Tyne Daile Sumner



Algorithm non grata: The relentless banality of LLMs

In regurgitating the dominant scientific account of human evolution, LLMs adopt a particular stylistic posture: one that privileges qualification over commitment, context over certitude, expansion over a foray into humour, irony, or sarcasm. They’re like the corporate psychopath who, when presented with a task that requires nuance and a bit of wit, impulsively blurts: “Let’s map this out, shall we!”

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Portrait, Lyric, Code: Reading the Face Before and After Laura Riding Jackson’s Body’s Head

A young woman sits partially side-on. Her right hand is wrapped lightly around her left wrist.
She wears no necklace, no rings. She sits against a blue sky.

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Mosaically Speaking: Pieces of Lionel Fogarty’s Poetics

As the Hong Kong riots reach their sixth consecutive week, I’m emailing a friend at Hong Kong University who writes about liberty and subjection.

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Dashiell Moore Reviews Lionel Fogarty

To begin this review, I would like to make the most important of declarations and acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation as the traditional owners of the land on which this review was written; and would like to thank Narungga scholar, writer and poet Natalie Harkin for having assisted in the editorial process.

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