I have read a great deal about so-called “artificial intelligence” (I recommend Emily Bender’s The AI Con, for instance) and… Read more not human

I figured I didn’t need to do anything special today, so I ordered cat food and litter from Chewy yesterday… Read more wait

I regularly go out to the suburbs on the bus to visit the place where my late husband’s ashes are… Read more complicated

I don’t go out in the evenings much, but yesterday a poet was speaking at the bookstore, so I ventured… Read more the literary experience

Senior citizen French class was even more chaotic than usual today. The instructor was peevish, and having a harder time… Read more disease

Visiting the Country of Nostalgia, when I live in the very different Country of the Future, is odd. That is… Read more the future