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Book review: The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood
James Boyle claims that the "line" separating humans from things is going to be redrawn.
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Making people from things
Make human portraits from a pile of vegetables...or tradesman's tools...or car and motorcycle parts. A short history of things and humans in art.
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An unsent letter to Senator Tillis
There's a tradition of people writing "unsent letters." With this post I take part in it, kinda. Because I'm sending it to you and not the addressee, I…
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Book review: John Warner's More Than Words: How to Think about Writing in the Age of AI
"The Biblioracle" uses AI to guide us back to solid ground on writing and reading, revealing he's a conservative at heart. An enjoyable and lively book.
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The fate of letters
There's a difference between paper and bytes. Handwriting power. For email subscribers: BINGO resolutions!
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CES "booth babes" before 1967?
It's CES time. Organizers and attendees have argued about the ladies since 1967, sometimes just about their label. Their marketing services date back…
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O Magnum Mysterium
In the glitz and the lights and the noise, it’s easy to think the light is the point. But the light illumines the darkest time of year.
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To splash into the western deep
Sonnets. "when the Pleiades flee mighty Orion / and plunge into the misty deep" and a youthful adventure with Maia
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Catch up and a recipe for baking joy and comfort
Short: a delicious recipe for delightful "little breads." The usual collection of links related to previous posts.
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Technocomplex
Technocomplex
Notes, links, and experiments on our complex relationships with technology. Gleanings, too, from recent reading and thinking.
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