![]() As stated in the widely-endorsed Asilomar AI Principles, Advanced AI could represent a profound change in the history of life on Earth, and should be planned for and managed with commensurate care and resources. ![]() AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity, as shown by extensive research and acknowledged by top AI labs. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Meanwhile, at the heart of the Shattered Plains, the Parshendi are making an epochal decision. The secrets she needs can be found at the Shattered Plains, but just arriving there proves more difficult than she could have imagined. Despite being broken in ways she refuses to acknowledge, she bears a terrible burden: to somehow prevent the return of the legendary Voidbringers and the civilization-ending Desolation that will follow. His leading role in the war would seem reason enough, but the Assassin's master has much deeper motives.īrilliant but troubled Shallan strives along a parallel path. ![]() Among his prime targets is Highprince Dalinar, widely considered the power behind the Alethi throne. The Assassin, Szeth, is active again, murdering rulers all over the world of Roshar, using his baffling powers to thwart every bodyguard and elude all pursuers. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance, Book Two of the Stormlight Archive, continues the immersive fantasy epic that The Way of Kings began.Įxpected by his enemies to die the miserable death of a military slave, Kaladin survived to be given command of the royal bodyguards, a controversial first for a low-status "darkeyes." Now he must protect the king and Dalinar from every common peril as well as the distinctly uncommon threat of the Assassin, all while secretly struggling to master remarkable new powers that are somehow linked to his honorspren, Syl. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() May it be noticed and read and praised and believed." - Karen Joy Fowler, bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves "A heartbreaking celebration of the necessity of joy. ![]() I think Yu is doing some of the most exciting things in genre." -Jo Walton, Tor.com "An extraordinary achievement-original in voice, powerful in material, a book of brutal beauty and unflinching compassion. This should win awards when it comes out next year. It is devastating and perfect." - New York Times Book Review "Beautifully written, absorbing, powerful. Essential fiction to understand our world." - Library Journal, starred review " On Fragile Waves is a masterful and poetic novel about finding hope and joy in the most dire circumstances." - Foreword Reviews, starred review " tremendous and almost unbearable work of witness. This is a knockout." - Publishers Weekly, starred review " On Fragile Waves is a lyrical fabulist novel that will enchant readers of both literary fiction and fantasy." - Booklist, starred review "An evocative and heart-lacerating debut novel. "In flowing, lyrical prose, Yu showcases the power of folklore and the pain of displacement. ![]() ![]() "Watermelon Sugar" was written by Styles, Mitch Rowland, and producers Tyler Johnson and Kid Harpoon. Styles has promoted the single with many live televised performances including on Saturday Night Live, Later. Directed by Bradley & Pablo and filmed in Malibu, California, it features Styles alongside a plethora of people dancing on the beach and eating watermelon. The music video for "Watermelon Sugar" was released on, which received many positive reviews. ![]() It won the 2021 Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance, and also won Song of the Year at the 41st Brit Awards the same year. The single also performed well commercially, peaking within the top ten in more than 20 countries, including the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and the United States, where it became Styles' first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. ![]() The song was generally well received by music critics. Originally released as a promotional single from Fine Line on 16 November 2019, "Watermelon Sugar" was later released as the album's fourth single on. "Watermelon Sugar" is a horn and guitar-driven funk- pop, rock, indie pop song. They were inspired by the American novel In Watermelon Sugar (1968) by Richard Brautigan. ![]() ![]() Styles wrote the song with Mitch Rowland and the song's producers, Tyler Johnson and Kid Harpoon. " Watermelon Sugar" is a song by English singer Harry Styles from his second studio album Fine Line (2019), included as the album's second track. For the Richard Brautigan novel, see In Watermelon Sugar. