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The Age of Artificial Everything
Another nod to Neil Postman and why all self-expression shouldn't be transactional
Sep 22
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Martha Nichols
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How AI Influences Your Point of View
If I let ChatGPT revise my writing, is what it produces mine? Does that matter? Why nobody else can be George Eliot — or me
Sep 5
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Martha Nichols
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Reading Middlemarch in Maine
A year after a serious injury, my sense of time has changed
Aug 9
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Martha Nichols
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When I Talk to You, I Become Myself
Why conversation — with each other, online, in our heads — makes us human
Jul 23
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Martha Nichols
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Why I Write in the First-Person Voice
Performing myself may be artificial, but it's also an act of self-creation. AI can't — and shouldn't — do that for us.
Jun 9
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The Age of Artificial Everything
Another nod to Neil Postman and why all self-expression shouldn't be transactional
Sep 22
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Martha Nichols
8
3
When I Talk to You, I Become Myself
Why conversation — with each other, online, in our heads — makes us human
Jul 23
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Martha Nichols
10
2
Why I Write in the First-Person Voice
Performing myself may be artificial, but it's also an act of self-creation. AI can't — and shouldn't — do that for us.
Jun 9
7
10
I Know My Voice
A poem of banned words
Apr 1
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Martha Nichols
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Writers and AI
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How AI Influences Your Point of View
If I let ChatGPT revise my writing, is what it produces mine? Does that matter? Why nobody else can be George Eliot — or me
Sep 5
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Martha Nichols
6
13
When I Talk to You, I Become Myself
Why conversation — with each other, online, in our heads — makes us human
Jul 23
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Martha Nichols
10
2
Why I Write in the First-Person Voice
Performing myself may be artificial, but it's also an act of self-creation. AI can't — and shouldn't — do that for us.
Jun 9
7
10
Sam Altman's AI Juggernaut — Can It Be Stopped?
Karen Hao's new book details why we should all be worried about a company and a technology controlled by just a few billionaires
May 27
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Martha Nichols
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Essays
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Reading Middlemarch in Maine
A year after a serious injury, my sense of time has changed
Aug 9
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Martha Nichols
27
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Acts of Generosity
Why kindness is so hard — and such a necessary practice
Dec 27, 2024
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Martha Nichols
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My Theory of Everything
What I learned about almost losing a piece of myself
Aug 19, 2024
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Martha Nichols
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What I Felt When RFK Was Shot
Remembering my terror as a little girl in 1968 — and connecting it to what so many of us are feeling now
Jul 16, 2024
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Martha Nichols
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Stitching Together What I Want
A needlepoint project tests my fear of uncertainty
May 26, 2024
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Martha Nichols
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Memoir
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A Swarm of Light
Essay Part 10 • Many Men Watching • on learning to see myself
May 12
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Martha Nichols
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Kisses in the Void
Essay Part 9 • Many Men Watching • on not erasing what you've lost
May 8
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Martha Nichols
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The Glittering Cave
Essay Part 8 • Many Men Watching • from paranoia to truth in the shadows
May 5
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Martha Nichols
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Imagining a Dumpster
Essay Part 7 • Many Men Watching • throwing away what we love — or not?
May 1
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Martha Nichols
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The Human Jumble
Essay Part 6 • Many Men Watching • homage or appropriation — or both?
Apr 28
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Martha Nichols
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I Transform My Eyebrow
Essay Part 5 • Many Men Watching • confronting my own complicity and rage
Apr 24
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Martha Nichols
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The Ethics of Copying
Essay Part 4 • Many Men Watching • comparing my mother's painting with the original photo
Apr 21
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Martha Nichols
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The Right to Copy?
Essay Part 3 • Many Men Watching •the trouble with artistic recycling
Apr 17
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Martha Nichols
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What I Found in Paris
Essay Part 2 • Many Men Watching • rediscovering Gordon Parks — and my mother
Apr 14
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Martha Nichols
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My Shock of Recognition
Essay Part 1 • Many Men Watching • introducing my mother, her painting, and my reassembled memories
Apr 10
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Martha Nichols
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