Kent Pitman

Green data centers
cannot bend Climate physics.
Growth can't be sustained.

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #Climate #ClimateDenial #denial #green #energy #GreenEnergy #AI #LLMs

I put up a new blog essay, The Tedious Pained, a defense of the legitimacy of technical & social critiques of "AI" tech, even as positives are claimed. Positives don't cancel negatives, in other words.

Well, it's only new if you didn't see it as a comment on someone else's post a bit ago at LinkedIn. This is me just giving it a better placement and a name for later reference. And perhaps a wider audience.

https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-tedious-pained.html

#AI #LLM #LLMs #SocialCost #critique #ethics #AIEthics #tech #technology #harm #society #politics

Months? Years? Climate scoffs.
Prep for many centuries,
or your cave's not prepped.

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateDenial #preppers #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #collapse #extinction

Context: Someone wrote a post about a reading of erotic poetry where they opined about how awkward and distasteful it would be for them to hear people the age of their parents read erotic poems.

I found this very upsetting and responded to that thread explaining why.

Hopefully they've removed that post. I can no longer see it. Though I guess it's possible they blocked me and that's why I can't see it. Either way, I'm removing the individual's name and instead just reposting my rant, which still needs saying.

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Why does age matter here?? What does that change? I can see cringing at erotica at all, like some people object to PDA, but as you age you may realize there's far less difference than you think, and how outright inhumane it is (and I don't use that as hyperbole but as literal truth) to have older humans treated as something different than "regular" humans, made to live life separately and diminished in participatory privilege. If you think it differently offensive than race segregation, maybe think harder.

It is scary enough growing old without people treating you like the walking dead who need to stop participating in regular life and just sit by and watch available time pass, kept from doing anything by people who casually and without apology talk of it like "of course it must be thus".

It may seem like just words but such words form rock hard prisons in our society. Actual enforcement of such separation occurs exactly because people shamelessly call for it in this way. It would be in many cases more humane to offer people death with dignity than require they live on in such a world that sees and treats them this way.

It's hard to overstate how angry this makes me.

#aging #discrimination #manners #segregation #society #insensitivity #AgeDiscrimination #elderly #poetry #erotica #pluralism #multiculturalism

We've made no promise.
Our glue is stronger than words..
Love speaks best in deeds

Deeds can't promise, but sustain.
Futures are built, not promised.

#tanka #haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #love #promises #future #commitment

Notes to follow on a conversation thread.

Having recently read it aloud at a charity event, I have finally just published to my website my 2012 essay "Lie to Me", written at the time for my friend Juli, inviting honesty, which it suggests is more about trust, immediacy and fearlessness than it is about truth. I figured somehow that Valentine's week was a good time to get it out into the world.

There is an accompanying audio reading by me. It is about 5 minutes long.

https://nhplace.com/kent/Writing/Lie-To-Me.html

#Valentine #Valentines #ValentinesDay #honesty #truth #lies #lying #trust #immediacy #honesty #essay #writing #WritingCommunity #poem #FreeVerse