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Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds, a Response to Father Coughlin

I'd never heard of Father Coughlin until I worked on the American Archive of Public Broadcasting and our Mellon-funded AI grant for CLAMS. We were testing automated speech recognition models…

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March 21, 2024

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I’m a technologist, librarian, writer, and father.

(11/7/2024)

All of the comfort food.
(10/8/2024)

Deep dive on The National Archives by Sarah Vowell.
(6/12/2024)

Remember to run towards your goals to make progress. Don’t run away from problems to try to make things better.
(4/1/2024)

“Why Did This Guy Put a Song About Me on Spotify” – if you have kids you may have stumbled across one of Matt Farley’s thousands of songs through Siri or Alexa.
(1/8/2024)

I keep asking questions to my AI tool, Melville, which I trained on public domain writings from the 1800s and it only responds, “I’d prefer not to.”
(12/28/2023)

Sitting in a tiny Neil Young-themed coffee shop in Paris run by a Japanese couple.
(11/29/2023)

5th week of the new job. Toured the Bapst Library today. Bundled up from the cold weather.
(10/23/2023)

First day at Boston College!
(9/21/2023)

Each fall the coats on the hooks get a little longer.
(9/15/2023)

Hurricane Lee is coming up the coast. Rain, wind, and flooding in Boston?