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Reflections Against AI-Generated Text

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Allow me a little grace with this confession: Pete Wentz (bassist and resident wordsmith of the emo band Fall Out Boy) is my favorite lyricist. Please note what I’m saying. I am not saying he is the “best” lyricist. I am fully aware that Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, and Kendrick Lamar — artists with Nobel Prizes and Pulitzers orbiting their names — exist. I am not even necessarily saying Pete Wentz is a “good” lyricist. Part of Pete’s charm is that sometimes his lyrics are NOT good. His lyrics are completely ridiculous. Occasionally overwrought to the point of … Continue reading Reflections Against AI-Generated Text

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Tragedy & Choice

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Content Warning: Everything going on right now. On January 31, 2021, I wrote an essay entitled “5 Years Ago in Reno” in which I reminisced about my second-ever union organizing drive. In that essay, I explained that at one point during that campaign, helping the workers at a small rehab hospital in North Bay win their union, I worked “28 straight 14-hour days.” I wrote that I had “never worked so hard in my life” and that “a week prior [to my 28 14-hour-a-day sprint], I had crashed my car in pure exhaustion, falling drowsy at the wheel.” I wrote, … Continue reading Tragedy & Choice