📸 🌊 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.

🔎 🖇️ It drives me nuts.

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.


🔗 Meanwhile, over in Finland, they do have an idea or two.



🔗 📚 Leaving

… 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.


Ken Robinson

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’.


Sometimes Gallagher just nails it …

🔗 Read The Whole Thing


🎈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?