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Arcana Notes

This is a slow space. Arcana Notes holds reflections on symbolism, myth, and inner weather. Take what resonates.


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By Ali Berry

December 18, 2025

This growing smile won't fade today

Thankfulness abounds

Shining forth and breaking through

The bonds created round


What we perceive holds all out truth

Beautiful, mad, and subjective

A point of light in a sea of stars

The conscious, the collective


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By Ali Berry

December 17, 2025

I’ve been thinking a lot about AI—not as a spectacle or a threat, but as a tool. A new kind of brush. A strange instrument that reflects whatever hand is holding it. Like any mirror, it doesn’t create meaning on its own—it reveals what’s already there.


For me, AI isn’t about replacing creativity. It’s about expanding the places creativity can reach. It lowers certain barriers while raising new questions. It invites play, experimentation, and rapid iteration—but it still depends entirely on human intention, discernment, and care. Without those, it’s just noise. A thousand echoes without a voice.


What excites me most is not automation, but possibility. The way these tools allow ideas to move more fluidly from imagination into form makes it feel like we are living in the future.


The way AI language models can support accessibility, learning, and creative confidence—especially for people who already carry vision but lack time, resources, or technical fluency in every medium—is mind-blowing.


In the right hands, AI becomes a bridge to our imaginational limits. In the wrong ones, it can become a shortcut—leading to learned dependence and the underdevelopment of critical thinking skills. It also opens the door to exploitation, misuse, and extraction at scale, in a landscape where laws, safeguards, and meaningful enforcement are still struggling to catch up. We still have no clear understanding of the long-term consequences of its use on a personal, societal, or environmental level.


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