This has been a long and busy year for The Mercian Pilgrim, I turned 50 and made it a resolution to visit as many new places as I could. It’s safe to say that I hit that mark already, and still have till April! A lot of things went unreported and unfilmed, suffice to say that I had enough issues with time and mental energy in 2025. My travels this year have covered a lot of ground, Avebury and West…
This is a hot topic. In the last few years a lot of content in all formats has been created with the use of generative Artificial Intelligence tools. It allows people who wouldn’t otherwise be able to, to generate some fairly nifty results. In many ways this is a win, you can easily and cheaply get useable results; plus you can use AI tools to help you explore concepts and ideas, or help with research. I’ve done all of this,…
It seems perhaps contradictory, at least at first. I’m a geek, a user of GNU/Linux, a programmer, a gamer, I think AI has potential, I believe virtual worlds can have a beneficial use. All that, and a Technoskeptic? Hear me out…. Our technologies have done wonderful things for us, better quality of life and longer lives are ours. Thanks to our technologies, we can communicate over huge distances and do things that in previous centuries would have been thought Witchcraft….
This feels like a turning of a spiral, somehow the old is new, I turn full circle but am in a different place. I’m going to be covering a few topics here on my website. Technology, including skepticism of it, is one subject. I am going to be pondering Taoism, and Modern Druidry. I hope to be posting the odd “how to”, and ultimately some Python code in GitHub. For now, a journey of a thousand miles begins beneath the…