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

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Here’s the thing. No matter how much evidence there is to the contrary, and there’s quite a bit, let me tell you, I still believe I can get ready and out the door in 15 minutes. I cheerfully convin…

Chris McLeod, Blogging is where it's at, again Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but stumbling into such a trove of active blogs has enthused me about blogging as a medium again. It’s sparked a thought that through a combination of increased blogging activity, declining platforms, and

This year has been something. I left a significant teaching job back in May and my heart is still broken about it. But it freed me up to have a quiet summer and fall, which led to more writing than…

Via Baldur Bjarnason, Gary Marcus notices that LLMs like Dall-E have a plagiarism problem: Systems like DALL-E and ChatGPT are essentially black boxes. GenAI systems don’t give attribution to source materials because at least as constituted now, they can’t. (Some companies are researching how to do this sort of thing, but I am aware of no compelling solution thus far.) Unless and until somebody can invent a new architecture that can reliably track provenance of generative text and/or generative images, infringement – often not at the request of the user — will continue.

Everyone Should Blog, And That Includes You

A few days ago I had a fun chat with some Internet people and we were talking about website numbers and analytics. As you know, my site doesn’t have …

My daughter’s kindergarten class has a “no chanting” rule. It was established on day one of the class. It was already known, from pre-K last year, that this group of kids just lov…

A new theme for localghost.dev, and with it, a look back at the blogs we used to build in the early 00s.

I stopped using Kindle about ten years ago because 1) Amazon sucks and 2) I prefer real paper books over ebooks. That said, I have generally kept an ebook on my phone so as to have something to read (that is not social media) when I find myself somewhere with some time to kill and don’t happen to have an actual book on me. My solution to this need has been to check out ebooks from my local library system via their Libby or Hoopla apps.

A while back, my gastroenterologist insisted that I get accustomed to eating high-fiber cereal in the morning. And so I have. It does work. He recommended Fiber One. I didn’t like it, but I p…

Some resolutions for the new year.

I write these every year for the purpose of documenting my life. The caveat is that this is written with some recency bias and that the act of recollection is always faulty: ran my first and only...

DON’T CROSS BALLOON TAILS…EVER.

It isn’t the first time, and it won’t be the last. At the end of every year, I like to pause and reflect on how much effort has gone into nurturing and maintaining my digital homestead.…

As 2023 winds down, I celebrate a year rejuvenated by blogging. Heartfelt thanks to you, my readers, for accompanying me!

Let’s talk about the tradition of New Year’s resolutions. You know, those promises we make to ourselves that last about as long as a snowflake in a sauna. As the clock strikes midnight …

Years ago, inspired by Leo Babauta, I did a year of living without. Each month I tried to live without something to see if it was actually something …

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and developer from Stuttgart, Germany. Besides design practice he teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel.

And a freight train of progress.

By Ruben Schade in Australia. 🌻

By Ruben Schade in Australia. 🌻

I love the web and I think everybody should have their own homepage.

Unformed Thoughts by Amit Gawande.