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Writing, blogging, life, tech and mental health with a philosophical/psychological slant

Writing, blogging, life, tech and mental health with a philosophical/psychological slant

You don’t owe anyone an explanation.

I was watching another episode of Niel Gaiman's masterclass yesterday (the one called ) where he talks about how you need to write before you're able to "fi...

Matt Growcoot, PetaPixel: Standing in front of two large mirrors, Tessa Coates’ reflection does not return the same pose that she is making, and not only that, but both reflections are different from each other and different from the pose Coates was actually holding. […] The photo is not a “Live Photo” nor is it […]

Posted on Wednesday 22 Sep 2021. 290 words, no links. By Matt Webb.

Two weeks ago, I was trying to finish up a blog post when I noticed a bunch of weird characters showing up in posts. Here’s a sample from Worldly, Yet Carefree: It turned out to be a fairly c…

In the early days of the twenty-first century, when the term "social media" was but a whisper in the digital wind, blogrolls played an instrumental role in

To most people, cheese seems like a simple thing: yet another dairy product. To others, cheese is an important part of their life and culture that means much...

This is the 14th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have …

Lead up: He opened the text with "Hey , you seem like a fun girl" and guessed that I originated from California. He mentioned he was from Spain, a Lofoten tr...

Teach an anxious boy to fish, etc. etc.

I’ve been struggling a little bit to re-find my creative rhythm and balance it with the needs of having and supporting a family. My day —

Sometimes it is nice to be a tourist and do touristy things. tsukiji outer market We got there at 740am because I read that the crowds will start to get crazy at 9am. It did get crazy at 9am, so...

I was listening to the most recent Patreon bonus episode of If Books Could Kill, in which they picked two random political pundits to talk about—Kathleen Parker and Chris Cilia. The Cilizza segment was particularly interesting, as it led into a long-ish conversation about pundits in general and the tendency to cover politics as theater—who said what and how we think that will play—rather than talking about the actual impact and effectiveness of policy.

Writing, blogging, life, tech and mental health with a philosophical/psychological slant

Matthew Lane: I’m not saying that there aren’t issues with AI that need to be addressed, especially worker exploitation. AI art generators can be especially infuriating for artists: they use a lot while giving back little. In fact, these generators are arguably being built to replace artists rather than to provide artists with new tools. […]

Link to: https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/11/30/a-bride-to-be-discovers-a-reality-bending-mistake-in-apples-computational-photography