In the “As Much as I Loathe AI I Cannot Escape It” department, I’ve been accumulating some stray experiences with technologies that analyze, interpret information from photos, likely somewhere inside lurks what we lump as AI. And indeed, it’s useful. And interesting. Here’s a buffet of tidbit experiences and no grand conclusion. Carbs and Nutrition […]
Among the best reasons to own your own domain and host a web site is to be able experiment, acts that are verboten on your easy, slick, hosted spiffy site. I will take tinker-ability over ease any minute of the day. If you are unaware of the Small Web, maybe just stay that way. You […]
I’ve been full on the Get Federated train, and have been most happy with having this WordPress blog going beyond just auto posting posts to the Mastodon but blogging about being a fully fediverse resident entity (if you will) via the ActivityPub plugin. It’s challenging as the expectation for most folks (including me and services […]
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 […]
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 […]
I love WordPress. And I love the Fediverse. So together, I love the ActivityPub WordPress plugin that is the magic pixie dust betwxit them. This is an experiment. I published a post here yesterday A[I]s We May Not Think (nor search, nor link), hence autopmatically sent out to the wide fedispace via @barking which was […]
My favorite act of creation after many many globe spins, still remains photography, whether it was on film in the old days to digital cameras to now often the mobile phone camera. I have claimed somewhere? nowhere? That photography, like and yet unlike say Blackout Poetry, is creation by deletion. How? In taking/making a photograph, […]
I hardly have to ask the internet (hey you!) to ignore me, but I am trying one more post as an ActivityPub enabled blog check the formatting when it goes out- this time I have changed the format of the posting to include a title intro, am added excerpt, and a stuffed in hashtag. Already […]
In several conversations I hear my own brain echoes of responses to AI mania of both fatigue and hype wariness but also some curiosity and itches to explore. My own reckoning I reckon is the comparisons to the disruptive force of the early web was we were not clubbed over the head with the web […]
