Don't worry. We found the abyss.

Sad. Reading to my daughter is perhaps my favorite part of parenting... there is quite/calm, closeness, wonder. Great things. The post makes me think of (and continue to wonder, WHY?!):

Man, all those Urza artifacts really felt like it build up this whole world of buried treasures of another age. They did a good job (though I have not played much since ~1998 at the latest).

I thought I might nominate there as well, but it seems they require a google account 😒 Don't have, won't have. Maybe I'll shoot them an e-mail about it. If you know of other good award opportunities arund this time: post 'em! I'm on the lookout as well.

I appreciate the commitement to reading hard copy.

I definitely appreciated seeing your perspective in the convo (I agree with you) and sad to see it go. It helped give me the courage to dive in a bit in the same thread. That said, I completely understand... people are very heated (and it is very misplaced).

All to say: Pangram is the least of the problems short fiction faces. The fight isn't with small magazines over Pangram. It is with gen AI on the whole and the trillions of dollars invested in it. There is not an easy solution and I understand the anger and reactionism, but it makes me sad.

All of the major generative LLM companies operate web scrapers. Magazines with publicly posted stories are likely being scraped and fed into getAI. Should we not put stories online at all? Oh, wait: they are buying print copies too... At some point this is a witch hunt with no purpose.

Should there be a filter/tag for that? I, for one, block all google IPs at the network level and do not interact directly with the company at all. I guess my point is that people have a lot of unease with various companies... where do their preferences become a line in the sand? Where do mine?

I'd bring up google docs. I'm sure many magazines use it is as way to store, sort, or distribute to slush readers. It is not a detector, nor an "AI" system in itself... but it is a known thing that google scans e-mail and documents stored on their servers.

A few folks had done this and it seemed fun. They didn't have "Rock & Roll Racing" or "Angband", both favorites... so put those in the list and kick out the last two?

Just one more week to submit a story for our current submission call (submissions close at the end of the month). We'd love to hear from you if we haven't already 😀

standardebook uses it as a form of PD status proof. You look for books that came out pre-1932 that show fine art in them. Once you find a piece you like in the book page scans you find a nice high resolution version elsewhere. But it lets you rest easy with the PD status (is the idea).