This is where I post all my deep, brooding thoughts.
Podcast Reflection “Man that was difficult” –Me For the podcast project, I was mainly the technical guy. The majority of my contributions to the group were in the form of editing together our recorded audio, editing in sound effects, and making sound effects. That’s not to say that this was all I did, though. I, …
1984 “Who controls the past controls the future” – George Orwell On a first read-through of 1984, one might be annoyed or confused at the ending. “What’s the point if Winston loses, after an entire book of resistance” you might ask. Well, I believe that Winston’s loss is integral in the point that Orwell is …
In our modern era, AI is constantly in the news, whether for the better, or for the worse. Most of the time, though, we look at the more mainstream features of AI – large language models like ChatGPT, ChatGPT’s image model, or perhaps AI generated videos with Sora. I would say, though, that the majority …
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The Giver “If he had stayed, he would have starved in other ways. He would have lived a life hungry for feelings, for color, for love.” – Lois Lowry The Giver’s ending is iconic. It is a classic that a lot of people read in 6th, perhaps 7th grade, and one of the questions that …
“You’re an orogene who’s been living in the little nothing town of Tirimo for ten years. Only three people here know what you are, and two of them you gave birth to.” – N. K. Jemisin The N. K. Jemisin novel The Fifth Season has a rather unique world – one filled with stone, tectonics, …
Pride and Penthouses, by ChatGPT It was a universally acknowledged truth that a wealthy resident in Block H-17 must be in want of absolutely nothing—except, perhaps, solitude. Unfortunately, solitude had been quietly phased out of the Huxley Communal Residence in 2059, along with private kitchens and the right to ignore your neighbors. Mrs. Bennett of …
Short form digital storytelling is a wondrous combination of what is relevant in our modern, technological age. It is a mashup of short form stories – those which strive to move our souls with only perhaps a dozen pages or minutes of content, and digital media – a term which embodies the plethora of technology …
“There are official searchers, inquisitors. I have seen them in the performance of their function: they always arrive extremely tired from their journeys; they speak of a broken stairway which almost killed them; they talk with the librarian of galleries and stairs; sometimes they pick up the nearest volume and leaf through it, looking for …
“Running parallel to the utopian literary genre is that of the ideal city. In the former, the social arrangement appears to be of primary concern and the urban of secondary; in the latter, this is usually reversed.” – Ruth Eaton The history of designing the idealistic, utopian city is a long and turbulent one. While …
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