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,…
Posted inLiving
Perfect(ing) the French baguette, kinda. (Actually it’s a bâtard)
A second perfect bread. Or, more accurately, a bread close to perfection. A lesson in life through baking.
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?
Posted inCommentary History Technology
Baker/No-Baker. Thinker/No-Thinker.
“Computerized baking has profoundly changed the balletic physical activities of the shop…
Posted inHistory Technology
Separated by more than a century, two musicians share a complaint
Rick Beato and John Philip Sousa agree on a "menace" to music and to human creativity even though they never met.
Posted inCommentary History Technology
The villainy of things
Some 99-year-old tools might scare you. Fantastical creatures I ran into while reading for a chapter I'm writing. And children working with tools.
Posted inHistory Living Technology
Does 1950s “mechanization” provide a roadmap for today’s AI influence on skill?
Will AI behave like earlier automation? What affect will AI have on skill requirements? They're open questions.
Posted inHistory Living Technology
Boston bakers, more or less
In 1998, Microsoft Windows was a Boston baker. If bread is the product, does the process matter to the people who bake? Plus, observations about WFH from the 1990s.