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An Open Book: Gay’s Posts

Family

I’ve been thinking about families lately. Specifically, two kinds of family: the kind we are born into and the kind we create for ourselves among the strangers we meet in the course of our lives. I have a brother I love dearly. I never had a sister, but I...

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Whose Words Are These?

Does the rise of artificial intelligence make you want to scream, “AI, caramba!”? * While there’s speculation that AI may cost some people their jobs, writers worry that AI will lead to rampant plagiarism. All of which reminds me of a time in the pre-digital era when an entire...

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Two Things, Two Places, All at Once

Glitz and glamour. Politics and power. Winners and losers. Millions of people tune in to watch the spectacle that appears on our television screens once a year: The Academy Awards. As with almost everything else these days, the entertainments we each choose to watch have become more and more...

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