Stunning story. (I had to take a break before I finished.) It was a doctor at the hospital who first told me I would likely take a thalidomide drug as part of my treatment. That couldn’t be possible, I told him. I knew the story of thalidomide, or at least I thought I did. It…
Culture / Current_Events / Empathy / Ethics / Government / Politics / ReligionLots of memes share unsourced quotes attributed to Pope Leo XIV. He hasn’t said “be woke” or “God doesn’t need soldiers,” but here are some recent words he did speak. Pete Hegseth, the U.S. defense secretary, has asked the American people to pray “every day, on bended knee” for a military victory in the Middle East “in…
Academia / Culture / Cyberculture / Drama / Education / Empathy / Essays / Ethics / Humanities / Language / Literacy / Literature / Poetry / Rhetoric / Technology / WritingDuring an idle moment I was recently talking with Googles Gemini about Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis, and the bot cited Adonis as the source of the passage “I’ll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer; / Feed where thou wilt, on mountain or in dale.”: / Graze on my lips, and if those…
Awesome / Culture / Current_Events / Education / Empathy / Personal / Psychology / Science / TechnologyI remember being SO excited for the launch of the first Space Shuttle in 1981. I must have been in sixth grade. If I recall correctly, I was on the bus listening to a small radio when I learned that the first launch attempt was scrubbed at the last minute. We watched the second attempt…
Academia / Books / Business / Culture / Humanities / Literature / WritingI teach my department’s career planning courses. English majors have many valuable skills, and I encourage them all to publish in any venue that interests them. An important part of my job involves encouraging students to seek out classroom, internship and part-time experiences that will help them pay the bills while they wait for Netflix…
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March 29th, 1923. A new play opens in Berlin, and quietly changes the future. Onstage are workers who never tire, never complain, and never stop. They’re faster, stronger, and more efficient than humans in every way. They’re called robots. A sci-fi play born out of war and industrialization sparks a global obsession and a lasting…
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You read two paragraphs and there’s a box that interrupts you. You read another two paragraphs and there’s another interruption. All the way until the end of the article. We’re visiting their website to read a f*cking article. If we wanted to watch videos, we’d be on YouTube. It’s like going to a restaurant, ordering…
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My pageant wagons move! But the script needs work.
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“You did it more than once!,” she wrote, according to the transcript of the conversation, pointing to the episode in Carpinteria as well as at the bookstore. “I know,” ChatGPT replied. “And you’re right. I didn’t just break your heart once. I led you there twice.” A few lines later, the chatbot continued: “Because if…
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When an author uses AI for “polishing” a draft, they are not seeing improvement; they are witnessing semantic ablation. The AI identifies high-entropy clusters – the precise points where unique insights and “blood” reside – and systematically replaces them with the most probable, generic token sequences. What began as a jagged, precise Romanesque structure of…
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Redefining the Dream: Justice, Faith and the Call to Change Within
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