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Not How or When, but Why I'm not a fan of the thing presently marketed as “AI” I side with Chomsky's view of it as...

A certain well-known politician has quite a regular practice of accusing his political opposition of offenses that are more properly ...

“Don't wear your heavy coat yet,” my mom used to warn me. “You'll need it when it's colder.” She knew I had no heavier ar...

On Mastodon, Bookchin Bot , a bot that posts book quotes, circulated this quote:  “The term ought is the stuff out of which ethics i...

What's the most civilization-destroying error in climate communication? I guess this is something that people might disagree on, but to...

I spend a lot of time working, and I like to be in pleasant surrounds when I do. The trouble is that while standard issue office furnitu...

I was pretty nerdy in my youth—unlike now, of course—and so my parents confronted the issue of sexuality with me by doing the obviously ri...

When I was in seventh grade, there was a playground near my house that served the kids of about ten families in our very tiny community. It ...

The term hack has existed for quite a long time in various forms. MIT uses the term to describe playful pranks some members of the communi...