The Simple Change Tech Bros Refuse to Make
For humans, “I” is a letter of relationship, dignity, and responsibility. Why hand it over to inanimate language models?
For humans, “I” is a letter of relationship, dignity, and responsibility. Why hand it over to inanimate language models?
“He trusts a bot with no experience of emotions because it doesn’t care,” she notes. “It’s a redefinition of truth, in which it can only come from a lack of human experience."
A lesser poet would never have won a National Book Award with poetry that claimed to be a transcription from the spirit world.
I had never even heard of corn sweat. But God do I feel it.
“It turns out that the one who destroys—at least in this case—doesn’t believe in anything but himself."
Ian Bogost reminds us that we are not yet disembodied—and can fight the trend.
The old apothecaries were far more efficient, and far kinder, than our streamlined mail order and national chains.
Why has clothing gotten less practical, less sustainable, and less comfortable?
My poor friend. She sent me this nice article from the BBC about how travelers to the World Cup “are discovering little-known slices of Americana away from the host cities.” The word “triggered” would be apt. I had already seen the social media reels and posts—and in my…
I took a Flix bus to Chicago, determined to be there for the Juneteenth opening of the Obama Presidential Center.
“You took a what?” friends said, bemused that I did not fly, drive, or even take the train. But I love buses. I love the way everybody shows…