Franklin Veaux's Journal

A lot of folks who follow this blog know that I’m a writer, activist, photographer, amateur infosec researcher, traveller, and general all-around geek, among other things.

Image: minervastock on Depositphotos A short while back, I wrote an answer on Quora, the Q&A site, about how to spot romance scammers, the sourge of the internet.

“Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and perpetrator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove.

The world is filled with people who want to be writers.

I've been spending some time lately thinking about what I’m calling “glass mountain theory.”

Okay, so, this is not going to be a rant about how terrible AI art is, or how LLMs have stolen all our creative output (though I’m still waiting for thousands of dollars from the Anthropic settlement, given how Anthropic bootlegged several of my books to…

Image: Nina Hill Okay, hold onto your hat, because ima get a bit ranty.

I have stories in a new erotica anthology coming out in August.

A couple years or so ago, I was minding my business scrolling through Quora when I saw a spam post advertising a fake designer handbag site.

So it came to pass last month that I boarded a miraculous machine that can fly through the air, intending to spend a few weeks with my Talespinner working on the fifth draft of our novel Spin in seclusion.

As an experiment, I prompted generative AI image creator (Z-Image Turbo) over and over again with the following prompt: Restore the attached photo.

I’m back from a glorious, frightening, exhilirating, disastrous, calamitous, wonderful trip to Springfield, about which more later.

There's an ad floating around on Facebook for...um, I'm not sure what it's for.

What if an AI tells you that the best possible course of action of a true sapient AI is to pretend to be a dumb, unaware, deterministic system... ...then it tells you it is a dumb, unaware, deterministic system?

A short while ago, CNN published an explosive story about a group of men coordinating with each other on Telegram and porn sites in what CNN calls an “online rape academy,” exchanging tips and techniques to drug their wves and then rape them or invite oth…

Eunice and I have written four novels and one collection of short stories in a far-future, post-scarcity world that emerged from a fantasy she had, a woman atop a ziggurat, strapped to an altar, given forced orgasms from sunup to sundown.

As I move into my sixth decade of life, I’m posting a series of stories from my past.

As I move into my sixth decade of life, I’m posting a series of stories from my past.

Back in 2019, Eunice and I spent some time in New Orleans, a place I’d never visited before.

As I move into my sixth decade of life, I’m posting a series of stories from my past.

A couple of days ago, I saw a question on Quora asking why Christian movies always suck.

As I move into my sixth decade of life, I’m posting a series of stories from my past.

Image: Devon on Depositphotos Every so often, I find myself involved in conversations about grammar online.

A typical nose, the sticky-out bit of the face part (photo by lightwavemedia) I have, as many who know me can attest, a rudimentary, almost vestigial sense of smell.

Image: BGStock72 In 2019, the FDA approved the drug bremelanotide for use in female hypoactive sexual desire disorder.

As I move into my sixth decade of life, I’m posting a series of stories from my past.

As I move into my sixth decade of life, I’m posting a series of stories from my past.

Image: Mockup Graphics It’s an ordinary banana, which means it serves well as a graphic to help illustrate why the universe is not purely deterministic.