(Linking to an NPR Post ABOUT THIS, I added:)

I remember when OMNI magazine had an article about a fiction-writing artificial intelligence named Racter.

Elsewhere today I on Facebook I linked to an article about a thesis-writing app that has suddenly become a tool for abuse among scientific scholarly “authors”.

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Sagittarius Horoscope for week of April 18, 2013The famous philosopher John Searle unleashed a witty dig about the famous philosopher Jacques Derrida, saying he is "the sort of philosopher who gives bullshit a bad name." One of your fun assignments in the coming week, Sagittarius, is to do the opposite of what Derrida's work does. In other words, ( Read more... )

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AT&T has the best customer service system in the world. I mean it. They hire terrific people and you can reach some of them 24/7 ( Read more... )

Does anybody who reads me get their Internet connectivity from a satellite dish? I've noticed that there are about a dozen companies that offer this...but the first one I found (which will remain nameless here) seemed to be incompetantly or fraudulently managed and prone to leave discontented customers in its wake. I'm sick of being stuck with ( Read more... )

Got my umpteenhundredth con-job e-mail today.

The user's name: JOE PWN. I am not kidding. He uses Yahoo! out of Hong Kong.

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Got a piece of junk e-mail tonight with some nebulous claims about some personage named Mack Michaels and the prospect of getting work or making money through his methods ( Read more... )

Just after dinnertime, we got an automated phone call--a recorded tirade from some fire-and-brimstone evangelist Christian pastor. The actual content of the message isn't worth repeating and he delivered it with so much anger and bile he could have melted down the phone's earpiece ( Read more... )

There is now an African e-mail scam claiming to aid previous victims of African e-mail scams.

I'm just shaking my head here.

FP

PS: Producers Are Money-Grubbing Scum.