The Frank Ocean video you see here was created frame-by-frame using Stable Diffusion and animated with Kdenlive. I’ve been asked by many people on how to go about doing…

A few months ago, I was experimenting with easy ways to quickly create a chatbot without writing a single line of code. I stumbled upon Botlibre, an open source platform for developing artificially intelligent web applications. Building the bot was super easy (you can chat with it here) and I…

My anger and contempt have now transmuted into pity. I pity those without an imagination, unable to see through the default narrative; unable to realise that there are alternatives. I feel sorry for the social conditioning that has led to a place where we feel we must justify a violent, repressive, and unjust state — one that favours not…

“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.” ― Toni Morrison Who are you? I was fourteen when I first found myself in an online chatroom. A/s/l, they asked — early Internet slang for your age, sex, and location. It was never personal information. No one was interested…

A macroscopic view of human history may swiftly bring the observer to conclude that wealth, power, and freedom have largely been beau monde ideals available only to a fortunate few. …

Bitcoin: distributed account keeping Bitcoin is software. What differentiates it from most other software applications, however, is the fact that it is decentralized. This means that a copy of the software is found on each computer that is part of the Bitcoin network. These copies talk to each other. The Bitcoin program is modified…

Dear money, Rarely do I find myself writing personal letters addressed to abstract concepts. Though civilisation has offered you the privilege of being quantifiable, you’re to be found on the same page as my understanding of non-quantifiable concepts such as knowledge, humour, status, art and creativity, courage, and love. What that means…

2010 was a peculiar year. It was the year in which I found the great fortune of stumbling under the peculiar sway of a book recounting through bizarre incidents, the experiences of an Australian girl voyaging through the Indian subcontinent. …

Developing a successful indie game is not unlike exploring a lost world; the venture can transport you from the glorious high of stumbling upon a lost city to the humbling experience of not being able to enter. Tom is one game Dev on Steemit who knows this saga well. After…