The first 40 years of my life were in constant turmoil. Mid-life is a relief. — I’m in my mid-40s. As I write this, I’m 44, but my 45th birthday is in less than a month. Given my health and family history, I can reasonable expect another 45+ years of life, especially if I’m proactive about my health. Aging is weird. I’m not old. But also……

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 2. Greetings once again, dear readers! Today, I will share with you some of the insights I have gained by traveling through time and experiencing…

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…

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