Joyful Pessimism: Sex, Mental Illness, and Philosophy

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Resurrecting the Whore of Babylon
My "Holy F*ck" moment with AI...
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Michael Ellsberg
October 2023
The Witches' Sabbath
In Honor of Fallen Witches...
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Michael Ellsberg
The Disruption of Work and Education in an AI World
My interview on the Hannah Frankman Podcast
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Michael Ellsberg
Infernal Seductions
Tales of Sex Among Witches, Demons, and the Devil, From Classic Christian Demonology Handbooks
September 2023
A Gynocentric Gang of Winsome Warlordettes
Ishtar's Angels: Chapter 1
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Daemon Derriere
August 2023
What’s the Point When There is No Point?
In his 1799 book The Vocation of Man, German idealist philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte asks a series of pressing questions: Shall I eat and drink only…
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Michael Ellsberg
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AI is Putting Me Out of Work...
I recently uploaded my dystopian erotic novella Ishtar's Angel into an AI writing tool I’ve been using (better than GPT). The novella takes place in…
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Michael Ellsberg
Daemon Derriere's Economic Message From 2033...
There's only one way to protect yourself financially during the coming AI Jobpocalypse...
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Michael Ellsberg
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May 2023
The Mistress of Sorceries & the Temple of Ashtaroth
Ishtar's Angel: Chapter 4
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Daemon Derriere
Brilliance and Booty
Ishtar's Angel: Chapter 3
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Daemon Derriere
Manic Obsessive and Status Depressive
Joyful Pessimism, Chapter 2. Age twenty-nine: I was standing by the open fourth-story window of my rented flat in Buenos Aires, as I’d been doing for…
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Michael Ellsberg
The End of the Male Sexual Cartel
Chapter 2 of "Ishtar's Angel"
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Daemon Derriere
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