It's Your Work, You Should Be Able To Decide

I wrote a few days ago about my personal take on AI being trained on my writing. Although I expected much more anger, hence the rather long block at the bottom, I am happy to see some nice responses and some pushback on the ideas. It sparked several emails, a

Spending Time In The Dark Forest

Kyle Hill in their YouTube video on generative AI: > The Internet feels steadily more lifeless. But that's because, like those alien civilisations, the real human users are hiding in private apps, servers, and RSS feeds, lest they be beset by these digital predators. This is Yancey Strickler&

Feeding Alpacas

For mother's day in the UK we went to feed the animals at J and J Alpacas. This was a really nice experience and we also saw some lambs being born. Of course I couldn't resist taking my Ricoh GRiiix along and snapping a few shots.

Blogging and AI: A Personal Take

I've been mulling over this clash between AI and the content it's trained on for some time now. As a frequent user of AI and a regular online publisher, I see both sides of the coin. I'm well aware that the articles I put

My Enjoyment Is Always Last

On their Bear blog, tiramisu writes about their family: > it doesn't matter what he thinks or feels about things like family vacations. He does them because they're things he should do, and moments like that illustrate how differently our brains are wired. This cuts very

Don't Miss Anything Or You Won't Make It

Cory Dransfeldt writes in a way that feels like it's aimed at me, because everything is a checklist: > Check, check, check, clear the queue, close the rings, get to zero. I know this looks neurotic; it is neurotic because I'm neurotic. I always have been,

The Never-Ending Task List

Every so often, I end up here, in a place where every task completed is met with a few more added to the end. As the list grows, so does my anxiety about trying to reach the end—an end that is never in sight, let alone becoming any closer.

Blogging Isn't Always Easy

Brandon encouraging more people to blog the way he does: > It's easy, blog about what you like. Talk about the things that you are passionate about, things you find joy in, or document your day-to-day. I really enjoyed this post, despite disagreeing slightly. You see, we both

The Missing Human Curation

Cassidy writing about the missing human curation: > When algorithms determine everything we should see, the internet becomes much less personal. The “For You” pages of the world are accurate—I am interested in that content, but I'm not seeing it from my friends, or that one author

Does Gear Matter?

Arun Venkatesan has lots of thoughts on photography gear: > The problem lies within the question itself. It's one of those inquiries that cannot be definitively answered with anything other than "it depends." It depends on who is using the gear. It depends on what they