Posted inLiving Technology Wendell Berry on scale and limits "No doubt there always will be some people willing to do anything at all that is economically or technologically possible..." September 17, 2026 Posted inBook Review History Technology Beauty and “no-thingness” A meditation on beauty and a book review of Patrick Bringley's All the Beauty in the World. Beauty could save us from AI. September 14, 2026 Posted inHistory Technology The research paper is dead. Research record and provenance, too? When it comes to AI, just saying no isn't an option anymore.… September 4, 2026 Posted inCommentary Poetry Technology Noise, art, and AI. A musician considers the function of art Marc Ribot responds to a question on whether AI can create. So,… May 18, 2026 Posted inTechnology Two kinds of beauty. Brief excerpt from The Score "Object beauty" and "process beauty": brief excerpt from C. Thi Nguyen's The Score February 23, 2026 Posted inLiving Poetry Technology Fiat ars, pereat mundus Can one use art in times when it feels so useless? Should one do art at all? January 30, 2026
Posted inBook Review History Technology Beauty and “no-thingness” A meditation on beauty and a book review of Patrick Bringley's All the Beauty in the World. Beauty could save us from AI. September 14, 2026 Posted inHistory Technology The research paper is dead. Research record and provenance, too? When it comes to AI, just saying no isn't an option anymore.… September 4, 2026 Posted inCommentary Poetry Technology Noise, art, and AI. A musician considers the function of art Marc Ribot responds to a question on whether AI can create. So,… May 18, 2026 Posted inTechnology Two kinds of beauty. Brief excerpt from The Score "Object beauty" and "process beauty": brief excerpt from C. Thi Nguyen's The Score February 23, 2026 Posted inLiving Poetry Technology Fiat ars, pereat mundus Can one use art in times when it feels so useless? Should one do art at all? January 30, 2026
Posted inHistory Technology The research paper is dead. Research record and provenance, too? When it comes to AI, just saying no isn't an option anymore.… September 4, 2026 Posted inCommentary Poetry Technology Noise, art, and AI. A musician considers the function of art Marc Ribot responds to a question on whether AI can create. So,… May 18, 2026 Posted inTechnology Two kinds of beauty. Brief excerpt from The Score "Object beauty" and "process beauty": brief excerpt from C. Thi Nguyen's The Score February 23, 2026 Posted inLiving Poetry Technology Fiat ars, pereat mundus Can one use art in times when it feels so useless? Should one do art at all? January 30, 2026
Posted inCommentary Poetry Technology Noise, art, and AI. A musician considers the function of art Marc Ribot responds to a question on whether AI can create. So,… May 18, 2026 Posted inTechnology Two kinds of beauty. Brief excerpt from The Score "Object beauty" and "process beauty": brief excerpt from C. Thi Nguyen's The Score February 23, 2026 Posted inLiving Poetry Technology Fiat ars, pereat mundus Can one use art in times when it feels so useless? Should one do art at all? January 30, 2026
Posted inTechnology Two kinds of beauty. Brief excerpt from The Score "Object beauty" and "process beauty": brief excerpt from C. Thi Nguyen's The Score February 23, 2026 Posted inLiving Poetry Technology Fiat ars, pereat mundus Can one use art in times when it feels so useless? Should one do art at all? January 30, 2026
Posted inLiving Poetry Technology Fiat ars, pereat mundus Can one use art in times when it feels so useless? Should one do art at all? January 30, 2026
Posted inLiving No BINGO in 2025. But good progress, too. The Jag got sold and other resolutions for 2025. Wins, "almosts," and fails. December 31, 2025
Posted inHistory Living Technology Today, typewriters are for art Your grandfather's typewriter is coming back as a tool for creating art. December 30, 2025
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." November 16, 2025
Posted inAutomobiles History Living Deep influence of the asphalt below us Four meditations on roads, highways, and ancient paths November 11, 2025
Posted inHistory Living Technology “Creativity is just deviance put to good use” Maybe everything is slipping to boring sameness? November 9, 2025
Posted inLiving 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? November 3, 2025
Posted inLiving Technology Typewriting as a way of life Enjoyable movie and a perfectly reasonable underground insurgency! October 9, 2025
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. September 28, 2025
Posted inLiving 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. September 25, 2025
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." September 23, 2025