Category: Featured
The Difference Between "Blogging" and "Posting"
Long ago before the advent of social media sites like Orkut and Facebook, diarists and bloggers were a predominant feature in the world wide web. However, with the advent of the above-mentioned sites, coupled with the…
A World Where “There is No Shortage”
I recently played a game text-based strategy adventure called Seedship, by John Ayliff. Tells the story of space exploration to discover a "new earth". I got the ending with a fairly high score, and discovered the level…
By daniel950
Why Writing?
Writers live twice. They go along with their regular life, are as fast as anyone in the grocery store, crossing the street, getting dressed for work in the morning. But there's another part of them that they have been…
By Cezar
These are a few of my Favorite Things...
What does a writer need? Apart from words of course. And apart from the fact that the need to write is the dominant passion that regulates his or her life. That the need to express unsaid words and sentiments is perhaps…
Introduction
Welcome to my new blog on Vivaldi. I am planning a relatively eclectic blog and post on whatever interests me at the time. At the moment I am mainly interested in sustainability and environment. I am studying at…
By hawkowl
Personal Data as AI Fuel?
AIs like ChatGPT and some of its friends, Bard, Bing Chat, and Llama, are pretty similar LLMs. They are all capable of creating text in the form of conversational interactions with users. These LLMs are given materials…
By daniel950
Why privacy matters.
We've been through this already. You've either read or passed articles on why we should care, always with the same flavor, always done in the same way. But let me present a different take. …
By atsecbayz
My Current Work: "Datesville — Out of the Land of Bondage!"
My current work is a dystopian novel, set in the year 2068 titled: Datesville; Out of the Land of Bondage! A so called "Grand Depression" has engulfed the United States of America since 2029, almost forty years, and it…
By daletucker
The History of an Idea — Part 1
A few years ago I had a rather vivid dream. And when I awoke, I remembered its details clearly and I thought about it a lot. It prompted the setting for the scene which I've included below. So rather than describe my…
By daletucker