Conor Matthews

Calling it: he raped a kid.

My experience with AI.

Me: [Google a specific question]

AI: That's a good question. That question has been searched, and most certainly is a question. Of course, it's important to remember all the completely unrelated questions not connected with that question, and others. I hope this helps :)

The Walk A Short Story

“The boy died three days from internal bleeding. His funeral will be tomorrow. Did you know that?”

#fiction #shortstory

Your life is determined by how people react to your death.

These are the people who say "the curtains are just blue".

Doing Lines A poem

A poem on employment.

"The divorce came out of nowhere."

Stench

It's Halloween, so here's a horror poem about a man losing his mind.

Conor Matthews

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"Her County" is about a young medieval monk who discovers a legendary saint is more unholy and ungodly than they could have ever imagined.

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"The Trees Swallow People" tells the story of the narrator and his dog, Diva, as they witness disappearances, mania, and cult worship caused by a paddock of supernatural trees in a public park in a small Irish village.

Also available as an audiobook on Spotify, Amazon, etc

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Oh fuck, it's Halloween, and I have indie horror novellas for you to read below;

It literally says Sora in the corner.

How artists behind Marvel, Alien, and the Matrix movies are fighting AI With solidarity, legislation, class action lawsuits, and a little help from Guillermo del Toro. Plus, the Luddite Renaissance continues, and I open the mailbag.

Artists behind some of the most popular films of all time are also forging one of the most powerful organized resistances to AI.

With solidarity, class action lawsuits and strong legislation, they're fighting to protect their livelihoods, and pop culture, from big tech.

My latest:

Are you a ' ' kind of writer or a " " kind of writer?

That would explain why I love coffee.

I think we often fail to distinguish between critique and comment (especially from bad faith content creators).

We can do the funniest insult ever to Humphreys by voting Jim second place! #gormspéir

"Neoliberalism was the system that managed to convince everyone in the world that financial elites were the only people capable of managing or measuring the value of anything, even as in order to do so, it ended up promulgating an economic culture so irresponsible that it allowed those elites to bring the entire financial architecture of the global economy tumbling on top of them because of their utter inability to assess the value even of their own financial instruments." . - David Graeber

Back in 2010, David Graeber wrote, Against Kamikaze Capitalism

This is a quote from that piece.

It's been a great success.

3 Years On Basic Income My heart is racing as I write this…

Vocal is down so here's the Medium post of what it was like being on basic income

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Bhuel... cac!

In the same way there's "military fetishism", there seems to be "industrial fetishism".

3 Years on Basic Income A Retrospective

What it was like to be on Basic Income for three years.

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What makes something a limited series and not just a bloated feature? Serious question.

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My writing process

The imaginary people in my head won't do what I want them to do.

Art is all about choices and accepting not everyone would have made the same choice, but that's what makes you unique.

Tumblr: FUCKING KNEW IT!

Smyths Pharmacies too.