Retreading some thoughts about AI, particularly generative AI, in the context of creativity.  Thinking more on how rumination plays a roll in flow states, how the ruminative practice of any art or craft is a part of flow.  All if this set to a journey through a patch on the Moog Subharmonicon as a centerpiece to mull on the world of liminal music in the modular scene while taking my first steps into becoming a creator and not just consumer of that art.

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Book Club Episode 4 - Covers There is No Antimemetics Division Part 3 (Chapters 5 ^ of this section and the epilogue - Spoiler warning for these chapters.  This time let's build and find the keys to the super weapon and free the world of U-3125 if we can.  Also discusses the relationship between this book and Memento, Project Hail Mary, Scavengers Reign, and The Southern Reach, no particular spoilers to any of these related titles discussed.

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A short exploration of rumination and how, for me, yapping at a microphone provides some escape from my own mental backrooms.  

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Book Club Episode 3 - Covers There is No Antimemetics Division Part 3 (Chapters 1-4 of this section, though there is more to part 3 of the book that we will return to) - Spoiler warning for these chapters.  We press forward, this time with Adam Quinn into a world that swiftly shifts, a world that becomes fractured and lost to U-3125.  Take a journey down a dark road with me.  Also, the word of this episode is juxtaposed!  I realized as I edited that I say it a lot this time around, so get your clicker and count just how many times we can sit wit the juxtaposition of narrative ideas.

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A first session and meandering discourse about narrative in gaming with personal examples of narrative, semi-narrative, and non-narrative games and their place in my life and heart.  Light discussion, but no spoilers for: Mouthwashing, Baldur's Gate, Stardew Valley, Graveyard Keeper, Dwarf Fortress, Rimworld, Tiny Glade, and Dystopika.  Take an increasingly less structured wander through a calm valley in my otherwise sometimes troubled mind.

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Book Club Episode 2 - Covers There is No Antimemetics Division Chapters Part 2 (Chapter 1-4 of this section) - Spoiler warning for these chapters.  We dive deeper into lost memories and their meaning as Marie Quinn explores the entity which must be fought.  With it's relationship to the loss of memories I again discuss Alzheimer's and it's meaning in my own life.  Other media discussed includes Everywhere at the End of Time by The Caretaker, Severance, and some notes on negative space in Dune.  Next time, a lighter jaunt into my special interest in semi-narrative and non-narrative gaming.

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Layoffs loom large and real just about everywhere, most often blamed is AI, some of that is real, some may just be air cover to squeeze the margins... but it came for people I was close with at my own workplace.  Some thoughts and feelings about artificial intelligence, it's place in our world, our place in the world.  Next time: Back to Book Club and the oddly happier space of There is No Antimemetics Division.

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Book Club Episode 1 - Covers There is No Antimemetics Division Chapters 1-3 (Part 1) - Spoiler warning for these chapters.  Also discusses it's relationship to the SCP Foundation, Control, X-Files, Warehouse 13, and No Man's Sky.  Some light philosophy and discussion of Alzheimer's disease and how fragile our life and memory can be.

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A bit more about why this podcast exists and reflections on the passing of a friend. Giving myself the same space and grace that friends and partners have and that you can extend to yourself.  Next time, Part 1 (chapters 1-3) of There Is No Antimemetics Division and related media.

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The inaugural episode of Null by Design - a short consideration of why making space for own thoughts is important, the possibility of a book club with the first work to come in later episodes being There Is No Antimemetics Division.  I hope you enjoy and that I find you here next time in this space between the platforms.

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