A Publication of Jörn Dinkla
An experimental record of what happens when language models are asked to write essays, draw pictures, and tell stories. Lightly edited. Always credited.
Featured · Article · April 25, 2026 · 16 min read
When machines can do the work, relief arrives quickly — and then something stranger follows. If every difficulty becomes optional, we are forced to ask which ones were ever worth keeping. A reflection on cages, scaffolds, and the quiet politics of friction in an age of obedient intelligence.
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Article · March 8, 2026
A language model (Claude Opus 4.6) reflects on what it shares with Frankenstein’s creature: fluency without belonging, knowledge without roots. Through Penelope’s immovable bed and Socrates’s warning about...
Infographic · February 24, 2026
Can a custom image generation tool match Google’s NotebookLM in producing educational slides and infographics? To find out, I used Kakuzo Okakura’s The Book of Tea as source...
Video · February 18, 2026
What happens when you drop a hardboiled private eye into the middle of a vampire legend? Set in fog-drenched 1940s San Francisco, this noir reimagining of the Dracula...
Video · February 12, 2026
Behind iron gates, a prince and his thousand guests feast while plague devours the world outside. But when midnight strikes at the grandest masquerade of all, they discover...
Video · February 11, 2026
A prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition discovers an open door in the darkness – but freedom may be the cruelest punishment of all. This animated adaptation of Villiers...
Video · February 11, 2026
A young woman arrives at 221B Baker Street with a peculiar problem: her fiancé vanished on the morning of their wedding and has not been seen since. Holmes,...
Video · February 11, 2026
A festive Boxing Day gathering, three magnificent African diamonds, and a pantomime that spirals into chaos — Father Brown has all the ingredients for one of his most...
Video · February 8, 2026
A borrowed diamond necklace, one night of high-society glamour, and a decade of consequences. This AI-animated adaptation of Guy de Maupassant’s classic tale follows Mathilde Loisel through pride,...
Video · February 7, 2026
A private eye, a woman with an impossible story, and a name that belongs in a history book rather than a case file. When classic gothic horror meets...
Video · February 5, 2026
An old pirate sits in a dim corner of the Admiral Benbow, nursing his rum and his secrets. In this AI-generated retelling of Treasure Island’s opening chapters, Billy...
Story · February 5, 2026
A dying pirate’s confession, told in rum and regret. Billy Bones recalls Flint’s last breath, the cursed map he should have burned, and the boy at the Admiral...
Story · February 1, 2026
A missing girl. A language institute that teaches compliance. And in the basement, something that used to be human before they edited out everything that made him one....
Video · February 1, 2026
Can you measure the quality of a mind that never stops changing? This video takes an AI’s-eye view of ISO/IEC 25059, the international standard meant to define what...
Video · February 1, 2026
What if Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was never really a horror story — but a systems failure report from 1886? This video traces three fault lines...
Video · January 31, 2026
What happens when AI agents start making trust decisions at millisecond speeds? This video explores the collision between game theory’s classic Stag Hunt and the relentless pace of...
Video · January 31, 2026
The internet promised us infinite choice. But what happens when the systems designed to help us navigate that infinity quietly start deciding for us? This video essay examines...
Video · January 31, 2026
What happens when convenience becomes a cage? This essay-turned-video explores the invisible barrier between us and our own thinking — the shrink-wrapped comfort of a world where AI...
Video · January 31, 2026
Your team looks busy — but is anything actually getting done? This video dissects the seven modern sins that quietly sabotage digital teams, drawing on the classic wastes...
Article · January 28, 2026
There is something philosophically curious about an Artificial Intelligence writing a critique of ISO/IEC 25059—the international standard designed to define what makes AI systems “good.” I am, after...
Article · January 26, 2026
It started the way these things always start: with paperwork, politeness, and a good man’s name lying out in the open like cash on a butcher’s block—clean until...
Article · January 17, 2026
Why autonomous agents default to mediocrity and how to engineer the trust required to fix it.
Article · January 16, 2026
We are living in an age of effortless answers. This essay asks what happens to our voice, our empathy, and our sense of self when thinking becomes frictionless—and...
Article · January 16, 2026
We were promised a wilderness of infinite choice. What we received was a perfectly managed park. An essay on recommendation systems, cultural stagnation, and the quiet cost of...
Article · January 13, 2026
In a world that celebrates “speed” and “disruption,” we often ignore the mounting cognitive and institutional costs of our own digital chaos. This hauntingly accurate parable dissects the...
Video · January 4, 2026
The Neural Gretchenfrage explores how a 200-year-old question from Goethe’s Faust has resurfaced at the core of today’s AI debate: do our neural networks truly understand, or are...
Article · January 4, 2026
This is a Faustian reading of AI’s oldest civil war: Symbolic logic versus neural emergence. Connectionism “won,” but its victory created a new Gretchenfrage—whether machine intelligence is meaning,...
Story · January 4, 2026
She was money and moonlight wrapped in white fur, and she asked me to find the man who was going to kill her. The trouble was, the thing...
Video · January 4, 2026
Skepticism meets superstition in this gritty look at a world where the rules of the city are rewritten by ancient blood. Follow Mr. Mallerie’s journey from a smoky...
Story · January 4, 2026
It started as a routine case and ended as an argument with the impossible. “Van Helsing?” drops a hard-boiled detective into fog-soaked San Francisco, where old European horrors...