Throw a rock in a crowd and there’s a significant chance it’ll hit somebody who thinks journalism needs to be saved. I believe, today, there are more people in the world who believe journalists are generally untrustworthy and bad at their jobs than those who feel otherwise. I also believe that those people are wrong. …
Bing plus ChatGPT! Google and Bard! Baidu and … uhh.. Ernie bot? Okay. Sure. Baidu and Ernie bot! 2023 is the year of the chatbot, for sure. In this issue: Alan Turing’s spirituality (649 words) Isaac Newton’s bullies (312 words) Bill Gates’ boundaries (178 words) Alan Turing’s spirituality With all the hubbub, hullabaloo, and fluff …
Go on…More than meets the AI: The chatbots are here. Now what?
Good Enough I’ve really struggled to get this edition of the newsletter published, ironically, since its whole theme was intended to be “good enough is good.” I’ve gone through waves of procrastination, finally getting everything put together except for this intro. I started it a dozen times and sat at my keyboard with disorganized static …
I’ve seen a lot of dead bodies. To the best of my knowledge, none of them ended up that way because they read some hate speech on the internet and immediately died of a word attack in their brains. Can you imagine if humans had that kind of power? If you could just send a …
Nature abhors a binary. As far as I can tell, the only place binaries actually exist is in the human imagination. Even life and death, the ultimate human binary, are just processes affecting our physical matter — matter that was here long before we became conscious and will exist long after we’re pronounced dead. We …
Go on…Understanding binaries part one: Here’s why there aren’t any LGBTQ AIs
It’s never a good position to be in, being the bearer of bad news, but sometimes it’s a necessary one. I’ve run the numbers, read the tea, and communed with the spirits. 2022 is going to be a difficult year for queer people everywhere. Don’t get me wrong. 2021 was bad enough. We could use …
Go on…2021 was a tough year to be queer. Get ready for an even harder 2022
Posten Norge, the official postal service of Norway’s Ministry of Transport and Communications, recently created the most gloriously queer holiday shipping ad we’ve ever seen. Check out the video here: For something that comes in at just under 4:00 (there’s a 1:00 version here), it sure does pack a lot of punch. The plot follows what …
Go on…This queer Santa ad from Norway’s post office is the best holiday movie of 2021
I was queer when I woke up this morning. It wasn’t something I planned. I didn’t drink a queer-lixir before I went to sleep. It just… happened. Don’t get me wrong. It wasn’t unexpected. I was pretty sure I’d wake up queer today and I’m pretty certain I’ll wake up queer tomorrow. Mostly because I’m …
The upcoming “Eternals” movie, set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), will reportedly feature a scene in which the franchise’s first openly-gay character will assume responsibility for the US government’s decision to drop an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. What The Fuck? Okay, right up front, let me point out that I …
Go on…Marvel Cinematic Universe to use first openly-gay character as patsy for US atrocity
Happy… Pride… month? Let me try that again. Ahem. Happypridemonth. Still not there. Happy meh meh meh. Well, fuck. I was starting to think that I sucked at being queer when June 3rd rolled around and I realized I hadn’t written a single thing for Love is a Fetish all month long. That’s 72 wasted hours. …