Lana V Lynx
Bio
Avid reader and occasional writer of satire and short fiction. For my own sanity and security, I write under a pen name. My books: Moscow Calling - 2017 and President & Psychiatrist
Stories (227/0)
The GULAG Archipelago
I've lived long enough now to feel that books rarely change me. Probably the last one was Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt that I read in 2004 or 2005, early in my doctoral program. Even then I wouldn't say that it changed me as much as it shook me in realization that human history was full of misery and suffering universally until quite recently and that we are probably living in the best human times in terms of life's comfort and personal security. And it all is incredibly fragile.
By Lana V Lynx8 months ago in BookClub
ChatGPT Hallucination Effect Illustrated
I have just started teaching a Public Relations Writing class today. My department has introduced the new AI policy which sounds as follows: "Students are allowed to use AI platforms for research (but: be mindful of the “hallucination effect”!) and generation of ideas. Partial use of AI-generated content is allowed in students’ original works such as home assignments, essays and final papers. However, similar to citing other primary, secondary, and tertiary sources, AI-generated content must be clearly referenced and attributed. Using AI-generated content without proper attribution will be treated as cheating and acted upon in accordance with the college policies on cheating."
By Lana V Lynx8 months ago in 01
The Master and Margarita - Critique
Bulgakov’s novel is arguably the world’s best-known work by a modern Russian writer. However, Bulgakov would have been horrified that his “novel of temptation by evil” became a mass culture commodity. He wrote it for one reader - Stalin - pleading to set free dissident writers kept in lunatic asylums.
By Lana V Lynx8 months ago in Critique
- Top Story - August 2023
War & Peace
The Russian word "mir" (peace) has another meaning - "world, society." While translating the novel's title as "War and Peace" is logical for juxtopposition, Tolstoy's main goal was to show how war affects the world. It is Natasha's love and life story in the context of war, peace, and society.
By Lana V Lynx9 months ago in Critique