Towers
I love to look at them, know what they're for, and (many decades ago) climb them. Places where I write about towers and post photos of them:
• Trunk Line, my blog about infrastructure
• Nfrastructure, my Flickr collection of infrastructure photos (most of which are about broadcasting and transmitters)
• This subset on my main Flickr collection
• All these (121 of them), posted on this very blog
Consider all of them a long love letter to the now-gone golden age of broadcasting. I want future historians and archivists to remember what broadcasting was and how it worked before digital tech absorbed and obsolesced it. Long may it wave.
Stories
I Love Girl, by Simon Rich, in The New Yorker. It's worth getting a subscription just for that one story.
Boom!
What Happens When You Put AI in the Hands of a 73-Year-Old Grandmother, by Frances Flynn Thorsen, @blogmother on her Substack blog. Hats off to the real estate conversation led by Bill Wendel of RealEstateCafe and happening here.
Turing would dig it
My old friend David Beaver, vastly versed in magic, has a new Substack that riffs off many ways that magic isn't what you think it is. And yet it has near-infinite promise in the AI age, when falsity on a grand scale passes damn near every variant of the Turing test.
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