Back in the 1950s, public school English classes were buttoned-up affairs: grammar drills, vocabulary lists, the occasional expository essay, and writing poems about Thanksgiving turkeys. Imagination and creativity were something you practiced after class, not during. Creative writing—when it was offered—was squeezed through the narrow pipes of patriotic prompts and copycat assignments: “Write about George Washington’s childhood, but make it…
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From DMV to Your Couch America’s Most Dreaded Bureaucracy Has Finally Gone Digital
Ah, the Department of Motor Vehicles. Society’s favorite reminder that despite our drones, AI assistants, and phones smarter than the Apollo missions, bureaucracy remains blissfully entrenched in the Stone Age. If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if Dante rewrote Inferno as a choose-your-own-adventure set in a strip mall, well, the Department of Motor Vehicles is the place for you.…
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Alien Chestburster Chaos In space no one can hear you scream laugh fart or sneeze
Original Premise: Alien (1979) – The Chestburster Scene A quiet meal among the crew turns into pure horror as an alien creature violently erupts from Kane’s chest. The shock, the gore, and the sheer terror made this an all-time great. Opening Scene A dimly lit mess hall aboard the spaceship Nostromo. The crew sits around a steel table, eating a…
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A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Prompts AI Image Generation Finally Gave Me the Pictures I Always Wanted
In the old days, whenever I needed a photo to enhance my writing, I was stuck sifting through so-called “royalty-free” image repositories, shelling out outrageous fees for visuals that never really captured my ideas—just passable at best. ChatGPT and DALL·E have changed all that. Creating images with DALL·E is easy. Start with a broad directive—something like, “Generate a high-resolution, photorealistic…
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How Many Gen Zs Does It Take to Change a Lightbulb? What’s a Lightbulb?
January 24, 2025 By Ludmila Gavranović The Đurđevac Herald Đurđevac, Croatia A recent poll conducted by the highly respected Institute for Generalized Panic and Widespread Disappointment (IGPWD) has revealed that nearly 90% of Gen Z participants are utterly befuddled by the concept of how to change a lightbulb. Once an assumed skill passed down through generations like sourdough starters or…
