John E. Branch Jr. @JEB54
5th-gen. Texan now in NY. Into tech & culture. All views my own or stolen from admirable sources. (I write, but not for NYT.) ifitbenotnow.wordpress.com New York, USA Joined December 2007-
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We live on a good planet for skies, and October skies may be the best. There are days when all I have to do is look out my window to see something like this. (Unprocessed image. Might remove the circular artifact, experiment with luminosity masking, and so forth later.)
It’s kind of funny that a software glitch afflicted the very fast, very pricey F1 cars in yesterday’s race. They had to quickly install a software update, which someone had to quickly write, before they could run the race!
“The sun sets on a horrible summer,” says a heading in today’s Economist Espresso. The summer may be ending. I’m afraid the horrible isn’t.
A bit of wordplay on the title of a BBC documentary: “Will Robots Take My Job, Please?”
Thanks to the AMC network and a curiosity of the culture industry, when I see Mont-Saint-Michel now, I think of zombies. Luckily they’re not visible on today's bing.com landing page.
Still waiting for Shazam to merge with Neuralink so I can find out what that music is that’s running through my head.
“Because I could not stop for Death / He kindly stopped for me.” Those are good lines. Less good but more true would be something like this: There was not noise enough outside And so a jackhammer began.
Had an encounter with the Metropolitan Police over the weekend. Nothing worrisome, though. Nice to see DCI Jane Tennison again.
At times like this, mad dogs and Englishmen are what I expect to find on the MTA.
Even snowy egrets in Florida know the drill for #grwm, aka #GetReadyWithMe. Just check today’s Bing landing page, at bing.com
One of life’s little mysteries is why the end-credit song for Three-Body, the Chinese TV adaptation of The Three-Body Problem, almost exactly quotes a familiar line from Blade Runner.
I never took a voice class. But I went to school with one!
I’m well aware of this because: It’s now 50+ years after Apollo 11, I’m writing and thinking about space, and I’ve got a blasted cold. <burn sizzle grimace wink looney-eye-roll>
Maybe the biggest surprise of the 1st space race: not that people tired of it but that it led to complaints, ironic but sometimes at least half serious. To wit: “They can put a man on the Moon, but they can’t solve the common cold?!?!”
I won’t say you should read more books, but if you read none, you may be a drag to others. The current Economist says this about books and book clubs (at economist.com/culture/2026/0…):
I think this is partly wrong and partly unbalanced, but it left my head spinning: nytimes.com/2026/05/04/opi… [sub only]
Seen on the Wired landing page today. Haven’t read it but can guess how it starts. Step 1—Travel back in time by about a week. Step 2—Avoid breaking time-travel rules.…
This teaser headline appeared in: A—The Onion B—The New York Times C—AI News for Youse D—Other
Come to think of it, AIs have written nothing on the subject, good, bad, or indifferent, that I know of. They may have been _prompted_ to write something about their own writing or other form of artistry, but that’s different. Have they no initiative?
It’s very hard to keep up and be sure, but for me, all the best stories about AIs venturing into human cultural creation have been written/made by humans. Example: the Coppélia ballet. Balanchine’s version will be up in May at @nycballet.
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