iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

JC @jamescurcio.com · 15/09/2026

One of those days you open the news website and no exaggeration 1.5 seconds later close it, not because it's horrific but simply because it's "oh come onnn..." This shit is getting goofy.

Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon call for curbs on Aai at 'pro human' summit

000

JC @jamescurcio.com · 15/09/2026

It's true pretty much across the ideological spectrum that each position holds all the others beneath consideration. This is not helped by the fact that many of those positions are in fact beneath consideration.

110

JC @jamescurcio.com · 05/09/2026

Yeah, if I go into it with the mindset that it's a miniatures + rp game, I don't get snagged by that anymore. If I'm in (default) narrativist view is when it's like

110

JC @jamescurcio.com · 04/09/2026

3rd or 4th listen through Peter Godfrey Smith's Living On Earth. Each time it's struck me that it's interesting how much of this is directly relevant to robotics, although he never makes that connection (at least not explicitly)

000

JC @jamescurcio.com · 31/08/2026

There is no singular "they". But in terms of why it's being used to drive corporate profits, why enshittification, etc...

Meme:

Me (marx)

"The problem is capitalism" (olive oil)

Every conversation about ai (salad)

220

JC @jamescurcio.com · 31/08/2026

If I was smart this would be my last post on social media, forever.

"Ability to post" is not itself indicative of human intelligence

If those kids could read they'd be very upset

Meme

000

JC @jamescurcio.com · 24/08/2026

Current physical read/re-read pile. Audiobooks are where I do a lot of my fiction reading these days, and some non-fiction as well because listening to books on mass extinctions is apparently my comfort place for falling asleep. (Not even kidding).

A philosophy of software design, Ousterhout
Becoming an Artwork, Groys
Scale Theory, DeCaglio
Materialist Philosophy: A Philosophy of Perception, DeLanda

020

JC @jamescurcio.com · 22/08/2026

It's mostly the fact the data centers should have an enforceable means of requiring common practices re: energy consumption, cooling, zoning, etc. Which is mostly just capitalism. Everything else is purely just about capitalism not the tech, it's a bait and switch.

001

JC @jamescurcio.com · 21/08/2026

Pretty much every time

240

JC @jamescurcio.com · 17/08/2026

A remarkable number of people I know are all kind of simultaneously Going Through It. I'm still treading water with gusto and all for my part, no worries there. But the universal vibe these days really seems like

021

JC @jamescurcio.com · 17/08/2026

It's just a more direct route to the same outcome. Though the fact is people are never going to agree about this and it's not even clear what it matters that we don't agree.

000

JC @jamescurcio.com · 14/08/2026

:takes first sip of coffee: Due to the lag in such things the added heat (energy) we're experiencing now was released in the late 90s. The 2050s will be living through what we're putting out now. ...Add in the nonlinear dynamics of tipping thresholds...

100

JC @jamescurcio.com · 13/08/2026

Finally the type of D&D module I might actually want to run

Sorcerer Derek and his New Stoner Friends cover. The friends are so stoned they're troglodytes

The Sad Slow Mental Decline of Sorcerer Derek

010

JC @jamescurcio.com · 13/08/2026

BLACKOUT/Terminal Ghosts test print looking not bad. Only getting 10 of these made for now as it's the beta readers draft. Text and art need at least another full pass before it's ready for a kickstarter. (Even more work still needed on the rpg system).

340

JC @jamescurcio.com · 10/08/2026

"Open the fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah."

Kickflipping a rake into your face image

020

JC @jamescurcio.com · 10/08/2026

Cover WIP. I'll be changing the back cover (and interior) body text from times new roman after this copy I'm printing for certain friends & the player's in the original blackout campaign. Seemed like a good way to signal it's a beta, since times is the de facto MS font.

000

JC @jamescurcio.com · 07/08/2026

We'll have to see if this unlocks any new special interests

010

JC @jamescurcio.com · 05/08/2026

3 pages of Nemo having a bad time. #WIP I figured even a novel length BLACKOUT installment needs a section in the style of the original comics. (With 10yrs more practice, ostensibly).

Comic page of Nemo in 2044 having a bad time

100

JC @jamescurcio.com · 01/08/2026

This is an in-progress mock for the beta reader copy. Not done but well enough along to share... (I'll probably design a couple of alts for the novel if we can get to the crowdfunding stage).

