Thoughts and musings.
Thoughts and musings.
September 7, 2025 | Jonathan Burdick
I stared at the photo with disdain, maybe even fury. The image was obviously created with artificial intelligence, an obviously A.I. child holding an paintbrush and standing by an obviously A.I. painting of their non-existent military veteran father who, it was implied, had died in combat. “Nobody ever likes or shares my posts,” the caption read with a frowny-face emoji.
August 8, 2025 | Jonathan Burdick
In George Orwell's 1946 essay "Why I Write," he broke down what he called the "four great motives to writing." All four of these motives, he believed, "exist in different degrees in every writer," although in different proportions from writer to writer and, even then, it fluctuated individually throughout one's life.