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I read a paper this week called The AI Layoff Trap. It has an interesting thesis. If you look at what is happening with automation and laying people off, and take it to the ultimate conclusion, no one will have a job. If that happens no...
North Woods by Daniel Mason published 2023 The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilderpublished 1940 [Excerpt from North Woods] Anastasia Rossi, born Edith Simmons, sat upright, her bulk filling the chair to its arms. She was dressed in her...
Why might a modern-day Odysseus be late home? This sketch, written and directed by MunyaChawawa, gives us a very British reason for his tardiness – and there’s no surprise when Penelope is a little bit miffed. His excuses aren’t terribly...
Jail erodes every aspect of a person’s agency. – Lindsey Krinks I recently watched all the Charlie Chan movies Chekhov had in his collection. The low-budget Monogram Chan pictures of the 1940s weren’t as good as the 20th Century Fox ones...
Everyone seems to be looking into their own niche and isolating more and more. They go into the deepest rabbit holes trying to diagnose why the thing they love the most is not in its prime anymore.
“Drawshaving at shaving horse”Don Weber This is the second post in a three-post series featuring images from a carousel of Don Weber’s slides, which he found while working with us on a profile for The Stick Chair Journal No. 4. These...
This piece was originally published in Waging Nonviolence.Last September I made a short video that was by far the most viral piece of content I’ve ever put out.I can’t trace all the views, but at least a million people watched it across...
Helen of Nowhere is the fifth book on this year's Booker Prize longlist that I've read, and it's easily the strangest reading experience I've had this year. I read it twice within about twelve hours. Once on my Kindle one evening,...
I did not go back to the Asheville Quilt show yesterday, so I was so happy this morning that a quilting friend of mine made a Facebook post that included this picture of the quilt that captured my imagination, but I neglected to get a...
Legally Distinct Fantasy China.
After writing one article on how to speed up Unreal’s editor launch by not spawning 38000 tooltips and one on how to speed it up further by not opening 5500 files and getting the described fixes merged in for 5.8, I sort of stopped...
I have wanted to write a roguelike since roughly the first time ADOM killed me in the Small Cave. A few months ago I finally started one, mostly because I wanted a Rust project that was large enough to be interesting and small enough to...
This article shows how to build an Autonomous AI Agent with SqlFlow and Java.