Catalytic Narrative

Many if not most of us have wondered about advertising revenue once Google started to provide an AI answer first. One supposes that they are...

Playground by Richard Powers My rating: 5 of 5 stars He Throws in the Towel I completely missed all the little clues, and had to read the...

I'm in a place with email now where I'll have to revert to just letting it wash over me, the way I do the news. Everybody wants a pi...

I did once watch Yellow Submarine, stoned. I was watching for the reference to an artist near-family member. Thank goodness I never became a...

All the AI gurus have taken to saying that Artificial General Intelligence is just about here. Maybe a year, may be two, maybe tomorrow. Wha...

I once introduced myself as a cosmologist. Only once. I meant it in earnest, but still felt silly about it. I quickly demurred that "I ...

In this new Heart of Darkness, it's the Irony, the Irony! That good churchgoers from the countryside should consider Trump a decent and ...

Just now, like many of us, I'm holding my breath that Agent Orange won't carry on to drop his COVID nukes in Tulsa. The day after Ju...

We know it's real, and we know that it probably jumped the bat-human divide, and we know that it's our own immunological response wh...