In which I bark and growl about things that get under my fur.
I’ve been pretty happy with my discovery of using archive.today as a means to jump and read stuff hidden behind subscription and paywalls even niftier with my bookmarklet tool. Knowing that its likely to be ripped down, I accepted it was to maybe be shortlived as Publishers have to bucks and the muscle, as reported […]
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 […]
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 […]
The first word in that there blog post title is not a verb, not a command, but a noun. An improper noun that is the name of a commercial megamonster corporation that exists to extract more or less Matrix like, the life of its puny little customers. I’ll start from the end, a review in […]
Almost some fraction of a lifetime later, I am looking at my own house of truth as having been shaped as much as what I was taught by as much as what was never taught. Or Alan gets grapples with what the big academics talk about as positionally. And in so many big things in […]
It’s Old Man Blog time again, just sitting here quietly on the front porch of the blog. Not only has the neighborhood gone downhill, the whole dang city has left for the bright lights of the social media mall. Does anyone remember the so insightful writing of Mike Caulfield, written on his blog, you can […]
Slop, slop, slop, each day its more of a effort to not step in the GenAI slop. Can Gump wisdom be any help? The gaffe by the Chicago Sun Times is an easy target, for publishing insert of summer features a list of books to read… that mostly do not exist. It’s almost too easy […]
You can’t click without hitting the proclamations of the web being dead/useless/broken/unusable. Why the web is bad? What happened to the web? And no shortage of Dead Internet Theories. Definitely the most palpable one to me is well enshrined as a word of the year, with Enshittification is so well explained by Cory Doctorow (I […]
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, […]
