed of a fully laden swallow?
And they attributed it to 3 novels: Alan Sillitoe's "The Lonely Voice"(which does not exist), Douglas Adams's "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," George Orwell's "Animal Farm" and also the correct answer, the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
So as long as we're good with AI being 75%…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-06-30 06:48:28
Just finished "Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know" by Samira Ahmed. It's a good book, although it took until past the middle for me to really get sucked in. Fascinating mix of romance history mystery, and with an ending that nicely fits the theme. Honestly, as much as I'm enjoying uncomplicated romance novels with the expectable ending at this point in my life, I'm even more excited by things like this that bend or break genre conventions, and this one does it in beautiful service to a theme.
#AmReading
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social2025-07-24 13:08:35
"The collection, organization, promotion, and use of graphic novels, comics, and manga: A survey of academic libraries"
#comics
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-08-01 21:00:08
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@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social2025-09-03 23:23:58
Slow Horses is a popular series on AppleTV lately. I highly recommend reading the books it’s based on, starting with the novel by that name, by Mick Herron. Think the George Smiley tales of British Cold War MI5, only seedier, and updated to the 21st century. Grimier, with more infighting and backstabbing. These spies are all fuck-ups who hope to get back in good graces with the real ones, but won’t. 7 novels, 3 novellas; all page-turners. Big recommend.
@georgiamuseum@glammr.us2025-06-18 15:17:54
Our new art handler, Doug Hollingsworth, is a real renaissance man. He's played in bands, written several novels and worked at both the Guggenheim and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Learn more about Doug in our latest blog post: https://georgiamuseum.org/gmoa_blog/do
@_tillwe_@mastodon.social2025-08-17 17:07:39
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2025-06-22 17:00:03
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#WordsAndMusic
- Portraits of Suffolk
Readings by Michael Maloney and Miranda Raison from works including Ronald Blythe's Akenfield and novels by Esther Freud and Melissa Harrison, music from Britten to Brian Eno.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001zvdg
@lysander07@sigmoid.social2025-07-01 07:35:27
Tomorrow, we will dive deeper into ontologies with OWL, the Web Ontology Language. However, I'm doing OWL-lectures now for almost 20 years - and OWL as well as the lecture haven't changed much. So, I'm afraid I'm going to surprise/dissapoint the students tomorrow, when I will switch off the presentation and start improvising a random OWL ontology with them on the blackboard ;-)
#ise2025
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-08-01 09:00:08
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@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-07-27 12:35:24
New headcanon: array indices starting from 0 instead of 1 was inspired by the fact that first editions of novels have reviews printed on their backs.
@june_thalia_michael@literatur.social2025-08-25 07:00:31
#EroticMusings 13: How important is it that an audience experiences your work? How much interaction do you want?
I love interaction and hearing from my audience! Very view people review erotic novels, so every review feels rewarding. Also seeing reactions to my books on the fedi or getting DMs about my book? That makes me happy.
I hate it when people want to talk about me inst…
@Archivist@social.linux.pizza2025-06-22 04:24:25
Rayons is such a great musician. As I am reading a novel and listening to the soundtrack of the anime adaptation, I am getting murdered by feels. She nailed the soundtrack, she nailed the mood of the novels, everything is perfect. I know that wishing for more recognition for her is a bit off-tone given that she did the new era of Japan ceremony music too, but I feel like she deserves more public eye
@relcfp@mastodon.social2025-08-20 16:05:55
CFP: Dime Novels and Juvenile Series Books Area, PCA Conference 2026
https://ift.tt/ITp69Jw
updated: Wednesday, August 20, 2025 - 10:02amfull name / name of organization: Popluar Culture…
via Input 4 RELCFP
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-07-28 03:00:08
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@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social2025-07-25 20:50:58
Library Comic
librarycomic.com
#Librarians are awesome.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-08-27 01:00:08
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@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-08-24 00:42:51
Just finished "Barda" by Ngozu Ukadi. I don't normally grab classic comics or their modern successors from the library, and this exception to that rule has reminded me why I prefer to stick with other stuff, especially indie graphic novels: the stories are just so blocky & uninspired. I don't say "childish" since there are plenty of great books in the kids graphic novel section that I've enjoyed. It's also true that *some* of the classic stuff is deeper than the rest. But the average "comic" is not going to be very high on my list of stuff I enjoy, and this, while passable, was no exception to that generalization.
Still might look for other stuff by this author, since I'm pretty sure a lot of the issues with mainline comics can be publisher-dictated.
#AmReading
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-08-25 20:00:09
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@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-08-22 14:06:17
Just finished "Get a Life, Chloe Brown" by Talia Hibbert. It's... much less chaste than most of the other romances I've been reading, but also incredibly sweet and positive, so I enjoyed it a lot.
My one reservation is that it does the thing a lot of romance novels do where they equate physical desire with romantic desire, and physical flirtations/advances with actual communication, and yes people equate those things in the real world all the time, by it's often really harmful when they do that.
This novel does better with consent than 99% of the field probably, and legitimately deserves props for that, so this isn't the harsh criticism I'd level if it seriously broke the "would this be okay if we didn't have access to interior monologues" test, but it skirts the edges of that a bit.
#AmReading
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2025-07-19 15:13:08
In spite of having read several of Iain Banks' non-Sci Fi oeuvre I had never been remotely tempted by the culture novels, though I have friends who raves about them at Uni. Then I spotted this on a summer reading table at the library, which I suppose shows the value of a good librarian...
#IainMBanks #Culture novel. Actually, surprisingly my first. That's the gift of both train travel and a good book. #bookstodon #booksky #FlyingLess
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-08-23 09:00:09
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@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-07-21 01:00:09
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@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-07-19 17:00:10
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@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-07-20 05:00:09
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@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-07-18 08:00:09
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