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Rolling along the world current everywhere
Iām still rolling this contraption of words, just not as often or as urgently as I once did.
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May 2026
Watch your tone: language machines as writing technology
We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
May 24
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April 2026
Pluralism in practice
Teaching with and without AI
Apr 12
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The Pluralistic Universe of Michael Pollan
AI Log reviews A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
Apr 4
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March 2026
Yellow-breeched philosophy, or writing like a humble bee
AI Log reviews The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game
Mar 22
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Writing about getting to the Funnery
Learning about AI through teaching about it
Mar 8
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February 2026
On the use of historical analogies in writing about AI
Something big is happening, but how do we describe it?
Feb 22
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Ancient wisdom and evitable futures
On reading Plato and Mark Carney
Feb 1
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January 2026
Disenshittify U
AI Log reviews Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Jan 11
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Appreciating Rotten and Good
Is there anyone better at using the essay form to understand the experience of living and working within the institutional constraints of the modernā¦
Jan 4
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December 2025
Disanthropomorphize Chat
Language without mind and the ends of OpenAI
Dec 7, 2025
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November 2025
Language machines as educational technology
Alternatives to language-as-a-service
Nov 23, 2025
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