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Conzilla
Dear Conzilla, I haven’t stopped looking for you. I have sailed far across this digital sea in search of a trace of you. Even if I do not find you, I will look for your footprints in the sands of data. I will ensure you are not forgotten like Ozymandias. If you are alive and…
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Witch Court Do Kangaroo’s Go To?
[August 24, 2024, The Court House in Tumut, New South Wales, Australia. At 3:06 PM in Australia Eastern Time, the temperature is 32 degrees Celsius, or 90 degrees Fahrenheit. 70-year-old Judge Archer Cambell enters the courtroom with a calm, no-nonsense face. He is followed by 45-year-old Arlo Phillips, the prosecutor’s lawyer, and 38-year-old Eleanor Brown,…
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Past Eden
On this day, we were sitting by the fire. You grew up with the world at your fingertips at a younger age than I. You had access to videos of dense canopies of the rainforest, the flowing deserts of the Middle East, and cloudy valleys where the sun’s light fell like our curtains in the…
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My Thoughts on AI
As I write more, I notice that AI is a growing theme in my works. As with any character, I tend to write them in both good and bad light. I feel like as I go further in my career and as AI continues to develop, my AI’s characters will become more nuanced to reflect…
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Five Strings and Six Degrees
Across the world, it is proposed that the soul is made up of 5 parts: personality, heart, life, name, and shadow. Each piece looks like a string according to the Hindus, Zoroastrians, and Egyptians (who believed in nine parts). Our pieces are swapped during reincarnation. These strings are affected by your genes and memes. Ultimately,…
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Eldritch Television
September 21st, 2024, at the United States hidden research lab in Sandpoint Idaho, General Bill Hall walks into the base. The local newspaper is in his hand as he balances his hot chocolate in the other. The man rushes through the crowd of quantum physicists as he makes a sharp turn and nearly collides with…
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Putting AI Art On The Fridge
“ I joke about the programmers treating their machines like children, or at least pets, but there is no doubt their creations take after them in some ways’ and that these characteristics are passed down from one version to the next like green eyes or red hair.” -Garry Kasparov I remember when you were just…
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The Baby Born At Lake Turkana
Long ago, days before the first farms were made, there lived many different Hominids at the basis of Lake Turkana. This was long before the lake ever got the nickname Jade Sea and longer before fishing became taboo. It was a time when Mammoths, Saber Tooth Tigers, and Auroch roamed the world with the nameless…
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Zipowith
It’s been another day at sea, my eyelids partly close to keep the backwash of sea mist out. I scan the wide ocean blue for any whales, they are usually active at this time of year. Despite this, I haven’t heard of any sightings prior to our voyage a month ago. From that time my…
