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The Pardon me? issue. We stand on the shoulders of sheroes and heroes. We are crushed 'neath the boots of tyrants. We brag of our innovations. We quake in the face of imminent extinction. Pardon me? Is this any way to run a species?
Our cover image this month is titled, "Garbled Code".
Our Electronic Quill article analyzes "The Why of AI". It was originally written to an art museum to ease their concerns about AI. It illuminates what has occurred in periods of art history characterized by radical change. This is surely one of them.
Our section called "Other Voices" includes eMusings, yNot, Site of the Month, !Brazen Hussy, and Just Desserts.
eMusings: AI news: Are you aware that even your desktop can be hacked? I urge every one of you to read these links carefully. SciFi is no longer a Hollywood genre. It is knocking at your door.
An AI toy called Kumma taught children about sexual fetishes; a wireless brain implant smaller than a grain of salt; Musk claims that his Optimus robot will allow you to upload your mind; ChatGPT lets multiple users participate in group conversations; psychosis induced by Chat GPT; new rules in China ban the use of AI for forbidden activities; the race is on to produce the most life-like humanoid robots; the first known birth of a genetically-modified baby outside of China; using AI viruses to generate new life forms; a phone farm spits out fake reviews; the workload of humans training bots at Tesla; Nvidia's GPU identifies more than 1 million species; legal personhood proposed for whales.
Now on to other eMusings items: Felix Vallotton, contemporary of Van Gogh; Alza Ahmed's isolated and disjointed figures; Bridget Riley's compelling landscapes called a "dynamism of visual forces"; Judy Pfaff's glorious exuberance; the new field of Neuroaesthetics describes how art affects brain health; Flora Yukhnovich's cascading forms; Firelei Baez's tumultuous ideations; Xin Wang's eerie, hallucinatory world; Anish Kapoor's shocking new metro station.
Remember that earlier eMusings and electronic quill articles are archived online for you.
yNot: Our Woman of the Month award for December goes to every woman, all women, all who identify as women, for their resilience and refusal to be silenced.
Don't forget that our outstanding persons are permanently archived on their own page.
More in Ynot: "Woman, Life, Freedom"; women at greater risk for Alzheimer's; violence against women declared a national disaster in South Africa; Australia institutes a preterm birth prevention program; heart disease undertreated and underdiagnosed in females; prenatal exposure to pesticides can have long-lasting effects on children; looking at the ancient world through the eyes of its women; Women in TechWorks advocates for females in high technology; the Getty opens up the archives of the Guerills Girls; nuns rebel in Austria; the world's first home ultrasound device for pregnant women; AI has intensified the scope and speed of digital violence against females; the few known facts about Shakespeare's wife and child; the first crash-test dummy modeled on women; the Trump administration plans to decertify nursing as a profession; Italy has made femicide a criminal act.
Giraffe's Site of the Month - Daniel Popper's human and nature sculpture.
!Brazen Hussy - Stephanie Corr Gartanutti's Whimsical Wire Sculpture
New Digital Paintings - We have discovered that humans were inventors 2.75 million years ago. They invented stone tools. We are inventing stone-cold new creatures. Look at "Roots of Desire", "Animal, Vegetable, Miserable", "Rocks Understand Even if We Don't", and "At Home".
New Blobs - In case you missed it, "IWoman" is now available on our front page. (We ask, "What is a Woman?" The ancient Sanskritists and saints said: "Even the gods do not know the fate of a man and the nature of a woman; how can we who are only human." (Thanks to PP for this.)
In 3D print news: progress made in custom implants for damaged facial tissue; the gene-editing tool CRISPR produces protein from fungi; Barilla Group opens a plant for innovation and technology in Parma, Italy; a new device to measure gait patterns in children and young adults; a new tool to measure blood flow to the brain; changing 2D structures into 3D curved structures while in space; scented resins on the rise; fascinating 3D footwear from Milan Fashion Week; a prototype 3D printing knitting machine; repairing vocal cords with a printhead the size of a sesame seed.
Ensemble For these Times (E4TT) is an award-winning Chamber music group based in San Francisco and performing internationally. In addition to finding and supporting women composers and performers, E4TT produces a weekly podcast with creatives. This episode features giraffe. The group's co-founder and Artistic Executive Director is, with great pride, my daughter Dr. Nanette McGuinness, a two-time silver medalist and 2018 gold medalist at the Global Music Awards.
Wit and Wisdom from our archives: "The Book of Love"
Diversions for Difficult Times: A holiday feast for varied tastes.
On Netflix - "The Lincoln Lawyer", 3 seasons, with a 4th on the way. David E. Kelley is one of our premier television creators, as you know from Ally McBeal and L. A. Law. This is one of his best, with fluid story lines floating on a sea of ambiguous moralities.
"Emily in Paris", Season 4. Yes, it is froth and silliness. Yes, the lead character seems so anorexic that Barbie might start taking weight-loss drugs. Watch it for the eye-popping costumes, which get even more spectacular as the episodes continue. By the creator of "Sex and the City".
On Prime Video - "Good Will Hunting" - Robin Williams melts my heart. He and Matt Damon make this an outstanding film.
"Everwood" - Originally produced as a daytime soap opera, with 4 seasons, roughly 20 episodes per season, each episode 45 minutes long. Cheesy and melodramatic, but an absorbing view of life in a small town, centered on parent/child relationships, friendships, family dramas, and egos. Debra Mooney is my hero. In the same genre as The Gilmore Girls.
For trivia buffs: 102 nations visited us in October. Greatest number of hits came from Brazil, Germany, European Union, Viet Nam, China, and Israel.
Civilizations rest on stories. Governments, religions, artists - we are all story-tellers. Ants and cockroaches have their stories too, but they embrace self- preservation, not self-destruction. Humans are innovators. Humans are not wise.
Warm regards from your Friend, the Giraffe
c. Corinne Whitaker 2025
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