Friday, January 05, 2024

Karen S Wiesner: {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

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{Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova by Karen S. Wiesner A novel that took 10 years to write, com...
Thursday, January 04, 2024

AI as a Bubble

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column analyzes AI as a "tech bubble." What Kind of Bubble Is AI? Although I had a vague idea...
Saturday, December 30, 2023

ANATOMY OF A SCAM

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  My topic for the day is "Pig Butchering", which is a brutal name for a type of scam. For my title (not to borrow someone else...
Friday, December 29, 2023

Karen S Wiesner: {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Travelling Bag and Other Ghostly Stories and Farthing House and Other Stories by Susan Hill

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{Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Travelling Bag and Other Ghostly Stories and Farthing House and Other Stories by S...
Thursday, December 28, 2023

Celebrating Public Domain Day

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January 1 is Public Domain Day for works still under copyright that were first released in 2028: Public Domain Day 2024 The article incl...
Saturday, December 23, 2023

TONGUE IN CHEEK WITH A TROLL

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If you do an internet search for images of Trolls, you are likely to find small, colorful creatures with wild hair, big toothy grins, and re...
Friday, December 22, 2023

The Practice of Benevolence {A Reflection on Dickens' A Christmas Carol} by Karen S. Wiesner

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The Practice of Benevolence {A Reflection on Dickens' A Christmas Carol } by Karen S. Wiesner One of my all-time favorite storie...
Thursday, December 21, 2023

Dangerous Gifts

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The solstice is upon us! There's hope that within a few weeks darkness will stop falling at 5 p.m. Happy winter holidays! It might see...
Sunday, December 17, 2023

The Netflix Of His Time

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It was a time when all women were men, at least on the stage. Boys and men played the female parts. The "nurses" and other charact...
Friday, December 15, 2023

Karen S Wiesner: {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Woman in Black and Printer's Devil Court by Susan Hill

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{Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Woman in Black and Printer's Devil Court  by Susan Hill by Karen S. Wiesner Susa...
Thursday, December 14, 2023

Decoding Brain Waves

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Can a computer program read thoughts? An experimental project uses AI as a "brain decoder," in combination with brain scans, to ...
Sunday, December 10, 2023

Whose Who?

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Punctuation is a matter of courtesy to ones reader. I believe that Sir Ernest Gowers wrote words to that effect in his influential "Pla...
Friday, December 08, 2023

Karen S Wiesner: {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Small Hand and Dolly by Susan Hill

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{Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Small Hand and Dolly by Susan Hill by Karen S. Wiesner Susan Hill is one of those au...