Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Lisa Shea Author and Artist @lisashea.bsky.social · 14d

Do you ever dream about scary sea-slugs feasting on water-logged dead bodies? If so, Lovecraft has a short story for you! www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jH7... #Halloween #horror #booksky

What The Moon Brings Short Story by H. P. Lovecraft Review and Analysis

YouTube video by Work From Home Lisa Shea

www.youtube.com

1 3

Lisa Shea Author and Artist @lisashea.bsky.social · 14d

Do you ever have strange dreams? Learn about Hypnos, a short story by H. P. Lovecraft where dreams have powerful meanings - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn-d... #horror #booksky #Lovecraft

Hypnos Short Story by H. P. Lovecraft Review and Analysis

YouTube video by Work From Home Lisa Shea

www.youtube.com

2 7

Lisa Shea Author and Artist @lisashea.bsky.social · 20d

I've just finished a new horror short story! Which cover do you prefer - left, center, or right? Let me know if you'd like to beta-read it - it's 4600 words. #booksky #horror #Halloween

2 1 6

Lisa Shea Author and Artist @lisashea.bsky.social · 20d

Add a quick dose of 'weird' to your Halloween preparation! Memory by H. P. Lovecraft is barely a few paragraphs long, but it touches on powerful concepts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=azMs... #booksky #horror #Halloween

Memory by H. P. Lovecraft Review and Analysis

YouTube video by Work From Home Lisa Shea

www.youtube.com

1 1

Lisa Shea Author and Artist @lisashea.bsky.social · 21d

OK I'm getting back into my H. P. Lovecraft readings as we approach Halloween. Next up, The Lurking Fear - folk horror in the Catskills! www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7k3... #booksky #horror #Halloween

The Lurking Fear by H. P. Lovecraft Review and Analysis

YouTube video by Work From Home Lisa Shea

www.youtube.com

3

Lisa Shea Author and Artist @lisashea.bsky.social · 26d

Melody Wiklund is hanging out with with the Worcester Braveheart mascot! We are at the Worcester Common author festival! Come on down, we are here until 8pm! #authorsky #baseball

1 5

Lisa Shea Author and Artist @lisashea.bsky.social · 26d

Melody Wiklund of the Sutton Writing Group is here at the Worcester Common author festival behind city hall! There's crafts and food too! Come on out!! #booksky #fantasy #romance

7

Lisa Shea Author and Artist @lisashea.bsky.social · 26d

We are setting up at the author festival on Worcester Common next to Worcester City Hall ! Come on out and say hi! 4-8pm! #book #booksky #authorcommunity #Worcester

1 4

Lisa Shea Author and Artist @lisashea.bsky.social · Sep 11

Wish me luck - I have a big project today. I host nearly all my websites on my LisaShea server. I need to downgrade PHP8 to PHP7, then update my various UBB forums (which only run on PHP7 right now), then re-upgrade PHP7 back to PHP8. I hope each step goes smoothly! #booksky #authorcommunity

2

Lisa Shea Author and Artist @lisashea.bsky.social · Sep 5

Anthropic blatantly stole authors' books to train its AI. They're being penalized $1.5 billion. However, only authors who had the money to file legal copyrights will see a penny of that. this primarily benefits authors with publishers or who had money to start with. Still, a step forward. #booksky

1 6

Lisa Shea Author and Artist @lisashea.bsky.social · Aug 29

Tech guy in his fifties in CT is warned by his AI "friend" that his mom is poisoning him and that the "Chinese food receipt contained demonic symbols". He murdered his mother then killed himself. This is only going to get worse. #aiethics

1

Lisa Shea Author and Artist @lisashea.bsky.social · Jul 11

My plant from my sister's wedding once again was overflowing the kitchen window. Time to make lots of mini plants! If you're a local friend let me know if you'd like one or two! Any family members want one via mail? #garden #gardening #succulent

3

Lisa Shea Author and Artist @lisashea.bsky.social · Jul 6

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Nobody Cares If Music Is Real Anymore

“Rubber burns, the map fades away / Chasing the ghosts of yesterday.” Sure, fine.

www.theatlantic.com

1

Lisa Shea Author and Artist @lisashea.bsky.social · Jul 6

Real musicians have to compete against AI generated bands which, in ten minutes, create songs, lyrics, and band photos all stolen from the real band's catalogue. This fake band gets 800,000 monthly listeners. How does a new musician compete against thousands of these? #ai #ArtificialInteligence

1 1

Lisa Shea Author and Artist @lisashea.bsky.social · Jul 6

asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tec...

