Monday, August 5, 2024

The Billboard Blitz Continues

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  One of many evangelical billboards which have sprung up lately in my city... I have stated several times in this blog that I am a Bible-be...
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Saturday, July 20, 2024

Voices In My Head...

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As part of my efforts to satisfy my monthly craving for foreign (especially non-Western) fiction, I was scouring the Internet several weeks ...
Monday, July 15, 2024

The Coping Mechanisms of the Precariat: Prelude To The Great Resignation

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This post is a continuation of my series of posts on economic precarity and the precariat.  In the last post in this series , I introduced t...
Sunday, June 2, 2024

Book Recommendation - Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing

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I recently bought an audiobook copy of Peter Robison's book  Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing .  It's been ...
Monday, May 27, 2024

The Coping Mechanisms of the Precariat, And Their Effects - Introduction

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This series of posts on precarity has nearly finished sketching the outlines of the origins and spread of the precariat, as well as the glob...
Monday, May 13, 2024

Precarity and Artificial Intelligence: What "HAL" Might Do To "Dave's" Future

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Note: the title of this post is a nod to an old, rather slow sci-fi movie with a mind-blowing ending that avoided cheesiness while actually...
Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Precarity and Artificial Intelligence: A Four-Wheeled Reason to be Skeptical about AI Optimism

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The most recent post in my series on economic precarity hinted that the wildly optimistic claims of what artificial intelligence can do or ...