Why AI Makes Me Uneasy Let me preface this post by saying that the push by Tech Bros to insert generative AI into everything makes me deeply uneasy for several reasons. The hype they’ve built in their rush to create artificial general intelligence (AGI) has steered eye-watering amounts of money away from investments in other areas. While I understand that investors in AI aren’t likely to put their money into solving the climate crisis or…
An anniversary blew past me recently. On November 11, 2024, this blog quietly (so quietly that it was unbeknownst to me!) celebrated its 10th anniversary. I have been blogging for 18 years, since September 8, 2006, when I started my first blog, called Filter & Splice, on Blogger. I love that each blog post is dated, and I can easily find the first post on each blog using the archive feature. On October 23, 2007,…
Forewarning: I touch on politics in this post, so if that isn’t your thing, go ahead and skip this. Author John Scalzi, whose work I’ve read a lot of this year, recently wrote a blog post called “Please Don’t Idolize Me (or Anyone, Really)” in response to people searching for a new creative person to look up to after several allegations of sexual assault surfaced against author Neil Gaiman. If you have a tendency to…