In which I bark and growl about things that get under my fur.
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, […]
In which I put forth an opinion grounded solely in one person’s observations, gut feeling, and in no means really expected to be accepted as a theory of merit. This is also blogging as in writing as in the Dave Winerian sense of the unedited voice of one person. As a preface and likely point […]
Be giving away everything I’ve tossed on to the web for not only free, but without really any requirements, I have mastered opposite of a knack for web entrepreneurship. I refuse to use that word that turns money into a verb than a longer noun. Here is my latest version of un-capitalistic strategies This is […]
Countless are the posts of people showing off the “coolest” AI thing, using Google’s NotebookLLM to generate a chatty podcast of your uploaded book, blog post, paper, shopping list. Woah. Wow. You click and listen hearing a male and female voice banter back and forth in conversational tone. Neato, you are so onto this AI […]
I recently managed to fix an issue with a water pump I use for our irrigation projects that someone else had put together for me. The fix was round about. I did some web searching, found the culprit was likely a pressure switch, ended up swapping the whole pump out, rewiring it the same, and […]
Claims of technical death are always overrated, but in the hell mell rush and glee for the synthetic cartoon garish sadly robotic “style” of generative AI imagery I for one remain thrilled by the small acts of thanks. These acts are “generated” from the closing in (if I can catch up on the backlog) of […]
There is a myth. Cue the string section. That there was once a place for all to gather, share, be festive, develop new connections, every course a hashtag, topple a few governments, people power. Then came an evil billionaire who ruined it all, those who gathered were cast out, a diaspora. No end. Yes the […]
Surely I am not alone in wondering if time has been following the same portal as lost socks. But it has been— checking the calendar and not doing the math– a “while” since I left the venue for the OER24 conference in Cork, Ireland. Secret tip: Whenever possible, skip the automated transportation and walk. Even […]
Each passing day of trying to read on the web becomes a sad game of dodging pay walls, peeling off pop up pleas for subscriptions, and scraping away the barnacle-like encrustation of more and more ads. Witness the word of the year as coined and preached by Cory Doctorow … the wave of Enshittification. As […]
