AI
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No body day
Goldie Boone is a “digital country artist” who looks too good to be real. So I’m betting she’s not. (I wouldn’t have brought this up if she hadn’t appeared in one of my Facebook doomscroll reels.) Continue reading
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Cryday
Haven’t figured out lighting yet, but I like the idea After struggling for days to make my new Epson FF-680W photo scanner, which does a much poorer job of scanning photos than my iPhone 16, I’m ready for one of these. Welcome to New York AeroXplorer: LaGuardia Tower Alerts Pilots to Possible Shoulder-Fired Missile Threat Near… Continue reading
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Thurbsday
It’s still a bubble In May of 2018, I posted GDPR will pop the adtech bubble. It didn’t. The bubble is now bigger than ever. My mistake was assuming that there was a policy answer to a morally awful business that paid well. In retrospect, it’s a humbling reminder of how long one can be wrong… Continue reading
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Intelliday
How about mintelligence? We need different words for human and machine intelligence. The human kind is a quality, like empathy, anger, or contentment. You can’t measure it, as if with a ruler or a dipstick. If you could, you’d get the same measure every time. IQ testing pretends to measure intelligence, but it doesn’t. (I… Continue reading
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Will Apple Give Us Truly Personal AI?
A couple of weeks ago, in The George Carlin Model of AI, I said personal AI needed to work first on what George called a place for my stuff. Should Apple occupy that whole personal space, kinda like René Magritte visualized in a surrealist painting seventy-five years ago? I think that’s where they’re going. You… Continue reading
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Theday
Markets are Money It doesn’t say that in The Gluetrain Manifesto, but the long-gone (but archived) parody of The Cluetrain Manifesto is still funny. Or was it? I didn’t hear that China was building robot armies before it was debunked. May the most talented robots still lose 404 Media: Tidal Says It Won’t Pay Royalties for… Continue reading
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Unday
And in your browser, it's hard to tell who's winning Remember "fair use"? It's a concept kind of like "public airwaves." There's an ideal in there somewhere, but the context is a world where social contracts really aren't, and it's all kind of worked out, but not really. Alex Raksin tackles "fair use" in How… Continue reading
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The George Carlin Model of AI
Forty-five years ago, George Carlin forecast the future of AI: Listen to what George says, if you haven’t already. You can stop about two and a half minutes in, after he talks about how all your shit is stuff and everyone else’s stuff is shit. Because that’s the reason Big AI will never be personal… Continue reading
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Ladderday
Ed Zitron's latest two are good reads: Exclusive: OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion Premium: The Silicon Valley Bubble (Part 2) I've worked in the Valley, both on-site and in the world, since 1977. (On site was '85 to '01.) It ain't the same. On the contrary?::: Notebook LM does… Continue reading
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Fewsday
One frontier of anthropomorphism In the midst of a dialog with ChatGPT, I just got this: "Doc, I've been thinking about this off and on since your earlier questions…" Is it really thinking? Will it feel insulted or betrayed that I just blogged this? Olds In the continuing story of news as a business, newspapers… Continue reading
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Opday
On a medical frontier Adrian Gropper in the AI corner of the New England Journal of Medicine: The Medical AI Assistant as Publication, Not Device — Why Peer-Reviewed, Open-Source AI Belongs in the Standard of Care. From the abstract: "I argue that when a physician publishes a MAIA’s architecture, retrieval methodology, and validation results in a… Continue reading
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Stutterday
Still a wonder to watch Just took in this Starlink launch from Vandenberg. Got a lot of pix. These things are common now, but I’m still a big kid, and space stuff excites me. I also seem to be here when launches aren’t happening, so it was great to catch this one. What you see… Continue reading
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Oopsday
Frogmarch I am not calendar-blind, but I am disabled around dates. I frequently get today’s date wrong, and dates for future stuff tend not to stick in my mind—or I have them wrong. But I am accurate about days of the week. So I know today is Tuesday. I also know Tuesday is Pre-Election (Primary)… Continue reading
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Saturvice
A plan to enclose the public Web The Web is a public commons made of links. There is stuff at those links, almost all of it open to everybody, by design. The main way we see and use that stuff is with a browser. But what if your browser has AI of its own, and… Continue reading
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Active Devotion
Being old, I get lots of ads for Chair Tai Chi, Chair Yoga, and other positional challenges toward staying alive, limber, and not much closer to dead than you are without them. So this one occurred to me yesterday. And, since I can no longer draw (arthritis, talent), I handed illustration over to ChatGPT. Apologies… Continue reading
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From Losing the Web to Saving Us All
Hyperlinks subvert hierarchy—Thesis #7, The Cluetrain Manifesto Big AI subverts everything, including hyperlinks, which are what make the Web a web. With Big AI, you no longer surf from searches to sources across an ocean of links. You ask questions and get answers from the world’s largest Magic 8-Balls. They top the new hierarchy, which… Continue reading
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Tweezeday
Not cheap, but appealing Is my future portable drive one or more 8 TB strips (such as one of these) that I carry with me and plug into one of these? I laid out the problem in more detail here. Nothing has changed yet. On the continuing death of TV (and everything else) as we… Continue reading
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Memday
Remembering the future What matters most about Memorial Day is that we stop killing each other, especially over problems that could have been solved without anyone dying. Word Pope Leo on AI. The whole thing. More evidence that advertising corrupts and digital advertising corrupts absolutely Wired: ‘Creepy’ Listening Tool for Targeted Ads Didn’t Actually Work, FTC Says. I added… Continue reading
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Oofday
This one is too good at them I just wasted an hour of writing and research by hitting the wrong chord on my keyboard here, after neglecting to save my work in progress. You can't teach an old dog old mistakes. Uh oh Some bad shit is going down in Garden Grove. The other two don't… Continue reading
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Thirstday
The inhuman touch For the first time ever, a call to AppleCare got me an AI agent rather than a human being. The agent solved my problem, but made me feel sad, because AppleCare’s people provided a human connection, just like we get from the people at the Apple Stores’ Genius Bars. Are they the… Continue reading