Over the holidays musician friends on Facebook played with ChatGPT’s Lego AI, generating hilarious representation of Western classical composers. My favorite is this one of Paul Hindemith, with enraged, screamy performers burning the candle presumably at both ends, and a French horn looking like a desk fan. You can feel this image multiple ways. Hindemith as […]
Social Media
You Know What I Mean…
While I was researching the subject of codes, I found disturbing stories about a triple parentheses meme, which months ago circulated the internet. Neo-Nazis have used this “echoing” symbol to encapsulate names of Jewish writers on Twitter, thereby targeting and enabling bullying, racist threats and physical assault. Echoing joins a list of other kinds of […]
Hyperlinks & Snow
This month’s journal is a-jumpin’ full of hyperlinks, offering you more content while I write less. And it has been all about the snow while on tour in the Midwest, whether filigreed cherry trees or treacherous black ice that makes one hobble around like a West-coast ninny. Water is so creative! I have just finished […]