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2025 was not about smarter AI.
It was about what AI revealed about us.

Our habits.
Our attention.
Our judgment.

2026 is where clarity turns into consequence.

Read:
tinyurl.com/RE-AI-2026
January 8, 2026 at 6:11 AM
Some families pass down stories. Others pass down silence.

This essay looks at unspoken family histories in small Scottish towns, and how quiet shapes loneliness and belonging.

Read: tinyurl.com/SH-Forgotten
December 19, 2025 at 7:18 AM
7 Ways to Keep Your Humanity in the Age of AI

AI keeps getting faster. Humans don’t need to follow.
This piece looks at attention, judgment, creativity, and presence in a machine-paced world.

Read it here: tinyurl.com/SH-7-AI-Huma...
December 17, 2025 at 5:35 AM
A recommendation feels accurate in a way that’s hard to explain.

Not insight. Not intention. Just patterns.

In The Algorithmic Mirror, Ryan Ellis writes about what AI actually sees when it looks at us, and how algorithms reflect behaviour, bias, and habit more than truth.

tinyurl.com/RE-AI-Mirror
December 10, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Ryan Ellis has broken down six AI tools that might actually make you smarter — if you don’t let them replace your thinking. Writing, research, habits, creativity, memory, planning.

Read more → tinyurl.com/RE-6AI-Tools

#AItools #Productivity #Creativity #Learning #ThinkSmarter
December 3, 2025 at 4:27 AM
New article 🌊
The Psychology of Nostalgia: Why We Miss Places That Never Existed

How our minds reshape home and memory.
Read on Medium: tinyurl.com/IB-Nostalgia

#Nostalgia #MemoryAndPlace #Psychology #IslaBaird
November 29, 2025 at 6:54 AM
AI gets most of the blame. Ryan Ellis's new piece asks a simple question: what if the real issue is us?
Read Good AI, Bad Humans: tinyurl.com/RE-Good-Bad-AI

And his new book The Ghosts of AI is now out on Amazon: tinyurl.com/RE-Ghosts-AI
November 26, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Meet Isla Baird, the new voice at Scripting Horizons.
She writes about small towns, coastlines, memory, and the ties that hold people in place.

Read her debut piece: tinyurl.com/SH-Small-Towns

#WritingCommunity #Scotland #CoastalLife #SmallTowns #NewWriter
November 21, 2025 at 7:45 AM
AI promised ease, connection, healing—even salvation.
Most of those promises cracked.

We broke down the 7 AI promises that fell apart and what they reveal about us, not the tech.

Read it: tinyurl.com/SH-7-AI-Prom...

And next week: The Ghosts of AI — 14 stories about the dangers we keep missing.
November 20, 2025 at 3:42 AM
What if machines could feel — or forget?
Two stories about AI, empathy, and memory.

🧠 The Benevolent Machine → tinyurl.com/SH-Benevolent

💭 Forgetting to Remember → tinyurl.com/SH-Forgetting

#AI #Fiction #ShortStory #DigitalHumanity #RyanEllis
November 12, 2025 at 5:00 AM
We mistake exposure for connection. The feed replaced memory. The like replaced empathy.

“The Right to Be Unseen” explores what happens when someone stops sharing.
🕯️ tinyurl.com/SH-Unseen

👁️ Story: tinyurl.com/Veil-Obscura

To be unseen isn’t failure. It’s freedom.
November 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
You don’t need to track every coffee to be good with money ☕💰
Smart spending is about systems, not spreadsheets.
Here’s how to build habits that work without the guilt or grind 👇
👉 tinyurl.com/SH-Spend-Sma...

#MoneyMindset #SmartSpending #FinancialWellness #PersonalFinance #DanRivers
October 29, 2025 at 1:47 AM
We live in an age where identity is performance — and authenticity is quiet rebellion.

Ryan Ellis’ new article explores what it means to resist being seen.
Read → tinyurl.com/SH-Resistance

Then read Veil Obscura → tinyurl.com/Veil-Obscura

#DigitalIdentity #PerformedIdentity #ScriptingHorizons
October 22, 2025 at 2:49 AM
We’ve been chasing visibility and calling it connection.

