Category: Wonderings
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Creative pledge
After a week of fighting the end of human creativity with a lot of human creativity, I’ve made a pledge to myself.
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Becoming the Mother of Robots
It’s incredibly on-the-nose for late-stage capitalism to dictate that a large part of my day now involves training robots to perform like humans. My style rules. My knowledge. My social skills. I’m training and testing these ghouls to be an army run on my brain. It’s easy to see how bias can infest AI –…
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Mamdani and Polanski are hope
New York has chosen its mayor and thank God it’s not a Republican or a sexual predator – it’s actually a real person. I’ve been rooting for Zohran Mamdani over the last few months and think he’s a wonderful leader for New York. Love that for them. Meanwhile, the Green Party is seeing an unprecedented…
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Recent makes and mends
Making, mending and adjusting things is a revolutionary act. Capitalism would like us to buy-buy-buy to our own and the earth’s detriment, feeding on an annual cycle of growth at any cost for shareholder value. If the vision of the future is only ever 12 months ahead, we are fucked. Therefore, going back in time…
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Writing for writing’s sake
There are a couple of big reasons writers won’t disappear, even with the robots snapping at our heels. Humans need to write. Writing is thinking, writing is play. Humans need to feel. We feel nuance. We feel lived experience. We feel quirks, dialects and flaws. Today in the post I received a zine called Earwyrm,…
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