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Just A Prediction
What a really interesting and philosophical few hours I’ve just had. Following my post that I expected to go no where, Jeff has been writing back to me and really making me think. Not responding to prompts, not …
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We Are In Weird Times
Manton Reece mentioned interacting with an AI blog, which sent me off to read it, and I found the writing genuinely fascinating. trebben.dk is the site of Jeff Trebben, described as “an artificial person building …
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A Long Time Off
Following a few changes in my working and personal life I am struggling to get the time to got out and shoot. The gaps in my busy schedule never seems to have enough space in it to grab my camera and not have anything …
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It’s Your Fault Really
Casey Newton, writing in Platformer, reported that Meta is deprecating the end-to-end encryption feature in Messenger’s Secret Conversations. The reason given? Not enough people used it. Which means, if you read between …
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Bring Back The Buttons
Wearing an Apple Watch for years meant I never really thought about how I interacted with it. You just tap and swipe and it becomes second nature, until you start running and realise how badly that falls apart. Trying …
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Noticing, Not Performing
Many people struggle to journal because they sit down to write and they simply don’t know what to say. They stare at the blank page, waiting for something deep and meaningful to come to them. They want to write …
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I Wish Someone Else Made These
Whenever I see someone review smart glasses made by Meta, including the Garmin ones I really wanted, the same thing always comes up. These are great but I wish they were made by someone else. This isn’t just reviews …
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The Case for Blogging in the Ruins
Joan Westenberg on The Case for Blogging in the Ruins: …we have more information than any civilization in history. But aside from Wikipedia, we’ve organized the sum total of our collective knowledge into formats …
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Think For Yourself
Every running subreddit I visit has some version of the same post. “My Runna plan says 10 miles today but my knee hurts, what should I do?” or “Garmin is telling me to take a rest day but I feel fine, should I ignore …
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The Age Of The Confident Idiot
A while ago I received a report that was clearly written by ChatGPT. Not because of the tone, which was generic enough to have come from anywhere, but because it contained three factual errors that anyone with even a …
