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Vibe Check №42(opens in new tab)

Forgive me, Reader. It’s been five months since my last vibe check. That’s a lot of ground to cover and it’s not possible to get into everything that happened. Like in real life conversations, instead of telling you how I’m ...

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“[slop] which reaches an audience and produces income does so because of theft on the input side and deception on the output side. We must work to solve these problems both technically as well as culturally, but what we must ...

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Prompt API is back in the news. Can we not? How this will transpire: User visits website Popup before the page is visible: “✨️ website wants to install: [technobabble]” User is scared and confused, clicks “Yes” anyway The local model ...

Content for Content’s Sake(opens in new tab)

Language is constantly evolving, particularly in some communities. Not everybody is ready for it at all times. I, for instance, cannot stand that my community is now constantly “cooking” or “cooked”, that people in it are “locked in” or “cracked.” ...

Writing With AI(opens in new tab)

We are at an interesting inflection point in how people are using AI to write online. This week Panagram – the best known AI detection software – released a new free API to detect AI writing on social media feeds. ...

The New Networking(opens in new tab)

If you sit in front of a screen your job is at risk. That was Robert Sterling’s take in a recent tweet. Meta and KPMG recently announced they were laying off 10% of their staff. Microsoft is cutting 7%. The ...

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Hello note readers! Did I mention I’m starting a limited company soon (“soon”)? I probably should save that announcement for the big blog… It’s primarily for tax stuff, we’ll see, but it needs a cool domain, obviously. That’s a problem! ...