Tag: Times

Ancient Wisdom: Timeless Advice For Modern Times

I’m a self-proclaimed nerd. Tell me you found a quote from ancient China, and soon you’ll hear the squeak of my chair as I move forward. Now I’m not saying having an interest in ancient quotes and wisdom makes you nerdy, but what I’m saying is when you’re at the...

Fuck Off About Taylor Swift Being Time???s Person of the Year

Perhaps it’s because I woke up sick again this morning, a week after my cold ended. Maybe it’s just that I’m impatient with willful ignorance. It’s certainly not because I’m a Swiftie. But I am fed the fuck up about everyone hating on Taylor Swift and her winning Time&r...

Interesting Times: Election Year In The United States

I’m one of those people who live with a serious case of itchy feet. I like to get out on the road, hopping buses and exploring new locations. You never know what neat things you’re going to find, and there’s never any shortage of discoveries to make. I make a point of heading so...

Mapping Our Social Change Roles in Times of Crisis

I am a rapid responder but over the past few weeks as the coronavirus pandemic has spread across the world, I have felt disoriented and lost. In the wake of 9/11, I built my rapid response muscle, and over the past twenty years, I’ve relied on it to spring into action and respond to crises by ...

The New York Times vs. ChatGPT: A Battle for the Future of News and Words

The news just got a whole lot more meta — The New York Times (NYT), that grand dame of journalism, has thrown down the gauntlet against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing their chatty chatbot, ChatGPT, of a digital sleight of hand: poaching millions of NYT articles without permission to train its ...

Shrine of the Times ??? Part 10. The End of This Story and the Beginning of Another

Yes, we may never know how many of the stories online about this cult are factual, half-truths, or lies. I only know what I saw. I’ve written just my short story on this cult of Shambhala for you. I was in for almost three decades. So there is more. A lot more. Enough to fill a book. That book...