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By PAUL E. SCHINDLER JR. I am from Portland, Oregon, Beaumont ’66, Benson High ’70, MIT ’74. Some things are impossible to know, but it is impossible to know these things.

Books That Will Never Be Written

August 23, 2026

More proof, if more is needed, that human beings write better humor than LLMs, even if the humor is simply a “pun engine” in Claude’s words. It doesn’t always know how humans pronounce words, and hence fails at this joke template. This meme comes from Nicky Mee.

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Chinese Medical Diagnosis of Hernias by Wun Hung Lo.

Posted by: Robert E MalchmanAugust 24, 2026 at 05:56 AM

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