NY Times: TV’s War With the Robots Is Already Here — A.I. screenwriting, a point of contention in the Writers Guild strike, may not yet be ready for prime time. But streaming algorithms and derivative programming have prepared the way for it. – by James Poniewozik (May 10, 2023) Television loves a good sentient-machine story, from “Battlestar Galactica” to “Westworld” to “Mrs. Davis.” With the Writers Guild of America strike, that premise has broken the fourth wall. The robots are here, and the humans are racing to defend against them, or to ally with them. Among the many issues in the […]
From the JMBzine vault: November 2, 2001
This post is from the JMBzine Blog Vault, which means it is a very old blog post that I wrote at a very different time of my life. My views on religion, politics, and many other subjects have drastically changed over the years, so please bear this in mind when reading this post. – I generally do not edit my past writings, except to fix obvious spelling and grammar issues, or to fix broken links (most often replacing with links to archive.org). I do add some more recent editorial updates (with dates), which are shown in blue and italicized. […]
From the JMBzine vault: November 1, 2001 – Talking about beer, news headlines and hatemongers
This post is from the JMBzine Blog Vault, which means it is a very old blog post that I wrote at a very different time of my life. My views on religion, politics, and many other subjects have drastically changed over the years, so please bear this in mind when reading this post. – I generally do not edit my past writings, except to fix obvious spelling and grammar issues, or to fix broken links (most often replacing with links to archive.org). I do add some more recent editorial updates (with dates), which are shown in blue and italicized. […]
From the JMBzine vault – October 18, 2001
Tags: #Blogging This post is from the JMBzine Blog Vault, which means it is a very old blog post that I wrote at a very different time of my life. My views on religion, politics, and many other subjects have drastically changed over the years, so please bear this in mind when reading this post. – I generally do not edit my past writings, except to fix obvious spelling issues, or to fix broken links (most often replacing with links to archive.org). I do add some more recent editorial updates, which are shown in blue and italicized, along with dates. […]
From the JMBzine Vault – Oct 15, 2001 – Roger Ebert re: the internet, human rights in the 9-11 era
Tags: #RogerEbert #Internet #GeorgeBush This post is from the JMBzine Blog Vault, which means it is a very old blog post that I wrote at a very different time of my life. My views on religion, politics, and many other subjects have drastically changed over the years, so please bear this in mind when reading this post. – I generally do not edit my past writings, except to fix obvious spelling issues, or to fix broken links (most often replacing with links to archive.org). I do add some more recent editorial updates, which are shown in blue and italicized, along […]
From the JMBzine vault – Fri, Sep 28, 2001
This post is from the JMBzine Blog Vault, which means it is a very old blog post that I wrote at a very different time of my life. My views on religion, politics, and many other subjects have drastically changed over the years, so please bear this in mind when reading this post. Friday, September 28, 2001 7:18 pm Rabble.ca is a Canadian based alt-news source. 7:08 pm Hahaha, I’m at Scholtzky’s cyberterminal right now, but their cybernanny/censor now won’t let folks see www.jmbzine.com now that I posted the last post on gun control. 2023: This was from the time when […]
From the JMBzine vault- Sep 18, 2001
This post is from the JMBzine Blog Vault, which means it is a very old blog post that I wrote at a very different time of my life. My views on religion (I’m now a Humanistic Jew), politics (today I’m a democratic socialist), and many other subjects (LGBTQ+ inclusion, abortion rights, etc.) have drastically changed over the years, so please bear this in mind when reading this post. Tuesday, September 18, 2001 10:33 pm The Christian Science Monitor has its own blog, Monitor Blog 6:22 pm Where were you? – an excellent homily from St. Thomas Aquinas church blogthis.cjb.net 6:19 pm […]
From the JMBzine Vault – Sep 14, 2001
This post is from the JMBzine Blog Vault, which means it is a very old blog post that I wrote at a very different time of my life. My views on religion (I’m now a Humanistic Jew), politics (today I’m a democratic socialist), and many other subjects (LGBTQ+ inclusion, abortion rights, etc.) have drastically changed over the years, so please bear this in mind when reading this post. Friday, September 14, 2001 6:46 pm At Scholtzky’s in Austin at a cyberterminal. Strangely enough their cybernanny blocks jmbzine.com, but NOT blogger.com where I can update it! Very strange. (2022): This was from […]
From the JMBzine Vault – Sep 11, 2001
This post is from the JMBzine Blog Vault, which means it is a very old blog post that I wrote at a very different time of my life. My views on religion (I’m now a Humanistic Jew), politics (today I’m a democratic socialist), and many other subjects (LGBTQ+ inclusion, abortion rights, etc.) have drastically changed over the years, so please bear this in mind when reading this post. September 11, 2001 11:37 pm www.sojo.net 11:32 pm Taken from: www.nonviolence.org How Come the U.S. Trains All the Terrorists? By Martin Kelley I’ve just been reading today’s New York Times article about […]
From the JMBzine Vault – Sep. 5, 2001
This post is from the JMBzine Blog Vault, which means it is a very old blog post that I wrote at a very different time of my life. My views on religion (I’m now a Humanistic Jew), politics (today I’m a democratic socialist), and many other subjects (LGBTQ+ inclusion, abortion rights, etc.) have drastically changed over the years, so please bear this in mind when reading this post. September 5, 2001 11:37 pm PDF file – invitation to join the Society of Iconographers. Also website will be up at www.iconographers.org (2022): It is funny that I forgot this, but I actually created […]