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No BINGO in 2025. But good progress, too.
The Jag got sold and other resolutions for 2025. Wins, "almosts," and fails.
Posted inHistory Living Technology
Today, typewriters are for art
Your grandfather's typewriter is coming back as a tool for creating art.
Posted inCommentary Technology
Sense and GPT-ability
"It’s the lack of this tactile sensation, this palpability, that seems to me an awful prospect in the automatic summoning of sentences, rather than the elimination of effort per se."
Posted inAutomobiles History Living
Deep influence of the asphalt below us
Four meditations on roads, highways, and ancient paths
Posted inHistory Living Technology
“Creativity is just deviance put to good use”
Maybe everything is slipping to boring sameness?
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23:PA81&XE8XA or Nuts from Hell
Falling nuts are a hazard in summer and fall. Might there be a way to use medical records to learn of their injuries?
Posted inLiving Technology
Typewriting as a way of life
Enjoyable movie and a perfectly reasonable underground insurgency!
Posted inTechnology
Between artist and GPT
Avital Meshi says, “I don’t want to use it, I want to be it.” “It” is generative AI.
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Perfect sweet potato pumpernickel bread
One of the "perfect three breads" for the year. A mixer is advised, since the dough needs lots of kneading.
Posted inCommentary History
A distant mirror
Late-night television comedians and satirists annoy fascists. They are, as Jon Stewart said, the "banana peel in the coal mine."