Sitemap - 2024 - Metaphors Are Lies
Will Apple's Aesthetic Keep It from Succeeding in Phones?
H1B Visa Kerfuffle and The Right's Identify Politics
Sunday Good Reads for December 29th, 2024
My Two Favorite Books I Read This Year
What Does God Need with a Sailing Ship: Some of My Favorite Christmas Carols
AI Is Coming to Destroy Education and Thinking or Fsck Efficiency
Sunday Good Reads For December 22nd 2024
Failed Writer's Journey: Books Don't Need Imitative AI to Talk
Writer's Wanderings: A Short Review of The Secret History of Star Wars
Whose Lives Matter in Our Civilization
Sunday Good Reads for December 15, 2024
Failed Writer's Journey: Comps. Or One of These Things Is Not Like the Other but We'll Pretend It Is
When Imitative AI is Bad, it is Terrible
Bros and Death and Information, Oh My.
AI Can Be Both a Sucky Floor Cleaner and A Dangerous Desert
When Does Helping Violate Do No Harm?
Sunday Good Reads For December 8th, 2024
The Triangle Does Not Love You: Imitative AI and Relationship Bots and The Failure of Society
Autism, Vaccines, Samoa, and Why RFK Jr is a Terrible Human Being
Data is the Oil of the Information Age Or Google's Antitrust Remedies Might Work
Sunday Good Reads for December 1st, 2024
Failed Writer's Journey: In Praise of Beta Readers or The Worst Advice
A Groundhog Day, a Baby, And an Eldritch Horror: Short Review of The Last Hour Between Worlds
Imitative AI as Grift in Publishing
Non-AI Bullsh*t: Carbon Capture
Sunday Good Reads for November 24th, 2024
Failed Writer's Journey: The End of Working Class Art?
Feeling Grey: A Short Review of The Shamshine Blind
AI as Accountability Destroyer
Bluesky, Twitter, Echos, And @ssholes
Tech Should Be About Helpfulness, Not the Techies
Sunday Good Reads for November 17th, 2024
Failed Writer's Journey: When Opinions Should Matter in Book Industry
Fsck Men on Mars: A Review of A City on Mars
A Political Interlude. Or Why Dems Should Do What I Say. Or Roberts Ruined the Country
Self-Driving is a Social Problem
Sunday Good Reads for November 10, 2024
Failed Writer's Journey: Art in a Time of Darkness
Democracy Dies in Binary: A Short Review of The Tech Coup
Data Is Not Expertise: Polling Edition
You Do What You Can. Or On Voting.
Sunday Good Reads For November 3rd, 2024
People as Abstractions: A Short Review of Devil in the Stack
Imitative AI Needs Accountability
Imitative AI's Usefulness Problem
The Turnaround, Politics, and Human Nature
Sunday Good Reads for October 27, 2024
Failed Writer's Journey: Health, Creativity, and Democratization
Good Books, Bad Ideas: A Review of The Martin Hench Novels
Tesla and Other Car Manufacturers Prove US Needs National Privacy Law
Why Do We Need Human Shaped Robots?
AI Black Boxes Should Be Illegal
Sunday Good Reads for October 20th, 2024
We Don't Need Imitative AI for Utopia. We Need Politics
It is Wednesday. Must Be A Day Where AI Discriminates
How To and How Not To Make Video Games: A Short Review of Play Nice
AI Cannot, and Should Not, End Grief
Sunday Good Reads for October 13th, 2024
Not Dead Yet. Though Apparently Appreciably Closer This Time
Sunday Good Reads for September 29, 2024
Failed Writer's Journey: It is Okay to Fail
Sunday Good Reads for September 22nd, 2024
AI Is Burning the Planet for No Good Reason
Elon In Memphis, Or AI Requires Hurting You to Work
Sunday Good Reads for September 15th, 2024
Facebook Doesn't Care if You Burn to Death or Why Don't We Have a Public Social Network?
Schools, Ransomware, Crypto, and the "Promise" of Imitative AI
AI Will Kill Your Dog. Or Not Everything is a Tech Problem
The Most Dangerous Aspect of AI (Seriously): Imitative AI is Bad at Summarizing
Sunday Good Reads for September 8th, 2024
Failed Writer's Journey: The Internet Archive was Wrong
NaNoWriMo and The Fake Democratization of Art
Treating Algorithms as Products Won't End the Internet or Section 230
"I'm sorry": Two Words that Show Imitative AI has no I
Imitative AI and Mediocre Education
Sunday Good Reads for September 1st, 2024
Failed Writer's Journey: Politics is Part of Writing And Other Various Quick Hits
Education and the Uselessness of Imitative AI
Imitative AI and the Dangerously Mediocre Future
NWSL Nixes Draft. Will Others Follow? Or Socialism in Business.
