Monthly Archives: December 2022

my citizenship(s)

Posted on Saturday, 2022 December 31 by Anton

The fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States begins: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. I … Continue reading →

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adventures in language borrowing

Posted on Monday, 2022 December 26 by Anton

In this episode of College Roomies from Hell!, there appears in otherwise Spanish dialogue (the author is Mexican, I believe) the word Sepa, which would be pronounced like French sais pas (“dunno”), which fits the context.

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concepts that are not quite writing

Posted on Tuesday, 2022 December 13 by Anton

I was thinking about the notion of a brain interface that delivers text to a layer after vision: the user “sees” the letters at their most abstract, but not their graphic details. What would that experience be like? Could it … Continue reading →

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