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The AIs Like Their Chances
The AIs Like Their Chances
December 10, 2025
Will Time Magazine name an AI as Person of the Year. Let's ask the AIs.

The Other Side Of Unsustainable
The Other Side Of Unsustainable
October 20, 2025
A $37 Trillion Credit Card Balance Transfer During the last U.S. presidential election, American voters insisted that the economy was issue number one, but...

I Would Prefer Not To - (#5)
I Would Prefer Not To - (#5)
October 7, 2025
Pub Day Arrives Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and...

I Would Prefer Not To - (#4)
I Would Prefer Not To - (#4)
September 24, 2025
Happy Fall! The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland paths are dry, Under the October twilight the water Mirrors a still sky; Yeats, The Wild Swans...

I Would Prefer Not To - (#3)
I Would Prefer Not To - (#3)
August 12, 2025
Send The Dead Cover Art We have cover art! And an October 6th publication date! A Novella and Four Stories Send The Dead In February of 2002, we escaped a...

I Would Prefer Not To - (#2)
May 13, 2025
The Warren Buffett Issue Happy Spring First, a week ago Warren Buffett announced that he will be stepping down from his job as the top dog at Berkshire...

I Would Prefer Not To - (#1)
I Would Prefer Not To - (#1)
January 22, 2025
Welcome You have subscribed to I Would Prefer Not To, a quarterly miscellany by author Richard Dooling. Plain and Simple No paywalls, no ads, no subscription...

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