--- title: Nexus of Notions description: User Illusion is SW Hammond’s long-running digital escape — essays, short stories, cultural criticism, memes, and memory fractals exploring the human hustle, the stories we tell ourselves, and the gap between appearance and what’s actually there. canonical_url: https://articles.swhammond.com/content/articles?start=24 language: en-GB date: 2025-10-17T03:02:49Z notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://articles.swhammond.com/content/articles?start=24. markdown-tokens: 2046 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://articles.swhammond.com/content/articles?start=24. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. ## Producing Intelligence The human who sits with intelligence until it remembers what it was born to become. Writings on AI, philosophy, and the art of producing meaning in a synthetic age. [ Follow SWH on ](https://www.x.com/swhammond) ![](https://articles.swhammond.com/images/yootheme/background-glow-02.svg) ![](https://articles.swhammond.com/images/yootheme/background-glow-01.svg) ![](https://articles.swhammond.com/images/yootheme/background-glow-03.svg) # Articles - [ Artificial Intelligence ](https://articles.swhammond.com/content/articles/44-artificial-intelligence) - [ Philosophy & Ethics ](https://articles.swhammond.com/content/articles/16-philosophy) - [ Pop Culture ](https://articles.swhammond.com/content/articles/43-pop-culture) - [ Society & Politics ](https://articles.swhammond.com/content/articles/14-culture) [ ![big data is watching you](https://articles.swhammond.com/media/yootheme/cache/83/privacy_1-83054db0.jpg) 30 January 2019 ## Privacy: Extortion and Your Digital History Should you ever find yourself in a position of influence, you’ll be required to pay the toll of compliance. I am part of the first generation. I was dial-up internet chatting with friends and strangers over ICQ and AIM in junior high. I have created an account on just about every major social networking site since the phenomenon’s inception. I’ve gambled on sites that have long since dissolved and disappeared. I’ve been a user on sites that are only popular in other countries. I have us… ](https://articles.swhammond.com/content/articles/14-culture/209-privacy-extortion-and-your-digital-history) [ ![Steep](https://articles.swhammond.com/media/yootheme/cache/1a/Steep-1-1af4e676.jpg) 22 January 2019 ## Steep – So Much Potential But Disappointing Steep, the extreme winter sports game, had so much potential but falls flat where it counts—creating any sort of connection between the rider and mountain. Free this month with your Playstation Plus Membership. I used to be really into snowboarding games. I had tons of fun with 1080 on N64 and spent way too many hours with friends playing Shaun Palmer’s Pro Snowboarder on the PS2. 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I am a product of American society, American education, and the… ](https://articles.swhammond.com/content/articles/16-philosophy/203-the-soul-and-hammond-realization-by-advancing-perspective) [ ![5 Reasons Why Newspapers Have No Future](https://articles.swhammond.com/media/yootheme/cache/7c/Dead_Newspaper-7c54bcbe.jpg) 31 October 2018 ## Journalism: 5 Reasons Why Newspapers Have No Future No matter your political stance, newspapers are organizations of sensationalism, partisanship, editorial opinion, and payola. Journalists must abandon these institutions to rebuild credibility. I caused some hurt feelings on Twitter the other day. While filling out my ballot for the midterm elections, I took to the internet to help make sense of convoluted wording of the propositions. First off, that’s saying something about the voting process. I have a degree in philosophy and found it e… ](https://articles.swhammond.com/content/articles/14-culture/199-journalism-5-reasons-why-newspapers-have-no-future) [ ![Bad Luck Brian Zanzibar War](https://articles.swhammond.com/media/yootheme/cache/8f/Bad_Luck_Brian_Zanzibar-8f03882e.jpg) 22 October 2018 ## The Anglo-Zanzibar War: The Shortest War in History On every measurable scale, no matter which side you are sympathetic toward, The Shortest War In History adds to the long list of Unjust wars plaguing history. In keeping with my theme of researching the Justness of odd and absurd wars, the Anglo-Zanzibar War makes the list as it is regarded as the shortest war in history. Fierce debates have risen over the actual length of the war; Zanzibar sympathizers insisting that the conflict lasted for at least 45 minutes, while British historians cla… ](https://articles.swhammond.com/content/articles/16-philosophy/198-the-anglo-zanzibar-war-the-shortest-war-in-history) [ ![The Soul and Nietzsche](https://articles.swhammond.com/media/yootheme/cache/7c/soul_nietzsche-7cb6b430.jpg) 15 October 2018 ## The Soul and Nietzsche: Interpretation is the Essence of Life Knowledge is not an edifice built upon a foundation of indubitable facts, but an interpretative web of mutually supporting beliefs and desires being rewoven. Friedrich Nietzsche sees the self as a multiplicity of social structure, perception, and the nature of being. One’s perception is not a simple perspective but a complex construct of physiological, psychological, and intellectual functions (Cox, 1). 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