John Dodd

A day of playing, as Slink sat quietly watching Zen try to count coup on her, then chased her back for a bit, never attacking, just chasing, and they shared a licky stick together, and they talked…
They talked so much…
And now they’re having dinner…
And I’m crying again…
But It’s because I’m happy…

A day of understanding, Slink saw that Zen wasn’t here to replace her beloved sister, she was another small mog that needed someone to look after them.
And today…
Oh today…

Hesitation, as the no mans land between the back apartment and the house became a meeting place.
A day of meeting, as both mogs looked to learn of each other.
A day of exploration, as Zen came into the main house, and Slink decided whether or not she should let this strange little beast come in.

Zen had been in the shelter for a hundred and fifty days, and so coming home to somewhere new was strange to her, and for Slink, a new mog in the house could have gone one of two ways, but we kept them apart a bit, let them meet, kept them apart again, let them meet.

Everyone say hi to Zen, she’s one and a bit, roughly one quarter the size of Slink, and there was a great trepidation when we brought her back, and in truth, there was some hesitation between the two for a second.

and we thought, what if, just what if there’s someone else out there who needs looking after, who would benefit from the protection of a South Yorkshire Coal Leopard.
And so we looked…
And we found…
A wise friend of mine once said that when something is right, it’s right.

I don’t know what the thought was, but I was sat, crying for the unfairness of it all, and Jude was with me, and Slink came in, complained, and went outside to sing the blues (on the stairs, she does that when she wants permission to come in and be fussed

In a world where there’s never any good news, every bit of joy should be given to the world so that we’re reminded that it’s not all just crap…

I just saw the call on the BFS discord, I've sent a message through the google form, I'm hoping there's still a chance, my novella features Folk Horror, Unconventional Locked Rooms, Isolation on a Ship, A Mysterious Item, The land has turned, and it's Climate fiction. I'm S Yorks, 52, W/class

Definitely

Waiting for @cymerafestival.co.uk to begin, much merriment, too much walking, be good to catch up with everone, particularly @lunapress.bsky.social family

Just Add Water

Ocean of Stars

Virgin Land

Following from what you read, our SF set in space/off planet can be found in @johndodd.bsky.social novel Ocean of Stars and novella Just add Water; also the novella Virgin Land, by @chloehsmith.bsky.social I would go there next!

I did not, curious thing :)

Only just seen this, cheers bruv, miss you on the scene, glad to hear you're still with us :)

Soloborg funded in 12 minutes check it on Kickstarter

Just bounced past 1400 followers! And SOLO BORG managed to hit $31,000 in it's first 24 hours. Which is insanity. Thank you to everyone who has supported @the-soloist.itch.io and @beyondcataclysm.bsky.social in this one!

I made a celebration image with fountain pens thanks to @johndodd.bsky.social

The Great Meta Heist... The feeling you get when something is stolen from you is a strange one to be sure, that feeling of wanting to batter the feck out of whoever stole it, usually mixed with the sure and certain knowledge...

The Great Meta Heist...

The feeling you get when something is stolen from you is a strange one to be sure, but when you know who done it...

Well...

www.thedodd.com/post/the-gre...

For similarity to what you already have, the Parker Vector is a better choice...

Now I need to introduce you to inks and custom nibs...

Just filled this in, took two and a half answers, posted the answers to all 52 questions I gave on here as I did them, hell of a slog...

Worth it though...

That said, it’s done, I’ve got a novel to finish now...

And in the (sometimes) quiet words of another John, we are the resistance...

I feel really strongly about this, so I’ve deliberately taken time out of my day that I’ll have to make up later, but I suspect that most won’t have the time to respond in depth, and that the people who are looking to get this through will have been filling it in in detail since it was available.

, but it was very weighted towards everything being given to the scrapers and then further, giving them copyright over the things they’d stolen, most of which seems very disingenuous.

Also, two and a half hours…

So if anyone is interested in the PDF rather than reading through the morass of questions that I’ve just done answers to, just let me know and I’ll send it.
What I think about this is that there's a lot of bad faith questions in there, and a lot of “Justify why you think this”, which I understand

So that's it, done, two and a half hours of going through questions, cross checking and verifying. Turns out that I didn't need to copy all the answers down as they send you a PDF when you're done.

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52. What other developments are driving emerging questions for the UK’s copyright framework, and how should the government respond to them?
Too many to list here, but they should be responded to in honest consultation

Response:

If it’s not proven and verified to be accurate, use of synthetic data could be disastrous in many real world applications.

The Government should prioritise the use of original information in all things and not seek to find loopholes to use recycled data

For those unsure: Synthetic data are artificially generated data rather than produced by real-world events. Typically created using algorithms, synthetic data can be deployed to validate mathematical models and to train machine learning models

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51. What are the implications of the use of synthetic data to train AI models and how could this develop over time, and how should the government respond?

Use simpler language, make terms clear, perhaps not run it through Chat GPT…

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50. Is the legal framework that applies to AI products that interact with copyright works at the point of inference clear? If it is not, what could the government do to make it clearer?
Yes No

49. Could you share your experience or evidence of AI and digital replicas to date?
None of it is positive...