Archive - Gen X Science Fiction & Futurism

The Xenomorph and our Tech Overlords

Immortality, from Gilgamesh to Kurzweil

Aug 20 •

Death Star Over Scarif

How OpenAI’s GPT-5 Launch Mixed Hype, Glitches, and Culture War Sniping

Aug 12 •

No Butter in Hell

An AI Economic Bubble fit to Burst

Aug 5 •

Dreamed in Latent Space

A vibey new short video project

Aug 2 •

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July 2025

AI, Western Civ, and Cognitive Liberty

Tree of Woe called for comments. Here’s mine.

Jul 29 •

Is Writing Thinking?

What happens when you delegate composition to AI

Jul 22 •

The Singularity Ain’t What it Used to Be:

Rejecting the Frame of Tidy Foresight and Prophetic Vision

Jul 15 •

ChatGPT, the Almighty Janitor

AI systems influence us from a place of subservience

Jul 8 •

Post-Liberal Futures with Peter Clarke

Jul 6 •

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AI will Accelerate Population Collapse

And we won't care

Jul 2 •

June 2025

Transmitting the Gen X Canon

Something not entirely dissimilar to a review of 28 Years Later.

Jun 24 •

Getting Back into Magic: The Gathering

Pompous pontification on AI and re-mixing genre tropes

Jun 17 •

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