Jim Leff's Slog

"Pedestrians should use this route" (the working sidewalk across the street). Not "must", like everywhere else. Sho...

To poor people (I mean actual poor people, not the merely rich folks Americans consider poor ), the daily lives of rich people look like thi...

Women are famously exasperated by men's failure to lower the toilet seat after using the bathroom. But if it's so important to the...

A few weeks ago I wrote about a dinner where my companion wolfed down the entire meal in four minutes flat. I kindly, smilingly suggested s...

In any otherwise interesting, albeit greasy, blog post , OpenAI founder Sam Altman wrote There will be very hard parts like whole classes...

I seem to have a unique take on the new Pee-Wee Herman documentary on HBO/MAX. It just confirmed my preconceptions. He was a not-super-dee...

Person #1: So what do you do? Person #2: I'm a holy man. Person #1: Really? You seem mostly self-occupied and deluded. Some "h...

The term "awareness" can be a bit fluffy. We innately figure it must be possessed by an entity. Some guy . But, no, Awareness—as a...

The miracle of AI was inevitable the moment computers first parsed punchcards. From there, it was just stoking, kindling, powering, and ti...

A chatbot is a computer in the same way that Beyoncé is a pair of headphones. This category error might kill the entire phenomenon. If c...