infinite secrets of the river Last week, mostly to somehow productively distract myself from the pain unleashed within my circle of Jewish friends and Lebanese friends by the terrorist attack in Bondi, I read Kate Grenville’s Unsettled: A Journey Through Time and Place (2025). In many ways, Grenville’s reflections in this memoir are essential to […]
No goddess in this machine
No goddess in this machine I’ve been wondering a lot lately about how artificial intelligence is going to mimic the essence of the human behind the words of a story. Our voices, even in text, are kind of like fingerprints. They’re unique. Not only in the ways we place one word after another, but in […]