Process

Ceci N’est Pas un Post

TABLE I According to Websters, a blog post is an entry or article that is written on a blog. It can include content in the form of text, photos, infographics, videos, or deep-fakes. Chez Dirt Lease, a post is an insightful one-to-two thousand word essay that views consciousness, history, sex and the rest of the …

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Vampire Squid

Chat GPT – write a paragraph about Goldman Sachs as a squid: Goldman Sachs is a well-known investment bank and financial services company, often referred to as “The Squid” due to its logo resembling a squid. Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs has grown to become one of the most influential and profitable financial institutions in …

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Baksheesh

When my eighth-grade biology teacher asked our class if any of us remembered the word for white blood cells, a guy named Jonathan Harvey raised his hand and shouted, ‘Homocyte!’  The word he was half-remembering was phagocyte, which is a type of white blood cell.  If you trace the Greek root of that term, it …

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Forty Thieves

The Hainan Island Incident of 2001 is overshadowed by events that happened later that year, but when it transpired, it set the then-still-nascent Internet abuzz.  An American spy plane, which had been flying over a disputed section of the South China Sea, collided with a Chinese fighter jet and was forced to make an emergency …

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Tie – Downs

I was going to research how manufactured homes are tied down, but realized before I typed the query into Google that I don’t have to think any more.  Instead, I typed, How are manufactured homes anchored into Chat GPT, and this came out: Manufactured homes are anchored to the ground using a variety of methods, …

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Moral Hazard

Moral Hazard, by Kate Jennings, is a book that was published to great reviews and moderate sales in 2002 and then sunk like a stone.  You can pick it up for under five bucks now on Thriftbooks, but for a while you could buy it on Amazon for a penny plus shipping.  It is the …

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Incompetence Cubed

Brendan Behan made much of growing up in a tenement, but he did not say that his grandmother owned the building.  Brendan’s mother’s mother, Christine English, was referred to as the Empress of Russell Street, because she owned several tenement houses there, each of which could hold up to a hundred people.  Residents would come …

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The Next Village

–Assume a water molecule. –Where am I? -Some AirBNB in central New York.  -What time is it? –3:45 AM. –Can I take a piss, O Socrates?  -Of course. -Can I get a drink? -What can you do with a quart of water molecules? -Drink, wash, flush the toilet, put out fires. -Where does a water …

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