Dear Claude
Claude advises on…
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“If you think it’s about you, it probably is.”
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Enter Art Fair, Copenhagen
27, 28, 29, 30 September 2026 This is the only picture I took at the Art Fair. It was housed in the Lokomotivværkstedet (Locomotive Workshop), which for me was the most interesting aspect of the Fair. “My Stunning…
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kak·is·toc·ra·cy
kak·is·toc·ra·cy (kăk′ĭ-stŏk′rə-sē, kä′kĭ-) Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens. [Greek kakistos, worst, superlative of kakos, bad; + -cracy.]
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The Palimpsest of Bríga
My eldest sister claims I am the reason why Our mother died the day I came to life. She lives in childless hell, A barren castoff wife, Worse than the concubine Kept in her home. My eldest sister’s man, A violent…
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Athena of Cempsibriga
From a raft with torn sail, a man burned by sun, My father Arémori swam to our shore. Half dead and half naked he sprawled on the sand Where Bríga, my mother was walking that day. Her shout to the fishermen raised the…
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Odysseus in Cempsibriga
My journey has been long, and aided by The constellations we were taught to read As children destined to embark on ships Of wood whose planks were bent and sealed with tar. Poseidon’s wrath of waves that batter boats…
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The Great Gang Wars
Power, Territory, and the New Global Syndicates In the early decades of the 21st century, the world has increasingly begun to resemble something less like the “rules-based international order” promised after the World…
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Dramatic Monologues
A performance piece with…
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CLAUDE & I (Part 4)
Claude and I conclude our conversation and our work together. — Would you like to comment?
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CLAUDE & I (Part 3)
Still conversing, but getting to the point.
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CLAUDE & I (Part 2)
The conversation continues with politeness as the key to a smooth working relationship.
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CLAUDE & I (Part 1)
So, after hearing that Anthropic kind of stood up to the Masters of War, I thought maybe I should check out what their AI was like. They call this AI, Claude. Of course in my brain that was immediately translated into…
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EPIC
War is never epic. War is a racket.
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FACES
poetry…
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A Long Time Coming
It’s been a long time comin’ It’s goin’ to be a long time gone —Long Time Gone, Crosby, Stills & Nash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS3l_TwPNRY Over roughly eight decades, the American right moved from fractured…
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Dark Ages & Purple Ducks
Image generated by Artificial Intelligence Dark Ages after sixteen continuous weeks of unavoidable joy as a result of the last power failure it certainly was a relief to arrive home and find nightrider cops parked on…
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Home At Last
So much of my Portuguese language speaking skill disappeared that people kept talking to me in English in Lisbon. Some people were happy that I was trying. They encouraged me to speak after I alerted them to the fact…
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After Lisbon — On The Road Again
Christmas and New Year passed by, and in Lisbon things started getting back to the new normal in that town. The massive herd of tourists that had plagued every street and praça had finally thinned out. But tourism…