Dovecote

Captured Students, Captured Time

The primary interaction students have with AI is not with LLMs or other generative AI.

Published on Green Shade  • Oct 15

August 2025

The Tapestry Maker

For AI books are data to be flattened into interchangeable parts. Are they something different for us?

Published on Green Shade  • Aug 21

May 2025

What's Missing From Ezra Klein's "Future of Education" and AI Interview

... and what he and Rebecca Winthrop got right.

Published on Green Shade  • May 21

The Future of Classrooms: The Garden

Rescue and Recovery from the AI present

Published on Green Shade  • May 13

Read Old Books. Readiness for A.I.

What (real) books can do differently. It's not exactly what you think.

Published on Green Shade  • May 7

April 2025

We (all) Work in the A. I. Mines, Explained.

Introduction to the A.I.

Published on Green Shade  • Apr 30

March 2025

Central Park Scouts Guide "Ramble Arch" Entry

Circa 1911

Mar 26 • 

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Attempting a 1679 Menu

In NYC, today

Mar 25 • 

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An American Chestnut Pilgrimage

A Vanished Tree Returns - In Prospect Park

Mar 24 • 

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Musing on the Hamburgers of New York City

Yes, Hamburgers are from NYC.

Mar 14 • 

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Entertaining the Idea of a City Herd (of Cattle)

A Lakota inspiration for NYC

Mar 3 • 

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February 2025

Sparrow Signs from Ancient Staten Island

I’ve teased before about the lack of interest NY historians show for the countryside, despite the fact that in the four hundred years since the founding…

Feb 17 • 

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