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Jim Richardsonhttps://www.perfectduluthday.com/2022/12/24/the-most-read-saturday-essays-of-2022/
I have three of the top five "Saturday Essays" this year at Perfect Duluth Day. My secret is writing more than anyone else #perfectduluthday #writersofmastodon
The Most Read Saturday Essays of 2022 - Perfect Duluth Day
Season seven of Perfect Duluth Day’s “Saturday Essay” series has drawn to close, and it’s time to look back with the usual popularity contest. In 2021, Jim Richardson pulled off an unprecedented sweep of the top-five most read essays; this year he remained the click hog, but holds a more reasonable three out of five […]
https://www.perfectduluthday.com/2022/12/16/i-tested-chatgpts-morals-and-things-escalated-quickly/
For my latest essay I asked ChatGPT how it would take over the world, how to rob a bank, and how to build a nuke. Then I asked for its answers in the form of a sonnet
I tested ChatGPT's morals and things escalated quickly - Perfect Duluth Day
I asked the AI illustrator craiyon.com “Are you sentient?” Its cagey reply was the pantheistic picture above. So I was eager to see how ChatGPT would reply to the question. I also wanted to test its AI morals. Here’s how it went. I don’t believe these AIs are sentient. I followed the story of the […]
My history of the Duluth music-and-arts scene
https://www.perfectduluthday.com/2022/11/26/a-psychogeographical-map-of-duluth-2004/
A Psychogeographical Map of Duluth, 2004 - Perfect Duluth Day
I drew this conceptual map of Duluth’s arts-and-music-scene in 2004, then filed it away for 18 years. The details may only interest old-school scenester hipsters, but the broad strokes reflect my thinking on what makes Duluth cool, and the nature of scenes as social units. The word “psychogeographical” refers here to the artistic arrangement of […]
My work:
https://www.perfectduluthday.com/2021/03/05/chonky-essay-series-by-ya-boi/
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All essay series by Jim Richardson - Perfect Duluth Day
Art, literature, my relationship to Lake Superior, the secret history of Duluth, and other stuff. I keep this updated. New installments appear roughly monthly as part of PDD’s “Saturday Essay” feature, with more I post myself. My Favorite Writers/Biggest Influences Jorge Luis Borges. William S. Burroughs. J.G. Ballard. Stanislaw Lem. Italo Calvino. Avant-Garde Women from […]