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 […]
There’s more to memory than just recall versus forgetting. I came across this brilliant read “To grow, we must forget… but now AI remembers everything” and it downs like the broligarchy thinks they just need to toss into the algorithms is a machine that never forgets? Forgetting is a feature of human memory“Infinite memory” runs […]
My day job is in the world of Open Education and in those circles there is talk of “all the opens” – open source software, open data, open science, open access publishing, etc etc etc. All good stuff. But in the first one on the list, and where much of this started, the usual frame […]
There are definitely more obvious words to rhyme with eleven while also avoiding the SpinalTap-ism, but lets celebrate the eleventh month of Indeed, this years Daily Photo habit (the 18th time around), and the first in many years where I am on pace to ratchet a perfect 365 score. But let’s not get toooooo confident, eh? Last […]
Welcome back to an old song around here, the ideas and ways of giving attribution when reusing the creative works of others. My approach is ABA, Always Be Attributing. The hyperlink is perhaps the simplest and easiest way, as perhaps it might be coined by some weirdo as “linktribution” (yet one more stillborn neologism). But […]
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 […]
For some blogging may be a chore, no longer worth the time spent scrolling, something to pump up your audience, to self promote, yeah, but for me to get back to some roots, that Udellian concept of “narrating your work”. It’s not only “here’s something I did/wrote/made/” but “this is how I did it” and […]
In the WordPress Beginning there was a post and pretty much it was title, text, an author, a category/tag, a permalink, and that was it. It’s hard to imagine blogs or news style web sites anymore that do not have an icon image that represents it, that plays a prominent display role as a banner, […]
