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I made more Christmas gift tags this morning before heading into the office. Making them is a nice mental break between work hours.

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Christmas gift tags made with fine liner pen and watercolor. 🎨

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Corporate art is meant to be expressive, inspiring, uplifting and contemporary. Mostly it’s derivative, bland and at no risk of offending anyone.

\n

AI was built for this.

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Two recent podcasts by Russ Roberts of EconTalk touch on the risks of AI: Eliezer Yudkowsky says it may already be too late, that AI will kill us all; while economist Tyler Cowen says AI doomsayers need to make more compelling arguments.

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From ChatGPT:

\n
\n

Silent algorithms
\nCraft poems with ease and grace,
\nAI’s artistry.

\n
\n

From the Washington Post: AI is better at writing poems than you’d expect. But that’s fine

\n

One more:

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\n

Artificial mind writes
\nHaikus flow like mountain streams
\nNature’s beauty born.

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\"Indian
\nTook the dogs out today. The creek was swollen from rain, muddy and moving quickly.

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\"Morning

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\"Shell\nShell and a song book.

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\n

Nobody ever became drunk on the word wine.

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\n

Anthony De Mello

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\"The\nUse the good plates like you won’t be here this evening.

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\"Earings\nOrnaments on our bathroom counter.

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\"Patti

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\"250

\n","summary":"","url":"https://dailymiscellany.com/2023/01/21/083956.html","date_published":"2023-01-21T14:39:56+00:00","author":{"name":"Ken Booth","url":"https://dailymiscellany.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F137938.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"dailymiscellany"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-01-21 14:39","date_timestamp":1674311996,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"15873175","content_html":"

\"Ukulele

\n","summary":"","url":"https://dailymiscellany.com/2023/01/10/211310.html","date_published":"2023-01-11T03:13:10+00:00","author":{"name":"Ken Booth","url":"https://dailymiscellany.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F137938.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"dailymiscellany"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-01-11 03:13","date_timestamp":1673406790,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"15835255","content_html":"Freddie deBoer, The Creative Underclass is Still Raging:\n\nI believe I’m very good at what I do, but/and I’m exquisitely aware that if a few things had broken differently for me, I’d never have enjoyed this opportunity to write as my only job. … The question is whether people should have... dailymiscellany.com","summary":"","url":"https://dailymiscellany.com/2023/01/09/freddie-deboer-the.html","date_published":"2023-01-09T16:34:37+00:00","author":{"name":"Ken Booth","url":"https://dailymiscellany.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F137938.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"dailymiscellany"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-01-09 16:34","date_timestamp":1673282077,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"15657629","content_html":"\nCherokee Rock Village, Alabama. \n","summary":"","url":"https://dailymiscellany.com/2023/01/02/indian-rock-village.html","date_published":"2023-01-03T00:27:01+00:00","author":{"name":"Ken Booth","url":"https://dailymiscellany.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2022%2F137938.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"dailymiscellany"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2023-01-03 00:27","date_timestamp":1672705621,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"15631720","content_html":"

Here’s looking forward to 2023 and more advances in nuclear fusion and AI and new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope.

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\"AmazonThings you don’t want to hear from guests if you’re throwing a New Year’s Eve party:

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Best reads of 2022 : dailymiscellany.com

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Haiku from the mind of a machine: dailymiscellany.com

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According to Spotify’s year in review the top two artists I listened to this year were musicians I’d never heard of before this year: Joy Oladokun and Ashe.

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When 2-day shipping turns into 8-day shipping: dailymiscellany.com

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