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AI Simply Needs a Kill SwitchFrom The Wall Street Journal: The best lesson for artificial intelligence may be Thursday’s “rapid unscheduled disassembly” of SpaceX’s...
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Grammarly DayPG is making an exception to his normal practice of flitting here and there to find posting material for TPV. All posts today are from the...
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The past, the preset and the futureThe past, the preset and the future walked into a bar. It was tense. Author Unknown
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How to Write a Narrative Essay in 5 StepsFrom The Grammarly Blog: When you have a personal story to tell and don’t want to write an entire book, a narrative essay may be the perfect...
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5 Ways to Use a Semicolon, With ExamplesFrom The Grammarly Blog: What is a semicolon? Semicolons (;) are as basic as a period stacked on top of a comma. Does that mean you...
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Passive Voice: When to Avoid It and When to Use ItFrom The Grammarly Blog: The passive voice is often maligned by teachers and professors as a bad writing habit. Or, to put that in the...
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11 Types of Poetry to Know, With ExamplesFrom The Grammarly Blog: Poetry is a broad literary category that covers a variety of writing, including bawdy limericks, unforgettable song...
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The silent killer of all great men and women of achievementThe silent killer of all great men and women of achievement – particularly men, I don’t know why, maybe it’s the testosterone...
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The Death of a FirefighterNothing to do with books, but as PG was driving about this morning, he came upon two fire trucks with their ladders fully extended so as to create...
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HubrisHubris is one of the great renewable resources. P. J. O’Rourke
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Artificial Intelligence in the Garden of EdenFrom The Wall Street Journal: The dawn of the internet age was so exciting. I took my grade-school son, enthralled by Apple computers, to...
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Character Type & Trope Thesaurus Entry: HeroFrom Writers Helping Writers: Character Type & Trope Thesaurus Entry: Hero In 1959, Carl Jung first popularized the idea of...
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90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0From Software Design: Tidy First?: I wanted to expand on this a bit. First, I do not have the answer for which skills...
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Miller High Life Cans Destroyed in Europe Over ‘Champagne of Beers’ LogoFrom The Wall Street Journal: The champagne of beers is no match for French authorities. More than 2,300 cans of Miller High Life were...
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I write entirely to find out what I’m thinkingI write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. Joan Didion
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Hilary Mantel’s genius, ‘riotous’ humour and ‘innate goodwill’ celebrated at memorialFromThe Bookseller: Hilary Mantel’s immense legacy, “riotous sense of humour” and generosity to other writers have been...
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7 Novels About Falling In (And Out Of) Love in LondonFrom Electric Lit: London has served as the setting for many a novel—the backdrop to tales of scrappy orphans and drunk, dancing...
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In marketing you must chooseIn marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want? Roy H. Williams
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Seductions And PromisesFrom My Story Doctor: The sweetest thing writers can hear is that our readers missed their bedtime because they couldn’t put our book down....
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Why David Grann, Bestselling Adventure Writer, Isn’t One for the OutdoorsFrom The Wall Street Journal: Although David Grann is quick to admit he’s not exactly cut out to be an adventurer, his nonfiction books...
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When Apple Comes Calling, ‘It’s the Kiss of Death’From The Wall Street Journal: It sounded like a dream partnership when Apple Inc. reached out to Joe Kiani, the founder of a company...
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Why Beta Readers Lead You to Getting Paid for Your WritingFrom Jane Friedman: Asking someone to beta read for you is one of the first steps you will take toward becoming a well-paid, published,...
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Anxiety’s like a rocking chairAnxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far. Jodi Picoult
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Business Musings: Assessing Pandemic DamageFrom Kristine Kathryn Rusch: I suspect spring in Las Vegas will always have reminders for me. In those first dark days of the pandemic, when...
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Missouri House Republicans want to defund libraries. Here’s whyFrom PBS: Missouri’s Republican-led House voted to cut all funding for libraries in its version of the state’s annual budget, an...
