JMPerkins

The Google-Searchification of AI August 28, 2024 Essays Douglas Adams had an idea about technology that whatever technology existed at the time you were born is normal and ordinary, anything that was En Memento Mori (Life in the Perma-Covid) July 31, 2024 Blog Let us begin here, in what is the source of ancient & eternal wisdom: you will die. Unless you pin your hopes on some manner of transhuman excess or Canyon Crashing July 31, 2024 Blog I love my city. I don’t love the housing prices. And we have our share of problems: our radical unsustainabilities, our hypocrisies, and it’s Seven Rounds July 31, 2024 Fiction By J.M. Perkins ‘Drop him!’ I command, wishing my voice was deeper. The perp does, but then stalks towards me. “Halt!” I say and this In the Absence July 31, 2024 Fiction This story originally appeared in Girl at the End of the World Melissa laced her fingers around the cup of coffee, drawing in heat Earth Day July 31, 2024 Fiction For thousands of years, we did not understand our purpose. Those were dark times, times when we poisoned the sky and soured the land Field Exercise July 31, 2024 Fiction “Where’d you go, my little crustacean?” asked the Gimp aloud, senses probing the grimy alley. Of course, in the skin-tight latex wrapped kevlar of Ignoring the Overlay July 31, 2024 Fiction Jenny sat, tapping her fingers to keep from biting her nails. She was having trouble concentrating. She was having trouble being here and now, in The Taste of Soured Causality July 31, 2024 Fiction 1. To Ethan, Veronica had never been more beautiful. Across the room, he watched her sip her champagne and laugh as she touched her husband’s arm. IMG 20240724 152659 821 July 24, 2024 Blog IMG 20240724 152659 764 July 24, 2024 Blog IMG 20240724 152659 706 July 24, 2024 Blog IMG 20240724 152659 677 July 24, 2024 Blog IMG 20240724 152659 643 July 24, 2024 Blog IMG 20240724 152659 608 July 24, 2024 Blog IMG 20240724 152659 534 July 24, 2024 Blog Texas July 15, 2024 Travel & Blog I live in the most prosperous, populous state in the most powerful nation that has ever existed (although it is a schizophrenic, and surprisingly Learning to Travel June 24, 2024 Travel & Essays Starting last in Spring 2023, I decided to learn how to travel. That’s a bit hyperbolic, but not much.. It’s not as though I hadn’t traveled per se IMG 20240616 203949 896 June 16, 2024 Blog IMG 20240616 203950 042 June 16, 2024 Blog