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  • AI is really annoying – there, there?

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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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  • The new year 2026

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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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  • Merry Christmas 2025

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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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  • Happy Thanksgiving 2025

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    Food for thought … (click on image to see more)

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  • The modern influencer dream – meritocracy’s ‘noble lie’ of mobility?

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    Billy, Sally, “What do you want to be when you get older?” We live in a hyper-connected world, a social media landscape of scaleable, accessible influence. Monetizing yourself – you are the product – is no longer just for traditional celebrities. As I’ve discussed elsewhere, a cardinal characteristic of the American psyche is a singular

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