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even characters whose lives are glimpsed only in passing, as waypoints along Nia’s time-skipping journeys, are fully realized and achingly alive on the page. Spanning a thousand years, this sweeping novel takes the reader from the drowned cities of Old Earth to the vast reaches of Umbai corporate space but always anchors itself in human connection. Something that could change the universe. But there’s something else about the boy, something that draws the attention of Fumiko Nakajima, the woman who designed the massive space stations that anchor this corporate-controlled empire. Kaeda teaches the boy to play the flute, and the music speaks to Nia. The boy doesn’t talk, but he’s drawn to music, particularly a traditional workers’ song from Kaeda’s world: Take my day, but give me the night. It’s not until a mysterious boy falls out of the sky on Kaeda’s planet that Nia begins to form a connection she’s not willing to walk away from. While Kaeda lives a decade and a half, Nia spends just a few months traveling between various resource-producing worlds like his, shipping goods for the powerful Umbai Company. ![]() ![]() Nia is the captain of a faster-than-light ship that travels through Pocket Space. ![]() We first see Nia Imani through the eyes of someone she is always leaving behind: Kaeda, a boy growing up on a backwater planet visited once every 15 years by offworlders who come to collect its harvests. In this gorgeous debut novel, love becomes a force that can shatter space and time. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I recommend just looking through it when you just want some extra 19 Days content. This one is not as offical as Yaoi BLCD but they tend to have a good portion of the fandoms content here, such as fanart, fanfic, offical art work, artwork masterpost etc. This is a poster of both 19 Days and other Old Xian content on Tumblr. It can sometimes be slow updated but otherwise consistent. Old Xian's (aka the creator) social media, here you can find almost all her new artwork and comic updates.Ī One Drive Folder Filled With Almost Every Offical Art Work ![]() This is probably the best site I know for reading this comic. I'll be using this post to hopefully help you with that. Ler o Yaoi 19 Days em Portugus - O relacionamento fofo e engraado entre 4 garotos do ensino mdio que vo crescer muito lentamente, formar uma banda de. If you're new to the small almost rare fandom of 19 Days by Old Xian then you may or may not have some trouble trying to figure out where to read it, view art work, or popular posters for 19 Days English content. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the most explosive novel Brad Thor has ever written, page after captivating page of action, intrigue, loyalty, and betrayal will keep you hooked until the very last sentence. Now, far from home and surrounded by his enemy, Scot Harvath must battle his way out. Two days ago, that man was crossed- badly. They are highly prized intelligence agents, military operatives, and assassins. Today, men like these still strike from the shadows. They were fearless men of honor who have been known throughout history by different names: Spartan, Viking, Samurai. And once crossed, there was no crossing back. Their loyalty was to their families, their friends, and their kings. These men were considered part angel, part demon. ![]() In ancient texts, there are stories about men who struck from the shadows, seemingly beyond the reach of death itself. ![]() #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Brad Thor is back with his most gripping thriller yet! “Raw emotion, nonstop action, and relentless pacing makes Backlash another one-night read from Brad Thor.” - The Real Book Spy ![]() ![]() ![]() But how far will she go to leave a trace, an echo of her presence? Addie wants someone to remember her but what is her limit? She has lived for 300 years and in 2014 in a little bookshop in New York, for the first time since she made a deal, someone remembers her. ![]() But the dark is clever and grants her immortality with a consequence – Addie LaRue is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. In desperation she makes a deal, a deal to let her live, to be free. Synopsis: Addie LaRue learned the hard way that you should “Never Pray To The Gods That Answer After Dark.” In a small town in France in 1714, Addie LaRue prayed to the Old Gods, but the sun had set and the darkness answered. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ambrose has created Crossroads, a cultish youth group for midwestern adolescents, which renounces sex and drugs in favour of “honest interactions” and “personal growth”. The patriarch, Russ Hildebrandt, is the minister at the First Reformed church in New Prospect, beset by temptation in the sweater-dressed form of his recently widowed congregant, Frances Cottrell, and usurped in his spiritual mission by a new young youth minister, Rick Ambrose, who offers the town’s teenagers a heady mix of gospel platitudes and rock music (you are reminded that Jesus Christ Superstar had opened on Broadway that autumn). Here, his never less than acute attention falls on the interior lives of the Hildebrandt family in small-town Illinois in the run-up to Christmas. ![]() ![]() Since The Corrections, 20 years ago, Franzen has made himself the modern master of that fundamental driver of the 19th-century novel, the understanding that all happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. T he characters in Jonathan Franzen’s sixth novel exist in that much-disputed no man’s land between hip and square, in the culture wars of 1971. ![]() |