CharcBites

“They’re intelligence factories not data centers!” declares the proclaimed AI expert, who I quickly dub, Robo Woman. Correcting the audience member, clearly a confused mere mortal, only magnifies the degree to which humans have fallen behind. Her brown eyes sparkle with excitement as she describes the AI race between China and the US. “We’re already 5 years behind! Do you know what AI is capable of!” Everyone listens intently as she continues her arrogant narrative of AI

A small box of matzoh with a Passover pamphlet and nice note from a neighborhood rabbi was left at my front door. They must have really culled their list. I haven’t been an active member for years, but somehow they found me. Like many Jews I’m comfortable with the dichotomy of being Jewish and something else or nothing else - like a Chinese food menu in a column a or a column b kinda way. My mother has been deceased for one year and there was no one to nag me to “make Passov

I can hear my father’s disdain echo in the afterlife from a question he would never dream need answering. An electronic ignition gas fireplace to the man who built a double A-frame in Vermont with one “real one” on every level, would be sacrilege - the same man that insisted on building my character by stacking his wood piles, one cord at a time. Maybe his disdain would be warranted. Contemplating an automatic fireplace made me feel like I was giving up on myself a little - a