It’s the Daily LFS – Lim Fic Spotlight from the Liminal Fiction website. Today: Sharon A. McDonell Sci Fi Sharon A. McDonell, a Sacramento native, is a retired university professional with a background in career counseling. After stepping away from her career due to invisible disabilities, she pursued her passion for writing. Inspired by her … Read more
People increasingly rely on artificial intelligence (AI) for medical diagnoses because of how quickly and efficiently these tools can spot anomalies and warning signs in medical histories, X-rays and other datasets before they become obvious to the naked eye. But a new study published Dec. 20, 2024 in the BMJ raises concerns that AI technologies … Read more
Summerville, South Carolina, has been haunted by mysterious “ghost lanterns” for decades. Now, a scientist thinks she’s finally worked out what the floating orbs are: Turns out, they could be linked to tiny earthquakes. Local legends suggest the mysterious balls of light, which are often spotted near old railway tracks, are lanterns carried by the … Read more
It’s the Daily LFS – Lim Fic Spotlight from the Liminal Fiction website. Today: John Beresford Fantasy, Sci Fi John Beresford has been writing seriously since 1968. Eventually some of his work began to appear in public. His first novel, War of Nutrition, was published for Kindle in February 2012 and was soon joined by … Read more
Genre: Horror, Queer Cosmic Horror Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon | Publisher About The Book This Appalachian cosmic horror novel tells the story of a gay man who must return to his ancestral home in the mountains of Western North Carolina after his mother’s death to clean it out and sell it off. Navigating feelings of … Read more
In late 2022 large-language-model AI arrived in public, and within months they began misbehaving. Most famously, Microsoft’s “Sydney” chatbot threatened to kill an Australian philosophy professor, unleash a deadly virus and steal nuclear codes. AI developers, including Microsoft and OpenAI, responded by saying that large language models, or LLMs, need better training to give users … Read more
It’s the Daily LFS – Lim Fic Spotlight from the Liminal Fiction website. Today: Timothy S Currey Fantasy, Paranormal, Poetry, Sci Fi Timothy S Currey is an Australian author who was born in 1990 in Western Australia. Growing up in the country town of Carabooda, he developed a love of reading (and re-reading) everything from … Read more
‘I encountered the terror of never finding anything’ The concepts of “sentience” and “agency” in machines are muddled, particularly given that it’s difficult to measure what these concepts are. But many speculate the improvements we are seeing in artificial intelligence (AI) may one day amount to a new form of intelligence that supersedes our now. Regardless, AI … Read more
It’s the Daily LFS – Lim Fic Spotlight from the Liminal Fiction website. Today: Francesca Forrest Fantasy, Sci Fi Francesca Forrest is the author of Pen Pal (2013), a hard-to-classify novel from the margins, and The Inconvenient God and Lagoonfire (Annorlunda Books, 2018 and 2021), as well several stand-alone short stories and short stories that … Read more
No other human-made catastrophes can wreak more destruction than a nuclear bomb. Luckily, bomb shelters and bunkers can protect us, right? The truth is that these structures’ ability to shield people from the potent heat and blast of a nuclear bomb varies. “It all depends on where the bunker is and the quality of the … Read more
