This blog began, as these things sometimes do, in that curious borderland between sleep and wakefulness — the 5 a.m. liminal hour when my mind so many nights decides to stage its own theatre. In this particular dream, I found myself back in either Moscow or Beijing — I couldn’t quite tell which, perhaps both … Read more …
Prologue – Circling Russia and the Nature of Evil Artificial Intelligence, appearing this year in what the Germans would call my Umfeld — my environment — in a multitude of ways is giving me the writing and thinking assistance for which I’ve always craved. This therefore is perhaps the address I wish I could have given to … Read more …
Thoughts on Ukraine/Gaza and climate/Gaia and the paradoxical power of AI. There is no shortage of noise about war in our world today. Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, Venezuela, Taiwan — the names change, but the pattern doesn’t. Group upon group, tribe upon tribe, nation upon nation, we replay the same ancient theatre of violence, each side … Read more …