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  • Sense memory

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    I hadn’t eaten meat or lifted weights in a year and then I started doing both again the same day. It was the Fourth of July and the smoked pork shoulder triggered me. Not the taste or the garishness of… Read More ›

  • Saved by old times

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    I drove Lily to a job interview but it didn’t go well and I don’t think she got it. We printed her resume but it came out looking funny, the color cartridges blurred the subtitles. I felt for her, that… Read More ›

  • All there is to know is nothing

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    I got burned out on AI. I let it ruin my weekend. I made the mistake of putting my beliefs in people who said bad things. After months of this I had to let it go. I messaged a new… Read More ›

  • Bridge content

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    I went back to work. Six months since the last contract. The timing wasn’t great with Lily just home from treatment but when you’ve been out of work for that long any timing will do. And when I heard it… Read More ›

  • Outposts

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    When it’s almost dark you can hear the wind picking up across the desert. Maybe a flagpole clanking, some far-off dogs, the day’s last birds. We are in a new development surrounded by farmlands and distant mountains. The ground is… Read More ›

  • May you let me be forgotten

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    Finally lying down again. All these cherry blossoms like handfuls of confetti coming down. That and some birds tweeting and the neighborhood kids playing. In spring you forget everything bad it seems. Fall and winter give us plenty of time… Read More ›

  • Circling the rings of nuance around planet AI

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    Chatbots like ChatGPT can predict words with amazing precision. The danger lies in believing they’re capable of more. The first problem with … Circling the rings of nuance around planet AI

  • Pictures of you

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    In the den on the bookshelf he keeps a framed set of photos of himself. Starting at 10 o’clock and moving clockwise, he is a grade school student in a striped red turtleneck, the late 1970s. The picture has the… Read More ›

  • April

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    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

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    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 ›