I have a new post up at The Dragonfly:
Narrative Conventions of the Seasons
This post concerns my development of a children's book series about wildlife in my locality. The series includes four books about the seasons. My research for these books revealed that we use narrative conventions differently, depending on which season we are describing. For example, stories about winter have a different view of time than spring tales do.
I have a new publication announcement up at The Dragonfly. Also, follow my new posts at Patreon this week for updates on the vision driving my literary works.
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I have a new podcast about my fictional writing, which is a magical realist saga about life during the turn of the Millennium. I will be posting podcasts in a new series: A New Mythology for a New Millennium. The first video was generated by five AI tools, including the machine voices of the podcasters themselves. On my blogs, I will explore the oddness of this experience.
AI may intrude on the world of human action with an increasingly loud, alien, and inescapable range of capabilities. It has already left its mark on history. For example, one hypothesis I have seen discussed online is that Blackrock's AI,
Aladdin, has been trained since the 1980s by trades on Wall Street.
In other words, the New York stock market was used as a data source to
build a machine which now is rumoured to control that market.
It is also possible that AI played a role in the covid pandemic. I speculated about this in 2020:
"On 17 April 2020, Yuan Zhiming, Researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and Director of the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory, conducted an interview with CCP-approved CGTN. He stated that a 'man-made virus was beyond human intelligence.' He said: 'I have never believed that we humans would have the capability at this time to create such a virus.'
Then it struck me, how magnificently one can lie to the world, while one still technically is telling the truth. A man-made virus may be beyond human intelligence. But perhaps it was not beyond artificial intelligence."
Not only is it possible that AI played a role in the design of the virus, consider the global data gathered during the covid pandemic. This body of information was undoubtedly used to build even more powerful models which rampaged through a succession of human disciplines: politics, medicine, education, society, and economics. No wonder that post-covid culture is AI's next target.
Today's post for Patreon patrons takes its title from the famous line spoken by the dashing aristocratic character Tancredi Falconeri in The Leopard (novel (1958); film (1963)). In the post, I recognize that the prevalence of revolution in the past three centuries made it synonymous with modernity. But what does revolution really mean if its real outcomes have led the modern era into technocratic surveillance and servitude?
The Paris 2024 Olympics opened with reference to the French Revolution. You can see my related posts here, here and here. I ask again in today's post - what does modernity really mean if it was launched with a mass beheading event?
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This month on Patreon:
This month, for regular paid subscribers, the main article on
Patreon will speculate on the mysteries of sapphire mines in Elahera,
Sri Lanka. In 1976, a mine in this location sourced the gem in a very famous British royal engagement ring. For upper tier subscribers,
there are sneak peeks at my lastest literary offerings. I'll provide an overview soon on my literary blog, The Dragonfly. Join us!
In addition for paid subscribers, I cover the crypto bull run markets, with a comprehensive airdrop
discussion. Free offerings include my newsletter (sign up here, bottom of page), discord (go here), and telegram (here). Come on by!
At the free and paid levels, we discuss the implications as artificial intelligence converges with blockchain technology, amid the decline and fall of TradFi - and perhaps - of the whole traditional order! As we can see above, an AI-generated image is worth a thousand words.
While the disappearance of Kate Middleton from the public eye may not seem as important as wars in the Ukraine and Gaza, everything is connected. This is the oldest story in the book. Is Kate a Butterfly of Doom? A victim of Dragons Prefer Princesses? Or will she be, when all is said and done, an Apocalypse Maiden? Prophecies are Always Right - and whatever has been done to contradict them, You Can't Fight Fate.
A larger story materializes, as we gaze at a bench that was never occupied. Related archetypes are baked into our consciousness, and into our reality. Any betrayal carries with it a trick of the tail, because intentional ills, once inflicted, are always undone by the events which a willing sacrifice unlocks or catalyzes. From TV Tropes:
From Shakespeare Online, Shakespeare's Omens and Prophecies:
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