Archive - Banapana

You’re Not Chatting with AI, You’re Giving to Corporate Greed

I’m done with ChatGPT and I’m going to give you some reasons to consider doing the same.

Jul 5 •

May 2025

The Agentic Web

AI may be generating a lot of slop right now, but it stands to reason that it will clean the web up also.

May 5 •

April 2025

Totem: Find other... totems

A compass for local stuff.

Apr 23 •

The Idea Factory of Yore

A Review of the book "The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation" or Why We Can't Have Nice Things Anymore.

Apr 12 •

March 2025

February 2024

A Stray Shopping Cart Safari

Now and then, for creative purposes, I need to stray a little ways away from the stated theme of Banapana: “Our Minds on Media.” I also find that some…

Feb 8, 2024 •

January 2024

A Cabin With Walls That Were Not There

Banapana: Our minds on media

Jan 24, 2024 •

Notes on Cognitive Liberty

My academic background includes study of the subjects of neurology and artificial intelligence.

Jan 4, 2024 •

December 2023

On the Grand Library of Montreal and A Hopeful Future with A.I.

I love libraries and all that they stand for; fonts of knowledge.

Dec 21, 2023 •

November 2023

Banapana is Back

It took ten years, but things have changed.

Nov 30, 2023 •

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