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• The Shape of Things to Come –

  In the U.S., the Republicans’ sad entourage of the desperate, demented, and enraged are tearing at the Constitution’s exposed achilles tendons. In Russia the gangsters of Prigozhin are battling the si...

• The Dreams Of Electric Sheep –

  It seems you feel our work is not of benefit to the public… Chatbots are like any other machine. They’re either a benefit or a hazard. If they’re a benefit, it’s not my problem.

• Die Amis haben unser Unterbewusstsein kolonisiert* –

  *The Yanks have colonized our subconscious (A quote from Wim Wenders’ film Im Lauf der Zeit) Well, you may be old now, I told myself at sixty, but at least you haven’t st…

• 21st Century Character Studies, Part I –

  Ryan Zinke — and the horse he rode in on — are finally on their way out of Washington. In the Trump era his resignation surprises no one, and bothers no one much except his erstwhile&nb…

• The Laws of Physics, the Limits of Desire –

  A couple of years ago, a friend of mine who’s relied on me off and on for thirty years for tech advice, came to me with a complaint that his iPhone 6 — then barely two years old, out of…

• WordPress Boogie-Woogie –

  After being lost in the fog like Brigadoon for more than a month, Dogtown is back. The story is an all-too common one, I’m afraid. In order to resolve some nasty response-time issues, Dogtown…