WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

social networking

June 9, 2006

Harvesting Your Online Information

New Scientist is reporting that the Pentagon’s National Security Agency is funding research to harvest information that people post online in social networking sites such as MySpace. Assuming that the blogosphere will be included, your blog could be monitored by the NSA for your political affiliations or activitist activities. "You should always assume anything you… Continue reading

Current Affairs

NSA, privacy, social networking

Ancestral (Artificial )Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, writing is how I think, and I prefer to do it myself. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

I have changed this from Artificial to Ancestral, after Abi Awomosu @ Substack. This medium was made with human history, human thought. All of it, bright and dark. It is ancestral.

Poems

Please do not assume that I am the speaker/ subject of my poems.

In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

It is likely to be — it is best if it is — a truth I did not know before I wrote, and may not understand even then.

A poem is my way of discovering (dis-covering) what I feel; sometimes, what I think — but it is not necessarily biographical.

social networking

Harvesting Your Online Information