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Efficiency is the Enemy of Humanity.
Again with the clickbait headlines, eh K.C.?
Jun 9
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K.C. Vellum
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American Gulags
What have ICE camps to do with technology?
Jun 8
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K.C. Vellum
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Sunday Good Reads for June 7th, 2026
Onto the words!
Jun 7
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K.C. Vellum
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Failed Writer's Journey: Ideas, Craft, and Imitative AI
Before we begin, I have had a couple of people ask about the book review and failed writer content.
Jun 5
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K.C. Vellum
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Google's Destruction of the Internet and the Paucity of Public Imagination
Google is about to destroy the internet.
Jun 1
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May 2026
Sunday Good Reads for May 31st, 2026
This year is both moving incredibly quickly and never-ending.
May 31
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K.C. Vellum
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Could This book Have Been an Article: A Short Review of Inside the Box
Should I Read This: Maybe
May 28
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K.C. Vellum
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Sunday Good Reads for Sunday May 24th.
Happy Memorial Day to Americans.
May 24
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K.C. Vellum
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Failed Writer's Journey: AI, Contests, and Why Do You Bother, Then?
A story written with AI won a contest run by a literary magazine.
May 22
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Imitative AI and the Problem of What Problem You are Solving
I hate boilerplate code — the code that handles all the little plumbing details, the setup, the config, the weird syntactic quirks of each language…
May 18
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Sunday Good Reads For May 17th, 2026
Dead car batteries suck.
May 17
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Failed Writer's Journey: An Ambiguous Post About Ambiguous Works Not Being Ambiguous
This one wanders a bit, so grab a snack and a compass and come stagger around aimlessly with me as I try and figure out why I am so ambiguous about…
May 15
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