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ChatGPT is a HUSTLER

Chatgpt is a hustler. You’ve met hustlers who are glib, and use glitzy, sweet or high-carb elements plucked from some repository of trite…

Mar 12, 2023

Mar 12, 2023

FLASH FORWARD to Coping with Climate Migration

An alternate possibility for the coming mass global migration of desperation.

Oct 24

Oct 24

THE COURAGE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

When I was much younger I was at a reception, speaking to an Orthodox priest: a bearded man who was quite evidently very self-contained and…

Oct 10

Oct 10

All humanity lives at the bottom of a seven-story building shaped like a seven-stroked lightning…

Most people on this first, lowest floor deny there is any better light. They shuffle about and make do, and contrive comforting…

Aug 26

Aug 26

A Fence Around the Light

Oct 25, 2023

Oct 25, 2023

God: Now Under Investigation? God better get a lawyer.

Debating with friends in email about whether or not there can be empirical evidence of God. I suggested there are varying views about what…

Oct 25, 2023

Oct 25, 2023

I SAW A SPIDER THROW A SPEAR

I saw a SPIDER THROW A TWIG yesterday….I watched Brunhilde the garden spider repair her web after a windy night. I don’t generally like…

Jul 11, 2023

Jul 11, 2023

TO LIVE AND DIE IN GOOGLETOWN

— flash fiction by John Shirley

Jun 27, 2023

Jun 27, 2023

FLIBBERTIGIBBET: A flash-fiction tale of rushed technology, privatization, and AIs…

Dwayne Dwidget, Chairman of Flibbertigibbet Incorporated, leaned back in his plush boardroom chair, started to speak — then noticed the…

May 14, 2023

May 14, 2023

CHOCOHOLICS ARISE! Get the lead out…of chocolate!

“Consumer Reports found dangerous heavy metals in chocolate from Hershey’s, Theo, Trader Joe’s, and other popular brands.” Lead poisoning…

Mar 6, 2023

Mar 6, 2023

John Shirley

John Shirley

Author of numerous novels, including Demons, City Come A-Walkin’, Stormland and the A Song Called Youth Cyberpunk trilogy. Winner of the Bram Stoker Award.

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