An e-zine about spaceships, aliens, science, memory, motherhood, magic, and cats.
I’ve heard the line, “Amateurs borrow, professionals steal,” since I was a kid. It looks like it’s a permutation of something Picasso said.
I don’t know how so many artist/writer/creator/whatever communities have drifted so far away from that. Continue reading “Just Block Me”
The advances in AI these last few years have been truly magical, the absolute best thing that have happened during my lifetime.
For this piece, I experimented with pasting the whole damn story into ChatGPT & asking it to come up with an illustration. It took a lot of editing to fix it up right, but DALLE3 captured the heart of the story on its first try! And it complimented my world-building! So, win-win. Continue reading “Illustrating “Summers on Sylverra””
I read a beautiful post on Twitter about outgrowing social groups that used a repeated refrain about those groups each having a hierarchy and a ceiling. So, I used Suno AI to make this short song inspired by it.
Oh my goodness, Genie (2023) is such a gift!!!
Starring Melissa McCarthy + written by Richard Curtis = guaranteed excellence.
It’s kinda frustrating that the way AI-extremism has fractured communities means I’m now more likely to hang out with people who share my philosophy about what tools are okay than my aesthetic about what art to make with those tools.
Still I’m so very grateful for those people.
I’ve long held that Yoda is actually a frog/fennec fox hybrid. So this is basically his origin story.
Number of episodes for each successive Doctor to win me over after Eccleston…
Tennant: 1
Smith: 4
Capaldi: 30
Whittaker: <1
Gatwa: <1 Continue reading “The Doctors Who”
I see I’ve lost one more human connection I enjoyed due to the fact that I won’t be quiet about my beliefs about AI being a positive thing.
I love what’s happening with AI this year. But it has been painful seeing how fast people will throw me away over their hate for it. Continue reading “Loss and Gain”
I’m selling books at the Authors & Artists Fair today! If you’re in Eugene, drop by to say “hi” and check out all the new books I have this year!
I am having so many lovely AI-positive conversations with people at the Authors & Artists Fair today! People IRL are so much more reasonable about AI than so much of what I see online. Mostly they seem to range from curious to enthusiastic, and it’s just so nice. Continue reading “Authors & Artists Fair 2023”
I’m rewatching the original Quantum Leap with my ten-year-old, and we’re up to the episode where a town tries to outlaw rock’n’roll…
And it just has me thinking about what a weird trip it’s been this last year discovering how many people would still ban rock if it were new. Continue reading “Banning Rock’n’Roll”
