Push the Button

 Cultural Offering has the Post of the Day.

I hope that was a hell of a workshop.

In The Zone

The best part of The Zone is the focus. You're not running off here or there. You are not shifting your attention to a multitude of items.

You are in The Zone.

And when you want to get a project completed, that is a very nice place to be.

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The Poetic Influences

 There are Wordsworth days.

There are Tennyson days.

There have always been Longfellow days and Wylie days and Sandburg and Frost days.

And Yeats. Can't forget Shelley or Lindsay. Or Sassoon. Or Hughes.

And so many others!

But I have to confess that this is the poem that has influenced me for most of my life.

Somebody Fire That A.I. Intern!

The Chicago Sun-Times explains a big oops: 

How its recommended summer reading list included some books that don't exist.

Boo

 

First Paragraph

They parked the small white van that claimed Reparation de Climitisation en Urgence in red letters and Emergency Air-Conditioning Repair in smaller black ones below. The time was 05:30; the two men watched the property in silence.

- From Pierre Lambert, Detective, a novel by Nicholas Bate 

AI and Unintended Consequences

We need to consider what Artificial Intelligence will to do to people as well as what it will do for people.

I've posted some thoughts on Substack.

A Summer Reading List

 

NPR: An AI-generated summer reading list hits the Chicago Sun-Times.

Speaking of Plays

 

An Elaborate Play Was Staged for the American People

 The Free Press: Oliver Wiseman on "The Joe Biden Cover-Up."