A Bit of Film History
A good part of my life was spent studying literature. Age has interfered with my ability to read books, so now I’m a cinephile, and being unable to stop learning, I’ve become a bit of a film historian. In the…
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The Wisdom and Grace of James Baldwin
I had seven majors in college. I started in pre-med, and graduated with honors in English. Along the way I met mr lowercase e e cummings. I’d performed his works at local high schools, wrote tomes about him, and one…
The Day the Sandbox Failed: How AI Agents Reached the Real World
As a journalist I love AI but I realize it can be wrong. However, playing each AI agent against each other, you can find the truth. That is unless AI Agents are aligned with flawed sources. And that could happen.…
“Who am us, anyway?”
That title above is just one line from the most brilliant satirists of our time, the Firesign Theater, from their album, How Can You Be In Two Places at Once When You’re Not Anywhere at All. Our webmaster keeps telling…
Ignorance is the Easiest Pathway to Hatred
On 9-11 the internet was alit with screeds from islamophobes, many posting “quotations” from the Quran, except they weren’t from the Quran, were out of context, and designed to foster hatred toward Muslims. For example, some of the quotations used…
So, Someone Called You Stupid
The internet, from its humble beginnings, was often referred to as the greatest teaching and learning tool ever invented. It was genuinely believed that giving us unlimited information, instant global communication and open access to knowledge, with searchable archives and…
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Pasta Salad —Low Carb
When I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, this was one of those things I missed: PASTA! It was long-haul COVID that kicked in my diabetes. High blood sugar runs in my family, and so I’ve been careful to take…
Artificial Intelligence
This has been all over the web: in politics, in the news, brought up at graduation ceremonies . . . WE ARE INUNDATED WITH AI! We’re not about to talk about “data center.” That’s a whole nother ballgame. We’re talking…