“This is a test of the Emergency Handwriting System”
Handwriting (you know, using hands?) enriches human expression. A side-effect of a New Year's resolution....
Technocomplex
Notes, links, and experiments on our complex relationships with technology. Gleanings, too, from recent reading and thinking.
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Read 9 days ago and current, but nothing has been published for 13 months.
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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.
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.
Careful language, machine utterance
Tricked by AIs, I begin to consider a human strength that doesn't feel as unique as it once was.
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
Incidental tourism
Travel's satisfaction emerges between monuments and tourist sites. A first entry recounting episodes and exploits. This one includes Kelpies and boobs.
Leaning over the hood
Beneath ornamentation lurks meaning. It fits into a context of taste and design. Hood ornaments are no different.
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
Book review: Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
Kyle Chayka's new book comes out next week. It's a goodie.
January 6, 2021
Clarity of a journal entry from three years ago. An unexpected post, actually.