Image: Billy Joel performing at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in 2017. Photo by slgckgc, CC BY 2.0.
In today’s story on Medium, I react to the AI technology used in the music video for Billy Joel’s first new song in 17 years, “Turn the Lights Back On”.
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Image: With Leo Laporte at the 2008 Macworld Expo. This was before my gender transition, when I still had hair!
In today’s story on Medium, I celebrate the 40th birthday of the Apple Macintosh computer with memories of my Mac use over the decades.
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Image: My Steam Year in Review 2023.
In today’s story on Medium, I review what I love about my most-played games of the year: Terraria, Stardew Valley, and Oxygen Not Included.
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Image: Side-by-side photos of Richard Hunt, Andre Braugher, and Grace Bumbry.
In today’s story on Medium, I write about my volunteer work on the Wikipedia articles of three Black artists who died in 2023: Actor Andre Braugher, opera singer Grace Bumbry, and sculptor Richard Hunt.
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Image: YouTube “play” logo with the Ad Block “hand” logo superimposed.
In today’s story on Medium, I question the demand for unlimited free online content.
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Three saucers on a wooden table containing small amounts of black tea leaves, turbinado sugar, and soy milk, respectively.
Today’s post on Medium is “Life Sucks, But At Least There’s Tea“.
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Campaign image with a photo of Zarah Livingston speaking into a microphone and the words “Sunrise Pittsburgh Endorses Zarah Livingston HD32”. Source tweet here.
Today’s post on Medium is about a dead Democratic candidate beating a living Green candidate, Zarah Livingston, in yesterday’s election in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
[Image: Pax runs in a race in San Francisco, with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background. Photo by Ziggy.]
Today’s post on Medium, “Running for the Birds“, is about running and depression.
[Image: Pax stands next to a logo of a jeweler in Montréal that bears their name. Photo by Ziggy.]
Today’s post on Medium, “Bandersnatch and the Paxman“, shares thoughts on gaming, personalization, and the 1980s after watching “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch”. (Contains some spoilers for that episode, which was released yesterday.)
[Image: Screenshot from Duolingo with a golden trophy and the headline “You’ve conquered the Spanish skill tree!”]
Today’s post on Medium, “Duolingo and my history of lazy Spanish practice“, is about my history of learning Spanish and other languages on Duolingo and with other methods. This story is for Medium members only, but non-members get three free stories a month, and my Patreon supporters get access to exclusive drafts.
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