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I made a movie: TheHackerMovie.com I wrote a novel: DeathRowBookClub.com I made a show: TheDifferenceEngines.com
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submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine coming across someone who has been where you are going, someone willing to tell you what's up ahead. Some people call them mentors, sometimes a guru, I call him The Formation Agent: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9QX...

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When we're born, we see the world as it is. But, as we grow up, we start to build walls and those walls eventually prevent us from even seeing ourselves. The Difference Engines Ep 02: The Social Detox Therapist just went live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWPi...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I listen to @danmirvish.bsky.social because his book is brilliant and he's accessible. He also founded Slamdance, after Sundance became too elitist. Now, after this totally punk rock post, I think I might put him in the category of Hero: danmirvish.substack.com/p/trump-is-c...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's mass theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their large language model ‘AI’. Their trawl includes fourteen of my titles. If you live in Ireland and care about the arts, please sign. my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr...

submitted 23 days ago • 9 comments

I just finished a screening of "When Harry Met Sally," which is a brilliant and timeless romcom from 1989. But, I realized the entire movie is a question: "Can a man and a woman (two people who could be sexual with each other) be friends?" What do you think?

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

I just saw these demos. The standard #AI detection of "look for extra/missing fingers" trick may not work anymore: deepmind.google/technologies...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

As I work on the 2nd episode of www.TheDifferenceEngines.com, I love how I get to experiment with different editing styles, juxtaposing thematically, instead of something more exactly what the person is saying. Also, here's a link to the pilot: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbA7...

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In 1992 Robert Rodriguez released the movie El Mariachi. He later released a book "Rebel Without A Crew" that quickly came to define what #Indiefilmmaking looks like. I named the first episode of The Difference Engines as a tribute to how much I learned from him: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbA7...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

The #algorithm of modern Western #news and #SocialMedia feeds on your soul. Here's an antidote: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbA7...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

QRP Post you from a different era While making TheHackerMovie.com, I helped a friend collect a bunch of computers CalTech had donated to him. This is me with an OLD school 80 megabyte HDD.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

The Difference Engines are people who make the world better in a meaningful way. Jayro Ortiz does that through music that emerges from his Mexican culture, and a fully lived life. That's why I call him The Real "El Mariachi": www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbA7...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Here's a music video I shot as part of Ep 10 of TheDifferenceEngines.com, with Nathan James, one of the best musicians I've ever met. www.instagram.com/p/DHHAMFeyPoO/

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