I just can’t explain this habot/obsession. But I get curious about a public domain image that comes up randomly in my browser, and rather then W-O-R-K-I-N-G I am digging down the internet rabbit holes of curiosity. Yet another one spawned by the Free to Use Browser Extension, aka my curiosity portal. Today’s random image came […]
Yet another ode to links. Would there be a web without them? You can just click the ones the algos hand you, like candy, just one out from the social stream and back in. Or better yet, you can wend your own way down and through the tunnels and corridors. Join me in another path […]
For a really long time I kept a browser tab open with an image I had chosen first to write a blog post (yet to be written). The tab was opened in the early days of what looks now like such crude AI image generators, Craiyon and the very first DALL-E stuff. One of the […]
In the morning email was a message from one of the collaborators on last month’s Reclaim Open session on the Daily Create that used the fably domain named Combobulating.net — ” it looks as if FeedWordPress has stopped updating.” I thought this would be quick, likely matter that there were no site visitors to trigger the […]
There’s more to memory than just recall versus forgetting. I came across this brilliant read “To grow, we must forget… but now AI remembers everything” and it downs like the broligarchy thinks they just need to toss into the algorithms is a machine that never forgets? Forgetting is a feature of human memory“Infinite memory” runs […]
My day job is in the world of Open Education and in those circles there is talk of “all the opens” – open source software, open data, open science, open access publishing, etc etc etc. All good stuff. But in the first one on the list, and where much of this started, the usual frame […]
There are definitely more obvious words to rhyme with eleven while also avoiding the SpinalTap-ism, but lets celebrate the eleventh month of Indeed, this years Daily Photo habit (the 18th time around), and the first in many years where I am on pace to ratchet a perfect 365 score. But let’s not get toooooo confident, eh? Last […]
Welcome back to an old song around here, the ideas and ways of giving attribution when reusing the creative works of others. My approach is ABA, Always Be Attributing. The hyperlink is perhaps the simplest and easiest way, as perhaps it might be coined by some weirdo as “linktribution” (yet one more stillborn neologism). But […]
This sounds entrancing, especially with the spooky like melty text splash screen, heard about just a few clicks ago in 404 Media as “‘Slop Evader’ Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022” taglined “search the internet before AI”. A browser extension for avoiding AI slop. Download it for Chrome or Firefox. This is a search tool that […]
Testing some fediversal URL auto embeds for WordPress happening in this here blog, now with slapping a naked URL on its own line: which embeds beautifully just like this- SHAZAM!~ Can we go beyond mastodon? What about a pixelfed URL? and yup. I am seeing an embedded pixelfed photo here. WINNING! As it turns out […]
