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a blog by Paul Graham Raven
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divestor storytime: reading “Village People”at Media Evolution
I keep promising an in-depth post about the Media Evolution collaborative foresight cycle I was involved with late last year. Apologies, but this is not that in-depth post—partly because I’m currently very busy working on the next collaborative foresight cycle (of which ME do three each year), among various other client-facing things. But this post…
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among all the hundreds of bottom right corners of left-facing pages: thoughts on notetaking
Last week I found myself in the new-to-me position of talking about being a writer to people studying for postgrad qualifications in creative writing. This was a very strange experience, and not entirely a comfortable one. Over the last decade or so, I have become fairly comfortable with expounding on matters and/or techniques in which…
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the parts of the shadows that didn’t exactly reflect the numbers became problems
Many people loved the installment of Dorothy Gambrell’s Cat & Girl webcomic in which Gambrell confronted her feelings about being one of a few thousand early webcomics people listed as having had their work used as training material for generative models. I loved it too. I haven’t been following C&G since the start, but for…
Who is Paul Graham Raven?
“… who, with raving lips uttering things mirthless, unbedizened, and unperfumed, reaches over a thousand years with [his] voice, thanks to the god in [him].”