Craig Maciolek
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A Descending Spiral
Addicts and fanatics all begin with simple lies and misdirections against their friends and family to push further into their darkness. As they continue along the downward spiral, their manipulations and deceits become more intricate, desperate, and fragile. Eventually, they must… Continue reading
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Crime Storylines
For the fiction writers. In the past I had the idea for a crime thriller storyline, where hackers and con-artists steal a guy’s identity and use it to double cross drug dealers as a cover for hacking his accounts and… Continue reading
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Building An American Culture
Applying context to one cornerstone of our society. ** I took some notes that have been clogging up my notebook for far too long and put them into Google Gemini, asking it to write an essay in the style of… Continue reading
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A Modern Dreyfus
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!” by Sir Walter Scott, from his poem Marmion. Imagine a person who was set up to appear guilty. A patsy. Not set up to appear entirely guilty,… Continue reading
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A Fractal Culture of Crime
Just as teams of swindlers and thieves will harass and badger the elderly in order to confuse them, making them doubt their own senses. So to, will corporations and clandestine agencies conspire to keep an entire population off balance and… Continue reading
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Dream Fun with AI
(**I had quickly written down a dream I had last night and fed it into Gemini. I told it to Write a scene from a spy novel in the style of John leCarre.) The air was thick with the low… Continue reading
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