Maybe it’s just that, like the author, I am currently looking for work and facing down the expectations that I’ll “use AI” to “work faster”. How should I express my approach to LLMs when I am so fundamentally distrustful of technology that lies by default?

They say “any sufficiently advanced […]

Wrote up some thoughts on this: https://jerclarke.org/2025/12/15/when-you-dream-you-see-the-monster-the-monster-wears-your-face/

I spend a lot of time thinking and talking about AI, mostly with spite, disgust and fear. Of all the jokes and warnings I’ve seen that made me laugh or cringe or yell […]

In the year 2025 of the Common Era, if you don't have a Code of Conduct that requires people to not be sexists or bigots, you're on 2.9999 strikes in my book already.

Don't rely on unwritten rules. If you can't at least write down on paper "no bigots or misogynist shitheads allowed", then your […]

2/2 Why am I looking for work now?

I’ve been full time with globalvoices.org since 2006, but due to a funding crunch, they had to put everyone on half-time, so as a rare treat, I am available for hire!

Thanks in advance!

P.S. Please don't worry about me, I'm fine. Just doing the next right […]

@arthurgron My favorite is the Ruby Throated Hummingbirds, who travel 900 miles across the Gulf of Mexico without stopping!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby-throated_hummingbird

@arthurgron Haha quite possible! I think it's one of the species I notice "passing through" around this time, though I haven't documented it carefully in the past. I'm in Mexico City.