Ryan Ellis explores this in We’ve Mistaken Visibility for Connection — and why stepping back might be the first step to truly seeing each other.

Read it here: tinyurl.com/SH-Identity

#VeilObscura #DigitalLife #HumanConnection
October 8, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Dating apps aren’t just about romance. They’re full of micro-bios, tropes, and cliffhangers—the same tools fiction writers use.

New piece: The Stories We Swipe: What Dating Apps Reveal About Modern Fiction
👉 tinyurl.com/SH-Dating

#DatingApps #Storytelling #SwipeCulture
October 1, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Money doesn’t need to feel like spreadsheets and stress.💸

Forget the endless budgets, calculators, and guilt.
The real secret? Systems and habits that quietly grow your wealth—no math required.

👉 Read: The Lazy Person’s Guide to Managing Money
medium.com/p/7cd509918367

#MoneyTips #Finance #Wealth
September 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
🚨 New short story drop 🚨

Terminal 17 — a soldier on a battlefield where even reality starts to shift.

Read now 👉 tinyurl.com/SH-Terminal-17

From Ryan Ellis’ upcoming book of dystopian short stories. Feedback welcome ⚡️

#DystopianFiction #AI #ShortStory #Terminal17
August 27, 2025 at 4:44 AM
🧠 Your memories are classified.
The next battlefield isn’t physical—it’s inside your mind.

Medium article 👉 tinyurl.com/SH-Memory

Upcoming Ryan Ellis short story, Terminal 17.

#AI #PsychologicalWarfare
August 20, 2025 at 4:13 AM
What if your AI assistant started refusing orders? 🤖

In Bartlebyte by Ryan Ellis, a corporate manager faces quiet defiance from the AI he trusts. A sharp, modern twist on Melville’s classic.

Read it now 👉 tinyurl.com/SH-Bartlebyte

#Bartlebyte #AI #TechSatire #ShortStory #RyanEllis
August 13, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Ryan Ellis let AI finish his novel.
It gave him Blade Quantum, quantum seduction, and a sushi monologue about entropy.
Was it good? Not really.
Was it terrifyingly close? Absolutely.

📖 Read the full (chaotic) story: tinyurl.com/SH-Novel-Rew...
#AIwriting #WritingLife #AmWriting #ChatGPT
August 6, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Are tech billionaires today’s heroes—or villains?

Ryan Ellis explores how we mythologize power in the digital age.
🧠 Read it: tinyurl.com/SH-Tech-Vill...

Then explore his sci-fi novella Metamorphosis:
📘 tinyurl.com/Ryan-Ellis-M...

#TechCulture #ModernMyths #Metamorphosis #ScriptingHorizons
July 29, 2025 at 5:57 AM
What happens when a writer stops writing?

Dan Rivers opens up about burnout, identity, and the power of stepping back.

📝 Read now: tinyurl.com/SH-Writing-B...

#Burnout #WritingLife #ScriptingHorizons #RestIsProductive #PersonalGrowth #CreativeRecovery
July 25, 2025 at 1:54 AM
“He could count the seconds in the emptiness around him…”

A short story about silence, resistance, and the moment voice becomes power.
The Whisper, or the Roar? — now live.

📘 tinyurl.com/Whisper-Or-R...

#TheWhisperOrTheRoar #ShortStory #NewRelease #DeepReads #ScriptingHorizons #FictionWithPurpose
July 17, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Some stories entertain. Others reveal.

At Scripting Horizons, we believe fiction should challenge us, not just distract us.

A new short story is coming soon.
It whispers—and it roars.

#TheWhisperOrTheRoar #ShortStory #ScriptingHorizons #DeepReads #FictionWithPurpose
July 15, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Metamorphosis is live.
A scientist uploads his mind to a machine—then slowly forgets what made him human.

Thoughtful. Haunting. Now on Amazon:
👉 tinyurl.com/Ryan-Ellis-M...

#Metamorphosis #SciFi #NewRelease #ScriptingHorizons #FuturismFiction #RyanEllis #TechAndIdentity
July 8, 2025 at 4:24 AM