HeyJaredPhilip Athans
Editor and author Philip Athans has been a driving force behind varied media including Alternative fiction & poetry magazine and Wizards of the Coast. He lives and works in the Pacific Northwest.
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ZERO AI. PERIOD. (opens the original)
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I do not use any form of LLM, “AI,” or chatbot for any reason at all, and certainly not for writing and absolutely never with any of the edits I do. And though I continue to avoid any version of “the news” for my own mental health, AI, book bans, and other assaults on my own community—anything and everything writing, books, and publishing—continues to haunt everything I do. So, I do have to be aware of it, aware of what’s going on, good or (unfortunately mostly) bad, but I do feel good about the
“A great deal of my early training was due to my father” (opens the original)
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In a 1991 Humanist magazine interview, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry said:“I was born into a supernatural world in which all my people—my family—usually said, “That is because God willed it, or gave other supernatural explanations for whatever happened. When you confront those statements on their own, they just don’t make sense. They are clearly wro
“It is a warning that anyone is potentially a captive” (opens the original)
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Having read and loved Jefrey Toobin’s American Heiress, I was captivated by Ed Simon’s essay, “American Captivity: The captivity narrative as creation myth” in The Hedgehog Review, which expands the singular story of Patty Hearst into the long and, let’s say… “iffy” tradition of the American captivity narrative. But to me, the Patty Hearst story is primarily a story of cult indoctrination, and I
PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR BOOKS ARE (opens the original)
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And by this I mean both the books you have written, are writing, or might want to someday write—and the books you are reading, have read, and might ever want to read.Every Tuesday I give $25 to a charity. This is just something I do—something I’ve been doing for years now. That works out to $100 a month—or so. Actually, $1300 a year ($25 x 52 weeks). That sounds like a lot, I’m sure, to most people, but that’s why I do this in smaller increments, every week. Thirteen hundred dollars feels like a
“too highly polished” (opens the original)
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The lede of Jasna Hodžić’s Big Think interview “He won a major short story prize. Then he was accused of using AI” reads:“Earlier this year, Jamir Nazir, a retired Trinidadian civil servant with no public writing career to speak of, won both the regional and overall Commonwealth Short Story Prize for “The Serpent in the Grove.” The story follows Vishnu, a Trinidadian man and alcoholic, who tries to kill his wife, Sita, in an attempt to escape his life.</
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