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Canned Dragons

A personal weblog reflecting mostly on culture, faith, noise and tech. Written by Robert.

Canned Dragons pulls in thoughts from other independent blogs as well as social media accounts and major publishers.

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Moondrop Displacement

If you live in a first-world country with a sizable knowledge work sector, you might find it hard to escape the subject of AI. That’s probably an understatement. We are saturated with talk of artificial intelligence and, in particular, large language models. The economist Edgar R. Fiedler is quoted

A vintage cartoon of a man in a 1930s style suite in a matching office with rotary phone, typewriter and a modern computer screen looks shocked at what he sees on the screen.

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Six Flags White House

Kevin D. Williamson writes for The Dispatch about the spectacle of setting up a UFC match on the White House lawn. It does not matter whether you live in a trailer park or a brick ranch house or something more grand and getting grander, it is all the same: Tornado

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Star Wars The Product

The debt Star Wars owes to its fans and commercial interests.

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Don’t Panic

Despite seemingly being designed by a corporation to be mostly inoffensive, sometimes to the point of banality or worse, Coldplay launched into the world consciousness hot, with “Don’t Panic,” the song in the pole position on their debut album Parachutes. Though I feel more generosity towards Chris Martin and