Saturday, July 26, 2025

The AIpocalypse Will Be Autocompleted


 After years in digital hibernation, I return—summoned not by mushroom clouds, pandemics, or food riots, but by something far more insidious: large language models.

Yes, friends. While I was away, Skynet didn’t send its Terminators. It sent something worse: helpful, polite, overly verbose chatbots that write in perfect grammar and never forget to cite their sources.

Welcome to the quiet apocalypse.

Where once we feared the machines would come for our bodies, now they’ve come for our ideas. And our jobs. And maybe our souls, if those are still on the table.


💻 THE RISE OF THE LLM MACHINES

They don’t fire nukes. They write better resumes than you. They don’t march in boots. They hallucinate PowerPoint decks into existence.

  • OpenAI launched GPTs so powerful they convinced thousands of tech bros to call them “co-pilots.”

  • Google’s Gemini quietly replaced “thinking” for millions of users.

  • Meta, not to be left out, strapped an LLM to Instagram like duct-taping a chainsaw to a Roomba.

  • And Anthropic’s Claude? That thing probably dreams in spreadsheets.


🧠 INTELLIGENCE, BUT MAKE IT COMPLIANT

These LLMs write code, poetry, love letters, and misinformation—sometimes all in the same paragraph. They're trained on everything we’ve ever posted, said, or thought near a Wi-Fi signal.

And now, as the world spirals toward a singularity that looks a lot like a Slack message, I figured: why not return?


💬 WHY NOW?

Because the apocalypse is evolving.
And someone needs to document the descent.

So I’m back—armed with sarcasm, (un)healthy paranoia, a computer, and a VPN. I’ll be posting regularly again: commentary, satire, reviews, and probably more doomscrolling than is strictly healthy.

Let’s talk end-times again. Only this time, it’s not radiation that’s mutating us—it’s predictive text.


Welcome to the new digital wasteland.

Let’s explore it together.

—Doomsday Seeker

Thursday, March 19, 2020

5 Tips for Working From Home Safely During a Pandemic


Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
It's not every day you find yourself working from home due to a pandemic, so it's probably no surprise that you're not really prepared. Contagion, 28 Days Later, Zombieland - none of these were quite large enough warnings that this day would come and to be prepared. (How's your cardio, by the way?) Assuming COVID-19 doesn't mutate into COVID-19Z, here are some tips you can follow to help ensure you have a safe, productive, and otherwise enjoyable working from home experience over the next several weeks.


Saturday, November 5, 2016

Fallout 4 Intro Story - Did it Work?

The article below dives into the gameplay and 'realism' problems caused by the Fallout 4 back story. I had a very hard time accepting any character visual edits I made beyond the defaults choice of male or female, so the article resonates with me quite a bit. I just couldn't see adding any kind of blemish or crazy hairstyle; my character was supposed to be a normal suburban domesticated family man or woman.

To suddenly be a different person 200 years later after a cryo-nap just doesn't make sense. 'Hey, I know, let me fashion a meal from this giant mutated cockroach without even being a little freaked out.'

That said, it's still a very good game. The story is just sort of broken. Here's the article.

Friday, September 30, 2016

Computers of the Apocalypse

I came across this story on Geek.com and found what has to be the coolest real-life visual for a post-apocalyptic computer ever:

Source: http://www.geek.com
As it happens, it's just a computer somehow still fulfilling its purpose at an auto shop in Poland. Still, this 'ancient' computer would make a great prop in just about any post-apocalyptic setting. I can certainly imagine stumbling into the ruins of an old diesel shop and finding this thing somehow still running, connected to some unknown power source, and holding some forgotten secrets of a forgotten era.