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from the FICTIONS PAGE "The skeleton watched from its place above the sideboard, bony fingers clutching painted flowers against a gold-leaf expanse... A bold assertion of taste and humor, but now it just loomed." READ ➡️ aletheus.com/writing-ai-f... #writing #fiction

The 'Surprisal Gap' is a Competitive Shield. In an #economy of “mean-reverting syntax,” the idiosyncratic voice has evolved from an ornament into a high-value asset. If an output possesses low entropy (H(X)), it is, by definition, a commodity. High entropy is the signature of the irreplaceable. #job

"Human beings retain only about 10% of what they read, 20% of what they hear, and 90% of what they actively do. In CL, the lessons are learned through practice in everyday settings, whether #gardening, shopping, or conversing in a playground." aletheus.com/2024/06/09/c... #mentalhealth

ARTICLE: Constructive Living; Accept your feelings, know your purpose, do what needs to be done.Accepting feelings is not ignoring them or avoiding them, but welcoming them; Vietnamese poet and writer, Thich Nhat Hanh recommends we say, “Hello Loneliness, how are you today? Come, sit by…aletheus.com

If the machine always knows where the sentence is going, it isn’t #writing; it is merely autocompleting a world that has already been seen. However, with human intervention there is potential. Just as there is for any #artist working with the tools of their trade, eh? #aiwriting

Get the most out of #NotebookLM Deep Dive podcast creator and go beyond the generic regurgitation. #google

The Time of the Wolves; The Cruel Cold of 1709. "Famine broke out across #Europe. Those who still had bread needed an axe to break apart the frozen loaves." aletheus.com/2025/03/14/t... #history

HISTORY: The Time of the Wolves; The Cruel Cold of 1709The cold air gradually pushed southward. After a brief warming around Christmas, the frost returned with even greater force. Temperatures dropped further each day. In Berlin, for example, it reache…aletheus.com

The survival of the human #author depends on adopting the “relativist” mastery that models, optimized for “positivistic” tasks, simply cannot emulate. The #LLM machine requires a “right” answer; the human thrives in the aporia, the irresolvable internal contradiction.

Perception is a tricky thing these days, eh? petapixel.com/2026/05/14/s... #art

Someone Shared a Real Monet Painting as AI and Asked for CritiquesSomeone shared a real Monet painting as an AI image and asked for critiques as to why AI art is inferior to the real thing. Hilarity ensued.petapixel.com

#GEMINI FILE FORMULA 1) Format: Which of 11 file types do you want? (Doc, Sheet, PDF, CSV…) 2) Output: How should it look? (lists, prose, table, hybrid) 3) Purpose: What should it achieve? (inform, persuade, track, summarize) 4) CONTEXT: Who is it for? See comment for e.g. #LLM

FICTION: Kirin - Chapter Two: "She had been looking at something in a shop window with the full attention of a person who was actually looking rather than composing herself to be seen looking, and he had noted this as a distinction worth holding onto." #writing aletheus.com/writing-ai-f... #story

FICTIONSa running feed of fictionaletheus.com

SUM IT ALL UP #PROMPT "Synthesize key findings, arguments, and evidence across all provided sources. Identify the most important insights and their connections. Highlight points of agreement and contradiction. Divide into: Key Findings, Supporting Evidence, Connections, Points of Conflict." #LLM

At-a-Glance "which model to use when" chart for #Gemini

Very cool: Historical #DNA connects 1.3 million living relatives to 17th-century Maryland settlers and may have identified the colony’s second governor www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #genealogy

Historical DNA connects 1.3 million living relatives to 17th-century Maryland settlers and may have identified the colony’s second governorAnalysis of Historic St. Mary’s City highlights the power of combining ancient DNA, archaeology, and genealogy to restore lost identities and track the migrations of America's earliest &nbsp...www.eurekalert.org

Stuck on hold. Caught in traffic. Waiting 45 min for the bus. You can't control the delay, but you can control how you participate. That's not a platitude, that's #healthy agency in motion. aletheus.com/2025/04/20/har… #change

ANCESTORS: Stray Notation; Armagh Parish 1799 (Catholic) aletheus.com/2025/06/08/a... There are stories everywhere you look, when you look closely and with curiosity 🤙🏻

ANCESTORS: Stray Notation; Armagh Parish 1799 (Catholic)Every now and then, one stumbles on an extra detail that brings an ancestral family story into clearer focus and sheds light on a life so far removed from our own. We glimpse what they endured, and…aletheus.com

#PROMPT "LITERALIST MODE: ACTIVE CONSTRAINT: Respond using ONLY the provided text. PERMISSION: Authorized to omit all preambles, conclusions, and context-filling. MANDATE: Answer question exactly as phrased. Do not infer intent or optimize for "helpfulness." INPUT: [Text or Question]" #LLM

Start a new #writing adventure with #Kirin as he goes to the Greek Islands aletheus.com/2026/05/13/f... #fiction

FICTION: Kirin on AntiparosHe arrived in February, when the island still belonged to us. The house at the end of the lane had been empty since the Athenian family stopped coming, and then one morning his bags were on the ste…aletheus.com

#WRITE! ~400 words

Get yourself to a #museum today! www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a... #art

Enjoying the arts ‘has same effect on ageing as a weekly workout’A weekly dose of culture is linked to ageing 4 per cent slower, a study has found — diverse interests may be especially beneficialwww.thetimes.com

Richard Dawkins introduced memes as units of #cultural transmission — not just internet jokes. Your ancestors' preferences for food, color, and place may have spread to you like cultural #DNA. aletheus.com/2025/04/25/cul… #FamilyHistory