Declaration of Interdependence
We are one, or we are none.
Freeform
the everything button
we have it all, all has us
To let AI kill communication is to kill ourselves
What happens when human beings can’t even bother to craft their messages to other human beings?
The war on the American people
I used to worry about the price of eggs. Now I worry that writings like this one will be cited when men wearing masks abduct me on behalf of a federal government that has declared war on its people and the values that made the United States something worth fighting to make better. Not because … Read more
The Trump One Big Beautiful Bill Act analyzed by Google NotebookLM AI
LLMs (aka AI, though they are not intelligent) burn through the environment, end entire careers, turn human communication into a can of soup, fill our minds with junk, and lie confidently. They do not represent the same type of revolution that occurred when robots, for example, replaced human bodily capabilities in factories. While I agree … Read more
after the dragon is dead
the thingmade a fist of firesqueezed the world into ashwhile the ghosts of the livingwatched the ocean of flamebuild more waves,taller and stronger,begging collapse. the crash refused to come,the end of things demandeda hero, and so one camein armor like all the rest,carrying a sword like all the restthat he guided into the heartof the … Read more
Occupy the darkness
I thought millions of words would make a difference, so I joined the army of writers and made them, year after year. An article here, an essay there. A poem. A book, a short story. Ephemeral scribblings like this one. All of them crawled from the writhing places inside myself to the edge of the … Read more
Trump dictatorship or totalitarian regime in the USA: What would it be like?
Snippets from around the web painting a picture of what the USA might be like if a Trump authoritarian regime takes hold.
Where is our new world?
Fixing the environment is not just an technological problem, though everyone would prefer it is. It is also a political, psychological, sociological, economic system, and spiritual problem. But it’s simpler than that. It comes down to how we think. Those values so deep you don’t even know they’re there. A big one is that we … Read more
Writing with AI is not writing
Bugs, dogs, dinosaurs, neighborhoods, cities, countries, civilizations, planets, and, now, human creativity: They live, they die — fast, slow, brutally or gently. Generative AIs like ChatGPT, Bard, Claude, and Jasper are bringing plenty of violence and speed to the demise of writing. Or perhaps just a way of writing. Words, sentences, paragraphs, stories — making … Read more