Dr. Seuss’ holiday parable remains popular and profitable. Oddly, the Grinch is “Christmas’ most sought-after sourpuss.” In sour times, perhaps…
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Two years after Time’s “TIME 100 AI” cover for 2023 – the most influential people in AI … movers & shakers, shaping the good, bad, & ugly, we have a shorter list for the 2025 cover. I’ve read & written a lot about AI the last two years. Time’s article covers all the bases. Even
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My homage to two famous cartoons: As I’ve noted elsewhere, verbal (or literary) agility need not be a sign of intelligence. And such fluency can be glib, even annoying. Especially when, as with some people, responses are repetitive, follow predictable patterns – in autopilot mode. So, AI puts us in a similar place. Driven by
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Taking time out from scrolling … touch the grass … the gods need not take our sight … we scale ourselves … in moving from low to high,we see our pathway as true,and that we are in the right.yet forever left nearby,as if they are out of view,still the shadows of the night whether heaven
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My holiday card this year in the cosmic greetings, Santa-in-Space series. when something grinchy comes this way lean banking balances go to naughtwhere e’re his pitchcraft slop is taught,and roiling boasts do sour in taste,when mister shady tweets in haste a playbook stark intones from old,writ by souls into darkness sold.Midas mists and scares rule
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Two years after Time’s “TIME 100 AI” cover for 2023 – the most influential people in AI … movers & shakers, shaping the good, bad, & ugly, we have a shorter list for the 2025 cover. I’ve read & written a lot about AI the last two years. Time’s article covers all the bases. Even
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It’s been a year of “deliberate agitation.” Witness Oxford University Press’ announcement that rage bait was Word of the Year. Compare with last year’s word brain rot: “outrage sparks engagement, algorithms amplify it, and constant exposure leaves us mentally exhausted.” Eliciting anger grabs attention, offers personal gain, promotes political sway – all in a marketplace