Sunday Good Reads for August 25th, 2024
Update on Cancer Surgery and What It Means for AI
Nothing So Like a God on Earth: Our Corrupt Judicial System
Imitative AI And Silicon Valley Legality
Sunday Good Reads for August 18th, 2024
Failed Writer's Journey: Indie Publishing Not the Same as Indie Films.
Project 2025, Education, Grift, and Neighborliness
Social Media Can Be Social, If We Force It
Sunday Good Reads for August 11th, 2024
Failed Writer's Journey: Scripts and The Weight of Words
Cancer and Google's Monopoly: It's the Remedy that Matters.
The Imitative AI Crash and What AI Cannot Teach You
A Florida Nitwit, Climate Change, and The Limits of Privatization
Sunday Good Reads for August 4th, 2024
The Insistence on Finding Magic
FBI's Startup: A Short Review of Dark Wire
Imitative AI and the World's Worst Dad
AI Money Should Be Spent on Doing Something Useful
Sunday Good Reads for July 28th, 2024
Failed Writer's Journey: Platforms and Projects
Phlebotomists are Vampires or I'm Not Dead Yet Cancer Update or Nurses Rule
Sunday Good Reads for July 21st, 2024
Broken Systems and Failed States
Trump's Project 2025 And Technolgy III: Dept. Of Energy Electric Boogaloo
Sunday Good Reads For July 14th, 2024
Trump's Project 2025 and Tech II: Revenge of the Privacy
Trump's Project 2025 and Technology
Full Self Driving is Likely Bullsh*t
Imitative AI and The End of Reliable Online Research
Sunday Good Reads For July 7th, 2024
Maybe Fiction Shouldn't Fsck Facts?
I Miss Expert Systems, Or Words Matter
"A Republic If You Can Keep It": A Review of the Roberts Court and The Originalism Trap
Polls and The Loss of Measurement
Sunday Good Reads for June 30th, 2024
Should We Ban Imitative AI to Save the Environment?
Algorithms Must Be Transparent
Imitative AI Cannot Make You Creative
Sunday Good Reads for June 23rd 2024
Failed Writer's Journey: Grinding and Cancer Update
Slow Burn on Jupiter: A Short Review of The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles
Imitative AI and A Trustless Future
Is AI About to Die from Exposure?
Misinformation Over Broadway: A Review of An Enemy of the People
Sunday Good Reads For June 16, 2024
Hot Cancer Summer and Skin in the Game
Sunday Good Reads for June 9th, 2024
Josh Gibson's Stats are as Invalid as Babe Ruth's -- And Just as Valid
Systematic Corruption and Elite Accountability
AI's Latest Product: A Spam Generation Machine. Or Writing is Thinking
Fairness Means Treating a Prince Like a Pauper. Or Trump's Conviction is Good
Sunday Good Reads for June 2nd, 2024
Failed Writer's Journey: Query Recap
Good Tech News i.e. the Non-Silcon Valley Newsletter
Taking Down Statues Is Not Forgetting History -- It is Choosing Who to Honor
Why Autonomous Driving Instead of Public Transportation?
You Don't Have to Save the World with Your Gadget
Sunday Good Reads for May 26th, 2024
Failed Writer's Journey: Do Artists Have An Obligation To "Confront the Darkness"?
Can Carbon Capture Help Climate Change? Or What we Should Fund Instead of AI
Pettiness in the Mouse House: A Short Review of Disney Wars
The Price of Algorithmic Engagement
Sunday Good Reads for May 19th, 2024
Google And Power Point Culture Vs Memo Culture
I Am Perplexed: A Short Review of The Mimicking of Known Succeses.
I Wanna Tweet Like Common People Do
Sunday Good Reads for May 12th, 2024
Failed Writer's Journey: It's Okay Not to Write on Schedule
Can Industries Survive Business Schools?
