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“Together, We Can Create the World We Want to See”: An Interview with ChatGPT
Recently, an editor at Hard Crackers discovered that many students in his classes were having their homework assignments written for them by an artificial intelligence (AI) program called ChatGPT, a piece of software that draws on ...
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What is to Be Hated
There is no hatred more sublime than the kind you share with others. This is true of the worst and best hatreds, but when that hatred lies between the political and the aesthetic, what some people ...
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Death to The Walking Dead
After twelve years of blood and guts, AMC’s post-apocalyptic zombie epic The Walking Dead (TWD) is finally being laid to rest. With almost all of the original cast long torn to shreds since its 2010 debut, ...
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From the Vault
The Hard Crackers project is just over five years old. During that time, we have published almost a hundred articles in nine issues of our print journal and posted more than 350 articles on our web ...
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And to think that I saw it on FOX News!
The phone call came into the library early Saturday morning. The man on the other end was clearly agitated. “Do you guys have any Doctor Zeus books there at the library?” “Yes, we do,” I said. ...
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How Reddit Fight Club Pissed Off Wall Street
“My barber made $28Gs on Robinhood,” my brother’s best friend texted me early Thursday morning. A minute later, I received another ping but this time from my brother. “Reddit took down Wall Street. David versus Goliath,” ...
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“Remember What My Number Is”: RIP Toots Hibbert
54-46 was Toots Hibbert’s prison number. He sang it out loud on the electrifying track 54-46 That’s My Number (1969), one of a crop of tunes that made Toots and the Maytals a household name on ...
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Comix notes around Covid-19
I started these “comix notes around Covid-19” at the beginning of the pandemic in France. It wasn’t about finding fun situations in a very dramatic situation, but to offer remarks and thoughts on what’s happening to ...
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Returning to Lovecraft
“That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die.” — H.P.L. NOTE: Contains minor spoilers. Don’t get me wrong — I used to devour books and enjoyed other genres besides ...
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‘Stick a Fork in Their Ass & Turn ‘em Over – They’re Done.’
Sorry to be a ‘Negative Nelly’ (& co-opt a Lou Reed lyric again), but pull up a stool and let me tell you why the Covid crisis is really just a mirror to a species already ...
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