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I, Not Robot

Some things I object to on principle. Things that are just . . . wrong. Things that shouldn't be. Things that cheapen or degrade ourselves or others.

Home, Sweet Home

H*(R^α/Υ)=ς

07Jul22

lazy bumblebees

The Bright Side of Life

Well, that was _quite_ a week.

Fraught

sure we are like godswe created a machine that fears its own death This week I saw many things in the news—ambition-fueled corruption, violence and death, famine and disease; essentially all four horsemen—but what broke my heart (how many times can a heart be broken in one week?) were the answers given by the Google AI […]

As We Pass

in the passenger seat,on a narrow country road,my window rolled down,the scent of warm grass thickens the air

Grief is a Small Room

Grief is a small room . . .

This is Who We Want to Be

This is who we want to be We want our neighbors to go hungrySo we can enjoy the myth of our exceptional diligence We want people to die of a preventable diseaseSo we don’t have to suffer the discomfort of a filter mask We want kids to be stigmatized, bullied, and ashamedSo we can believe […]

Drop-Kick Rules

I’ve talked about purges before. Be it kitchen gadgets gathering dust at the back of a drawer or the varied detritus accumulated through decades of living, going through and clearing them out has become a habit for my wife and me. Every few years we take a deep dive into areas of our house and […]

This is the Patriarchy Calling; Are We Reaching?

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any more “interesting,” Justice Alito and the Doo-Wops serve up a new album guaranteed to top the charts and convulse the nation.  Among the many things we should learn from this—the uselessness of judicial confirmation hearings, the endemic mendacity born of high ambition, the obvious fact that we […]