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I write about housing and all kinds of social and political issues as well as short works of fiction and musings about everyday life.
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Dear Rambler (opens the original)
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To the ramblers,That’s the outcasts and wanderers, drifters and vagabonds.The ones who seem to feel at home in many places. Just not for long.Because eventually the novelty wears off. The mundane filters in. The chores pile up.You see something in the eyes of a store clerk or a bank teller or an office worker. Which is to say, you see something missing. There is no sense of wild possibility. Just a steadiness. A resolve, or a resignation, to show up day after day.And you know that it’s more than
The Turing Test (opens the original)
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They call it a Turing Test.Person One sits down at a computer, typing back and forth with an unseen Person Two.The subject of conversation doesn’t really matter. What matters is what Person One thinks about Person Two, whether something feels off. More to the point, does Person One think that Person Two is a person at all?Can someone tell when the “person” on the other side is actually a machine?Alan Turing’s simple test, first proposed in 1950, produced two camps.In one were the humanists, the
What We Celebrate (opens the original)
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We’re about to mark 250 years since the founding of these United States, and it’s a good opportunity to reflect on our history. What we could really call our histories. Because the thing about this country is it has never been just one thing. Not one religion, one cuisine, or one culture. Not one story. At least not a simple one. Because you’d have to tell about the long march many took across the Sonoran Desert. And the long march many took from Auschwitz. You’d have to tell the long march many
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