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I’m beginning to suspect that reading and writing and cooking are actually (what?)

Another Scribophile Weekly Challenge; this one was “Write a story or scene set in times gone by.”

This week’s Scribophile weekly challenge was to write something epistolary and/or “found text”.

So I continue playing around on the Scribophile, although I haven’t posted any more parts of The Story there recently.

I’ve just finished Renee Gladman’s “Calamities”, and (like everything else of hers I’ve read) it’s wonderful.

So Scribophile, on which I’m having some fun despite reservations about reading too much not all that good prose, has a “Weekly Challenge” in which there is a prompt, and you’re supposed to write something up to like 4K words, and people can send you comp…

So the writing proceeds apace (if that’s what that means).

The title was going to be “Readin’ an’ Writin'”, but somehow that didn’t look right.

So people used to make (and apparently still make, although to a much lesser extent than at its peak) charcoal, for various high-temperature activities like glassmaking and metalworking, by heating wood to high temperatures without much air.

So the other day I posted something of a rant, and (as I hinted at the end of the rant) on more sober reflection I need to tease apart a number of thoughts that led me to say, or appear to be saying, things that I don’t think I actually believe.

(I do have some more nuanced ideas about my gut-level rant from last time, but I’m going to let them percolate for a while longer (possibly forever, although I hope not).)

(Note: I am employed by Google, which is arguably a competitor of Anthropic.

I know I tend to start by saying that it’s been a long time, but wow it’s been a long time.

I feel so accomplished today!

It was suddenly all over my phone, so I told Jack but he said I’d probably been hacked or something, but then he looked at his phone and it was all over his phone too, in the headlines.

Various things have been occurring!

So today is one of those “I must have switched universes again” days, like when I suddenly discovered that someone named L.

Boy, is it cold!

Many years ago (I’m pretty sure) I wrote a little essay in the old weblog, describing what interactions with an artificially intelligent assistant might be like.

Much has been happening!

I have now spent entirely too much time :) talking to a couple of AIs to make a pretty HTML version of Keelley, my November deci-novel (apologies for any Dire Warnings about that page being insecure; be sure not to enter your personal information into any…

So I did finish my five-thousand-word Decinovel for November!

So far I’ve decided I’m not doing NaNoWriMo this year, there’s just too much going on.