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  • Call me capricious, but now that I have started using ChatGPT I like to ask it random questions. Here is the question/prompt I posed this morning to ChatGPT and the answer: I am trying to get a feel for how much the billionaire backers of AI are complicit in using the tools at their disposal Read more

  • “As for me and my house, we will follow Fulham.” ~ Mark Hinton Today, August 16th marks the opening weekend of the Premier League’s 25-26 season. This means, Peacock willing, I am watching Fulham at Brighton at 9:00AM Central Standard Time. Over my soccer watching career, I have tried to claim as my own various Read more

  • Segmenting time, or periodization, is something we have to do if we want to organize the past and give it meaning. But it’s dangerous. By choosing some dominating event and saying that its period starts here and ends there, we run the risk of neglecting other events that don’t fit well into the scheme we’ve Read more