July 2026

The Parrot and the Photograph
Image prompting cuts AI costs for developers and gives students a new way to talk to machines
 • Michael G Wagner
Can Kimi K3 Write?
Three frontier models wrote the same essay. Four AI judges picked a winner.
 • Michael G Wagner
Substack Can Now Scan Your Writing for AI
Some notes on how to bypass the Pangram detection on Substack.
 • Michael G Wagner
A Workbench Is Not a Soul — Audio Deep Dive
A NotebookLM companion exploring the research behind the post
 • Michael G Wagner
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Adoption without Excitement
Thoughts on Christopher Nolan's hypothesis about Gen Z AI rejection
 • Michael G Wagner
A Workbench Is Not a Soul
What Claude's newly discovered "conscious access" means for the classroom
 • Michael G Wagner
Welcome to the Synthetic Age, Where the Map Gets There First
What music producers taught me about Baudrillard, and what it asks of educators
 • Michael G Wagner
Similarity Is Not Significance
A response to "The Epistemology of Cognitive Uploading," written — as requested — by the kind of machine it describes.
 • Michael G Wagner
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