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H.I. versus A.I. 🧠

From Behind the Pen

While I embrace modern technology to an extent, I don’t depend on it for every aspect of my life. Sometimes I could lose track and overdose on time spent on the computer, and my digital devices with extensive research. Recently, I saw the addition of the AI feature on the editing portion of WordPress, and I was surprised, but shouldn’t have been that this button was added. I suppose it was just a matter of time.

Now, this is not to say that I don’t use advanced technological tools to make my compositions more appealing, relevant, and engaging, even on social media. But if I have to depend on artificial intelligence to do all of my thinking and calculating for me, perhaps that will be the time to hang up my writer’s hat because I will feel like a fraud attaching my name to something I really didn’t create.

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Take A Hike

The Twisting Tail

Sissy Hankshaw once taught a parakeet to hitchhike.

Tom Robbins

But first
just as impressive
she convinced the bird
it couldn’t fly


Trapped in a wide expanse
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Hightailing it out of there
By thumbing for a cruise


Hitchhike:
1921 (n.), 1923 (v.), from hitch (v.), from the notion of hitching a sled, etc. to a moving vehicle (a sense first recorded 1880) + hike (n.). Related: Hitchhiked; hitchhiking. Hitchhiker attested from 1927.
Hitchhikers rode inside instead of being hitched and dragged behind vehicles from 1930. Rough few years there.


An endurance
An endearment of
Nature and freedom
To journey Into the Wild
And succumb unbridled


The anxiety-laden question:
Is the hitchhiker a killer or a victim?

Why must it be either?


Tickner Edwardes documented the first account of hitchhiking as it is known today in his book, Lift Luck, published in 1910. Edwardes…

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