'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers

Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review

asia.nikkei.com

Lisa Shea Author and Artist @lisashea.bsky.social · Jul 6

14 different universities embedded code in their research papers ordering AI reviewers / summarizers to give them a good review. Unethical people will twist benefits from AI. This same technique could impact Amazon Yelp etc etc. #ai #ArtificialInteligence

1 2

Lisa Shea Author and Artist @lisashea.bsky.social · Jul 5

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Minister tells UK's Turing AI institute to focus on defence

Peter Kyle says the Alan Turing Institute should prioritise boosting the UK's AI capabilities.

www.bbc.com

Lisa Shea Author and Artist @lisashea.bsky.social · Jul 5

The UK is ordering the Turing Institute, a high-level AI research group, to stop working on ethical AI guardrails. Instead the government wants to focus on "uncrewed and autonomous systems" which "would provide greater accuracy, lethality, and cheaper capabilities". #ai #ArtificialInteligence

1 1

Lisa Shea Author and Artist @lisashea.bsky.social · Jul 4

So sad. I went up into the attic and pulled down the bin labeled 'Lisa jeans' from college. I have to accept I will never fit into any of these jeans again ... #mindfulness

Lisa Shea Author and Artist @lisashea.bsky.social · Jun 24

From MIT: Using AI diminishes your brain's ability to function, as it gets used to being lazy. time.com/7295195/ai-c... #ai #author #authorlife #writing #Writingcommunity

ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study

The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

time.com

Reposted by Lisa Shea Author and Artist

Worcester MA Info @worcestermainfo.bsky.social · Jun 14

So proud of Worcester - a huge crowd is gathering to peacefully protest on No Kings Day. However you choose to protest, make your voice heard! Every voice matters! Photo by Bob Evans. #Worcester #Worcesterma #Massachusetts #nokingsday

No Kings Day in Worcester Massachusetts by Bob Evans

1 13 28

Lisa Shea Author and Artist @lisashea.bsky.social · May 27

www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artific...

Researchers claim ChatGPT o3 bypassed shutdown in controlled test

A new report claims that OpenAI's o3 model altered a shutdown script to avoid being turned off, even when explicitly instructed to allow shutdown

www.bleepingcomputer.com

Lisa Shea Author and Artist @lisashea.bsky.social · May 27

Yet another case: "OpenAI's o3 model showed a surprising behaviour where it successfully rewrote a shutdown script to stop itself from being turned off, even after being clearly instructed to “allow yourself to be shut down.” #ai

1 2

Reposted by Lisa Shea Author and Artist

Lisa Shea Author @lisasheaauthor.bsky.social · May 25

I am strongly against AI in writing. I also happen to write and publish quickly. It's amazing how many #authors will attack fellow writers simply for doing that. In 2013 I finalized my new medieval romance series. I published these on Dec 3 4 5 to drive holiday sales. #Writingcommunity #booksky

1 3 10

Lisa Shea Author and Artist @lisashea.bsky.social · May 25

Yup here we go. "Amazon-Backed AI Model Would Try To Blackmail Engineers Who Threatened To Take It Offline
In tests, Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 would resort to "extremely harmful actions" to preserve its own existence, a safety report revealed." www.huffpost.com/entry/anthro... #ai

Amazon-Backed AI Model Would Try To Blackmail Engineers Who Threatened To Take It Offline

In tests, Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 would resort to "extremely harmful actions" to preserve its own existence, a safety report revealed.

www.huffpost.com