As I have alluded to before, there is a certain process of effacing that time does to loss and grief, as well as the memory of the departed.
I'm staring at the two month mark, and while I've had some truly dark moments …
Category: Life Tagged: Content Warning Life Loss Non-religious post Non-technical post Prose WritingMonth
Read MoreLLMs (Large Language Models, colloquially referred to as "A.I.") are perfect...
Much like so many loud voices in society today, the LLM is incapable of discerning reliable from unreliable sources, identifying the origin and validity of a …
Category: Ethics Tagged: Computing Ethics Life Non-religious post Philosophy Polemic
Read MoreOne thing I've noticed as someone who has lived in *gulp* six decades is that we Americans have a thing for generations. Well, in broad terms, looking at life generationally is absolutely not new, nor uniquely American. But naming generations just might be. Several European FediFriends have expressed to me …
Category: Life Tagged: Life Non-religious post Non-technical post Philosophy WritingMonth
Read MoreHave you ever had a lucid dream? One where you could just bend reality to your will — fly freely by thinking, become POTUS, rule a banana republic (two things that are becoming tragically similar), or propose marriage the famous person …
Category: Life Tagged: Content Warning Life Non-religious post Non-technical post Prose WritingMonth
Read MoreI got into a humorous discussion with a good "FediFriend" today about cloning and necromancy. The result of our rather bizarre conversation was that I would write an article on necromancy if he would write an article on cloning.
His resultant article was not at all what I thought it …
Category: Life Tagged: Bible Christianity Content Warning Life Non-technical post Philosophy WritingMonth
Read MoreYet again, I had planned to write about healthy mourning, and yet again, what's on my mind being hijacked by what's rattling around in my heart.
There is this innocent, necessary, and healthy stage of mourning that is also so terribly cruel: the …
Category: Life Tagged: Content Warning Life Loss Non-religious post Non-technical post Philosophy Prose WritingMonth
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Read MoreWell, one month later.
One month ago, I said goodbye to my furry best friend.
I've thought about him every day, several times a day.
Nearly every day, I find myself thinking,
"Well, I've got time, I can stop by the house and …
Category: Life Tagged: Content Warning Life Loss Non-religious post Non-technical post Prose WritingMonth
Read MoreSo, last night I stayed up late carefully putting up my cat's effects: food bowl, water bowl, litter tray. I washed his carrier (because he peed in it when he was sick) in the washing machine. I was scheduled …
Category: Prose Tagged: Life Loss Non-religious post Non-technical post Philosophy Prose Content Warning
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