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March 9, 1959 - March 9, 2023 On March 9, 2023, on a quiet, snowy evening, David William Hird laid to rest. Coincidentally or by design, David passed away on his 64th birthday. Perhaps David’s biggest triumph throughout his 64 years was that he endured the mental and physical ailments that plagued him. In spite of it all, or because of it, David embodied humility, brilliance, gentleness, and mystery. He was a beloved father, grandfather, son, and brother.
Freud claimed that technology only solved problems that technology itself had created. The alienation and malaise caused by one modern invention was momentarily relieved by another, a process he compared to “the enjoyment obtained by putting a bare leg from under the bedclothes on a cold winter night and drawing it in again.” Nobody seemed capable of articulating what problem these language models were designed to solve. There was some chatter about writing assistance, about therapy bots, about a future where you’d never have to write another email (“Can A.I. bring back the three-marti...
Feb 14, 2023 Dear Diary, It was a gloomy lover’s day afternoon. I was dressed in my Sunday best, wearing Chanel Platinum Égoïste. I was definitely too cute to get fired from my job at Northwestern Recreation. But I did anyway. It was my first ever in-person job, and I was making about $13 an...
The Irish novelist on being inspired by The Catcher in the Rye, discovering James Joyce, and his aversion to books about hobbits
Ever since F.W. Murnau adapted Bram Stoker’s Dracula for his seminal film Nosferatu, the vampire has haunted the modern imagination, writes Robert Hanks