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Peg Tittle
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Jul 05 2023
A wry smile for those over fifty or so
“Women’s magazines are typically associated with check-out lines in grocery stores, where they sport loud headlines that either promise a “beach body” in ten days, or describe exciting new ways to please a man in bed. (Back in the old days, all you had to do was show up.)” Erica Verrillo
Jul 04 2023
The Problem with Content Filters
A while ago, I sent an email to libraries informing them of several new books I’d published, hoping to interest them in acquiring one or two. The email was blocked by mail filters for “inappropriate content”. Here are the book descriptions I’d used: Fighting Words: notes for a future we won’t have. Fact-driven fiction. Speculative. …
Jul 03 2023
Excellent piece re PIV
Well worth the read. https://francoistremblay.wordpress.com/2014/11/21/why-is-there-no-counter-argument-from-the-pro-piv-side/
Jun 30 2023
Wendy Grossman on AI and ChatGPT
“What we currently call ‘AI’ is basically data and statistics. In providing a response, for example, ChatGPT looks for statistical correlations between the data in its corpus and the prompt you have written. Its answer doesn’t focus on what’s statistically likely to be true, but on using words that are statistically likely to appear near …
Jun 29 2023
It’s not poverty, stupid.
Poverty is not the cause of crime. Because even when men have enough, they steal more, kill for more. (Think of all those rich white CEOs running our planet, managing the banks, the oil companies, the logging companies …) (And given that well over 90% of crime is committed by men, well, the cause should …
Jun 25 2023
Brilliant Sarkeesian
“In the game of patriarchy, women are not the opposing team. They’re the ball.” Anita Sarkeesian
Jun 22 2023
Tim Dorsey, The Pope of Palm Beach
“The sun was going down behind the Big Burger when the alligator came flying in the drive-in window.” How’s that for an opening line? And it gets better. (A feat worthy of great admiration, given that it’s his 22nd novel.) “Do you have any idea who I am?” “Yes, why?” Said Serge. “Forgot your own …
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