Tag Archives: Artificial intelligence

#750: I Know a Poet

I know a poet who (years ago) createda software program that could write poems. As an experiment, he brought those poemsto a workshop and pretended they were his. People were pissed at him. They invested their time and their critical acumen to helpthis writer with his poetry and they felt hoodwinked and were not atContinue reading “#750: I Know a Poet”

We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Program to Talk Some More About Publishing a Book in the Age of AI

And I thought it couldn’t get any weirder. Today, I received a cold email from a guy claiming to be a literary agent interested in my novella. He vaguely expressed interest in my work, saying that my book had come to his attention. He went on to say that his agency’s method was to earnContinue reading “We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Program to Talk Some More About Publishing a Book in the Age of AI”

#735: The Teacher, April 3, 2026

The Teacher, April 3, 2026 Tries to stop his studentsfrom thinking. Tries to inspireall manner of bad habits. Encourages errors of every stripe and color. Stop endingyour sentences with a period, he says. Use the passive voicewhenever possible and spellingthese days is overrated. Verb tenseagreement is passé and who everheard of a question mark.There’s no reason for learning toContinue reading “#735: The Teacher, April 3, 2026”

We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Program to Talk About Publishing A Book in the Age of AI

AI is basically sucking up all human knowledge and throwing it back at us–and charging a price. –David Byrne My novella, Submarine Stories, is up now for pre-order in all the usual places where you can preorder a book or its ebook counterpart. Very exciting stuff. This is my second published work of fiction, andContinue reading “We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Program to Talk About Publishing A Book in the Age of AI”

#659: An American Sonnet for the Fraction 3/14

I asked google to convert the fraction3/14 into decimals. The artificial intel (default now in a google search),tells me that I am approximately 0.2142857 of the way throughmy entire record collection, andthat the six digits that follow the tenthsare apparently a series of numbersthat will repeat indefinitely, infinitely, forever and ever, amen. I started thisprojectContinue reading “#659: An American Sonnet for the Fraction 3/14”

#582: That Time I Got Help With a Bot from Another Bot

After a second day of hundreds of visits, I contacted the automated helpon my Word Press site to see if itcould stop my German bots. Initially, I asked to speak to a realperson, but the automated helpwas, how do I say, insistent aboutgiving it a go. Why not, I said. Together, we learned a lotconcerningContinue reading “#582: That Time I Got Help With a Bot from Another Bot”