Reading an article on Neil Gaiman, one thing that really struck me was how many women ended up being victimized also as free labor: nannies only paid when it was worthwhile to bribe them to sign an NDA. The article led me to watch Amanda Palmer’s TED talk “The Art Read more
I was fixing this professor’s computer, and we got along great. I was one of only two Unix support personnel at the university and he was a Unix user. He was also from Turkey and made me Turkish Coffee every time I came to his office, so I put that Read more
Call me a Luddite: I’m fed up with predictive large language models. I’m exhausted with it. I gave the stuff the good old college try. I looked at what it could do, how to program it. I started way before it was a Big Deal. Like many people today, back Read more