Category: Films
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Battle of the AI: Klara and the Sun vs. M3GAN
Will they rule us, or serve us, or befriend us?
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Spaceship Earth: the Shape of our Planet!
Or “Can’t We Just Stop Destroying Things?” I just watched Spaceship Earth, which is the story of the Biosphere2 project outside of Tucson, Arizona. I remember touring Biosphere2 with my youngest, a science buff, while visiting my dad in the 2000s. (I miss you, Dad.) It felt like I was inside a terrarium. Warm, moist,…
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‘The opposite of Uplift’ in The Lemming Condition
This is a question in my mind: What is the opposite of Uplift? Is it Putdown? Some books so obviously fall into the Absolute-Opposite-of-Uplift category, and I would like a name for it. Why this negative stuff? I thought this was an uplifting blog? In order to understand what is uplifting, I think I need…
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Odd #1: Gondor + Earth
This scene always made my skin crawl.
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Two elephants in a Drought Land: a metaphor for war
A travelogue of war books that have stayed with me.
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WordPress to the Rescue: the secret Virtual Transition Team!
I attended WordCamp US in Washington DC on August 25 + 26, 2023. What an interesting world! I would like to tell you about this talk that really resonated for me: (There’s a link at the bottom to watch it for yourself.) During the intense whirlwind of the Biden transition team collaboration that wasn’t and…