This was Vic’s great Aunt, the renowned Nellie Bly, nick-named for the intrepid lady aviatrix in the early age of flight. She retained that nickname beyond the recollection of anyone who knew her in a legal perspective. Vic waved his tablet that displayed the fruits of two Artificial Intelligence algorithms to demonstrate what the faded […]

Vic was sort of out of sorts with his experiment. The only way he had known his grandfathers were in musty, faded images in black and white that had faded into a sort of sepia. He had started with the direction from Section Leader Miles to see if he could generate a complete new manuscript […]

Moon Rise over The Rotonda at Tysons, VA, 06 November 2025 So there is something natural to celebrate this morning as opposed to the election news. The Creative Section continued Happy Hour through a little after six when Vapor announced he could see the moon rise, which was actually sort of a diagonal appearance from […]

This was the picture of Vic’s Grandfather that started the current furor in the Creative Section. Vic never met him, and this is the only close-up picture that was passed down. Vic was waving around something new he had composed with the aid of the AI program to see if there is value-added in artificial […]

Well, we started the big labor-saving Artificial Intelligence experiment a week ago today. You may have observed that the task has destoryed ordinary regular production in a sea of news, current affairs and political mayhem. We have generated about zip-squat on anything publishable. Well, except for some rough outlines, which is impressive for a machine, […]

Front Matter — Long ShadowsTitle Page LONG SHADOWSBy Vic Socotra Socotra House PressArlington, Virginia Copyright © 2025 Vic SocotraAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission […]

This was, at one point, an official US Navy picture of one-time grooming standards in the the Sea of Japan. The thought had been, as best we can reconstruct the reasoning, that after the loss of the Vietnam conflict, recognition should be made to the changed social standards back home. And make shipboard life a […]

Well, that is partly quite true, since he manuscript has been in the electronic clutches of the ChatGPT algorithm for twenty-five hours, routinely updating status to “3-5 minutes remaining.” Creative Section Chief Miles paid a call to DeMille,his predecessor in that job, to see if there might be past experience with a creative staff in […]

We normally try to honor special American holidays at Socotra House and yesterday was no exception. Mayny of us had colorful costumes at the mornin meeting, and we successfully crashed the excellent festive holiday table at the old folks end of the assited living wing at the Trillium You can see the vibrancy. Coming back […]