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Wednesday, June 03, 2026

Swan's Way

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In late March, there was a home invasion - make that mansion invasion - in Beverly, an oceanfront town North of Boston. Beverly is a very ni...
Tuesday, June 02, 2026

At lest they didn't name him Adolf

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We are now a couple of months into the baseball season. As I write this post - first of May - the Red Sox are terrible,  beleaguered, in dis...
Thursday, May 28, 2026

AI ready for primetime? Wait just a durn minute

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Well, yesterday's dire post was about AI coming for all of our jobs - and coming fast! But today's pinkslip post is about whether or...
Wednesday, May 27, 2026

More swell news on the AI Front

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Hiawatha Bray is a columnist, focusing on tech, for The Boston Globe. Last month, he wrote a very a) sobering, b) scary, c) depressing, d) ...
Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Celebrating Memorial Day (Eve) with The Boss

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I celebrated Memorial Day in the normal way, by walking over to the Boston Common (alas, in the rain - this picture is from a kinder, gentle...
Thursday, May 21, 2026

Indie Bookstores Making a Comeback? YAY!!!

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I cannot remember a time in my life when I didn't love books. When I was really little - pre-reader - those books were mostly Golden Boo...
Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Sure, it's flattering, but...

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When it comes to states, I'm an absolute homer. Yes, I can imagine living in other places - elsewhere in New England, New York (NYC), Il...
Tuesday, May 19, 2026

"I coulda went through college..."

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Many years ago - make that many decades ago - I went to an introductory Scientology session with my late (and hysterically funny) friend Mar...
Thursday, May 14, 2026

The Aptly Named SantaCon

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I'm not 100% certain that Boston has SantaCons - a pub crawl where runners/drinkers wear Santa outfits and raise money for charity. But ...
Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Baby Geniuses

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A month or so ago, I saw an article in Mother Jones on genetic tinkering to produce more intelligent babies. One of the reasons that the te...
Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Data Labelers Unite! (LFG!)

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It will come as no surprise to anyone that AI, along with its tremendous potential to (along with the occasional good thing) wreck the envir...
Thursday, May 07, 2026

Colonel Mustard Did It

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Is it just me, or do certain things confer an aura of value and goodness? I observed this in business, when I realized that if you priced yo...
Wednesday, May 06, 2026

Replaceable.

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I was with my mother when she died. I was with my husband when he died. I don't know quite how to put it, but there is something righteo...
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