Listening to: Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays the Beatles ♫
Researchers say AI transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said. And some of the things it invents are psychotic.
Adam Roberts has a Substack! This should be cause for general rejoicing, and everyone should subscribe. And pay the man! He’s been offering top pun/parody/poetry/pontification content online for years, for free, so you all owe him several thousand dollars each!
Maybe this is a good season for me to re-up my old post on being informed but not absorbed.
In the middle of Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett, I came across a funny/insightful passage I thought I might blog about — only to discover that it has its own Wikipedia page. 📚
A very happy boy after playing in the hose.
Sometimes teaching — or the kind of teaching I do, anyway — forces you to confront certain dramatic juxtapositions, as I was recently reminded.