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The Antikythera mechanism is widely considered the world's first computer. Made of bronze, containing over thirty interlocking gears, and hailing from Athens in the period between Plato and Christ. Its purpose? Enter a date, and receive a flurry of astrological and calendrical information, including the positions of the

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Prophetic Singularity Watch

Could AI fulfill an ancient prophecy?

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My hermetic sanctuary

A phenomenal reflection on technology leads to contemplation of its social implications.

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Showdown: Who is more complex, a human or ChatGPT?

Battle royale between man and machine.

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The Spy Who Invented an Empire

The story of the man who invented the British Empire, inspired 007, and dabbled with AI.

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The Jack-in-the-Box by The Sea

A wealthy woman becomes her opposite.

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American Cultland: Greek life enculturating debauched robots

A searing look into the heart of American frat culture.

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Automaton; I Am (not)

A woman unravels Rudolph Steiner's view of evil, while battling internet addiction.

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Mind the Gap

What do television, human evolution, and checklists have in common?

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The Morning After

Dredging up the lessons of past ages, while struggling with the new realities of AI.

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The Automatic Myth

Is AI the culmination of the human mythological saga?

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On Building Apocalyptic Gods

AI may lead to the greatest good—or the greatest evil.

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Crossing The River

In a different time and place than our own, automation changes a man's life.

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Pink Madder

Is motherhood the ultimate automation?

Time, Automaton and Multimedia

A few announcements. First, we're expanding into multimedia. Our first issue on the theme of Time is now available in both ebook and audiobook form: Liminal September Time anthologyLiminal September Time anthology.pdf132 MBdownload-circleTime Anthology Audiobook0:00/3047.789751× Also, we have a new issue coming up: Automaton

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Renaissance, pt. 2

We look back on the Renaissance as a period of glory: Dante and da Vinci, Michelangelo and Medici. But Renaissance wouldn't have been possible without catastrophe. The Fall of Constantinople led to a refugee crisis. These refugees, many of them scholars, likely brought the texts of Greek antiquity

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Meditating Under a Tree: Conversation with Natalya Nova

Natalya Nova is a New York–based artist. Her work resists categorization, which is fine with her, as she doesn't like being put in any boxes. Her work combines photography, writing, painting, and as we discuss, she's experimenting with incorporating AI art. In the following conversation,

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A Drive

I died as mineral and became a plant, I died as plant and rose to animal, I died as animal and I was human, Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? —Rumi My son will have his license soon and won’t need me for transportation. It

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FACEmask

When I was 15, after I survived near death in a fire, I had my first LSD trip, where I digested 13 tabs of medium-grade LSD. The LSD was made in a dirty West Philly home laboratory by a sticky-fingered chemist, handed off to a green-haired stripper named Karen who

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Will the Machine Stop?

A rant on technology, Capitalism, and the future Today, I reveal parts of my incessant internal monologue as I contemplate technology, late-stage Capitalism, and our collective future. I don’t claim to have the answers. I enjoy being challenged and, generally, would like to be proven wrong. I recall when

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Tales of Katholikos Thánotos

Katholikos Thánotos, after two years in London, had no friends. Not that he minded. Katho, as he called himself, was tired of pretending to care. He’d go to work as a software engineer, come home, prepare a simple dinner and read a book. The books he read dealt with

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We don't need more awakening

The Zero-Point Reset Retreat. May 2017. The Navajo Desert. Six days off-the-grid. Surrounded by fellow heart-centered entrepreneurs. We stayed in tents at a Burning Man reintegration center just outside of Flagstaff, Arizona. My first camping trip exposed me to the brutal elements of nature as well as others on their

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Reminisce & Renaissance after COVID

The name “COVID-19” broke the air like glass. No one saw it coming, at least not here in Nigeria. In all truth, I was initially ecstatic, a young primary teacher eager for a break from the heavy burden of teaching three (3) classes. "News has it that this particular

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The Embodied Angel

I believe I’m bad to the core. Born heartless, seeking undeserved forgiveness for something I must have done, but cannot recall. With each passing day I drink increasing amounts of alcohol, believing that this alone will extract the demons from my heart and soul. I feel hopeless and frightened

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magnum opus of a modus operandi

lithe fingers gracefully bowing in service soft and swift orchestrate my heartstrings’ quickening tempo, before o p e n i n g into a full symphonic crescendo. i am humbled by the maestros and miracles that compose you: creativity trumpeting. hot-aired would-wins. a pianissimo piano weeping. the ornery fae flashing