There are a lot of reasons to dislike ‘AI’ (I put quotes around it because it is artificial but it’s not intelligent).
- Environmental impact of pouring gasoline on the fire of global warming
- False claims regarding what it can do/hype bubble
- Deeply embedded racism
- Copyright infringemen...
“Unions are a better invention than chatGPT” -Joan Westenberg
I ran across this hand-wringing WSJ article recently which bemoans the European proclivity to enact regulations that protect people’s privacy, their health, and their way of life at the expense of being able to compete with China and...
I’ve been making bread for a while now and I’ve tried lots of recipes. Why bother? The U.S. allows a lot of additives in bread that are not good for people. Also, good bread is really expensive. Also, fresh-baked bread with some honey and butter on it is one of the best experiences a human can h...
I have a word problem. The words are Disorder, Deficit, Disability, and Disease. They all start with the letter D but that’s just a coincidence.
Let me take a step back. I’m a neurodivergent person. I’m dad to a neurodivergent kid, husband to a neurodivergent spouse, brother to a neurodivergent si...
I’m working on a middle grade fantasy book called The Bone Flute. The book, perhaps not surprisingly, features a magical flute made from a vulture’s wing bone. I have made branch flutes and bamboo flutes but never bone so I decided to give it a try. It’s not easy to get a wing bone from a vulture. I...
My 5th grade robotics students are having trouble engineering their catapults so I made this prototype to inspire them.