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Winston Alden
@winstonalden
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Exploring the boundary between the bewildering and the commonplace.
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2017-06-24 19:56
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winstonalden
fiction
2026-01-15 15:38
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 party. Last week I posted a lighthearted story about a fellow
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winstonalden
fiction
2026-01-05 14:28
Open Source Girlfriend - An Experimental AI Collaboration
Thoughts on the use of AI in fiction, including an AI collaboration story about Linux powered companion robots.
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winstonalden
work
2025-06-20 22:25
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 restaurants, going to hotels. Getting a haircut. Having work done on my
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winstonalden
nature
2025-06-02 20:27
Cicada Birthday
Celebrating my birthday with Cicada Brood XIV.
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winstonalden
psychology
2025-04-22 00:49
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. Prayers before bedtime. Church on Sunday. Meals around the dinner table.
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winstonalden
travel
2023-11-19 15:03
Stepping Into Vacation With A Walk Around Boston
It was surreal to walk around the city at sunset, knowing there was nothing I had to do for the next nine days.
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winstonalden
life
2023-09-04 18:51
It's Been Awhile...
What do you want to remember after a long silence?
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auto
2023-01-22 16:27
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.
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winstonalden
philosophy
2022-12-18 22:32
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.
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winstonalden
poetry
2022-11-20 16:11
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 over To the pursuit of something
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generativeart
2022-10-16 01:30
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 it. Here's Wikipedia's page
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winstonalden
art
2022-10-15 01:59
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.
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winstonalden
gaming
2022-08-29 14:32
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?
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winstonalden
writing
2022-04-30 14:00
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 cutting through the woods to
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winstonalden
writing
2022-04-17 14:48
Train-Ride Free-Write: Longing for Stasis in March
Rambling with a keyboard during the morning commute and piecing it together later...
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winstonalden
story
2022-03-28 22:12
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.
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collecting
2022-03-20 11:15
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 some ridiculous project or other. There's
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winstonalden
religion
2022-03-14 13:41
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 by consuming life. That fish
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story
2022-03-06 14:01
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 things about her: She's kind to
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winstonalden
writing
2022-02-13 14:45
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 shit about this guy?"
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