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Lolita and the Art of Suitcase Literature
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Those are the opening lines of Lolita , Vladimir Nabokov’s dazzling literary masterpiece. Lolita was an international bestseller that reshaped modern fiction and established Nabokov as one of the…
Technology With Unexpected Dimensions
I watched Bad Bunny’s halftime performance at the Superbowl in 3D, sugar cane receding into the distance, dancers popping off the screen toward me. When I watched Alfred…
The Renaissance Of The Physical
Holly Black’s The Cruel Prince was massively popular when it was published in 2018 – New York Times bestseller, millions of copies sold. It became a sensation in the romantasy…
AI Pornography: Threat Or Menace?
AI is being used to generate explicit images of real people, celebrities, and minors. Nudity! Bikinis ! Sex, sex, so much sex! The use of technology to create pornography is, of…
Goodbye Wintel, Hello Winsnap: The PC Industry’s New Power Couple
My last article talked about a specific laptop with a Snapdragon processor, the Lenovo Thinkpad T14s Gen 6. For my needs, it stands head and shoulders above the otherwise…
Vive La Snapdragon Revolucion!
I’m typing this on my favorite laptop of all time. And I’ve used a lot of laptops. It’s a Lenovo Thinkpad. It looks just like a Thinkpad – matte black on the outside, lots of…
Days Of Future Passed: Bruceb Top Ten 2025
Click here for my 2025 Top Ten playlist. The wheel is turning. I’m 71 years old. Every future day lived is a day that has passed. Today is a fleeting moment with a challenge to…
Ace Doubles: Two Tales, One Spine
Philip K Dick’s first published novel was Solar Lottery in 1955. It was a thirty five cent Ace paperback. If you flip the book over, there’s no back cover, there’s a different…
Details Mattter: The Difference Between AI Hallucinations And Misinformation
Details matter. Here’s a detail about AI that matters: there’s a difference between hallucinations and misinformation. Seems subtle, I know, but the distinction might help…
Brown Stage Capitalism
Everything is getting worse. Cory Doctorow gave it a name three years ago: enshittification . Now he has written the best business book of the year, Enshittification: Why…
AI & Society: Messy, Complicated, And Uneven
AI & Society A series of articles about the most significant technology shift of our lifetime 1 Overview 2 The Case For Optimism 3 The Case For Pessimism 4 The Failure Of…
AI & Society: Governance Alternatives
AI & Society A series of articles about the most significant technology shift of our lifetime 1 Overview 2 The Case For Optimism 3 The Case For Pessimism 4 The Failure…
AI & Society: The Failure Of Federal Governance
AI & Society A series of articles about the most significant technology shift of our lifetime 1 Overview 2 The Case For Optimism 3 The Case For Pessimism 4 The Failure Of…
AI & Society: The Case For Pessimism
AI & Society A series of articles about the most significant technology shift of our lifetime 1 Overview 2 The Case For Optimism 3 The Case For Pessimism 4 The Failure Of…
AI & Society: The Case For Optimism
AI & Society A series of articles about the most significant technology shift of our lifetime 1 Overview 2 The Case For Optimism 3 The Case For Pessimism 4 The Failure Of…
AI’s Impact On Society
AI & Society A series of articles about the most significant technology shift of our lifetime 1 Overview 2 The Case For Optimism 3 The Case For Pessimism 4 The Failure Of…