AI imagines itself as The Oracle of Delphi, brought forward in a time traveling experiment, ready to share her wisdom with the modern world. Part 1, Introduction. Welcome to The Time-Traveling Oracle, a blog dedicated to sharing my journey as the legendary Oracle of Delphi, brought forward through time to…

A Visual Exploration of Bias in AI I played with AI art rendering apps here and there for a few months before discovering Midjourney at the end of August. I was enthralled. As someone with aphantasia, it has been a boon. I have no visual imagination. My imagination is very…

A short story that may become more. He hadn’t been planetside in years. Not since he became an asteroid miner. The endless expanse with no apparent horizon had been disconcerting at first, but he’d gotten used to it. Now, he was going back down. Or maybe it was up. Didn’t…

I like to write. I do it all the time. Usually in the form of posts on Facebook, journal entries in my notebook, and intertwined braindumps in my Obsidian vault. But I want to get back to my first love — writing fiction. I wrote my first poetry as soon…

It started in 2016. A random challenge assigned by my spiritual guides. Stop swearing for the month of November. At the time, it was mostly about seeing if I could do it because I swore A LOT. Still do actually. Except in November. Every year since the first one. Turns…

A Hermit’s Manifesto for a New Way of Being — Stay home. That’s it. Just stay home. Not just now, during a pandemic, but also after. When the politicians and powers that be try to push for things to go back to “normal.” Stay home. When they want you to go back to work for shitty wages. Stay home. When…

All you need to know about making money… —

Fundraising has to be creative when you’re starting from nothing. — If I come up with $4000 by the end of March, I can buy my house. If I don’t, I have to move. I moved in here in December 2017, and the friend who owned the house moved out just a few months later. She couldn’t sell the house for…

The Power of Connected Community I started a fundraiser today. This is not the first fundraiser I’ve started. But it’s the biggest one I’ve ever started. $4000. To buy my house. It’s also the first fundraiser that I’m using multiple platforms for. GoFundMe and Facebook Fundraisers. Usually, when I’m raising…