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meta (not) monday and other stuff
Starting with an aside, I’ll just note that it drove me nuts when the company that makes and runs that dystopian social network—you know the one—decided to call itself meta. Many wager that they stole the term from Neal Stephenson’s classic novel Snow Crash which itself was a fiction-shaped social commentary on the explosive expansion
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hobbies defined, or why investing in things you love is not wasting your money
I keep telling myself I am not a musician. Call it imposter syndrome, but despite having all the music-connected skills that I have, I still just think of it as eclectic side-hobby. Here’s the thing tho. I’ve been playing in a real orchestra for the better part of my 40s. (Second violin, in case you
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Copy Wrongs & Rights
Perhaps the only reason to bring up here the great copyright debates that permeated the internet in the early 2000s is one of idle speculation linked to a tangential theory. As digital media formats matured and before technologies were blessed by the often-corporate owners of the media encoded therein, piracy abounded. Discussions flared and festered
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The Poets Against the Processors
I ask you: What is AI? Artificial intelligence, you reply. Sure, but what is it? Really? I suppose we first need to get a handle on what defines those two terms: artificial & intelligence—and I think the first is likely easier to get our minds around than the latter. Let’s get that one out of the
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retro post: what i learned on summer vacation
Perhaps it’s a little abstract… but then that’s the point. Everyone with whom I have had more than five minutes worth of conversation these days wants to know: “What did you enjoy most about Europe?” — and I stumble through the fragmented and chaotic answer that, simply, there was just so much to see and