Be wary of nebulous titles as they forbode a blog post of meandering paths and uncertain destinations. As I look gleefully over his holiday break span full of plans to write all the posts rattling in my head and browser tabs left open for months, it too reminds me of this stack of unfinished intentions […]
Hi, so I like that nifty Mastodon post you shared, how can I WordPress it, do I have to do screenshots? asks my good great, fantastic behind the beard friend Bryan Alexander. Heck no, WordPress can grok this. Every Mastodon post has an embed link, like the one I sent to Bryan by email, look […]
Calling a technomechanical object “smart” is a few notches below bestowing intelligence, but I am happily surprised when I discover (often accidentally) what that phone thing can do. I’ve known for more than a year that after taking photos of a plant or flower on the iThing yielded a small “i” icon in the bottom […]
As usual, my favorite mode for discovering internet nuggets (c.f. bag of gold) are ones I was not looking for and pretty much stumble into while doing something else. Thus it was I found On Demand Smart Links, which honestly sounds like a buzzword. I deduce this was previously called Song.Link (yup, redirect) as a […]
I previously blabbed that Twitter had done a full reverse cycle to its first impression in 2007 of being “that’s the stupidest thing I ever heard of”– I was wrong. The stupid levels have gone much lower, like DEFCON -1. I don’t need to say much. And I am not the first to lament the […]
The slow decay of memory… collective? My own? Two days ago, December 9 marked the 55th year since an epic event everyone should revel in, the 1968 Mother of All Demos (I am citing it as MoAD) by Doug Engelbart and his team from SGI. I think I saw one mention in my Mastodon feed […]
Given most have left the technopastoral garden for the stream (Look our Mike Caulfield, incoming trackback pings from here), I’m given to wonder of how we swim there. Its a side venture to the old trope quote of giving fish vs teaching how to fish (I once spun in the fish nuggets effect, but that’s […]
So you have decided to join in and write some kind of post, article, thought piece about Artificial Intelligence. Of course you have something to add to the pile. And in a flash of brilliance, you turn to one of a kazillion AI Image Generators (according to Google, 1 kazillion = 959,000,000) and you toss […]
Twis (present tense of “twas”?) not a real big demand on the internet for the kind of silly randomness I spat out to make a web toy that generates random utterances about AI using the quotes of Agent 007’s gadget master, Q. And there’s still place and value to do these things without just reachhig […]
I’ve tried to shedding much attention on OpenAI CEO drama. But after hearing whiffs of vapor about some Q star thing and the Amazon rolls out some other AI hooplah named… Q there is only one recourse. Mocking. That’s right, I haken back to my childhood adoration of the original James Bond flicks (I am […]
