🎈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 …

📸 🌊 A Storm Last Night?
The storm that went through last night made the power flicker and took out the internet … you wouldn’t think so based on how the day started …
And then just a bit later …
Although … 30 minutes after that …
I’m old enough to remember the Boesky trials and the public furor .. ok .. no internet .. the media furor.. today, it would be barely a blip on the radar.
Miss Ken. So spot on.
🎈141/366 Is Scott Galloway the American Tech version of Clarkson?
📸 🌊 Another in the ongoing series that isn’t yet a clear series.
I am no fan of the orange douche .. but the Biden campaign’s tweet on the crappy podium is misguided and not right. The clip they circulated was actually quite funny .. demonstrated fast thinking .. the ‘leaning left’ pun particularly clever and the words in their headline are misleading .. his dig was not at this event workers but the contractor .. who #HadOneJob
📸 For nearly winter it’s pretty nice…
More tenders on the beach than I have seen for a while.
See what I mean?
And some larger boats parked outside the usual ‘lot’.
🎈140/366 You know the problem with great new features being added to Micro Blog?
You have to keep on learning more CSS to keep it ‘pretty’
Not complaining now - but seriously the last adjustments were only last weekend!
GREAT job @manton
📸 🌊 Toying with a short mini series - and if I decide to do it - I will be back.
LATER : ‘BACK’ 27th May.
To explain I removed the ‘WIP’ sign so if you got to this post from that other post about the WIP - it’s gone. Does that make any sense?
📺 Sugar
Stunning .. great job from Colin F .. but the homage to ‘noir’ yet modern, the direction, the cinematography, the colors, the lights, the nuance … everything. Just so good.
I have read that people loved the mid season ‘twist’ …if we are talking last scene in episode 6 .. yeah no .. I had that scene in my head for a couple of episodes prior, so no twist for me. In fact, it happened to coincide with when I thought the show had finished .. and I 🖇️ even posted that I was very disappointed with the ending (EEJIT I am).
Anyway .. all this to say … loved it. If you have 🍎 📺, whatever else you are watching stop - and go take a look.
Sugar on 🔗 Reelgood

If I don’t say those words when I work with some AI model - I feel rude.
I opened Chat4o and my first words (audio input) after ‘hello’ were something like write me a quick post about Markdown. What is it. Why should I use it.
Response back - as written. No formatting. No editing.

Introduction
In the world of technology and software development, it is crucial to have proper documentation to ensure that information is organized and easily accessible. Markdown is lightweight markup language with plain-text formatting syntax, designed to be easily converted into HTML and other formats. It provides a simple way to structure content without the need for complex coding.
Why Use Markdown?
Markdown is widely used by developers, writers, and content creators for various reasons:
- Simplicity: Markdown uses plain text and a simple formatting syntax that is easy to learn.
- Portability: Markdown files can be opened on any text editor and easily converted to different formats.
- Flexibility: It supports various elements such as headers, lists, images, and links, making it versatile for different types of content.
- Readability: Markdown files are clean and easy to read in their raw form.
- Compatibility: It can be used on different platforms and is supported by many applications websites.
Conclusion
In conclusion, Markdown is a powerful tool for creating well-structured documents quickly and efficiently. Whether you are writing a blog post, documenting code, or creating content for the web, Markdown offers a simple and effective way to format your text. By incorporating Markdown into your workflow, you can streamline the documentation process and focus on creating great content.

I have worked with Macs for nearly (more than?) 20 years - and never once said hello to it - or please - or thank you ….
If I don’t say those words when I work with some AI model - I feel rude.
Shed a Tear🔗 - William Gallagher
The DECORATOR stands back to appreciate his day’s work. The entire wall is now painted. Satisfied, he collects his snap-tin, paint, brushes, ladder, etc., lights a cigarette stub and walks off.
While he’s been achieving that painted wall, the film crew cast have failed to do anything at all. So much effort, so much energy, so much time, and nothing achieved whatsoever.
Completely unrelated, I’ve been sitting and typing in this chair for the past few days while four men put up a shed in our garden.
😂😂😂

