Tag: social media

  • The Poets Against the Processors

    The Poets Against the Processors

    I ask you: What is AI? Artificial intelligence, you reply. Sure, but what is it? Really? I suppose we first need to get a handle on what defines those two terms: artificial & intelligence—and I think the first is likely easier to get our minds around than the latter. Let’s get that one out of the

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  • leaning positive

    leaning positive

    Angry sells. Have you noticed? You probably have. I mean, isn’t that why we are living in these unprecidented times? Angry people, rage, fails, and violence all seem to generate more clicks, more views, voter turnout? I wrote a couple weeks ago about the weird fluctuations in my traffic. Some days I get a lot

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  • already not famous

    already not famous

    The one-wayness of fame has got me thinking this past week. Now, to be clear, I could all-too-easily frame this in a way that could come across as very sour grapes. I’m not trying to be sour about it, but rather just hold up an observation and say—huh, isn’t that a curious thing that we

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  • obscurity by design

    obscurity by design

    Blogs tend to get looped in with a broader definition of “social media” –and that is fair, to a point–but there is a much more modern attitude around social media fatigue and frustration to which that inclusion I may be less inclined to agree. I am going to write something that may make your eyes

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  • monster blue fame

    monster blue fame

    Despite my protests about the fluxable nature of social media, I have been posting on Bluesky. That site, for now, seems like the developers have set out to build the anti-twitter twitter, and that appeals to me enough to participate. Again, just for now. But for now maybe creeping closer to and end because this

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