I have a pair of Vernon Gantry frames I like (they’re only sold at independent optometrist shops).

Would love to, but Blue Sky doesn’t want to give me the option of DMing. I think mine are turned on if we can reverse engineer the email sharing.

Sure

No. But it would have gone a lot differently if Lincoln didn’t compromise and boot his Abolitionist supporting VP for effing Andrew Johnson in 1864.

The funniest thing about this is they tried price transparency in Florida and the price of services went UP. Funny thing: people see more expensive and think better quality.

This would be the end of a student taking a risk on their essay and doing something novel.

The Way Through Doors by Jesse Ball

Britannica is still around and kicking.

They eliminated the pilot program for this year’s filing. I would also trust IRS auditors over ChatGPT too.

They didn’t teach writing in Europe for a very long time and maybe some countries still don’t. I know in Germany it was thought that if you read enough you’ll figure it out until Frankfort brought in an American writing center director in the late 90s.

The tear down and rebuild culture of LA is perhaps one of the saddest parts of that city.

A big difference between generative AI and all other application technologies: AI is labor replacing technology whereas Quark or Word or Adobe etc. were labor changing technologies. AI is not a tool to be used by humans, it is an imitation machine meant to replace the human.

I think I might fail this one…

Depends on if I’m copying text or composing new text. Copying text I’ve probably done a full page before looking at the screen and realizing.

We call ours Sally Greenlight (because it is a woman in a car waiting at a stoplight). Mella is a popular one (has a face that sleeps and wakes up and can also be a nightlight).

Dead Like Me? We were just beginning to understand Mandy Patinkin’s life before he died when they canceled the show.

From a Denis Johnson email (transcribed from the New Yorker Fiction Podcast)