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by Lio 17 hours ago
Bukowski was a fan on new technology even towards the end of his life:

> “Yes, you have a strange project: electronic books. It might be the future as more and more people find that the computer is such a magic thing: time-saver, charmer, energizer.”

No one can say what he would have thought of AI for sure but I think he would have appreciated ability to reduce drudgery on this thoughts on factotum[1] work.

1. Why yes, that is a cheesy reference to his book of the same name. ;)

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> On Christmas Day, 1990, Charles Bukowski received a Macintosh IIsi computer and a laser printer from his wife, Linda. The computer utilized the 6.0.7 operating system and was installed with the MacWrite II word processing program. By January 18 of the next year, the computer was up and running and so, after a brief period of fumbling and stumbling, was Bukowski. His output of poems doubled in 1991.

Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, and the Computer - https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/charles-bukow...