Winston Alden (@winstonalden) - Honouree

Winston Alden

New England

Exploring the boundary between the bewildering and the commonplace.

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5 months ago

The Tapes: An AirBnB Horror Story (AI Collaboration & Human Thoughts on Process) I've been playing a bit with AI models lately, which feels a bit like (1) this is a dance with the devil, and (2) I'm extremely late to this

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5 months ago

Open Source Girlfriend - An Experimental AI Collaboration I've never been as conflicted about any technology as much AI. As are many of you, I'm sure. I've played with a bit of cheeky image gener

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12 months ago

When You Don't Want to Be Served: Work, Consent, and the Tragedy of Existence Are you uncomfortable when someone waits on you? It's something most people don't seem to understand: my discomfort with eating at restau

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about 1 year ago

Cicada Birthday The last time we -- or anyone -- saw these bugs, it was 17 years ago. That was 2008. !CicadaWallpaper.JPG(

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about 1 year ago

The Sinister Cost of the Algorithmically Driven Ritual Established rituals are a cornerstone of any successful culture. Behaviors that go beyond habits, the things we do without question. Pray

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over 2 years ago

Stepping Into Vacation With A Walk Around Boston I got to take a little walk around Boston. It was the last day of the week, the last day of work before vacation. The boss said, “Things

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almost 3 years ago

It's Been Awhile... Whenever I come back to writing, I start with some kind of journal. But when I go through my old journals, I start to consider that journ

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over 3 years ago

Midlife Crisis Car: Amateur Saab Engine Repair, with AI Illustration About six months ago, an old friend (and former boss) gave me a car! It's a 2006 Saab 9-5. Standard shift. 2.3 liter Turbo engine. Sunroo

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over 3 years ago

Antimemetics, AI, and Other Limits to Human Understanding I wrote before about the growing theme in SF that we aren’t meant to explore the universe(

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over 3 years ago

What We Imagine Turns Us Inside Out: A Sestina, with Illustrations !what-we-imagine-turns-us-inside-ou-2t.jpg(

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over 3 years 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 artic

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over 3 years ago

TS Eliot's "Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock" interpreted by Stable Diffusion AI Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table; !01855-2493431609-Let us g

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almost 4 years ago

The Temporal Demands of Branching Video Game Narratives - Where Do You Spend Your Time? The way we interact with stories in video games is a lot more intense than with literature. !thebatman.jpg(

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about 4 years ago

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 wa

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about 4 years ago

Train-Ride Free-Write: Longing for Stasis in March Do things really have to happen? Can’t we just sit and listen to the music? (Does it all have to revolve around plot?) !PrayMessageBus.

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