Two quotations on two visions of “human survival.”
I wrote about true crime and the rise of the detective story.
Further adventures in analog: Currently listening to John Coltrane, Ballads, on vinyl. ♫
Our son Wes in the Tate Gallery London, summer 1996. Taken (by Teri, I’m almost sure) with our beloved Nikon FE-2, which we still have, though it’s in need of repair. Maybe we should’ve stuck with that camera all these years. That print is small … I wonder if I can find the negative …
Here’s the amazing Robin Sloan thinking patiently and carefully through the fundamental question about AI: Is it okay? It’s perfect that Robin is doing this in a blog post — the first of several, perhaps — because this kind of open-ended thinking is what blogs are best suited for.
I wrote a post for my BMAC supporters on why I won’t be making a pivot to political writing, and what I’ll be doing instead.
I wrote about why the detective story becomes popular when it does — or one reason anyway: another will come in another post.
