Going Back to Facebook…

…unwantedly It started like digital time travel. After five or six years off Facebook, I found myself logging back in, not out of nostalgia but because work required it. I opened a new account, thinking I could keep things clean and separate, but platforms have long memories. Or maybe they are memory. Before long, Meta had stitched everything back together, collapsing the distance I thought … Continue reading Going Back to Facebook…

From Dial-Up to GPT-5

How the AI Moment Rhymes with the Internet’s Dawn Or Does it? Going back for the summer to Spain to visit family, I found myself in my mom’s basement—dust motes in the sunbeams, the faint smell of cardboard and old paper, and boxes labeled in my younger handwriting. In one, under envelopes of old photos from my photo-journalistic period and the detritus of a pre-cloud … Continue reading From Dial-Up to GPT-5