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Dennis G. Jerz

Associate Professor of English -- New Media Journalism at Seton Hill University, in southwestern Pennsylvania. Jerz's Literacy Weblog has been online since 1999.

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My pageant wagons move! But the script needs work.

1 day ago

ChatGPT promised to help her find her soulmate. Then it betrayed her

"You did it more than once!," she wrote, according to the transcript of the conversation, pointing to the episode in…

7 days ago

Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is boring and dangerous

When an author uses AI for "polishing" a draft, they are not seeing improvement; they are witnessing semantic ablation. The…

1 week ago

Martin Luther King event at SHU.

Redefining the Dream: Justice, Faith and the Call to Change Within

2 weeks ago

Like digging ‘your own professional grave’: The translators grappling with losing work to AI

While workers worldwide ponder how AI might affect their livelihoods – a topic on the agenda at the World Economic Forum in Davos…

4 weeks ago

I’ve spent 8 hours with 24 different Verizon agents who keep transferring me back and forth

It's not a Verizon Wireless issue. It's not a Verizon Fios issue. It's a problem linking my 5G Wireless and…

2 months ago

Alphabet in Motion: How Letters Get Their Shape: pop-up book by Kelli Anderson

A fascinating concept. (Thanks for the suggestion, Mom!) Ever wonder how we ended up with so many different styles of…

2 months ago

News organizations held off on reporting Venezuela raid

The New York Times and Washington Post learned of a secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled…

2 months ago

I didn’t ask for the AI icon on my Kindle app. I can’t turn it off.

I really hate that little sparkly icon which reminds me of all the human labor that was stolen to create…

2 months ago

Gil Gerard (1943-2025)

I built a model of the two-pronged Starfighter (a really sleek and elegant vehicle that deserved a better name) and…

2 months ago