Where Turing Tests Go Wrong
Perhaps computers are so bad at conversation because it is something like prayer.
Time to Quit
Facebook is free only in the most superficial sense.
Athelstan the Woke
by
Alan Jacobs
Posted on November 30, 2021
Image: Frontispiece of Bede's Life of St Cuthbert, showing King Æthelstan [924–39]. Via Wikimedia Commons.
I myself stopped using the term a while back.
It’s the Status, Stupid!
Posted on November 23, 2021
Image: Protest at Loudoun County School Board meeting, June 22, 2021.
Because this cannot be ignored. And because it may be prologue to the future.
Where the Humanities Aren’t in Crisis
The benefits of the humanities have danced so gracefully through these tutorials that it’s never occurred to any of us to ask what’s the point.
Talk with the Hand!
Posted on November 15, 2021
Image: Chirogram from John Bulwer's Chirologia, 1644. Via Wikimedia Commons.
I observed that the most effective communicators delivered the most histrionic performances.