Fishing in the Rivers of Life

Tag: Mental Health

  • Schrödinger’s AI

    Recently, on the day of Charlie Kirk’s funeral, I conducted my own unintentional yet revealing experiment that exposed critical flaws in how AI systems handle information. When the AI model Claude went Colonel Kurtz, taking inspiration from bomb 20 from Dark Star, it accused me of fabricating evidence, spreading fake news and having a full-blown…

  • I Just Can’t Hold My Nose

    Writing as a Compulsion If you are reading this, then you must have worked out that I love to write. It’s one of those things I do; give it a few days of inactivity, and like a humid summer day, it gets almost unbearable. I start to sweat, words of prose exiting my pores as…

  • Yet I’ll not go gracefully into the sunset.

    The Fear of Losing My Trade Dogs bark, children cry, men moan, and writers write. Or do they? Do politicians and bricklayers wake up in the middle of the night in the fear that they have forgotten their trade? I do. The fear that by the time the next dawn chorus breaks, I will have…

  • Yes, I Got…

    Yes, I got pissed,But I didn’t mean to,Just something I kind ofLeaned into. Full of regret in the morning,Rheumy eyes,And constantly yawning,Like trapped in a video game,Continually spawning. With the truth,Only just dawning,Why do I drink,When it makes me so ill? Long past the stage,Where I think it’s a thrill.

  • The Pain of Growing Old

    Growing old is a painful process, yet I accept it’s far better than the alternative. As they ripen, some grow right-wing. Personally, nothing could be further from the truth, however, I am experiencing an equally unpleasant change of viewpoint. Becoming acutely aware something about me has changed, and it’s both physical and metaphysical. The Moment…