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winstonalden (65)in #work • 6 months ago
When You Don't Want to Be Served: Work, Consent, and the Tragedy of Existence
Are you uncomfortable when someone waits on you? It's something most people don't seem to understand: my discomfort with eating at restaurants, going to hotels. Getting a…
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winstonalden (65)in #nature • 6 months ago
Cicada Birthday
Celebrating my birthday with Cicada Brood XIV.
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- Author $0.39
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winstonalden (65)in #psychology • 8 months ago
The Sinister Cost of the Algorithmically Driven Ritual
Established rituals are a cornerstone of any successful culture. Behaviors that go beyond habits, the things we do without question. Prayers before bedtime. Church on Sunday.…
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- Author $4.97
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winstonalden (65)in #travel • 2 years ago
Stepping Into Vacation With A Walk Around Boston
It was surreal to walk around the city at sunset, knowing there was nothing I had to do for the next nine days.
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- Author $4.10
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winstonalden (65)in #life • 2 years ago
It's Been Awhile...
What do you want to remember after a long silence?
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- Author $4.85
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winstonalden (65)in #auto • 3 years ago
Midlife Crisis Car: Amateur Saab Engine Repair, with AI Illustration
Sometimes people are generous. Sometimes you can fix a car even if you don't know what you're doing.
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- Author $5.52
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winstonalden (65)in #philosophy • 3 years ago
Antimemetics, AI, and Other Limits to Human Understanding
Recent reading and AI work has me wondering whether the boundaries of human understanding are closer than we thought.
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winstonalden (65)in #poetry • 3 years ago
What We Imagine Turns Us Inside Out: A Sestina, with Illustrations
What we imagine turns us inside-out. Thoughts left unpruned will soon take root and flower, And idle daydreams crystalize to plans. Take care, or else your life will be turned…
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- Author $1.10
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winstonalden (65)in #generativeart • 3 years ago
Chasing Glenn Gould into Space; Going Down Rabbit-Holes with Stable Diffusion
This Stable Diffusion AI art generation thingy is seriously the most fun thing I've ever done on a computer. You can find plenty of articles about it floating around. Go google…
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- Author $12.94
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winstonalden (65)in #art • 3 years ago
TS Eliot's "Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock" interpreted by Stable Diffusion AI
I fed lines of TS Eliot's "Prufrock" into an AI art generation algorithm.
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- Author $5.50
- Curators $5.38
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winstonalden (65)in #gaming • 3 years ago
The Temporal Demands of Branching Video Game Narratives - Where Do You Spend Your Time?
When life gets challenging and there's little time for pleasant distractions, how do YOU unwind?
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- Author $4.36
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winstonalden (65)in #writing • 4 years ago
Drinking Alone in the Woods and Life's Other Peak Experiences
Getting drunk alone in nature was the closest I've come to religious experience. Watching the sky darken and the stars come out. I was walking along the power lines and then…
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- Author $14.54
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winstonalden (65)in #writing • 4 years ago
Train-Ride Free-Write: Longing for Stasis in March
Rambling with a keyboard during the morning commute and piecing it together later...
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- Author $6.92
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donnadavisart (73)in Alien Art Hive • 4 years ago
A Drawing in many colors- "The Electric Muse" and her story
Adding color to my drawing of an Electric Muse and a story to go along with it. The hope of History for the Future.
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- Author $23.07
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winstonalden (65)in #story • 4 years ago
Character Sketch: Frank Nolan, an Archivist
A bit of a character sketch, a bit of a free-write, which may or may not develop into something bigger.
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- Author $13.32
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winstonalden (65)in #collecting • 4 years ago
Royal Companion Typewriter Abandoned and Born Again
When I'm not busy working , or running in circles around my neighborhood , or railing against god , my favored method of procrastination is to potter about the house on…
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- Author $8.07
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winstonalden (65)in #religion • 4 years ago
Finding peace in the realization that god exists, and he's evil.
I had a religious awakening the other morning. I came across a picture I'd taken of a snowy egret swallowing a fish. I thought about the fact that life can only sustain itself…
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- Author $3.62
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winstonalden (65)in #story • 4 years ago
Beauty and Mystery in the Year of the Mask
There's this woman I keep seeing around the train station. She has raven hair, porcelain skin, deep piercing eyes. She's about a foot shorter than me. I know a very few…
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- Author $14.54
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winstonalden (65)in #writing • 4 years ago
When You're Sick of Everyone's Voice, Including Your Own
I'm sick of writing in the first person. All these journal entries that sound the same. I pick up a pen and scribble for a while and think, "Why the fuck would anyone give a…
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- Author $12.12
- Curators $11.87
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winstonalden (65)in #philosophy • 4 years ago
Should we trust our own minds?
What happens when we accept the message that we're too dumb to think for ourselves?
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- Author $15.26
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