Monthly Archives: May 2025

Hanseatic Steampunk: Cora’s Adventures at the 2025 Aethercircus Festival in Buxtehude

The first May weekend was another long holiday weekend, because May 1 is a public holiday in Germany, the schools were closed on Friday May 2 and many had taken the day off work, so much of Germany had a … Continue reading

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Robot Hallucinations Revisited

Rather than overload my previous post (which got a lot of attention) with ETAs, I decided to write a follow-up post with a round-up of new developments, insights and reactions on the Seattle Worldcon ChatGPT controversy. For starters, Kathy Bond, … Continue reading

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Robot Hallucinations

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you will be aware that the 2025 Worldcon in Seattle, Washington, is embroiled in a massive scandal. Turns out the programming team used ChatGPT to vet people who’d applied to be on programming … Continue reading

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