Andor
The Star Wars universe can only hold reactionary stories. Andor attempts to do something else, but it only works if you don’t think too hard about what it’s all for.
Category: Technology
Music Videos
“Artificial Intelligence” is now an inescapable part of music videos. I flirt with the idea that this is a terrible change that will destroy an art form that I love.
Glanding
I wonder why all the fuss about large-language-models and mars rockets, when we could be splurging billions recreating an Iain M. Banks novel.
Sheep
I provide my response to a challenge of a viable model of a space colony. The answer, in a nutshell, is sheep.
Gaming the System
Musing on the failure of LLMs to handle mathematics problems.
White Smoke
I’ve written a script to turn on a light either red or blue depending on the US election result. I have reasons for this. They are obscure. I felt the need to elaborate and defend my life choices.
Y2K
I yell at the “Y2K was a hoax” myth. This might be ancient history, but I was there, and I saw what I saw.