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Francis Davies argues with himself in public about writing, books, and more.

AI-Generated Images Are Not Art

I can generate a hundred image in an hour, and with a bit of fiddling and prompt tuning I enjoy the results. But it’s not art. It will never be art. It’s just another product. Anybody who does consider AI-generated content to be ‘art’ is fundamentally ignorant of what ‘art’ is as a concept.

Reading the Static: Julius Winsome, Gerard Donovan

Julius Winsome has lived alone with his father in the woods for the majority of his life. He is 51 years old at the time the story takes place. At some point in all of those years, a woman called Claire wanders into his garden, invites herself for tea, and they embark on a brief relationship. It…

90 Deg. 5 H. II – IX

The bouncer was a stereotypical lumpen mass of glowering skinhead shoved clumsily into a suit. He did his best impression of a welcoming smile. He looked more like an angry gorilla. Smiling, he watched Caleb approach with barely disguised disdain, grinning down at him from his great height, and seemed vaguely disgusted when Caleb produced…