When I work in Word, for all its dazzling prowess, I can’t escape a faint sense of having entered a closed, rule-bound society. When I write in WordPerfect, with all its scruffy, low-tech simplicity, the world seems more open, a place where endings can’t be predicted, where freedom might be real.
The Beauty of Finished Software
Let me introduce you to WordStar 4.0, a popular word processor from the early 80s.
Free WordArt Generator - Create 90s Text Effects Online | Make WordArt
Free Online WordArt Generator - Create Nostalgic 90s Text Effects Instantly. No Photoshop needed! Download as PNG or use in iMessage, Google Docs. The original MS Office retro styles.
No Longer No Sense of an Ending
This is my first feature piece on Contents Magazine, about harnessing the properties of hypertext and the Web for superior reader experiences and business results.
Literature fans should welcome AI as a fellow wordsmith | Aeon Essays
Strong resistance to AI among writers is understandable. But it obscures what we share with the machines: language itself
Co-Writing with Opinionated Language Models Affects Users’ Views
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Co-Writing with Opinionated Language Models Affects Users’ Views
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Inside Medium: an attempt to bring civility to the internet
Long-form writing site Medium has become a megaphone for the powerful and powerless alike - the BBC meets its creator.
What comes next with open models
Markets, capabilities, cope, and bewilderment in the industrialization of language models.
An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants
To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a professional writer for decades, even though the number of ways to make
A Text Renaissance
There is a renaissance underway in online text as a medium. The Four Horsemen of this emerging Textopia are: Roam , a hypertext publishing platform best…
AI Suggestions Homogenize Writing Toward Western Styles and Diminish Cultural Nuances
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The social contract of writing | jola.dev
About the value of genuine writing in a world being drowned in slop.
Curate your own newspaper with RSS
Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read
The world is not a desktop | Interactions
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This is SO INCREDIBLY EXTREMELY valuable! Writing policy is really difficult, whether it's designed for humans or machines.
Dave Willner
At TrustCon this year I talked about a technique we’ve developed for automatically optimizing content-moderation policies, using an inversion of the binocular labeling approach Zentropi had already pioneered. Today we're shipping the tool that technique became. blog.zentropi.ai/optimizing-our-policy-optimiz…
