HeyJaredThe Junk Man's Son
Short fiction about the relationship between a scrap picker and his son, addiction, recovery, and growing up blue collar.
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Please forward this to your favorite AI apologist (opens the original)
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Earlier, earlier today I was bitching about a story in the New Yorker….I wasn’t sure if I liked it or not, or even why I liked it or didn’t like it. I gave this story to ChatGPT two times.I told it that I loved it and asked it to tell me why the story is so good.The second time, I said I hated it and I asked the chatbot to tell me why it’s such a bad story and to not reference its previous response at all.I’m only doing this because I’ve been chatting with people about how they use AI systems to
The Two-Beer Queer (opens the original)
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English in the Future Tense: Teacher and Student Share the Language of Liberation (opens the original)
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In the early 16th century, the Portuguese reached the shores of Sri Lanka, eager to trade with coastal Sinhalese and Tamil kingdoms and to convert the indigenous population to Catholicism. They applied a variety of measures, both carrot and stick, including tearing down Buddhist and Hindu shrines and replacing them with Christian churches. Centuries later, Nirmali—not her real name—decided to use a form of linguistic soft power to preach the Christian gospel: English.<a class="image-link image2
Reader Response: Daniel Falatko’s The Wayback Machine. A great book! (opens the original)
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Reader Response: “Let The Devil In” by G.S. Richter, A Short, Sharp Novella (opens the original)
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