Here is a poem I wrote: Poetry is good for marking “phase changes ” in the world and for noting liminal margins. It is enough to watch and write and having done just mosey right along. Then I wrote a prompt in Claude 3 politely saying hello and requesting that Claude 3 optimise a prompt…

I have been reading Caulfield and Wineburg’s book Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and to Make Decisions about What to Believe Online. The book makes me feel a bit more optimistic about online BS detection…until I ran across Bruce Sterling’s tumblr post. The sheer sketchy ease of the disinformation in that post…