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PaulLev

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#author 20 books: #ScienceFiction novels (best known: The Silk Code, The Plot to Save Socrates), media/politics (best known: The Soft Edge, Digital McLuhan, New New Media); prof Fordham Univ in New York City; #podcaster; #SingerSongwriter (LPs: Twice Upon a Rhyme, Spun Dreams, Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time); what I'm writing these days: time travel, alternate realities; most recent pub: "It's Real Life" =I once had a sign that said a neat desk is a sign of a sick mind, but I lost it.=

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PaulLev, to sciencefiction
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I'll be moderating a panel of screenwriter semifinalists of the The Philip K Dick Film Festival about their approaches to writing a winning screenplay this Saturday, 2:40-3:40pm at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, NY -- and also talking about It's Real Life. Come on by! https://www.thephilipkdickfilmfestival.com/festivalprogramming/26

PaulLev, to random
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review of the Who Killed JFK? podcast, episode 7 https://paullevinson.blogspot.com/2023/12/who-killed-jfk-episode-7-assembled.html

jensorensen, to prochoice
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Latest cartoon: Holiday harangue

PaulLev,
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@jensorensen all too true

Teri_Kanefield, to random
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I finished my book again. 🎉

I may even have enough energy to write a weekend blog post (but I can't say for sure!)

Here is what I didn't know until I wrote this book: The story of the Bill of Rights is the story of America (where we started and where we are.)

PaulLev,
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@Teri_Kanefield well said

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REMINDER: ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and other large trained neural models are NOT "artificial intelligence", they're just stochastic parrots, remixing and regurgitating what they've been fed. There's no theory-of-mind involved, so no understanding: there's no "there" there. (A real live parrot exhibits more intelligence than this.)

Don't call it AI; call it parrot-tech. That way you'll have a better perspective on what it can (and can't) do.

PaulLev,
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@cstross I agree 100%! In fact, I made this point just yesterday in this interview (starts at about 4 mins into the episode) https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Km7vyfiCDlSiBabkZ88N7?si=9628fb97c7d14162

PaulLev, to Beatles
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Just published! My essay, "The Beatles and podcasts," in the Journal of Beatles Studies https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/jbs.2023.12

Sheril, to books
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“What an astonishing thing a book is… one glance at it & you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly & silently inside your head, directly to you.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”

  • Carl Sagan
PaulLev,
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@Sheril great quote!

PaulLev, to ArtificialIntelligence
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Brand new interview about robots, AI, and (of course) Robots Through the Ages https://open.spotify.com/episode/6z75bNvs2TJOiD5aDKy3mZ?si=a9f7d1e1a30e4f0d

PaulLev, to StarTrek
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Expanded review of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2.9

https://vocal.media/futurism/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-2-9

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@Tarrenvane @startrek yes, exactly ... they did a crossover with the animated Lower Decks series, episode before last, and now the musical ... in general, I think it's a fabulous series, easily the best of the new Star Treks

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@Tarrenvane @startrek Enjoy! (That last little bit of Picard is the best part -- here's a nice long roundtable podcast discussion of the final season of Picard, after you finish seeing it https://paullev.libsyn.com/roundtable-discussion-of-star-trek-picard-3 )

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@Tarrenvane @startrek the best is yet to come :)

PaulLev,
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@TotallyNotSpez I'm not a big fan of many of them, either -- but if you've been watching Strange New Worlds, there are important elements that further some of the major plot points this season

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@TotallyNotSpez well, the next episode is superb ... here's my review (chock full of spoilers) https://paullevinson.blogspot.com/2023/08/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-210-young.html

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review of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2.9

https://paullevinson.blogspot.com/2023/08/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-29-operetta.html

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Apropos the recent UFO Hearings, here's what I said about UFOs some 13 years ago on Ancient Aliens (1min 23secs in interview) https://youtu.be/0Sqo7qmTJv0

PaulLev, to startrek
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review Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2.8

https://paullevinson.blogspot.com/2023/07/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-28.html

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review of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2.7

https://paullevinson.blogspot.com/2023/07/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-27-pike.html

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@livedeified Thanks! It's also one of my favorite Star Trek episodes, too.

PaulLev,
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@maegul Thanks -- I think I will (give LD a chance).

PaulLev, to startrek
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will have a completely musical episode on August 3!

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-musical-episode-1235541620

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review of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2.6 https://paullevinson.blogspot.com/2023/07/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-26-jimmy.html @startrek

PaulLev,
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@maegul ah, sorry -- I didn't get that you also needed the blank line -- I'll do that in the future

PaulLev,
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@ikesau Thanks for the comment. To read what I think of non-legacy characters in Strange New Worlds, try some of my reviews of other episodes of the series (for example, the time-travel episode in which Singh and Kirk are the main characters, and I discuss Singh as much as Kirk).

PaulLev, to StarTrek
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Here's a review of the first five episodes of the second season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds https://vocal.media/futurism/review-of-star-trek-strange-new-worlds-2-1-2-5 @startrek

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