If you’ve been following my series of posts on AI and machine learning, you’ll recall I’ve referenced Adam Conover and his vitriol against AI before. Not only do I believe his message is worth listening to, it’s delivered in a fun way: Now, I suppose if someone had no exposure to the previous Internet, before everything was curated by algorithm and pushed to apps or both… or if one is a fan of corporate consolidation,…
I’ve found myself thinking about Banned Books Week, an annual event I have come to celebrate on this blog and which will start this year on October 4th. I enthusiastically urge you to pick a banned or challenged book to read. Odds are you’ll learn something… and it pisses off The Man. Besides the top 11 challenged books from the last year, you can also consult a rather evergreen list of challenged or banned books…
I missed the chance to post about this at the beginning of summer grilling season, so I’m coming in under the wire.. and folks are still going to fit in a bit more grilling, right? So, if you’re looking to recreate or experiment with some different types of burgers for said grilling, this video does an admirable job of rounding up a heck of a lot of regional burgers (though I do wonder a little…
Continuing my regular musings about AI and machine learning this year, you may have asked yourself, “What does that Oatmeal guy think about it?” Okay, maybe you haven’t, but I have. And just like his piece on creativity, he’s come up with something personal, thoughtful, and featuring ratcopters. It’ll make sense when you read it.
Not a long post to start off the week, just a link to a fellow fiction podcaster and creative Stephanie Elie’s post from earlier this year with an important reminder about where your value resides. Rock your week.
Okay, so I mused a lot in Wednesday’s post, so I’ll allow someone else to muse, in this case Dutch YouTuber Tom van der Linden, the man behind the channel “Like Stories of Old.” In the half-hour video below, he goes into what many of us cinemaniacs have often felt, but felt hard to articulate: they’re not making films like they used to… and we may be losing something because of it. What I really…
Okay, yes, what with the news of AI breaking containment when it shouldn’t have been able to do so… and the fact that AI may now be harnessed for new disturbing acts of bio-terrorism, maybe we plucky humans don’t make it out alive. But what if we do? What if the aftermath of this Post-AI disruption era is actually positive? And no, that does not mean I’m about to say, “Gee, nimrods trying to change…
September will be here in the space of a summer cold sneeze, but there’s still a few weekends to hit the beach or go camping. And depending on who’s camping, you simply must consider s’mores. But where did s’mores come from anyway? And why are they called s’mores? I already knew the basic, if possibly apocryphal origin of s’mores as retold by Matt Blitz for Food & Wine, but he also traces the s’mores story…
On this day, a century ago, a wonderfully funny, delightfully off-kilter comedian and satirist was born who would forever change how we think about American history, advertising, and, well, dragons. Yes, I’m talking about the one, the only, the inimitable Stan Freberg. Many of us in the audio fiction world wear many hats and Freberg did so admirably, writing, producing, and acting in the various media he did. If you’re one of my fellow audio…
I’ve been posting musings and plenty of articles videos about AI for a while now. There’s a lot of doom and gloom about the disruption AI is causing and may cause for society. And there’s also schadenfreude at the limits of AI in the face of people wanting AI to be their One True God. So I wanted to pause with some of those sorts of articles and muse about what a possible positive future…