If Imitative AI Was So Good They Wouldn't Need to Tell So Many Lies About It
Profiles in JFK Was Full of It. A Review of Impeached
Sunday Good Reads for May 5th, 2024
We Need a Real Book Hall of Fame
Dead Dogs, Dead Bangladeshis, and The Loss of Morality
Sunday Good Reads for April 28th, 2024
Failed Writer's Journey: Creativity is at the Heart of Humanity
It Goes All the Way to Twelve. Or Publishers May Not Be Reliable
Imitative AI Offends Me as a Technologist
AI's Problems Are Antitrust Problems
Sunday Good Reads for April 21st, 2024
Failed Writer's Journey: Criticism
An End to Targeted Advertising?
The Future of Entertianment Is AI Garbage Falling on a Human Face Forever.
Augmentation That's Not Augmentation. Or Tech Decides How Its Used
Sunday Good Reads for April 14th, 2024
Failed Writer's Journey: Comics, Reading, and Format Bigotry
Basketballs and Bouncing Numbers: Data Is Not Expertise
Eclipse and Other End of the Worlds
Sunday Good Reads for March 7th, 2024
Failed Writer's Journey: The Effort is What Makes Writing Worth Reading
Who AI Benefits is a Political, Not Technical, Question
Imitative AI, The Truth, and the Damage Done
Sunday Good Reads for March 31st, 2024
Failed Writer's Journey: Author's Equity and A Career on Consignment
Imitate AI's Only Route to Cash may be Impoverishing Creatives
The Wrong Kind of Regulation. Again
Murder is the Most Honest Form of Expression, or Why Kids Don't Read Any More.
Democratic Control of the Economy and the Apple Anti-trust Suit
Sunday Good Reads for March 24th, 2024
It's Not About Humanities Vs STEM, It's About Systematic Thinking
Of Course TikTok Should Be Banned ... But So Should YouTube and FaceBook and...
Sunday Good Reads for March 17th, 2024
Failed Writer's Journey: Interview with Cole Haddon
AI Doom in the Sky, By and By: Doomers Are a Distraction from the AI Problems in the Here and Now
Should Imitative AI Be Liable For Its Output?
We Need Pamphlets Again: A Review of Technofeudalism
Imitative AI And Search Failures: A Solution in Search of A Problem
Sunday Good Reads for March Tenth, 2024
Capitalism, Change, and What We Do to People
The Cost of Imitative AI is too High
Sunday Good Reads for March 3rd, 2024
Failed Writer's Journey: The Case For Self-Publishing
Is the Military Substituting Data For Expertise? Or is Imitative Skynet Coming for Us All?
An Ownership Society is an Immoral Society
AI Tutors and How Hype Doesn't Solve Problems
Sunday Good Reads for February 25th, 2024
Failed Writer's Journey: Why Not Self Publish?
Jailing Librarians is the Point: The Far Right's Systematic Ending of Public Goods for LGBTQ+
Tech Company Disinformation AI Accord appears to be PR, not Action
How Do You Learn if the AI Does the Grunt Work?
The AI Uncanny Valley of Gun Control and Good Intentions
Sunday Good Reads for February 18th, 2024
Failed Writer's Journey: Introduction
Bluesky, Threads and Moderating on the Cheap
Once Again: Data Brokers Should Be Illegal
AI's Want to Blow the World Up. Or why AI isn't Really Intelligent
Right Wing Threats Driving Tech and Other Workers away from Government Service
Sunday Good Reads for February 11th
Tech's Problem: You Can Only Discover the Law of Gravity Once
Semafor and Microsoft Tout AI ... News Aggregator? Or Signal is Likely to be Noise.
Data Brokers Should be Illegal
Sunday Good Reads for February 4th, 2024
Three Space Mysteries: Reviews of The Midsolar Murders and The Spare Man
Woke is Just Another Word for Manners
It Is Almost Impossible To Correct Justice System Failures
Sunday Good Reads for January 28th, 2024
Bad Incentives Make for Bad Science
Of Course, We Should Keep Electives in Higher Education
Is It Too Much to Ask for a Non-Childish Technology Culture?
The Woman Who Was Convinced to Walk Away and Die
Sunday Good Reads for January 21st, 2023
Sunday Good Reads for January 14th, 2024
AI, Garbage and Algorithms: The World Amazon Wants?
OpenAI: We Can't be Rich Unless You Let Us Steal
Substack is a Publisher Choosing to Publish Nazis, Not a Platform
Sunday Good Reads for January 7th, 2024
A Hidden Danger in AI Failures
Generative AI Does Not Democratize Creativity
Which Nazi Ideas am I Supposed to Debate for Your Profit?
Economic Models Are Not Reality or the NFL and Replacing Expertise with Data