Jack Gerdeman

@gerdeman.bsky.social

266 Followers 134 Following

Loving my career in spreadsheets and my life in North Carolina.

Landscape view of Greybeard mountain from the top of Lookout Mountain. Very green foliage and a blue sky with fluffy white clouds.
A comic about a mom catching her school aged son creating deepfake movies of his classmates... But it's not porn, it's just them telling him that he is loved and valued and they are sorry he's not treated well at school. Later the Mom is using the same software to do the same thing with deepfakes of her coworker.
"It would be another 277 days before the final surviving crew member, a cargo handler named Jayn Brisfelt, would record a lengthy testimonial of the last, extraordinarily depressing days of the Child and her crew, before he would then go to the security office, obtain a sidearm, retire to one of the crew lounges, put on one of his favorite comedies, and then shoot himself mid-laugh during his favorite part of the story. The testimonial, recorded on a tablet, would be unseen and unheard by any other living thing. The tablet itself, whose internal battery would drain within two years, would lose the ability to function fifty years later even if it had been charged. The Child itself would be a cold, powerless husk within ten years. It would never be found by humans or any other intelligent creatures, if there were any. It would drift between the stars for twenty million years before being gravitationally snagged by a passing red dwarf ..." - Excerpt from Scalzi's novel, The Consuming Fire
Three Jack-o'-lanterns on a front porch. One is a spider, one is a goofy face and one is a dog in profile.
CGI florescent blue mushrooms
Photo of a whale in BVI. We think it was a sperm whale
Twitter Jack's tweet of a picture of green grass
A screen shot of the two meanings of the word "Seminal"
Zoomed in sunrise