Category: wandering & thinking

  • Copy Wrongs & Rights

    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

    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 

    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

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  • head over feets: zen edition

    head over feets: zen edition

    I have been doing a self-experiment. (That’s what I am going to call these things that others might call “challenges” or “streaks” of trying to build a habit over the course of 30 days. Experiments on myself.) I have been meditating every day. And before you get the images of me all new-age yogi omming

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  • periodical past

    periodical past

    Remember magazines? There are still magazines for sale, of course, paper ones… really. I know. I’m looking at some there off to my right even as I sit here writing this—but despite the physical evidence just out of reach from me, I do honestly believe we are clearly past the age of peak periodical.  I

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