Allison Mills 🩷💜💙🇨🇦

Your legacy….

You’re Literature now…

Wow, so proud!!

😔 Alas, I don’t even get to headline a post…. This is misogyny.

We’re at a point now with AI videos and images that news organisations are promoting them as if they were real. I’ve fallen for the cats too! But we should pay attention to videos that seem a little too polished/funny/convenient. AI literacy is going to be important as the tech improves. (4/4)

Screenshot of an AI video of an orange cat standing on the floor while dropping a mouse into a pot of brown liquid.

Screenshot of an AI video of a white cat dropping a mouse into a pot of boiling water.

Screenshot of an AI video of a grey cat dropping a mouse into a red soup pot behind its owner’s back.

Screenshot of an AI video of an orange cat standing on the floor while dropping a mouse into a soup pot.

Probably because it’s easier for most people to see that there’s something off about AI video! Like the ones screenshotted here. Pay particular attention to the orange cats (pic 1 and 4), who appear to be able to reach the stove from floor level without jumping. (3/4)

Think about camera angles and focus—the edge of the pot is very clear, but the cat is blurred. With that in mind, what is the “security camera” attached to? Why is the image so (relatively) clear for a security camera? If this footage exists, why not share the video itself? (2/?)

Is it semi-believable? Yes. It’s based on real cat behaviour, but it is absolutely AI. This is a super common trope in AI cat videos and also if you look at the “stills” closely you can tell they’re AI generated. Look at the oven, for example—why so many buttons? Why a tiny knob? 🧵(1/?)

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Isabel J. Kim ft. Allison Mills…..

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A computer with its screen scribbled out

THURSDAY ON TGS: we’ve got a fun little collaboration with @amanda.omg.lol and @isabel.kim of Wow If True and the guy in question is less of a ‘who’ and more of a ‘what.’ Anyways, back to scrolling!

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IG newberlinlibrary

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Wire Mother by Isabel J. Kim Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

ive been on-and-off trying to write a story about AI for a couple of years, and I think i finally cracked it with WIRE MOTHER, which is out in @clarkesworldmagazine.com (tw in the post below).

also hey, this issue is stacked??

clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_10_25/

The fact that Canada Post management would rather provide worse service and fire their workers than think about diversifying services is outrageous.

Canada Post “costs” tax dollars because that’s what taxes are for. Does anyone rly think using courier services would save individuals money? Come on.

"In some places, French postal workers now pick up prescriptions, return library books, and deliver flowers. Last year, only twenty eight per cent of La Poste’s revenue came from sending mail."

Services can evolve in positive ways to meet new and growing needs.

In France, Elder Care Comes with the Mail Carriers for La Poste have a new job: checking in on the aged.

For those who wonder what a modern postal service could look like, one example is in France, where letter carriers provide check-ins on the elderly for very affordable rates, while completing their routes.

I encourage everyone to read the whole thing

#CanadaPost

www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...

Cannot overstate how egregious it is to decide the postal service should stop delivering mail directly to people’s homes. How is “provide worse service” supposed to help solve the problem here? Esp for rural communities. This service “costs x tax dollars?” Yeah, bro—that’s what taxes are for.

If you’re like most Canadians, you don’t know that all of your parcels get delivered by Canada Post if you live in rural Canada. The big couriers don’t go there. They drop them off at the post office and letter carriers take them the rest of the way. Ending home delivery cuts them off.

Once more for the road!

I will be very sincere for a moment and say that this is one of my favorite things I’ve written.

It is very wet :)

Human Voices - Lightspeed Magazine In its dreams, the thing they call “Kos” sleeps deep and drowned in the clutch of the ice-cold trenches, where the pressure is a loving clasp around its arms and tail, where it is near-disintegrate, m...

hello its babys FIRST NOVELETTE (im baby)!

this is story about trapping a siren in your bathtub. also other things. but lets start there.

www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/huma...

one more self promo post for the road 🫡 (just kidding, I’m going to be back tomorrow with More New Items From Isabel)

Two people, one in a t-shirt and loose pants standing vertically and the other in a spacesuit standing upside-down, reach towards one another among a forest of abstract green glowing shapes

A team must risk a spacewalk when meteoroids threaten crucial portal-spanning telecommunications cables that hang a hundred meters beneath the ocean...and forty-five billion light-years away.

This Wednesday: "Freediver" by @isabel.kim
Art by @mojowang.bsky.social
Edited by @englelaird.bsky.social

Sword v computer ratio?

This is an appropriate response!!

I can hear this in their cadence

Over an image of the Hagley Library's website, the following text is written: "When AI Data Scraping Causes Problems for Digitized Archives. This summer one of my favorite archival websites was hit by so much AI bot traffic it amounted to a denial of service. Which is bad, because the Hagley Digital Archives are awesome."

AI data scraping is causing major problems for digital archives.

Many publishers of cool historical material (free for the public), like @hagleycenter.bsky.social, are being hit w/ bot swarms akin to denial of service attacks.

Latest in The Lint Trap

linttrapofhistory.substack.com/p/when-ai-da...

Finally available on bookshop.org, you should ABSOLUTELY preorder Isabel’s very good book!!

bookshop.org/p/books/subl...

please preorder sublimation by isabel j kim available wherever books are sold also feel free to steal this graphic made by ME

torpublishinggroup.com/sublimation/...