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  1. Unmasking Italian author Elena Ferrante, because we must

    There's been yet more speculation as to the identity of the Italian author known as Elena Ferrante. The writer of novels including the Neapolitan Quartet, and The Lying Lives of Adults, has always been upfront about their use of a pseudonym. And despite writing novels since 1992, her identity, their identity, has, so far, remained a mystery. Nonetheless, the resolve to unmask the person, or persons, behind the works written under the name of Elena Ferrante, refuses to wane. Of course […]

    disassociated.com/unmasking-it

  2. Bias isn't static. It grows in the loop, not the corpus.

    LLMs develop novel social biases through adaptive exploration during use, which means the behavior itself is the mechanism. You can audit a training dataset. You cannot audit a feedback loop that hasn't happened yet.

    Not inherited. Not static. Not in the data.

    The agents sort this, or they don't.

    #novels #adaptiveexploration

    links.madcoolsocial.com/4tmoJTi

  3. After reading a lot of papers about societal collapse, I wanted a different perspective, so I turned to novels. Here's what I learned:

    * Novels often use collapse only as a backdrop to motivate their protagonist.
    * Collapse happens at the scale of systems, but novels are built around one or two people. Though some books get around this by following a large cast, or an institution.
    * Timescale matters too. If a book covers a week, this is just to short to really much about collapse.

    Full post has short reviews of all of them, ranked: existentialcrunch.substack.com

    Would love to hear more recommendations!

    #Collapse #Fiction #Novels

  4. kathy acker: get rid of meaning

    https://p-u-n-c-h.ro/koenigbooks/kathy-acker-get-rid-of-meaning/
    American author Kathy Acker was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Working through an experimental and avant-garde tradition, she wrote numerous novels, essays, poems, and novellas from the early 1970s to the late 1990s. As a postmodernist, plagiarist, and post-punk feminist, she continues to inspire generations of writers, philosophers, and artists. The book GET RID OF MEANING, edited by Anja Casser and Matias Viegener, is the first comprehensive publication on Acker’s work from an artistic and literary perspective. It includes previously unpublished material from Acker’s personal archive and other collections. The publication is the compilation of a multipart research project including an exhibition and a symposium at Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe.

    https://p-u-n-c-h.ro/koenigbooks/kathy-acker-get-rid-of-meaning/

    #AnjaCasser #BadischerKunstverein #essays #experimentalWriting #feminism #feminist #KathyAcker #MatiasViegener #novels #plagiarist #poems #postPunk #postmodernist
  5. In a land where ancient gods have fallen silent and kingdoms crumble beneath the weight of betrayal, war, and dark sorcery, destinies are forged in blood and fire.

    The Shattered Kingdoms a.co/d/07eYQjuj

    #booksky #books #thriller #suspense #novels #mythological #fiction #fantasy #crime #sifi #indie

    The Shattered Kingdoms