I’d already playing with them without knowing the name. I was nearly ‘done’ and then Pratik shared this. Menu item added.
Hat Tips to @rknightuk @bjhess @sivers @alastairjohnston @manuelmoreale @goblingumbo @pratik @simonwoods - you have each inspired me on this one.
I tried the Spark introductory Premium offer last year - and while some things are interesting and cool - at a renewal of 60 bucks … yeah - not that interesting and cool … and then I just spotted that they seem to be in the SetApp store.
If I know the answer - can I win? Or, do I really have to guess?
From The Daily Beast
The Bulwark reported that the staffer was Natalie Harp, a Trump confidante who follows him around with a portable printer so he can read a constant feed of news and other information on paper.
… my bold
A gamble? He just wants out.
📸 Trick bicyclists this way.
Conan’s short promo had me laughing out loud 😂 as I wandered down to the ferry this morning.
Public Service Announcement
🔗 Daring Fireball: How to Make Google’s ‘Web’ View Your Search Default
Not tried this yet … but I will be . and I know it will be of interest to most people in my world.
🎈144/366 Advice from a pro
If you are wondering if the croissant that is heating in the oven. Is done .. don’t use your finger tip to test. 🤦♂️
📸 🌊 A particularly stunning one this morning ….
.. in fact, it was worth stepping back from today.
.. and then 10 minutes later, the sun peaks through and we can see the rays pouring through as the day opens up.
Category Culls and Categorization
If you have been keeping track - you have haven’t you? … You will know that I am around about a year into a ‘category culling’ on my site. I’m there. Except I am not.
As of 5 minutes ago - the last category died - number 5 below.
The objective was always to reduce the number to something more manageable. Believe it or not - this lot is around a 1/3 to 1/2 of what it used to be.
But am I really there? Could I go further? .. and really, it has to be recognized that this is mainly for me.
The Key
1 - The post a day category for 2024 (flagged because it is in a straight of reorganizational flux).
2 - Experimental category o next couple of weeks it will either be dead or committed.
3 - 15 years ago I had a site of jokes which got imported as part of my web site consolidation program. Seperately I do flag humorous things. I should merge the two.
4 - It was never an ‘Instagram import’ - 18 images that came from Insta - shouldn’t they just be ‘photos’.
5 - Gone.
6 - I want to move all ‘titled-posts’ to ‘long form’ - if indeed they are long form - a long arduous (who cares) job.
7 - my’xxxx' was a way to keep the categories organized for past year as I organized - do I still need the ‘my’.
8 - hangover from the People First site - they don’t need a category - so long as I can search and pull them up - thinking.
9 - people first is the preferred - so need to move peoplefirst across.
10 - do I need quote and quote wise? Quote is a quote - quote wise are the images that Readwise can deliver.
11 - another WIP - that will eventually become the ‘top 10 of each category.
I have to say, being English and all that - well, I don’t usually do this kind of thing - but he gave me permission to use his name, so …
🤯
Honored? Without a doubt.
Speechless? Definitely. Apparently not.
GOBSMACKED? Totally.
🎈143/366 Craft. For Vision Pro.
Is there anything more niche?
📸 🌊 Good Morning Good Morning Good Morning
Whatever you are doing … stop … and 🔗 📼 😂 spend 5 minutes watching this.
🎈142/366 A Bucket Of Slop
I am well aware that despite my years long campaign to stop people from describing their words, articles, photographs, thinking … beliefs, soul … Intellectual Property even … ‘content’ … they continue to… unabated.
But I am not giving up …
That said - there are people that ‘get it’. (Though I will freely admit that we are also in the minority there!)
Meanwhile the ‘bot farms that have been delivering the real content (sic) to our uncurated feeds and inboxes have been gearing up for the AI revolution - and indeed as reported in many places are already shaping our ‘thinking’. (I use the word loosely.)
Imagine then my delight to read that ‘Slop is the new name for unwanted AI-generated content’.
Sidebar - if you don’t know what a ‘bucket of slop’ is - ‘Slop is the new name for unwanted AI-generated content’.
Perfect.
Slop is also a name given to what is left at the bottom after any of the remotely useful homogenized content that has been stored in a silo has been removed.
The trick now is going to be how readers will be able to spot the slop - given that they already have difficulties separating content from any kind of value.
Read the whole piece …
🔗 Slop is the new name for unwanted AI-generated content
… and hat tip to John Gruber who referenced this post on Daring Fireball.
A Warning For Our Times …
🔗 How DeviantArt died: A.I. and greed turned a once-thriving community into a ghost town.
… now added to my ‘want to’ list (Leaving by Roxana Robinson)
… but separately the piece by Lefsetz is archived into my Readwise … lest I forget.
Gorgeous.
💬 About that IndieWeb thingy …
