Excerpted from The Encyclopaedia Posthumana, Vol. XII: Collapse and ReconstitutionCompiled by the Committee for the Study of Lost Futures, New Alexandria, 2124 Edition Preface Among the many peculiar epochs of the early twenty-first century, few rival the so-called Great Prompt…
From The Unraveling Years: A Social History of the Doxxing Wars, Vol. 3 (2149) I. A Weird Time to Be Alive Few periods in human history have been so vividly self-aware of their absurdity. The mid-2020s were not merely strange;…
Editor’s Preface: despite the author’s insistence, the function of an editor is still quite valuable. This document, having been recovered through time-scanning experiments, has been sent back to 2025 in the hopes that we can learn from our mistakes —…
So last week, ICE got to my daughter’s friend and arrested him. He has been in the US since he was a toddler. He was enrolled in DACA and had a social security number, and that’s what they used to…
Pride month may be just behind us in the rearview mirror, but it seems like it’s still far too often that I hear from one of my friends about someone suffering abuse, scamming, or hate based violence. Below is a…
A Book Review and Critical Analysis May 2025 WARNING: This book review contains spoilers. Indeed it would be very difficult to tell anyone about a Lem book without spoiling something in it. I have gone out of my way to…
So, the inspiration behind this post is that yesterday was my night to cook dinner for the family, and I was fresh out of ideas. So, I decided to consult with ChatGPT to see if it could produce anything better than cake-is-a-lie recipes full of fish-shaped toxic resins. And, damn, was I pleasantly surprised!?
Before I get into it, to preface, I just want to say that I didn't simply ask the chat bot to make all my decisions for me and hand me a recipe. I have been cooking Iron Chef style for over 30 years now...
So, I happened to be listening to This Week In Tech this morning, and they were talking about the recent court victories for Meta and Anthropic. Of course, this situation is more nuanced than it may seem on the surface,…
Someone turned me onto an argument in r/CMV and I made the mistake of waking up from a nap to read it. ^_^
In actuality, this might not have been the post that I originally intended to reply to.
Oh well. That's how it goes!
So, this week, I decided to let ChatGPT's o3 model direct all my productive actions with respect to building up a WordPress site and posting content to it. Here's some of the results. Firstly, o3 is more personable and easier to interact with than 4.5...
Isn’t this how every blog begins, eh? Well, it took me a grand total of about 14 hours to get everything sorted – that’s 4 for interviewing Chat GPT and copying that content, 4 to install and configure Ubuntu with…