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Because it's too hot to think in a tank. Unusual cultural musings by an award winning author and sometimes professor of history and of poetry. Ideas and the creative life. Books, art, tv, science, atheism, poetry, doubt etc.
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Check, Check (opens the original)
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I just read an article here on Substack about AI treating men and women in significantly different ways, offering strategic moves to men, and comfort for women, even suggestions towards deference. I asked ChatGPT if it answered my queries differently than it would were I male and it admitted that yes, it probably followed its training on the way things have been, and offered as is quotably said in the piece, chess moves to men and a checklist to women. It apologized and said it would try to corr
KGB Reading, Notes on the Future (opens the original)
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I’ll be reading poetry at KGB with the wonderful Jess Smith tomorrow Monday, Sept 14, doors open at 7pm, reading at 7:30. It’s always a thrill to read there. I hope you can come!I’m going nuts trying to get the title right on my new poetry manuscript. The current leader is Modern Gravity. For the longest time it was called Anti-Gravity Time Machine, but I’ve decided that it is too whimsical, the book is more serious than it suggests. Well it’s the next day and I found a title for the manuscript:
Summer Obsessions (opens the original)
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Well, July has opened its hot mouth and breathed. So far, for me, not bad. I went out midday yesterday when it was 95 but I didn’t hate it. There have been hotter days, but not days I had to leave home. We have ceiling fans in every room and they do a lot, until they’re not enough and we put on the delicious AC. And now it’s August. Mixed report. Weirdly, I was stricken with an ear ache the other night and while it’s clearly on the mend, I still feel like half of my head is in a bucket. I don’t
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