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And it’s understandable — things are getting worse and worse all the time, and anybody who is running a web site (that has interesting information) is under constant attack from badly programmed AI scrapers. But where does that leave us...
CLONE CAPTAIN REX STAR WARS: EPIC WORLD OF ACTION (HASBRO) “Rex served the Republic on the front lines during the Clone Wars, taking orders from Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano.” It would seem that after finishing up Power of the Force,...
I use Readwise Reader to read web articles that I save while triaging my RSS subscriptions. Often what I blog about comes from what I read, and so I share the desire that Peter Rukavina wrote below: My holy grail, as I said, was wanting...
I’ve had my copy of Nihon No Minka for 30 years, and I only just found these three photos between the book and the dust jacket. They’re stamped Photo NADAL Saigon, the mark of Fernand Nadal, who operated a photo studio in Saigon for...
I was talking to some AI industry leaders last night. Their words helped crystalize my own thoughts on Anthropic’s “guardrails” around using their models. A lot of what I do is legal only because of context. I carry lock picks in my bag....
The other morning I was clearing out the multiple daily emails I get from scammers who have used “AI” to praise one of my books in order to get me to use their “marketing” services and/or be on their “podcast” and/or show up for their...
Rhyme is a fact about sound, not spelling. Blue rhymes with shoe and through and you, and not one of them is spelled like the others. Comb, bomb, and tomb all end in the same three letters and not one of them rhymes with another. The ear...
My friend and colleague at silverorange, Jacky, is a great designer and a great writer. For years, we’ve used “Uber for Dogs” as a shorthand for a hypothetical example of a solution coming before the problem. I love Jacky’s writing...
Have you seen these editors? The post Wikipedia’s Most Wanted appeared first on Other Strangeness — merritt k.
A lot of our current mess can be understood through the long transition from #modernism to #postmodernism. Not as an academic debate, but as a lived reality. Modernity believed in progress. It believed that society could be understood,...
"The real question is, why did she do this kind of work?" In 2007 John Maloof, a local historian in Chicago, found a huge stack of film negatives in an auction and began scanning them. It quickly became clear that they were of some...
Mary Jo Kopechne was one of Washington's sharpest political minds. She died in Ted Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick in 1969. The full story of who she was and what really happened.
Joel J. Miller points out that Serious Reading was Always a Minority Sport.* His thesis is basically that, after a period of mass book buying, we are reverting to the norm. After all, book reading has for most of history been a minority...