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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.
 • Mark R DeLong
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.
 • Mark R DeLong
Careful language, machine utterance
Tricked by AIs, I begin to consider a human strength that doesn't feel as unique as it once was.
 • Mark R DeLong
Almost like a person?
ChatGPT-4o offers a friendly, flirty voice. It's a new dimension to AI, and a very powerful one. A call to examine fundamentals
 • Mark R DeLong
Incidental tourism
Travel's satisfaction emerges between monuments and tourist sites. A first entry recounting episodes and exploits. This one includes Kelpies and boobs.
 • Mark R DeLong
Leaning over the hood
Beneath ornamentation lurks meaning. It fits into a context of taste and design. Hood ornaments are no different.
 • Mark R DeLong
Listening to voices of a designer-artist and farmer-poet.
Sara Hendren and Wendell Berry talk with me as I write about the work of humans
 • Mark R DeLong
Book review: Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
Kyle Chayka's new book comes out next week. It's a goodie.
 • Mark R DeLong
January 6, 2021
Clarity of a journal entry from three years ago. An unexpected post, actually.
 • Mark R DeLong
Technocomplex
Technocomplex
Notes, links, and experiments on our complex relationships with technology. Gleanings, too, from recent reading and thinking.
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