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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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Things work very, very well in this country
Many "personal technology" products are developing a special kind of "ownership"
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Needs a bit more of The Onion, I think...
A surprise acquisition. A hilarious court brief. Parody might come in very handy in the coming years.
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Four photographs and their "truths"
Photos from the nineteenth century and from 2023 helped my fall seminar students explore truth, the fake, and fiction. And complex relationships with…
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How The American Way traveled by car
Photographs tell the story of twentieth-century Americans' ambiguous love of cars
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Catch up
AI voices. Barbie and Tanner. Google follows Apple's coredump. Wendell's birthday. Silence is golden and holy.
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Careful language, machine utterance
Tricked by AIs, I begin to consider a human strength that doesn't feel as unique as it once was.
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Separated by more than a century, two musicians share a complaint
Rick Beato and John Philip Sousa agree on a "menace" to music and to human creativity even though they never met.
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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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