There is no track record that the money behind AI, like tech giants and VC backed startups care about using AI in a way that benefits works. There is a major power shift happening. We’ve already seen AI systems exhibit racial and gender bias, and be used to enable mass surveillance and manipulation. Human workers are making less decisions in decision-making contexts from hiring to medical diagnosis. The corporations and governments deploying these systems are doing so to cut costs, centralize control and accumulate power.
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The Mysterious Potato Island : Retelling its Peculiar History
A few years ago I wrote this story about Tsar Island Then it went on Spotify Today Tiktok @christorychannel Do you know the tale of Tsar’s Island and who its most famous resident was? #historical #historicalfiction #dankmemes #vermonttiktok #booktok ♬ Chopin Nocturne No. 2 Piano Mono – moshimo sound design christopherChristopher lives in…
Stable Audio: A New Way to Make Music with AI
People who are not Musicians or music producers now have an exciting new AI tool at their disposal – Stability AI’s Stable Audio. This new text-to-audio model allows anyone to generate music and sound effects simply by describing what they want in text prompts. It’s still early, but users can generate music in any genre…
Remembering the Sand Casino: Uncovering Lost Frank Sinatra Footage
I worked as a marketing manager at the Sand Casino in Atlantic City back in the late 2000s, shortly before the iconic casino was demolished. The Sand was one of the early Atlantic City casinos, opened in 1980, and featured frequent performances and appearances by Ol’ Blue Eyes himself, Frank Sinatra. Sinatra was extremely popular…
A Day in the Life: Exploring the Wonders of Shelburne Museum with Julian
There is an indefinable magic that pervades certain places, making them feel like they are set apart from the world, living and breathing snapshots of times long past. The Shelburne Museum in Vermont is one such place. My son Julian and I have often found ourselves losing hours in the hallowed rooms and gorgeous outdoor…
Tesla Y Review: 10 Things I Love and 10 Things I Wish Were Different
The Tesla WHAT I LOVE : THE INSTANT ACCELERATION I’m not talking about taking off at a red light in a race acceleration. Although that’s cool today, it’ll be pretty mundane in a few years. My favorite thing is how smoothly the Y can find its spot on the highway. Merging on a highway that’s…
Lattes and Limo Rides
This was a quick write. Mostly written during downtime working in marketing for Tony Robbins. The script is about someone who has the same name as Tom Cruise. He lives in a closed store at the mall and learns that to improve his life he has to damage the more famous Tom Cruise. Lattes_and_Limo Rides…
Boyhood
We moved to Vermont in 2016, when the boys were four. We had four wonderful years in Delaware and Maryland exploring beaches, woods. We went to DC, Philly and spent hours and hours at libraries. The kids tried boardwalk fries and soft serve ice cream. Pretty much the best way a kid can spend four…
Employee of the Month
Verna worked as a cashier at Savemoores Supermarket for 45 years. When she began her cashiering career, the store was a tiny convenience store. Today it’s a 75,000 square foot behemoth. It had three cashier lanes in 1974, and now it had thirty-one. On her last day, she worked her regular shift; 7 am –…
Daylight Bleeds
I wrote this script almost twenty years ago. It chronicles an experiment on a man convicted of murder. His memory is erased, replaced with a new narrative and he’s released back into the public. I like the idea of rehabilitation but I’m sure I’d do everything differently now but enjoyed re-reading. The screenplay “Daylight Bleeds”begins…