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What I work for, what I strive for, and the beauty which I see all around me almost every day
A poem after reading The Retired Adventurer.
Standard.site provides shared AT Protocol lexicons. Atproto is just spicy JSON and asymmetric cryptography. I’ve tried to explain atproto in more detail before. Bluesky has always supported a few open graph meta tags which I use to...
There's a definite contrast amongst those who are openly critical of 'AI' at the moment - and it centres on the perception of the fight. It's an interesting one to approach from a (very) resistance focused position given that, on the one...
Vince, Yao, and Majerle takes his talents to South Beach
Fraunces Tavern was originally built in 1719, so if you ignore the massive changes to the building over the years, it’s the oldest extant building in Manhattan, constructed some 95 years after the Dutch arrived. In other words, we have...
Back in 2000 or 2001, I was exploring Saint John and took these photos of the former Lantic Sugar refinery.
Sometimes Sydney Trains runs a special train, just for me! Or at least, I pretend they do. How luxurious. As an aside, for those of you who live in cities with double deck train carriages, do you sit upstairs or down? I tend to sit...
This piece from Anil Dash remains my absolute favorite take on AI. It’s fair and pragmatic, and in a word, NORMAL. I think I read it every day and twice on days when I feel like I’m losing my mind amongst the AI hype. Technologies like...
Cafe after dark.
In an echo of Bruno Latour’s “we have never been modern”, David Abram argues “we are still animist.” We have built devices that speak to us, even have conversations with us, in an attempt to find our way back to the living landscape of...