The Blog Formerly Known as Deus Ex Machinatio - ANDREA PHILLIPS // secret.works

Let’s talk about Function.

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I started writing this post over a year ago as a primer on AI for friends and family who are less deeply embedded in tech culture than I am.

It’s worked more than once that I tell the universe what I want and it delivers, so let’s try this again — Quite some time ago, I emailed my literary agent to introduce her to a friend and discovered that she had left the agency.

Over twenty years ago (!!!)

I’m remiss in updates, but OH BOY do I have updates for you!

Ten years ago, Fireside Fiction gave me a shot and published my first novel, Revision, about a wiki where your edits come true.

This is going to be a little weird and extremely long.

I've been thinking a lot about grief lately.

I don't want to be your enemy.

I have some more #resistance-style posts in the queue, even mostly written, but I hit the wall on how far anger could get me and I've been sleeping… a lot, and haven't had much energy to do much.

We all know the next few years promise to be really hard in these fifty United States and several outlying territories.

Things are scary right now, and the range of disasters people are expecting to happen vary from a terrible but well-precedented "bad economy, high prices, and lots of ongoing injustice toward LGBTQ+ and people of color" to a dystopian hell where menstrual…

It was a surprise.