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The author when he was properly scruffy, all beard and curly hair. He's sitting next top a microphone.

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  • Trite and testy

    “The Discovery of Nat Turner,” engraving from Popular History of the United States, published by William Cullen Bryant and Sidney Howard, 1881–88. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

    Why do Ai’s zealots take the road most travelled, usually by teenagers? Because they only think at surface level? Surely there must be more to it.

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  • Bach vs Ai

    Sheet music of the aria from the Goldberg Variations BWV 988 by Johann Sebastian Bach.

    Sunday afternoon deep in the the Yorkshire winter, I was listening to Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations (played by Beatrice Rana) and I drifted into imagining dear old JSB writing at his piano as the candles were lit and the sun set.  I thought of him finishing up and then trudging through the snow in

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  • AI is not helping your ideas

    A hand-drawn cartoon of a man in a hat saying, "Eh?". Oh, he also has the feet of a duck.

    “That picture you painted doesn’t look like the bay of Naples even though it’s called ‘The Bay of Naples’, bro!” says an AI zealot.“You got the prompt wrong. Ask your LLM to make a painting in the style of Cezanne!”, they continue.

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