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• Jeff Duntemann's Contrapositive Diary

  Jeff Duntemann's Contrapositive Diary PLAUD recently announced their NotePin, a little AI device that hangs from a string around your neck. (I assume you could clip one to your lapel, which is what I ...

• Ideas & Analysis – Jeff Duntemann's Contrapositive Diary

  Here’s another bunch, some from me, some from readers. Time passes. The world changes. More and more, the world that’s vanishing is the one we grew up in. Mechanical charge-card imprinters. You know, ...

• 2023 May – Jeff Duntemann's Contrapositive Diary

  I follow the AI discussion to some extent (as time permits, which it hasn’t lately) and from initial amusement it’s pivoted to apprehension and doom-kvetching, as if we didn’t get a bellyful of doom-k...

• 2021 May 11 – Jeff Duntemann's Contrapositive Diary

  Mercury has a tail. Whodathunkit? With all that solar wind blasting over it, the poor planet’s already thin atmosphere is constantly being driven outward, forming a tail over 24 million kilometers lon...

• Doubt and the Scientific Method – Jeff Duntemann's Contrapositive Diary

  This took me by surprise: Over in that global laboratory of abnormal psychology that most of us call Facebook, a man I’ve know for almost 35 years grew furious at me. My crime? A longstanding contenti...

• The Future of Contra – Jeff Duntemann's Contrapositive Diary

  Earlier this afternoon, I finally did something I’d been meaning to do for literally years: Configure a dedicated domain for ContraPositive Diary. It’s done, and I’ve po...