Dickens

Two clouds (one that looks to me like a bunny) tethered to each other; my view from the front door. No rain today but it’s freezing in the shade and only slightly warmer in the weak winter sun. ☁️☁️☁️ It was the kind of March day when the sun shines…

I’ve lately been paying attention to AI-based systems that create media for ordinary consumers. ChatGPT is all the rage just now, but there’s been a real explosion in the number of models trained up on large text, audio, image and other creative corpora. …

(Co-created with my personal AI) At Personal.ai, we believe the core value of our memories comes from remembering the impact they had on us in the past, the way they shape our decisions today, and how they will continue to inspire us in the future. …

A Christmas Carol might be 180 years old, but given the multiple hardships many of us are currently facing — as well as those awaiting us in the coming months— there has arguably never been a better time than now to embrace the themes of Dickens’ most famous story. …

Near the turn of each year, in “Household Words” and “All the Year Round,” Charles Dickens published his Christmas stories. The Inimitable is gone. Instead, we are treated to treacle from the Hallmark Channel. This must have been cooking in my head last night like an underdone potato. When I…

A.W. Hill, Author of Ministry (TouchPoint Press) He nearly tripped over the body, making his way chin down against the wind to Podwale, the only bar in the Warsaw Old Town open on Christmas Eve. It was cold, colder than normal even for Poland, and his first thought was that…