Patricia Fancher

Jul 20, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Patricia Fancher

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Jul 20, 2024 | bigthink.com | Patricia Fancher

In the early 1950s, small, peculiar love letters were pinned up on the walls of the computing lab at the University of Manchester. Darling SweetheartYou are my avid fellow feeling. My affection curiously clings to your passionate wish. My liking yearns for your heart. You are my wistful sympathy: my tender liking. Yours beautifullyM U CHoney DearMy sympathetic affection beautifully attracts your affectionate enthusiasm. You are my loving adoration: my breathless adoration.

Jun 23, 2024 | slate.com | Patricia Fancher

Skip to the content Outward ChatGPT can now easily pass any Turing test, a measure of successful A.I. proposed by a founder of computer science, Alan Turing. But contemporary Turing tests leave out the most interesting part of Turing’s original test: the gender-bending. I can usually spot A.I. writing in my students’ work by the overuse of words like “delve,” but the accuracy of artificial intelligence is impossible to deny.

Jul 24, 2023 | memoirland.substack.com | Andrew Leland |Eva Holland |Patricia Fancher |edmee lepercq

Welcome to Memoir Land—a newsletter edited by @Sari Botton, now featuring three verticals: Memoir Monday, a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web brought to you by Narratively, The Rumpus,  Granta, Guernica, Oldster Magazine, Literary Hub, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, and Electric Literature. First Person Singular, featuring original personal essays. Recently I published “The Re-Parent Trap” by . The Lit Lab, featuring interviews and essays on craft and publishing.

Apr 10, 2023 | thesunmagazine.org | Staci Kleinmaier |Rita Bernstein |Patricia Fancher |Leath Tonino

Since the 1960s American religious affiliation has been in decline. For more than two centuries religious institutions have given our lives meaning beyond day-to-day experience, offered a connection between the mundane and the spiritual, and served as a powerful source of social and political authority. But more and more, Americans are looking elsewhere to make sense of the chaos and uncertainty of life.