The other day I went on a hike and passed a beautiful house atop a hill. From it’s garden a silver colored cat emerged and invited me to hang out and play for a bit. When I continued my walk, my new cat friend decided to follow along. It walked by my side for almost […]
It was a historic day in the Catholic Church on April 1, 2030, as Pope Maria I, the first black lesbian woman to hold the papacy, was elected. As she stepped out onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica to greet the cheering crowds, the world watched in amazement.
I asked ChatGPT what it has to say about artificial intelligence and screenwriting. This is the prompt I used: “Write a blog about artificial intelligence and screenwriting. Make it critical” Here is what it spit out: “Artificial intelligence has increasingly been making its way into the world of screenwriting in recent years, with various AI-powered […]
As I ponder the curious case of Albert Einstein, I cannot help but wonder: what if this brilliant scientist had lived during the time of the Spanish Inquisition? How might his revolutionary ideas have fared in the face of such an oppressive regime? Einstein’s theories of relativity and the nature of light would have been […]
Writing and producing songs with pencil and paper and a guitar is a time-honored tradition that has been used by some of the most successful songwriters in history. While technology has provided many new tools for songwriting and production, there is something special about the simplicity and intimacy of the pencil plus paper and guitar […]
In 2013, a woman named Justine Sacco found herself at the center of a scandal that would ultimately cost her her job. Sacco, a PR executive for the media company IAC, posted a joke. With just a few hundred followers on Twitter, she likely didn’t anticipate the widespread backlash that would ensue after she tweeted […]
When a “nation” is relatively wise politically it requires considerable force, in the shape of police and army, to keep the populace in their place. Where people are steeped in political ignorance, very little force is necessary, especially when the illusion is kept up that when choosing their rulers they are actually ruling themselves.
It did not matter to them if their lives were mediocre, as long as they went on, and on, seemingly forever and setting out for immortality. In my dream I also saw the same people ignoring the health of our societies, failing their solidarity towards each other, and ending social contracts in fear of dying a predicted death.
After a few days we came to the conclusion that we had to focus on getting to Italy during the first small window of opportunity. It would be a now or never situation. We had to get a flight for as long as they were available, for as long as airlines still existed.
On Monday the 13th of July 2020, I remembered that there was a to-do item on my itemized list of things to check, that still needed some work. July was the month of the comet Neowise, a stellar body that orbits earth every 6800 years, and coincidentially, it so happens, that the comet chose the […]
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