BLACKOUT: Terminal Ghosts mock / wip cover

010

JC @jamescurcio.com · 31/07/2026

That's because... :taps sign:

100

JC @jamescurcio.com · 30/07/2026

It'd be a war if one of the "sides" was even fighting.

000

JC @jamescurcio.com · 28/07/2026

When I first saw this movie my immediate thought when seeing this Jasper scene was "that's going to be me in 30-40 years" and yeah. Pretty much on track.

Jasper gets high and plays air guitar to apex twin in Children of men

000

JC @jamescurcio.com · 24/07/2026

"My neighbor is a cannibal who screams throughout the night" is fantastic. Really makes me want to make an avant post metal album just so I can use the title.

Andrew Tate post ostensibly saying:

I am being held in SHU, the highest level of security which exists.
...
My neighbor is a cannibal who screams throughout the night.

373

JC @jamescurcio.com · 08/07/2026

And of course behind every story we do hear is

0170

JC @jamescurcio.com · 29/06/2026

BOOK COVER ARTISTS QRP with your book covers #Art #BookCover #Books (OK, TFR was an album/EP. Still.)

061

JC @jamescurcio.com · 27/06/2026

Off to block island tomorrow AM. I'll be mostly but not strictly offline.

Lestat (yet again for no reason): "I've got the blood of akasha
in me. "

000

JC @jamescurcio.com · 25/06/2026

"UK records its hottest June day and France its hottest day ever"

034

JC @jamescurcio.com · 23/06/2026

Vermax / Sheepstealer #hotd

Weak aura: I am at peace and in charge of my own destiny

Strong aura: fuck it we ball

020

JC @jamescurcio.com · 22/06/2026

Still primarily using the kyle's brush megapacks I bought in like 2010... I keep thinking about buying some new kits and then... don't. But they work pretty well.

020

JC @jamescurcio.com · 14/06/2026

I'll keep sharing digital paintings here... I did a ton 2021-2024ish after wrapping Tales From When I Had A Face that were vamping on past or future project vibes without any particular end intention other than not fully losing the stylus habit. One I did for the website just for "fun".

Digital painting of twisted fairytale imagery

000

JC @jamescurcio.com · 14/06/2026

First edit hardcopy arrived. Already found a chapter where a character exhaled/ "took a breath" like 5 times. Keep on filing away. #novel #editing

140

JC @jamescurcio.com · 14/06/2026

A few momento mori paintings that have yet to find a home (or get finished)

Picture of a woman talking to a skill in the mirror

074

JC @jamescurcio.com · 06/06/2026

The downside of producing & editing a full season of a podcast before scheduling it is you don't get any of that release dopamine. But anyway, I'm maybe 30-40 hrs or so from having season 6 of the Fallen Cycle ready to go.

110

JC @jamescurcio.com · 04/06/2026

It's not cut and paste. It's not collage. It's not a 1:1 copy of any particular work or idea. :pinches bridge of nose: "So how does it work then mr smarty pants?" someone might ask. Well, in actuality it's incredibly complicated, but I've got a picture that'll do for now as broad strokes:

A photo of a very horny set of eyelids amd their charging station

021

JC @jamescurcio.com · 15/05/2026

504 pages at 12 pt times roman on 8.5"x11". We'll see what I can prune & flag on the hard copy pass.

020

JC @jamescurcio.com · 03/05/2026

I don't know if it was our most instructive episode but it may be one of the more entertaining ones. Discussion of D&D alignment, and the weirdness of "morality as cosmology" in the most recent episode of the Modern Mythology podcast. www.modernmythology.net/podcast/epis...

001

JC @jamescurcio.com · 02/05/2026

Covid acute symptoms seem to be improving, which is good. Because trying to check in on the outside world when the only means you've got at your disposal is a phone / pc right now is like

010

JC @jamescurcio.com · 29/04/2026

Spent like 30 hours on this one last summer. Probably one of my favorite that I did for that book. Sharing apropos of nothing really other than surprise at how fast the time goes now.

Illustration from the Girl Who Lost Her Tears of a girl petitioning the grandmother of her tribe

050

JC @jamescurcio.com · 23/04/2026

In a post on Truth Social, US president Donald Trump said he is “possibly the least pressured person ever” to end the war in Iran.

000