The power of art
From a book I’m slowly reading right now, “The Creative Act”…
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From this Substack post Was this an attempted coup? No one beside Vladimir Putin, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Alexander Lukashenko, and maybe CIA director William J. Burns or director of national intelligenc…
Over-humanity
From a recent library book:…
News Extracts: 16 Jul 2021
A shocking trend, that is easily missed A perspective on a sort of change in culture and art, using Michaelangelo as an example…
Random note: 198432
A could of random selections from the backmatter of the graphic novel omnibus "Do androids dream of electric sheep?"…
On Robot Overlords
Extract from a recent New Yorker story, "Welcoming our new robot overlords" beep-beep-whooshA decade ago, industrial robots assisted workers in their tasks. Now workers—those who remain—ass…