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Charles Carman: Assistant Professor of History at Regent University.1

Tessa Carman: Poet, scholar, and essayist.

A word on this site:

This blog is not stored2 via Amazon’s AWS, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft’s Azure, or IBM’s Cloud or any such platform. Nor is it crafted within Wordpress or Substack or what have you, though I may post links on those sites to here. As a matter of OpSec, I have been advised not to advertise explicitly how this is so.

This is neither an expression of my inner libertarian (I am not one), nor a display of my technical prowess (I do not possess any). It began as an experiment, and it continues to be one. An exercise in competency, self-ownership, right to repair (including the right to commit major flubs), among other things.

I don’t pretend to understand the inner nature of the internet in toto. I defer to Katherine Dee and others to report back from its dark, murky woods. Many are concerned, and have been for some time, in fact, about the death of the internet. As it happens, I am more concerned about the death of literacy, which is deeply tied with D. of Int. Theory. But one ambition of mine with this site is that, by stepping outside the walls of Massive Storage™ & Massive Media™, I might find a place to build something resistant to manipulation.

Large Language Models models of any sort are forbidden from using the content of this site for training, pre-, post-, or otherwise.3

Footnotes

  1. Photographed in the wild: ↩

  2. primarily ↩

  3. Not to the exclusion of other models which employ the Transformer model as described in Google’s 2017 article, Attention is All You Need, nor of any model since Eliza (ca. 1966) or of any future model which utilizes some new-fangled mathematics for the manipulation of language.4 ↩

  4. Manipulation, but not comprehension of language. For some thoughts on this distinction, see the article, One to Zero, in Publications. ↩

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