AI stands as the most disruptive force in our world today.
It threatens the creative professions. It undermines our ability to discern what is real. It promises nothing but chaos for our political system, which is already dominated by bad faith actors.
But we’re not talking about that today.
Someone has found a great way to use AI to stick it to some of the most loathsome parasites in the world.
Continue reading “At Last, a Good Use for AI”
When I was in the second grade, I had one violin lesson.
The teacher humiliated me, and I never went back.
So ended my “brilliant” music career.
Now, with the hindsight of an adult, I know the teacher didn’t mean to embarrass me.
He was just trying to show me proper technique, but I felt singled out and shamed in front of my classmates.
Part of me always wondered, though, what I would have been like – what I would have gained – if I had stuck with the lessons.
Continue reading “My Year of Music”
I dreamt of Robin, and when I awoke, I knew he was dead.
Robin was a man I knew for a season when I was 19.
We were never friends, though I would have been gladly that, and more, if he had given me the chance.
I hadn’t thought about him in at least twenty years, and here I was, googling him on my desktop first thing in the morning.
Continue reading “A Life Slipped Through the Cracks”
On Twitter, a friend posted: “Facebook is the worst mistake humanity has ever made.”
I had to stop to think about that.
The worst mistake? That seems harsh.
I’d rank it in my Top 20.
I must confess: I loathe Facebook.
Andre was a vegetarian.
And he wanted you to be a vegetarian too.
He posted numerous images and videos to remind his many social media followers that what we eat had a face – and suffered to get to our plates.
Now I don’t want you to think he was some humorless zealot.
Far from it.
Mark Perigard 