A quick preface on current events: It is alarming to see members of Congress demanding the identities of Wikipedia administrators, and the acting U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C. threatening the foundation's nonprofit status. The danger is that political actors are trying to replace an independent institution
(Originally published in 2011; see endnotes below.) It was 1999. The Sega Dreamcast was brand new, Tori Murden was crossing the Atlantic, and I was about to have a terrible revelation. Napster had launched in June of that year, and would last 22 months before being shut down by a
Originally published by Clarkesworld in January 2013. “And jealous now of me, you gods, because I befriend a man, one I saved as he straddled the keel alone, when Zeus had blasted and shattered his swift ship with a bright lightning bolt, out on the wine-dark sea.” —Homer, The Odyssey,
Surprising no one (I hope), this blog has been rather quiet. I committed the classic blunder – not the one about contesting a Sicilian, fortunately – of over-scoping. So I have roughly three thousand words written in response to this rather remarkable video from Yahtzee Croshaw and the Second Wind folk – and
My job has put me in the position of explaining creativity to technologists for a long time now. This function became about a thousand times more fraught as AI-generated images transitioned from “nightmare fuel” to what we see today. Wanting a chance to think about this with people I respected
I’ve been away awhile. I made a brief attempt in fall of 2022 to return to blogging, and did finally set up my new personal site (3sxp.com). But – some things happened. In brief: * I had two young children, and family life consumed every scrap of attention I could