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Marcel Gagné

Writer and Free Thinker at Large: Musings on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Linux, FOSS, Science & Technology, Religion, Politics, Consciousness, Philosophy, VR, Gaming, and Whatever Else Comes to Mind!

Author: Marcel Gagné

Ruggedly handsome science, Linux, & technology geek. Writer and Free Thinker at Large. The "Cooking With Linux" guy. Occasionally opinionated. Always confused. Loves wine, food, music, and the occasional single malt Scotch. Long time columnist for Linux Journal, LinuxPro Magazine, Ubuntu User Magazine, SysAdmin, and others. Author of six books including "Linux System Administration: A User's Guide" and the "Moving to Linux" series of books. Promoter, advocate, and evangelist for Free and Open Source Software on radio, television, and YouTube.

Factaid: A News Fact-Checker

Posted onFebruary 29, 2024March 25, 2024

CategoriesArtificial Intelligence

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Just Can’t Do That Marie Kondo Thing

Posted onApril 2, 2023April 2, 2023Leave a comment

Friends, Romans, Enemies, dogs, cats, fish… I have exciting news for you! I am leaving this website behind (well, mostly, kind of, sort of, a bit) and moving to a new one. Yes, you heard me right. I am abandoning Read More …

CategoriesBrain Farts

assorted wine bottles

Alcohol, Canada, and the CCSA Report: The Devil’s in the Details

Posted onJanuary 20, 2023January 20, 2023Leave a comment

Alcohol is back in the news in Canada and the new report from The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction (CCSA) is making waves. The CCSA report updates their guidelines on safe alcohol consumption, and this is the first Read More …

CategoriesBrain Farts, Life, OpinionTagsalcohol, research

SONNET

Posted onJuly 7, 2022July 7, 2022Leave a comment

My only love sprung from my only hate,Too early seen, and known too late:Prodigious birth of love it is to meThat I must love a loathed enemy.Without this be the miracle, the feat,The same, who through sharp fire and edge-tools,And Read More …

CategoriesArtificial Intelligence, Poetry

The Epitaph of the House of P

Posted onJuly 5, 2022July 5, 2022Leave a comment

(a poem, of sorts, written by my AI and me) we learned to dress without fearwe learned to make our own luckwe learned to never say no to anyonewe learned the hard waywe fought back against fearwe fought back against Read More …

CategoriesArtificial Intelligence, Poetry

Godzilla Eating Facebook

Posted onJuly 4, 2022July 4, 2022Leave a comment

As the Godzilla age beganI was already a man. Though I do not know my age,I do remember my youth. I did not know what would come,But I knew — yes, somehow, I knew. Without warning it cameThat day when Read More …

CategoriesArtificial Intelligence, Poetry

No Place For People (a poem, of sorts)

Posted onJune 24, 2022June 24, 2022Leave a comment

Marvin and I went to the moon in the early light and I said: “I’m sorry we’re herebut this is the only way to get away from people.” Without the roar of their engines, without the blaring of their    Horns.Without their Read More …

CategoriesArtificial Intelligence, Poetry

The Porcupine’s Quill

Posted onJune 22, 2022June 22, 2022Leave a comment

I write for you and for myself and for no one else not for money or for fame or to impress those who don’t know me.So I try to write the way I would speak,if that were still possible—direct and Read More …

CategoriesArtificial Intelligence, Poetry

What if knowledge of Star Trek, including the original series and at least one spinoff, was a requirement for voting?

Posted onJune 20, 2022June 20, 2022Leave a comment

Yes, of course I’m serious. What if a deep working knowledge of Star Trek, including the original series and at least one of the spinoffs, was a requirement for voting? This might seem like a far-fetched idea, but bear with Read More …

CategoriesBrain Farts, Suggestions

Stephanie Confronts The Poetry Robot

Posted onJune 18, 2022June 18, 2022Leave a comment

To the poetry robot’s home, no right,no wrong,no rain, no sun, no wet or dry to speak of.Without a home it has nothing;without a body it cannot have a thought.Stephanie walked the halls turning each corner slowly and        carefully, searching Read More …

CategoriesArtificial Intelligence, Poetry

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