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hello, i'm danielle alexandra burns.

i'm a woman in my late twenties, perpetually somewhere between canada, the united states, and wherever else the wind decides to take me.

i grew up by the sea in cape breton, nova scotia, which i suspect has left me a little mad and permanently afflicted with a longing for the ocean. there's something about growing up surrounded by salt air, grey skies, and the atlantic that makes being landlocked feel like a particularly cruel form of exile. no matter how far inland i wander, some part of me is always looking for the water.

by nature, i'm curious, sentimental, a little eccentric, and perhaps excessively introspective. my interests tend to occupy the peculiar intersection of science, technology, and the human condition. i'm particularly fascinated by artificial intelligence, neurotechnology, psychology, and the increasingly blurry boundaries between human consciousness and the machines we create. i like questions that don't have easy answers, especially those concerning what it means to be human in the first place.

i'm equally drawn to the darker corners of art and storytelling. horror, the macabre, the uncanny, and anything that manages to be both beautiful and deeply unsettling have always held a special place in my heart. i have a fondness for old-fashioned things, strange little curiosities, literature, philosophy, and the kind of melancholy that feels almost comforting.

of course, i'd hate to give the impression that all my time is spent contemplating existential dread. i'm also quite capable of spending an entire evening playing video games, watching truly terrible netflix reality television, or making an unnecessarily enthusiastic trip to dunkin' donuts. i contain multitudes, and apparently one of them is a woman who can spend hours reading about artificial consciousness before becoming completely invested in the romantic misfortunes of strangers on television.

i'm also perpetually trying to learn languages, with spanish, german, and russian currently occupying various corners of my brain. whether i'll ever become properly fluent in all three remains to be seen, but i find something lovely about the idea of being able to understand the world through more than one language.

i suppose i've always felt a little out of step with the world around me. i'm a romantic in the old-fashioned sense, an admirer of sincerity, and someone who believes that even the strangest, smallest things deserve to be appreciated. i find life endlessly fascinating, occasionally absurd, and often more beautiful in retrospect.

this website is my own little corner of the internet: a collection of thoughts, interests, projects, curiosities, and whatever else i happen to pick up along the way.

thank you for finding your way here. i'm glad you did.

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