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9th “Wonderland Revisited” Demo

This song captures the Mock Turtle telling his story of going to school and being real (it’s called We Went To School In The Sea):

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Eighth “Wonderland Revisited” Demo

This song recaps Alice’s understanding of unlimited power, as evidenced by the Red Queen’s dictate of “cut of their heads” for any and every issue (the song is entitled “Three Gardeners”):

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USPS, RIP?

Thanks to spotty service by the USPS, I have started to migrate our snail mail services to digital-only. I’m doing so belatedly, perhaps, but certainly with a little bit of anger and a lot of sadness. We don’t like in some far-flung rural area; rather, we’re smack dab in the middle of downtown Chicago, so […]

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Mozilla’s AI “Rebel Alliance”

Mozilla has announced that it’s forming a “rebel alliance” of AI startups to combat Anthropic, OpenAI, and the other backers of deathstar AI. It’s a cool idea that’s misguided and will ultimately fail. What’s cool about it is that Mozilla is standing up for, well, everyone who doesn’t stand to make a killing automating everyone […]

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Where’s the Anti-Davos?

The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum just screams for counter-programming. The get-together, colloquially called “Davos” because it happens in a quaint little town in Switzerland, is billed as a place where “the foremost leaders from government, business, and civil society” can “confront shared challenges and drive innovations driving the future.” Considering all of […]

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Fifth “Wonderland Revisited” Demo

I just finished a demo trying to capture Alice’s interaction with the Caterpillar (without resorting to drug theme, which kinda misses the point anyway):

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Fourth “Wonderland Revisited” Song Demo

What better way to spend the early morning hours of the first day of 2026 finishing a song demo! Here’s Bill:

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I Applied For A Job At OpenAI

OpenAI is recruiting for a “Head of Preparedness.” I applied earlier today. The company describes the role as being “directly responsible leader for building and coordinating capability evaluations, threat models, and mitigations that form a coherent, rigorous, and operationally scalable safety pipeline.” Of course, that’s mostly nonsense, or at best happy but unenforceable ethics, since […]

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Third “Wonderland Revisited” Song Demo

I just finished the third song — A Sad Tail — which recounts Alice interpreting the Mouse’s story as gibberish and then looking at his tail and wondering how it could be sad:

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Second “Wonderland Revisited” Song Demo

Here’s song #2 for Wonderland Revisited: It’s called Poor Alice:

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