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“Esteemed guests, welcome! We will shortly begin our ascent. Please sit comfortably and enjoy this once-in-a-timeline opportunity to bear witness to Earth’s largest mountain. If perchance some mountain goats appear on our radar, we will call your attention to this exquisite, yet sadly dwindling breed. Monoculars are at the front. Enjoy the view!” Craig sat in the middle of the coach. They had been waiting for at least 2 minutes, but he forgave the tardiness. He was too excite

On how AI inherited rhetoric’s most dangerous art, and what it means for all of us. It would be convenient to treat all this as a matter of merely theoretical interest, a clever transposition of ancient categories onto modern technology, the sort of thing one publishes and then discusses at conferences. But the consequences of algorithmic ethopoeia are brutally concrete, and they fall disproportionately on those least equipped to contest them.

Installment the first being a review of “Art in the Time of Fascism” by Alex Preston being itself a review of “Watching Over Her” by Jean Baptiste Andrea

The interface between citizen and government is changing. It is going high gloss, well engineered, aesthetic — the government is getting a private sector skin.  TurboTax and MVD Express turn governmental functions into consumer experiences. It should be no surprise that using TurboTax is more efficient than filing a 1040 Tax Form with a black pen, and sending it off in a letter carried by a pigeon. Looking at the 1040 Form (purely for research purposes), it is difficult, c

The genie was so very tempting. I was so fatigued by going through the motions of work. Especially writing- writing emails, connecting with people and understanding what they need, what they care about, and what moral boundaries they draw. Writing documents - figuring out what I want myself, how it breaks down into a set of steps, and then having to communicate it in a way that other people understand. So I decided that I would give the genie a little trial. But I knew that