Bill Pearse

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• April

  By Bill Pearse on April 9, 2023 • ( 6 )

  

  The album is my link to him, it came out the year he died. It’s just called April and it was released on April 1, 2008. I remember buying the CD, standing outside the record store waiting for the bus…. Read More ›

• Warnings from Shakespeare on AI

  By Bill Pearse on March 24, 2023 • ( 2 )

  

  In case you missed it, last week I launched a new website called Words Matter. I’ll be posting essays about technology, potential impacts on society, with links to more information. This week’s piece reflects on the impact of AI through… Read More ›

• Trump indictment looms as the world looks on

  By Bill Pearse on March 21, 2023 • ( 23 )

  

  If you really think about it, it’s funny we use the phrase to “pay attention.” If attention is ours, why do we have to pay for it? Usually you buy something you don’t have. It seems counterintuitive since others literally… Read More ›

• The spring of our discontent

  By Bill Pearse on March 19, 2023 • ( 26 )

  

  It’s spring again, so I bought a book called Global Catastrophic Risks. It’s not the right book for the season but I’m compelled to read it because it cost so much. It’s thick and scientific with a Bruegel painting on… Read More ›

• ‘A’ stands for ambiguous in AI

  By Bill Pearse on March 17, 2023 • ( 6 )

  ‘A’ stands for ambiguous in AI Check out my new WordPress site Words Matter for essays about today’s emerging technologies and how AI will impact all of us. Thanks to my good friends here who helped me create this first… Read More ›

• No more the mystery

  By Bill Pearse on March 11, 2023 • ( 60 )

  

  Automating music discovery through algorithms has forever changed the way we learn about and consume new music. But have we lost something precious along the way? I moved to Seattle in the summer of ’96 and left just after a… Read More ›

• Letting go of Jon Cook

  By Bill Pearse on March 9, 2023 • ( 19 )

  

  In 1996 I didn’t know what to do there, I just knew I had to be on the internet. There was a little internet cafe around the corner from my apartment on Broadway, Seattle’s hip, gay neighborhood I’d just moved… Read More ›

• Brief candles

  By Bill Pearse on March 8, 2023 • ( 24 )

  

  Leaving Utah last September was one of the saddest times of my life, saying goodbye to our daughter Lily. That little airport in the middle of nowhere, so desolate. Sitting in the lobby waiting for the airport workers to open… Read More ›

• World Funny Shortage Getting Serious

  By Bill Pearse on March 6, 2023 • ( 5 )

  Comedy writer Axel Loffmann thought it was just him. Maybe he was going through a dry period. But when Loffmann asked around the comedy community (… World Funny Shortage Getting Serious

• Midwinter break

  By Bill Pearse on February 23, 2023 • ( 26 )

  

  Literally everyone standing in line is on their phone. It said the wait time was 85 minutes but when we got halfway through they said it would be longer, that’s all they said. And when Charlotte checked the wait time… Read More ›

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