A record this week, 4 claims my pics are AI; one photo + three pieces of art from ~2010s. AI isn't fucking up art, it's fucking up people's perception of what art or creativity can be or what things not phone camera pics can be. Modern phone camera shots are more AI than my photoshopping btw.

Vibes.

My sis just sent me this - a pyrocumulus eruption above a fire about 50km away.

Eras have a habit of being named - The Great War, The Spring & Autumn Period, The Renaissance, The Summer of Love, The Troubles, The Old Republic, The Jazz Age, The Machine War, The Swinging Sixties and so on. What’s the name of this era of yours that you’re going through right now, personally?

It's so fascinating to see the changes in one company's logo over the years.

My two great successes (or failures, depending, though you know me I'll take the former). The SUPERDANA 66x outlet from 2023, now filling up search results in shit search engines everywhere (ok - and because of it, good ones too) And the Iced Vovo with Marshmallow in multiple forms since ~1998, which has convinced more than half of my home country that they remember the days when Iced Vovos had marshmallow topping (it never did)

Metaphor

When the internet turns to complete trash and you burnout, what’s your figurative, hyperbolic, but *emotionally true* “that’s it I’m done, I’m going off to _____________” fantasy? Hedge-witch tending to small woodland creatures is mine.

What bothered me about LLM use growing, and why people would ever ask it anything at all when it only gives an answer that sounds like an answer might, had me missing something glaringly obvious until this week. I realised it while on my eighth google for the purpose of diagnostic LEDs on a Mac Pro 4,1 CPU board - and getting links to bad forum answers, and videos (some AI generated themselves) I realised… Search engines today also only give shitty approximations of what answers are like.

What’s your name for your people? Your lot. Your squad, gang or moots, oomfies, degenerates disasters goons goblins besties chat or fam? Crew? Weirdos? Menaces? All you buncha units, lovelies, darlings or the hive mind? Coven, flock or brood? Inner sanctum or The Old Ones? Swarm, cult or situation?