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Neil Clarke: Editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, The Best Science Fiction of the Year series, and more. 2022 and 2023 Hugo Award Winner, Best Editor Short Form.
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I didn't plan on making these daily updates, but we crossed into the 200s over the holiday and that seems like a reason to celebrate. Only 286 subscriptions remain before we've erased all the losses caused by Amazon!

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We appreciate the support we're getting here. Today, it's down to 326.

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We're 344 subscribers away from where we were before Amazon pulled the rug out from under their traditional subscription program. There is light at the end of the tunnel, but still much work to do.

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I have a new story in this!
"Aktis Aeliou, or the Machine of Margot's Destruction" is science fantasy about Greek gods in space, needy love, and running towards oneself.
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So, a lot has happened on the health front. No final answers yet, but what we've learned so far needs to be followed up, & fast. For that, I need at least $11,000 (to go to $55,000 overall) for blood tests, CT scans, consultant fees & more. Please donate & share!
www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...

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It's better when the fountain is going, but I think it makes them a bit nervous.

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Stickers? Definitely not us. I try to avoid the post office. Having to ship print issues is more than enough headache.

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Ah, so it looks like my courtesy time to enjoy the win is up. That was fast, but not entirely shocking. Think I will just ignore social media for the rest of the day.

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The Locus Award for Best Editor has been around since 1989. Prior to last night, only three people have ever won: Gardner Dozois (17), Ellen Datlow (17), and David G. Hartwell (1). Honored to be among them and still very stunned.

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So... I apparently won the Locus Award for Best Editor. Stunned. Thank you to all the voters, readers, and everyone I worked with in 2023. Wow!

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I think it might be related to Google sites and permission issues that happen when you are logged into certain Google services for another domain.

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Weird. I can't get it to work. "Site cannot be reached."

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FOGcon's Zoom panel on the Changing Landscape for Short Speculative Fiction - June 20 at 6 pm Pacific Time. Panelists: Neil Clarke (Clarkesworld); LaShawn Wanak (Giganotosaurus); David Steffen (Submission Grinder, Diabolical Plots); Julia Rios (Worlds of Possibility). fogcon.org/2024/05/pane...

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The pill they have me on is quite flavorless, but that's probably good since I take a handful of different pills at once. I'm completely propped up by modern medicine. I'd be dead by now without some of them.

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Mine wasn't exactly hiding. I just had a doctor who didn't believe in testing men for thyroid issues. Something unrelated brought me to a different doctor and he noticed the mountain of symptoms I had. He's been my doctor since. Amazing the difference a tiny pill can make.

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Oh, I know what the problem is. Heart attack twelve years ago caused significant damage. Just monitoring to make sure my treatment is optimized and working. I can sympathize with the thyroid issues. I went undiagnosed (hypo) for about as long as you and it caused all sorts of problems.

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Ultrasound scans of my heart complete. (It's always longer than I remember.) They let me leave the facility, so I'm assuming nothing new and scary has developed since last time. At least nothing urgent. Hard to believe I've been dealing with this for nearly twelve years.

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In fact, we're already prioritizing based on factors associated with suspicious/spam/fraudulent behaviors. We've seen detectors that would probably make that process even more reliable and minimize the number of people who end up in the slower queue.

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Payments or physically mailing create a barrier for legit authors too. Read what I said more carefully. I'm comparing to spam because what a filter does is allow you to prioritize your reading order. That's all we'd use detectors for. Final review by a pair of human eyes is still necessary.

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Not denying that some have lost jobs. Saying the problem is the people using them and not being critical enough of the results is. That and the people trying to pass off generated words as their own that make detection more necessary. Signal to noise ratio will kill more jobs.

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When I worked in academia, I was involved in proving a lot of plagiarism cases. Feeling very sorry for my old colleagues right now.

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The difference being that proving plagiarism is far easier.

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Human review (as a final step) will still be necessary. If you are looking for an easy mode for this, sorry, doesn't exist. By the way, we're supposed to review our spam folders too.

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We use spam filters every day. They aren't perfect either and they were far worse at the start. If you use a detector, you need to be very critical of the results, but the better ones (a minority) can be helpful, particularly if you are drowning in generated works and need to prioritize.

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I know there's a piece circulating on the evils of "AI" detectors, but keep in mind that it willingly quotes someone who is helping scammers pass of generated works as legit. Not a good look.

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If you haven't updated your robots.txt to protect your work from scraping for "AI" training recently, there's probably a few bots you aren't blocking. Added Applebot-Extended this morning.
neil-clarke.com/block-the-bo...

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No, but they have colorful balls to play with in there.

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They have a pool too, but it isn't set up yet.

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It starts that way and soon becomes this.

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And for this Monday morning, a much better photo of a squirrel sitting at the picnic table. So far, we've had a chipmunk, rabbit, squirrel, fox, raccoon, and a few birds posing at the table. No bears, yet. #trailcam

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Big like our mosquitoes. Perks of living next to a wildlife refuge. Oh, this guy is Hoover. Current Reigning King of the Front Yard Chipmunks.

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If it had even reached the contract stage, we would have caught it in our routine checks for plagiarism and such. We caught it in the first round because of some of our anti-fraud efforts (developed in response to generated submissions)

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And just so my feed isn't just about people who have behaved badly, here is a chipmunk enjoying a meal on our front steps.

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Oh, look at that... A certain plagiarist (who has been previously caught and discussed by others) raised his head under a new identity and tried again. Blocked. Original publisher notified.

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You can get the print back issues from Amazon. Sometimes I sell them at conventions or run bundle deals on surplus issues for subscribers.

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They go where I go, so they'll be at a few cons this year. Glasgow among them.

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Feel like this needs to be said this morning. Short fiction is not dead. We pay 12 cents/word for stories and that will increase as our subscriber base increases. Want better pay for short story authors? Subscribe to magazines. Want better pay for magazine staff? Subscribe to magazines. Simple

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We're still rebuilding subscriptions (since Amazon abandoned them) and pushing back against the generated submissions on a daily basis. We'd like to keep doing so. The path forward requires us to keep shouting from the rooftops, so...
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
Thank you!

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👏Go read all those wonderful stories. 💭And then... read my essay on the science and fiction of dream hacking (lucid dreaming devices, REM sleep's weird physiology, and - yes - companies and advertisers that want to hack your dreams).

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