{"id":21817,"date":"2026-01-30T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T11:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=21817"},"modified":"2026-01-30T12:35:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T12:35:32","slug":"21817-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/21817-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Like: What technology takes from us \u2013 and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-indieblocks-like\"><div class=\"u-like-of h-cite\"><p><i>Likes <a class=\"u-url p-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/ng-interactive\/2026\/jan\/29\/what-technology-takes-from-us-and-how-to-take-it-back\">What technology takes from us \u2013 and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit<\/a>.<\/i><\/p><\/div><div class=\"e-content\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Someone told me that her friend was having a chatbot write her husband a poem for their anniversary, which made me wonder if the husband desired a polished product or an expression from the heart. In Edmond Rostand&#8217;s 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac, the big-nosed title character ghostwrites love letters for his friend to the Roxanne both of them love. She comes to realise it&#8217;s the author of the letters she really loves. What happens when you realise the true love who touched your heart is&#8217;nt even human? Accepting it as your Al lover seems to be one answer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I enjoyed the comparison of ai with Cyrano, and the rest of the article was striking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone told me that her friend was having a chatbot write her husband a poem for their anniversary, which made me wonder if the husband desired a polished product or an expression from the heart. In Edmond Rostand&#8217;s 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac, the big-nosed title character ghostwrites love letters for his friend to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"mf2_syndication":["https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/johnjohnston.info\/post\/3mdn7bss2dy2q","https:\/\/social.ds106.us\/@johnjohnston\/115983821904914335"],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[953],"tags":[957,2067],"post_format":[642],"class_list":{"0":"post-21817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-status","6":"category-posse","7":"tag-ai","8":"tag-rebecca-solnit","9":"post_format-post-format-status","10":"kind-article","12":"h-entry","13":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-5FT","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21817"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21822,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21817\/revisions\/21822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21817"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=21817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}