Who Do You Become

COMING SOON I am not who I think I am. I am not who you think I am.  I am who I think you think I am.  – Charles Horton Cooley “A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he’s being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a […]

A Citizen’s Guide To De-Flocking Your Neighborhood

Like ridding your back yard of wasps – you can swat them one at a time, or you can locate the nest and destroy them all in one fell swoop.  Swatting sucks. It’s slow, you get stung sometimes, and they just keep making more.  In ridding our neighborhoods of mass surveillance cameras (such as Flock), I strongly advocate for the next approach.  Some of you will still want to swat wasps. I’ll include a few notes to help keep you safe and free if you choose this path.

Rules For AI in Creative Work

When Lewis Carroll wrote *Alice in Wonderland*, he was not trying to trick you into believing that somewhere in England, a talking cat was dispensing Zen-like wisdom to passersby.
The Cheshire Cat was a vehicle for the wisdom.
When the love of your life cheated on you during your sophomore year of college and said, “They’re just a friend,” they were trying to get you to distrust what you were seeing with your own eyes.