Category: blog posts
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I’ve been using search engines for nigh on three decades of my life at this point. A search engine is a tool you use to help you find something that is true. Truth, because it has meaning, cannot be delivered by a machine, it’s got to be arrived at via…
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Bosnia AND Herzegovina? In this economy?
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“AI cannot hunger or thirst. It can only regurgitate.“ So claims an insightful piece by Eleanor Russell, which illuminated to me a lot of the problems I have with the idea of “art” being generated by an unthinking and unfeeling machine, not to mention whether there could be anything worthwhile…
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+ ai art, anti-life equation, art, creativity, darkseid, fascism, jack kirby, large language models, new gods+
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it’s not gonna happen. Every Saint Patrick’s Day, grade schoolers across America arrive to school bummed out to find that the leprechaun traps that they painstakingly worked on with their classmates have failed. The leprechaun(s) have once again broken out, leaving behind shamrock-shaped glitter and (if the kids are lucky)…
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A Guest In The House by E.M. Carroll I loved the art. The careful use of color in the protagonist’s mostly black-and-white world conveys emotions powerfully. I like how ambiguous the ending was, both in not spelling out fully what happened as well as leaving a huge mystery about who…
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+ book-review, book-reviews, books, comics, dorothy baker, e m carroll, fiction, joe haldeman, reading, reviews, shirley jackson+
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First: Ravi Shankar I lucked into this one. When I was like six years old my parents had tickets to see Ravi in Iowa City, and a few nights before the show my sister broke her leg. My mom wanted to stay home with her instead of getting a babysitter,…
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I became a blog addict because I was a kid who loved movies. In the early 2000s, the movie blogosphere was a very exciting place for developing nerds to find themselves. The first movie website that I got really into was the AV Club, back when Nathan Rabin, Keith Phipps,…
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Stories about characters like Punisher that dig deep into the grimmest, darkest grim darkness are, Frank-ly speaking, a dime a dozen. It takes a writer like Garth Ennis, with a vile and blackhearted sense of humor and a grotesquely sprawling imagination, to make one of these stories feel like something…
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Team-up books can be a lot. Morrison leans hard into the just-too-muchness of an all-in Justice League story by following news broadcasts and other mass communications from place to place and character to character, creating a pulsing rhythm that kept me engaged where I sometimes find my interest drifting in…
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Sarah Wynn-Williams began her career in diplomacy and international relations. At the UN, she found herself working with other bureaucrats who got into their line of work because they care – about peace, about climate and our environment, about improving quality of life for people around the world. She also…
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Soup Is Good Food 