Category: AI & Being Human
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The Overachieving Octopus
My morning started simply enough. I finished the crossword I’d fallen asleep working on the night before. I got Wordle in four. I made a cup of coffee and opened the shades to let the sun in. I stood for a moment and noted how its light lined up with the cars on the street.…
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The Validation Vacuum
“Grade me! Look at me! Evaluate and rank me! I’m good, good, good and, oh, so smart! GRADE ME!” – Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons, “The PTA Disbands”, Season 6 Episode 21) I have a few paragraphs of a new essay typed and already the urge to run my draft-in-progress through ChatGPT tugs on my subconscious.…
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Proof of Human
On em dashes, algospeak, and scrubbing your writing of anything that reads as AI — why proof of human might not be about absence but attention.
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Catching a Vibe
A botched Trojan horse in a college sculpture class, and how AI is closing the old gap between what I can imagine and what my hands can actually build.
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Death and The Human Advantage
Why our mortality, our finiteness, might be the one thing AI can never take from us.
