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The Em-Dash Defence League
I've been thinking about what we win and what we lose when we allow AI into our writing space. It's a thorny topic. When I was doing my celebrant training, we may as well have been asked to sign an oath in blood: thou shalt not use AI to write ceremonies. The underlying message was clear enough: this work is meant to be authored, not assembled. I took that steer seriously. It wasn't hard: I love writing, and I'm certainly not ready to hand over all the fun to an algorithm. A
susymcphee0
Jun 74 min read


It's Not All About You (Except Of Course On Your Wedding Day)
There was a time when humans believed that everything revolved around the Earth. The sun, the moon, the stars, all orbiting dutifully around us like very obedient wedding guests. Then along came Nicolaus Copernicus, and he really upset the apple cart by pointing out that, actually, we’re not the centre of the universe at all. Which, if you think about it, is both humbling and slightly inconvenient. Ever since the Copernican Revolution, we’ve had to accept that we are just one
susymcphee0
May 243 min read
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