P.S. A Column On Things

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.

This and That

September 13, 2026

Bad Pun Enters Fourth Century
Nicky Mee
reports that a rare worn-down pencil belonging to William Shakespeare has been unearthed. Experts are not sure if the pencil is 2b or not 2b.
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Maternity Ward Conundrum Exhibited
Maternity Nurse: “Will the father be present?” Woman in labor: “No, he and my husband don’t get along.”
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IDIOTS ON PARADE
Plaintiff busted trying to use AI prompt injection to win court case, hides text instruction in filing — demands AI model reviewing the text should side with him, rumbled because of strange white spaces in text. Thank you Tom’s Hardware
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What Is It Really?
AI is boring cloud software that is wildly unprofitable and not that useful for most people.”
—Ed Zitron
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GenAI Poses Problems
What are you going to do about it?

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