Cory Doctorow’s 2024 Marshall McLuhan lecture “Seizing the means of computation: a better internet is run by and for the people who use it” There is a lot to take away from Cory Doctorow’s 2024 Marshall McLuhan lecture, “Seizing the…
I’m invoking my one-strike rule. My mind is racing all over the place, and I can’t keep up. I am in despair; I am full of hope. I am on a precipice poised to fall. The air current is trailing…
Reset—putting writing before marketing and promotion Reset—putting writing before marketing and promotion. During the last weeks, I have been realigning my habits with my main aim when I started this project—becoming a better writer and storyteller. I stopped looking at…
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season…
Elizah Leigh, the Curatorial Creativity Connoisseur and Contributing Author at Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, wrote a beautiful article about my work for Quirky Fox. I don’t see myself as somebody others might want to write—or read!—about. This might sound like an…
Time to think and re-set. I feel so much better now, thank you. With my already lighter social footprint*, the rat-race pressure to post and post and post is gone … I only now realise how much strain it added…
I might just be able to pull this off! Revisions on the House After a solid six weeks caught in my scene wrangling spreadsheet, I returned to my scrivener manuscript. The task ahead is daunting, but I feel I got…
Thank you for your offer, but no. I quit. The AI revolution is here, and it will not go away … … I still believe that artificial stupidity would be a better term. AI can be useful—I use ChatGPT for…
So … where do we go from here? Delete Forever. Rinse. Repeat. I spent last weekend deleting hundreds of posts from Instagram and still have to do so on Facebook. I am not surprised that Meta believes training their AI…
Take a closer look at my new work included in The Cloud. The theme of the exhibition is a contemplation—if a humorous one—on the resilience of the spirit in the face of adversity. In a dreamlike realm, enigmatic creatures are…