--- 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=60 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=60. markdown-tokens: 2031 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://articles.swhammond.com/content/articles?start=60. 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) [ ![Statue of Liberty - Vegas](https://articles.swhammond.com/images/blog/MillennialExtremist_600.jpg) 13 November 2016 ## Millennial Extremism - Democracy In Jeopardy I was taken aback after the 2016 Presidential Election, but not in the way you’d think. I understand the higher over-arching symbolism that each candidate represented. Breaking the glass ceiling, women vindicated—or simply keeping someone out of office who openly derogated women, religion, and minorities. I understand what our President means to the world, what the position means to children and how the position sets the tone of what we agree upon as a society is acceptable behavior… ](https://articles.swhammond.com/content/articles/14-culture/118-millennial-extremism-democracy-in-jeopardy) [ ![Photo of Artwork - Vegas](https://articles.swhammond.com/images/blog/SeparationCultureState_600x399.jpg) 13 November 2016 ## 2016 Election - The Separation of Culture and State The 2016 Presidential Election has been challenging. An understatement, obviously. Not only has it challenged our democratic system and the strength of our union, but it has also touched our citizens personally. Deeply. It’s widely complex. Not just debatable on the way we interpret facts and policy, but also how we are choosing to represent our civilization. Our government, intentional or not, has become more than a government. It’s the organization we look to as… ](https://articles.swhammond.com/content/articles/14-culture/117-2016-election-the-separation-of-culture-and-state) [ ![Veruca Salt Band](https://articles.swhammond.com/media/yootheme/cache/9a/verucasalt_2x1-9a8eb7c3.jpg) 03 August 2016 ## Veruca Salt - A Warm Blanket Out Of The Dryer Maybe you can never go home again. But if you could, Ghost Notes would be the soundtrack. For some reason I’ve avoided writing about Ghost Notes since it came out last summer. I’m not sure why—I really like this album. I also love Veruca Salt. They make the short list of my all-time favorite bands. The only thing I can think of is that I was trying to keep this album for myself. It’s like reliving a memory—something you’d only share with someone who understands what… ](https://articles.swhammond.com/content/articles/43-pop-culture/28-music/116-veruca-salt-a-warm-blanket-out-of-the-dryer) [ ![Taylor Swift 1989](https://articles.swhammond.com/media/yootheme/cache/e6/Taylor_Swift_1989_1080-e6830caa.jpg) 02 June 2016 ## Taylor Swift's '1989' - Why I'm A Fangirl Guilty Pleasure? Embarrassed??? Hardly. As much as I love music, and devoted a significant amount of my life to it, I can still be pretty closed minded. I like what I like and over the last few years I’ve lived deeply in that bubble. Why listen to the radio when I’ve got 20k+ songs in iTunes? I also no longer care about being cool—I’m over having to be the first to hear a new rock band or searching for the meaning of life within lyrics. I think there’s two reasons f… ](https://articles.swhammond.com/content/articles/43-pop-culture/28-music/115-taylor-swift-s-1989-why-i-m-a-fangirl) [ ![Experimenter Movie](https://articles.swhammond.com/images/blog/the_experimenter_1.jpg) 07 March 2016 ## 'Experimenter' - Watch To Become A Better Person People are sheep, and Stanley Milgram scientifically proved it. How could the Holocaust happen? How can there still be institutional racism? And why it's going to happen again. Experimenter is available for streaming on Netflix and is a biographical drama of the controversial social psychologist, Stanley Milgram. Staring Peter Sarsgaard as Milgram and Winona Ryder as his wife, along with notable actors making small appearances throughout, the Experimenter flew und… ](https://articles.swhammond.com/content/articles/43-pop-culture/32-shows-movies/114-experimenter-watch-to-become-a-better-person) [ ![Internet Morality](https://articles.swhammond.com/media/yootheme/cache/f9/most_interesting_man_2-f9ca7112.jpg) 29 February 2016 ## Internet Morality: Why We Need Digital Commandments Internet Morality: Why? Ah, the internet—a vast, chaotic cosmos where pixels dance like drunken stars and every click echoes through the ether of human connection. But what, pray tell, is "Internet Morality"? And who died and made me the cosmic arbiter of it all? Well, in this gloriously undemocratic digital realm, I crowned myself. Why? Because chaos reigns supreme without a guide, and someone's got to play the reluctant shepherd. 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