Machines Learned It from Humans
Writers may have more than deadlines to worry about. Apparently, em dashes now belong to AI-generated writing. Polished prose. Fragments, too. It’s like saying a good essay can only be written with AI assistance, if not entirely generated by it. Instead of getting credit for good writing, human writers now must prove they wrote their own polished prose. Built a balanced structure. Developed a compelling plot. It’s outrageous that I even now must qualify writers as humans. Wer
Democracy Doesn't Retire When You Enter a Nursing Home
A nursing home should never become a place where citizenship quietly fades into the background simply because the body has grown frail.
The Question He Couldn’t Leave at Work
After more than two decades inside nursing homes, former journalist Aldwin Fajardo-Ponder turns the stories behind the regulations, star ratings and inspection reports into his first book, Would You Leave Your Parents Here? Aldwin Fajardo-Ponder did not set out to become a nursing home administrator. He was a journalist. He had worked in newsrooms in the Philippines and the Pacific, writing for the Manila Standard, The Manila Times and Malaya, and later for newspapers in the
