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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

AI will in time equal Social Control — and not BY AI but THROUGH AI

What goes unsaid, far as I’ve seen…. Perhaps it sounds too blunt, too alarmist: The more dependent we become on AI, the more vulnerable we…

Jul 28

Jul 28

Doom crier? Cassandra? But Just Look Around

I share news links on bluesky–and sharing national news in the new Trump era here is so fraught with darkness, it’s like I’m a street…

May 27

May 27

THE SCIENCE OF NOT GETTING LOST: Finding Spirituality You Can Rely On

We often speak of spiritual paths and journeys; of figurative mountains that must be climbed, as in Rene Daumal’s classic Mount Analogue…

May 5

May 5

If it’s Good, Shut It Down

April 10, 2025

Apr 10

Apr 10

What is consciousness? What is Conscience?

What is consciousness?

Feb 1

What is consciousness? What is Conscience?

Feb 1

How to Cope with the Coming Climate Change Extremes

This is just part one…

Nov 20, 2024

Nov 20, 2024

America’s Blessed Uniting with Russia on July 4, 2028

July 4, 2031. “Today we thank the Holy Father and St. Boris and St Xenia for rescuing America from its nightmare of chaos and uncertainty…

Nov 14, 2024

Nov 14, 2024

We’ve Slipped Back into that Alternate Universe

November 13, 2024

Nov 13, 2024

Nov 13, 2024

FLASH FORWARD to Coping with Climate Migration

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

Oct 24, 2024

Oct 24, 2024

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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