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winstonalden (65)in #auto • 4 months 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.
$10.90
Past Payouts $10.90
- Author $5.52
- Curators $5.38
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winstonalden (65)in #philosophy • 5 months 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.
$2.04
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- Author $1.02
- Curators $1.02
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winstonalden (65)in #poetry • 6 months 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…
$2.19
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- Author $1.10
- Curators $1.09
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winstonalden (65)in #generativeart • 7 months 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…
$25.71
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- Author $12.94
- Curators $12.77
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winstonalden (65)in #art • 8 months 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.
$10.88
Past Payouts $10.88
- Author $5.50
- Curators $5.38
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winstonalden (65)in #gaming • 9 months 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?
$8.60
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- Author $4.36
- Curators $4.24
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winstonalden (65)in #writing • last year
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…
$28.82
Past Payouts $28.82
- Author $14.54
- Curators $14.27
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winstonalden (65)in #writing • last year
Train-Ride Free-Write: Longing for Stasis in March
Rambling with a keyboard during the morning commute and piecing it together later...
$13.65
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- Author $6.92
- Curators $6.73
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donnadavisart (73)in Alien Art Hive • last year
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.
$45.69
Past Payouts $45.69
- Author $23.07
- Curators $22.61
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winstonalden (65)in #story • last year
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.
$26.31
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- Author $13.32
- Curators $12.99
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winstonalden (65)in #collecting • last year
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…
$16.06
Past Payouts $16.06
- Author $8.07
- Curators $7.99
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winstonalden (65)in #religion • last year
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…
$7.22
Past Payouts $7.22
- Author $3.62
- Curators $3.60
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winstonalden (65)in #story • last year
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…
$28.83
Past Payouts $28.83
- Author $14.54
- Curators $14.29
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winstonalden (65)in #writing • last year
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…
$23.99
Past Payouts $23.99
- Author $12.12
- Curators $11.87
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winstonalden (65)in #philosophy • last year
Should we trust our own minds?
What happens when we accept the message that we're too dumb to think for ourselves?
$30.15
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- Author $15.26
- Curators $14.89
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winstonalden (65)in #books • last year
Despair Versus Reality in Science Fiction and Lord of the Flies: What if People are Actually Good?
Depressing trends in SF reflect a deep-rooted pessimism planted in our education. What if it's downright wrong?
$5.11
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- Author $2.56
- Curators $2.55
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winstonalden (65)in #psychology • 2 years ago
The Limits of Human Emotion
We can only feel so good or so bad. Get too close to the limit, and our brains switch off. Say, “That’s enough.” At one end of the spectrum, we hear of people surviving…
$1.02
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- Author $0.51
- Curators $0.51
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winstonalden (65)in #typewriters • 2 years ago
Is This Typewriter the Last of an Old Collection or the First of a New One?
Author travels to Cambridge Typewriter, trades in eight old machines for one new one.
$12.17
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- Author $6.15
- Curators $6.02
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winstonalden (65)in #life • 3 years ago
Paradise for Introverts - Can We Quarantine Forever?
I know I wrote about this before. But I just want to appreciate it for as long as it lasts. I don't mean to downplay the suffering so many are going through now. Nor to be…
$3.10
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- Author $1.59
- Curators $1.51
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winstonalden (65)in #productivity • 3 years ago
Un-Stacking Activities and Embracing Boredom
I’ve been trying to multi-task for most of my life. I’m working less during this quarantine, and commuting a lot less, and yet it still feels like I don't have enough…
$16.53
Past Payouts $16.53
- Author $8.36
- Curators $8.17
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