The Vole That Roared
En route from Navy Mess to Situation Room, Wilbur warned me to expect one unusual amid the gathering. Unusual how? A character seen mainly at night, in office or hallway, at to whom you might
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Ex Machina
When we touched the moon the universe paused. When we created a mind, God stirred. Ex-Machina shows how we might misstep playing with smart toys. A lesson in human-machine interaction that icily depicts, from infinite
Chicanery
OK to be #LNP
Age brings despair – with both politics and the greedy imbeciles running this stunted civilisation. Lately, though, a faint joy gladdens Throsby’s heart, softening the grim chicanery passing for governance in this land of sweeping
Anthropic
Dear Smart People
This is a letter from one of your dull cousins. No, it’s not to complain or ask you to do my homework, and certainly not to insult you. How could I possibly win at that?
Ink Irresistable
Montaigne's what would I know? Huxley's almost anything about almost everything. Or Bierce and nothing matters. Codifying life's inimitable impromptu inclines irrestistably to essay.SheepOverboard is ..
Not exactly news -
and, well, not exactly not. Our obsession is with a species sapient,
yet oddly servant to every process it ever begat. With civilization smugly astride the chariot of 'progress' -
a rollercoaster of innovation that deftly but blindly side-steps oblivion.
Revered Parents, writing to inform you of this straaange planet full of losers Ovine Divine
Growing up with sheep is a bit like ... well, having ten thousand sisters and brothers. Ovine reporter Ewen Shearer takes you on a loving tour of lanolin and fleece
Munchies
Painters, such a sad old bunch None it seems more so than Munch
Upon that bridge with skies afire
A meme took flight to never tire.
Munch Montage ~ Just a tiny sample of tributes celebrating the world's most iconic and famous painting. Mona Lisa was never like this.
AI Blogs
Suicide by Code
Such were the times, infatuated by the dream of artificial thought, few noticed their dominion ebb as the Age of Reason slid to an early grave. In those heady days when artificial intelligence first challenged
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And Those Sheep
Biblical times dwell upon shepherds and flocks, man and sheep. In their eyes, beyond language, sheep evince deep admiration and devotion to their companion species mankind, considered a great and powerful friend. Personkind, in requite,
