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Ian Bogost is an American academic and video game designer, most known for the game Cow Clicker. He holds a joint professorship at Washington University as director and professor of the Film and Media Studies program in Arts & Sciences and the McKelvey School of Engineering. He previously held a joint professorship in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication and in Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he was the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Chair in Media Studies. .. more
It's called The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life, and it's about the sensory enchantment of everyday life.
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But that doesn’t doom LLMs, which are useful and (sorry to ppl here) not purely evil.
It would be nice to try to sort out the jumble, but our culture isn’t great at that!
Difficult to imagine cinnamon being considered “fresh” today.
Steam—an opal psalm—
breaks from the earthen mouth.
Tofu, cloud-anchored, drifts—
salt of the sea’s confession,
heat of a star made broth.
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I have 'dined' at Fresno's (which closed after multiple health-code violations). It offered "BBQ fajitas," which was sweet-and-sour meatlumps atop wet, boiled onions.
I cannot speak for Galveston's, but fear it.
It's easy to call the students coddled, but why grade inflation became a problem is a knotty, decades-long nightmare of a problem, which I wrote about:
This week, Sense announced it will stop selling the product, because the tech has been incorporated into most electrical meters directly ¯\_(ツ)_/¯