old-fashioned-television-set-with-green-screen-displaying-st-868059211-stockpack-adobestock Type post Author Peter Biles Date August 29, 2025 CategoriesArtsLinguisticsSociology Tagged , Bible, books, censorship, civilization, communication, COVID-19, economy, education, Fahrenheit 451, governance, Guy Montag, James Marriott, Jared Henderson, literacy, literacy rates, literature, memory, Newsweek, oral culture, post-literate culture, Ray Bradbury, screens, stories, storytelling, technology, Ted Gioia, television, UnHerd, visual media, Western canon, young people Thanks to Our Screens, Heading Toward a Post-Literate Culture? Peter Biles August 29, 2025 Arts, Linguistics, Sociology 5 Whatever one’s opinions regarding solutions for declining literacy rates, people can always start to brew change in their own lives and communities. Read More ›
Staircase_of_the_BGK_Building_(26620981474) Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date April 9, 2025 CategoriesArtsBioethicsHuman ExceptionalismNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , aesthetics, AI slop, algorithms, articles, artificial intelligence, books, business, Center for Science and Culture, creative writing, culture, headlines, human exceptionalism, humans, Javanese, Krakatoa, large language models, life coach, machines, Microsoft, Microsoft Copilot, Mind Matters, nonsense, personal assistant, Peter Biles, photographs, Plato's Revenge, podcasts, Ted Gioia, writers A Needed Protest Against “AI Slop” and AI “Word Vomit” David Klinghoffer April 9, 2025 Arts, Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind 3 It’s all another lesson in human exceptionalism. I believe we will wake up from the AI delusion someday. Read More ›
